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How to be really annoying with Pocket Outlook

Published Thu, Jan 25 2007 6:08 | William

If you've been following my coding tonight, you can probably tell what I'm up to. If you call me regularly, you probably are already familiar with this little project, aka the CuckooBot. He's up to Version 4.0 and about to be released into the wild. Yes...

Filed under: Compact Framework, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques, Mindless Babbling

Password Protection != Encryption on SqlCe

Published Thu, Jan 25 2007 3:50 | William

I know this probably seems pretty obvious, but believe it or not, it's a very common area of confusion. Take a look at the following declaration: String ConnectionString = String .Format( @"Data Source=\BlueCuckoo.sdf;password={0}" , "SomeValue" ); SqlCeEngine...

Filed under: Compact Framework, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques, Mindless Babbling

SMS Messages with Windows Mobile 5.0

Published Thu, Jan 25 2007 2:40 | William

A while ago, I was playing around creating a bot, a Snarkier version of the Mobile Secretary Application . Well, it was late and I got sloppy. So basically, my little app sent out a text message to everyone on one of my company's Outlook distribution...

Filed under: Compact Framework, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology

Comment of the week - Sql Server Reporting Services vs. Crystal

Published Wed, Sep 27 2006 6:27 | William

A while ago, I posted this about how much a55 I think Crystal Reports sucks. A long time ago, back at like v.7, I thought Crystal was a decent product. And to be honest, it still is a decent product. But it comes with a lot of baggage and has a lot that...

Filed under: Humor, Data Access, .NET General, Coding Techniques, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology

7 Deadly Sins of Software Development

Published Wed, Jun 14 2006 0:03 | 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

Why Avoid Code Behind?

Published Sun, Mar 26 2006 0:17 | William

I spent the good part of this week debugging and redoing a bunch of ASP.NET code that featured the no code behind approach prominently. It was excrutiating to say the least. I know Boiling Springs' Greatest Unemployed Guru is a big advocate of this approach...

Filed under: Humor, Coding Techniques, Mindless Babbling

College Debate...

Published Mon, Feb 28 2005 23:02 | 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 Mon, Jan 31 2005 0:20 | 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 Sun, Jan 30 2005 2:45 | 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