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    MIX.06 Video on Channel 9
    Curious about the upcoming MIX conference? Not sure if you should be excited or not? Check out the video on Channel 9 about it .
    MIX.06
    http://www.microsoft.com/events/mix I won't go into too much detail and let the official site explain, but basically, Microsoft is going to host a really cool conference in Vegas in March. At its simplest this is going to be a great place for developers...
    How Do I...???
    Josh is discussing/suggesting an idea he has for the common problem of the same questions being asked over and over on forums. I've been moderators for different forums for the last 5 years so I have a lot of experience in this area. As Josh mentions...
    Neat Idea for SMS on Phones
    http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000900052390/ Pretty neat idea. Eventually I can see the world getting to a point where there's no way you could not know what's going on in big news someday. This conjurs up some interesting ideas about how we as consumers...
    I'm Thinkin' Arby's, er...Objects
    Just a quick idea and some interesting posts I came across from Kent . He recently posted a message on recursive CTEs (great stuff if you haven't looked at it yet in SQL Server 2005). This allows you to bring back hierarchial data from say a single table...
    Global Personalization and Storage of "My Stuff"
    Raj is talking about some things that I think are really important... It's really too bad .NET My Services fell through because it was basically going to do pretty much what Raj is talking about. I think Microsoft has recovered since then though and will...
    Setting up the AppUpdater Component to work with Windows Server 2003
    The AppUpdater Component is sexy. Check out the article on it to get a good start on getting it working. It's a little goofy at first, but works fantastically and is very flexible to fit your needs. For a recent project I did, I set it up to call a WebService...
    FrameworkUtilities
    Recently, I chatted through e-mail with a long time friend's (Joe Heller, who is now engaged [Congratulations!]) co-worker, Brian Wortman of RDS about some programming concepts and workarounds for a few things lacking in the framework. We chatted, swapped...
    Secure Passwords
    Well done article , IMO, on securing passwords in a database table. We've been doing this in all of our applications for a while now and it works great.
    How do you code?
    I'm sure everyone reading my blog is getting sick of reading all this conceptual, psychological, programming logistics nonsense, but I really like it and it's my blog! ;) Talking with my co-worker yesterday we had an interesting realization...we code...
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