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Leviton, Microsoft's Z-Wave/Windows Solutions

Published 28 January 7 10:37 PM | William

This is very very cool.

Filed under: News, Compact Framework, .NET General, Mindless Babbling

Sql Server 2005 - Biztalk 2006 will be here soon....

Published 7 June 5 10:38 AM | William

Greetings, It is official - the countdown to launch has begun! During my Tech.Ed keynote this morning, I announced that SQL Server(TM) 2005, Visual Studio ® 2005 and BizTalk ® Server 2006 will launch the week of November 7. This will be the...

Filed under: News, .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005

Getting Props for .NET Refactor

Published 6 April 5 3:59 PM | William

My friends and former co-workers/boss and I created .NET Refactor to help us refactor some of our code and it turned into a pretty cool product pretty fast. Les is the man when it comes to writing Visual Studio .NET Add-Ins and Brian is the man that never...

Filed under: News, .NET General, Coding Techniques

Code Camp

Published 28 February 5 1:42 PM | William

I'll be speaking at two different code camps in the near future - the one in Atlanta and the one in Charlotte. Code camp is really cool even though they let people like me talk there - they have to allow the token dork make a speech. If you aren't familiar...

Filed under: News, .NET General

Unable to Start Debugging in ASP.NET Applications.

Published 3 February 5 3:59 PM | William

Well, it's happened to my on a few machines so I figured I'd mention it. You're going along, your ASP.NET apps are working fine other than the bugs you've coded in them, and then you reboot one day and poof - as soon as you try to compile you get a “Unable...

Filed under: News, .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005

VNC on the Compact Framework and more

Published 1 February 5 9:36 PM | William

My boy Jason just tipped me off to a C# VNC . Even runs on the Compact Framework - very very cool

Filed under: News, Compact Framework, .NET General

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

My Homey Moved

Published 27 January 5 10:21 PM | William

My homey Sahil moved his blog - and well, now I can actually read it without a parameter exception!

Filed under: News, Data Access, .NET General

Cutting and Pasting Rectangles in Visual Stuido .NET

Published 25 January 5 7:54 PM | William

This is one of many gems in Mihn's killer book Visual Studio .NET Tips and Tricks. But today was a prime example of how cool this is. I had a whole slew of variables that were marked as Private but needed to be marked as protected instead. Also, I had...

Filed under: News, .NET General

Linked List Benchmarking..

Published 5 January 5 12:40 AM | William

Hardly the most scientific based analysis - but it makes the point: I've just started getting back into the 2.0 Framework and came across my old friend the linked list. The linked list was one of those data structures that was actually fun to program...

Filed under: News, .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005

Intelligent Blog Spam

Published 30 December 4 7:52 PM | William

Just saw Sahil's from Sahil. Well, I've uncovered something really interesting. It seems that the Spammers are using other posts, for instance on ADO.NET 2.0 - posting stuff that's related enough that it doesn't set off the stink detector - but posting...

Filed under: News, Life in General, .NET General

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

"It works on my machine" - Please Comment!

Published 11 December 4 10:48 PM | William

Ok, a friend of mine has had a lot of bad experiences with developers. When we first became friends, it was because she couldn't believe that I was a programmer and not a total a33hole. The first company she worked at she worked in support and their software...

Filed under: News, .NET General, Coding Techniques

Julia Lermen - Always Cool!

Published 5 December 4 9:23 PM | William

Julia just posted this and it's pretty darned neat .

Filed under: News, .NET General

Andrew Baum's RSS .NET Rocks! Anouncement Web Control

Published 5 December 4 9:21 PM | William

Carl just posted this and well, it's pretty friggin cool

Filed under: News, .NET General

Thank You Neil! (Excellent Rant by Neil C.)

Published 5 December 4 9:18 PM | William

If you don't know who Neil is - he's the English guy with the 300 IQ that is one of the founders of OpennetCf.org Not only does he always have some brilliant ideas code wise - but his rants are priceless. Somehow I missed THIS BRILLIANT RANT which he...

Filed under: News, .NET General, Coding Techniques

S.P.O.T. Choked

Published 5 December 4 9:4 PM | William

BTW, I'll be posting pics of everything tomorrow- but the S.P.O.T. watched Choked in Atlanta (and yes, there's service coverage there). Every time I tried checking traffic or news, I got the trying to acquire data message which took about 6 hours to go...

Filed under: News, .NET General