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Free Silverlight Training

Published 14 August 7 8:53 PM | William

My friend Brian Madsen who owns CSharpZealot has teamed up with InnerWorkings to extend a really slick offer for Free Silverlight Training for CSharpZealot members . In addition, Shawn Wildermuth has been way ahead of the crowd when it comes to Silverlight...

Filed under: Life in General, .NET Basics, Me, .NET General, Coding Techniques, Misc Technology, WPF, .NET 3.0 Framework, Silverlight, WPF/E

Stealing code ;-(

Published 3 July 6 11:45 PM | William

I don't know why I even let it bother me but a lot of times is still does. Usually starts out with me working on something, an article, a book, a newsgroup question. I start searching around and use words that I think describe what I'm looking for. Low...

Filed under: Life in General, Me, Coding Techniques

7 Deadly Sins of Software Development

Published 14 June 6 12:3 AM | William

Frans blogged about Jon Skeet's which was inspired by Eric's post. Since Eric is asking others to contribute, I'm throwing in my two cents. #1 Not understanding the problem that you're trying to solve Personal guilt rating: historically 7, currently 3...

Filed under: Me, Coding Techniques, Mindless Babbling

'Undocumentation'

Published 24 November 5 8:47 AM | William

My Homie Jason Burton from TiBA just shot me this jewel on 'real' documentation . Everyone needs to read that memo.

Filed under: Life in General, Me, Coding Techniques

Another Blast of Cold Water in the face - "The Build Master" by Vincent Maraia

Published 23 October 5 10:23 AM | William

Eric Garulay, one of the uber cool folks over at Addison-Wesley shot me a copy of The Build Master Microsoft's Software Configuration Management Best Practices by Vincent Maraia ( Build Master Web Site ) . Well, looks like Kim is going to appropriate...

Filed under: Me, Coding Techniques

Web Services + Computer * x = Justice for spammers

Published 13 October 5 11:43 PM | William

I was hesitant to post this, but I've frigging had it. A few months back I started using a Skin that didn't have the CAPTCHA b/c I got so many complaints about it. All in all, things have been pretty good w/ respect to blog spam. However in the past few...

Filed under: Life in General, Me, Coding Techniques

Sql Injection Ad Naseaum

Published 23 July 5 12:24 AM | William

A while ago Scott had a great post about demo code . So I was reading up on The Bleeding Edge, Never Been Done Before Technology Known As Ajax and started surfing around a little b/c I wanted to get in on the mocumentary action. So I come across Peter...

Filed under: Humor, Me, Coding Techniques

One of Tobin's most brilliant moments

Published 22 July 5 8:5 PM | William

Tobin's latest idea on creating JAXASS is brilliant. There's some wank action going on trying to get it deleted over here but I'm all for it. Just check this out: ----------------------------------------------- This should soon be followed up by the Farcical...

Filed under: Me, .NET General, Coding Techniques

Speech Server, Book Writing, Code Camps and Pimped out rides

Published 24 April 5 1:42 AM | William

For the last week, things have gotten kind of weird in my life. And by most standards, I'm pretty friggin weird to begin with. I stared working with Wally McClure on writing a book and so far, things have been going really well. But so far I've only encountered...

Filed under: Speech Server, MVP Stuff, Me, .NET General, Coding Techniques

College Debate...

Published 28 February 5 11:2 PM | William

A little while ago, I was at my favorite local restaurant minding my own business reading the Updated version of Ingo's Killer remoting book . I eat there regularly and use it as a time to catch up on my reading - then I usually go home and try out a...

Filed under: Me, Coding Techniques, Mindless Babbling

Improving a CAPTCHA - An idea

Published 31 January 5 12:20 AM | William

Ok, so you have probably already heard about all of the controversy my homey KC caused with his Captcha beater. He posted his suggestions on how to make Captcha stronge, which are provided below: render the characters with different colors make some characters...

Filed under: News, Life in General, Me, .NET General, Coding Techniques, Mindless Babbling

http://www.everythingado.net

Published 30 January 5 2:45 AM | William

Well, I finally bit the bullet and purchased my site from Brinkster. I'm going to be hosting blogs for a few of my disaffected DNJ friends - but well, due to the nature of the site - I'm not handing them out to everyone - If I know you, or you can convince...

Filed under: News, Humor, Compact Framework, Data Access, MVP Stuff, Me, .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques, Mindless Babbling

Newsgroup Cowboys

Published 30 December 4 6:32 PM | William

Originally, I was going to title this Newsgroup a-holes. But I decided to sound a little more European and opt for Cowboy instead. What is a Newsgroup Cowboy you ask? Well, it's someone who runs their mouth first, and then thinks about it later. Here...

Filed under: News, Life in General, Me, .NET General, Coding Techniques