Wired: Hands-On: Can Kin Phones Make Microsoft Cool Again?
Published Mon, Apr 12 2010 19:32 | William
Wired.com has an article asking if the the new Windows Phone 7 - Kin Phones can make Microsoft cool again ? Just looking at the features, there's no doubt the cool factor is there. While a lot of people have jumped ship, gadget geeks are into the...
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Ideas for a Tech Interview - Part I
Published Wed, Dec 30 2009 16:55 | William
I firmly believe in having potential employees write code during an interview. I want to see how they interact with the computer and IDE (are they comfortable, do they seem to know their way around, do they know shortcuts, are they quick or slow in navigating...
Singles.org - Operation Jesus | F0r t3h 1u1z
Published Tue, Feb 24 2009 14:23 | William
I just got this email and would have asked his permission to post it, but I can't do that. Clearly this is the work of Ebaumsworld and no one else. Since I've been following this thing, pretty much everything he says is true and confirmable and...
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Singles.org fesses up - sort of
Published Tue, Feb 24 2009 10:45 | William
This place is beyond low. countless email accounts have been breached, several facebook pages, several paypal accounts and much more. As of last night, if was in full free for all mode as more vulnerabilities were found (although vulnerability is a bit...
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Singles.org - db.singles.org - The Saga Continues
Published Mon, Feb 23 2009 20:52 | William
At this point, seeing how pathetic Singles.org is resonding to this, they deserve everything they get. This is all kinda epic except real people are getting hurt. They aren't the ones paying for it, well, at least until now. I'll post screen caps...
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The hacking of db.singles.org continued
Published Mon, Feb 23 2009 7:38 | William
Well, I've recieved a few comments and emails about this and things are just getting worse. As of 7:38 AM 02.23.2009 they still haven't put anything on their site indicating anything even happened. Email is clearly not a valid option b/c of the...
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The Hacking of http://db.singles.org
Published Sun, Feb 22 2009 18:03 | William
I was hesitant to write about this b/c I've been threatened pretty seriously about my role in it. But it's important for people to understand a few things about the state of security today. What occurred was so pathetic, the result of such rampant...
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A cool new blog to follow
Published Tue, Dec 16 2008 1:07 | William
I've been using Twitter for about a year now, ever since Ryan Olshan turned me on to it. Shortly after I started Tweeting (or whatever the correctly conjugated verb for it is), I came across a fellow Tweeter in Atlanta @Streetlightlilly . She's...
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My post on Plugin Development for Dynamics CRM made MSDN
Published Tue, Dec 9 2008 19:29 | William
Today it's even on the front page . If you're interested here it is
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My Personal Blog is now online
Published Sun, Dec 7 2008 20:41 | William
I've been idle on this blog for quite a while. I've been up to quite a bit and am planning on getting started again. Shortly after I got married, I was lucky enough to get a job working with Microsoft Dynamics CRM here in Greenville. After surviving...
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WF Persistence - Where [DataContract] != [Serializable]
Published Sat, Nov 1 2008 3:27 | William
Let's say you were using Workflow Foundation (WF) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). Assume you wanted to use WF's Persistence mechanism (which requires types to be Serializable ). And assume that all the objects you were using in the...
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Windows Mobile 7.0 Delayed
Published Tue, Sep 23 2008 9:39 | William
At first glance, the announcement that Windows Mobile 7.0 will be delayed is pretty frustrating. MS has been in the mobile phone game for a while now and it's really hard to argue that Apple didn't get it right with the iPhone. So why can't...
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Over 200 Apress Titles Now Available on Kindle; All by End of 2008
Published Tue, Sep 16 2008 13:02 | William
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Stephanie Parker stephanie.parker@apress.com Over 200 Apress Titles Now Available on Kindle; All by End of 2008 Berkeley, CA—Tuesday 16th September 2008—Technology publisher Apress today announced that over 200 Apress books...
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Using Facebook to launch a Botnet army
Published Sat, Sep 6 2008 13:07 | William
Wired has a piece talking about how easy this would be to do. It's not entirely speculative since researchers built such a beast. I think the hype is a bit much though. The argument they make could be made for any mechanism that can get people to...
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Rescuing the Hubble
Published Thu, Sep 4 2008 11:54 | William
Kudos to the Boston Globe for providing such high quality and just kick a55 pics of the mission to repair the Hubble telescope.
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Chrome's EULA
Published Thu, Sep 4 2008 11:32 | William
Yah, I'm probably like the 10 trillionth person to post about it, but until now I hadn't really had a chance to look at it. This morning Gizmodo had a piece on it which definitely makes you shake your head thinking WTF. However like most things...
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And I thought model rockets were cool...
Published Sat, Aug 23 2008 14:11 | William
I came across this piece on a home made drone and found it way cool . Well, except the part about it carrying hundreds of pounds of explosives. Assuming this is just some random engineer with resources just like the rest of us, wouldn't this be an...
And you thought I just some moron
Published Wed, Aug 13 2008 23:37 | William
Many folks north of Miami-Dade county have never heard of El Chupacabra. And if you try tipping them off to it, they laugh at you like your some kind of moron. At least that's what they did when I told them. I've been warning people of the dangers...
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Create a Mobile office with Windows Mobile
Published Wed, Aug 13 2008 8:23 | William
With such a compelling title, I figured the article would be quite intriguing . I've had a lot of phone drama recently, dropping my WM 6.1 Dash and breaking it, leaving the replacement on the roof of my car and driving off, buying another imate but...
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Helping a Worthy Cause
Published Tue, Aug 12 2008 17:01 | William
Lou Vega , a good friend, fellow MVP and all around great guy just posted this on his blog today ... Lou is a 'give you the shirt off of his back' type of guy (as you can see from his post, his very kindness is why he's in need right now)...
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