Archives
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Just a status update would be nice
Over on his blog, Lance Hunt poses the question to Scott W. (and Telligent) about the asp.net weblogs and the status quo. As I've seen the blog engine formerly known as ".Text" grow into Community Server Blogs I've wondered on several occasions when asp.net weblogs was going to see an upgrade. (We use Community Server Blogs over at FAZR and it's served us well, btw). I like the newer features and skins.
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And I couldn't stand math in school...
Chris posted this one over on his blog, so I thought I'd give it a try - I am pretty good with addition/subtraction in my head - looks like I did alright:
You Passed 8th Grade Math 
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Number One with a bullet!
The other day (or night? don't remember) Scott and I were discussing the movie "High Fidelity" over IM since I had just seen it for the first time. Since seeing the movie I've been walking around like a dork with OCD, compulsively asking co-workers their "top 5" this or their "top 5" that and using the phrase "with a bullet" enough to annoy them a little.
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Wow...who needs real money?
Especially when my pitiful little blog is worth over $10,000!! I saw Scott and Erik both do this so - I have to follow the crowd:
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Get a descriptive size string for your uploads
In an ASP.NET page, when you've used a System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlInputFile control in your page - sometimes you want to get the size of the file uploaded. The HttpPostedFile class has a ContentLength property - but the value attainable by using the .ToString() method leaves something to be desired. So, here is a simple little method I wrote to get you a more descriptive string from the ContentLength value - I thought I'd share it here for anyone that wants to do something similar.
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Congrats to the newest Channel 9'er
A friend of mine has been offered and accepted a position on the Channel 9 team. Unfortunately, I can't mention his name yet, lol. I'll update this post when I can - for now - congrats to [you know who you are]!
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SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005 & BizTalk Server 2006 Launch Event - Join us!
I've only received 2 emails from people so far saying they're interested so, that makes 3 of us. Since I don't make it into the city all that often, I'm not sure what kind of place would be best to meet at around the Moscone center. If anyone wants to join us and recommend a good place to meet (and maybe grab a bite for breakfast) I'm definitely open to suggestions on that.
Perhaps I'll get white t-shirts printed up for everyone that shows up that say "I know Raymond Lewallen" in big bold black letters on the front. We could be the "I know Raymond" crew.
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Anyone want to meet up?
Is there anyone else that's going to be at the November 7th Launch Event that would like to meet up beforehand so I don't look like a geek that doesn't know anybody? :-)
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Microsoft mapping an Http Handler for .aspx to Java?
I found this to be pretty funny.
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How-To-Select a Charting Component for .NET
My first How-To-Select Guide on Charting components for .NET has finally made it's way onto the web!
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KB896688 pwns ActiveX
Recently, after leaving all the boxes checked for my Windows update patches - a ton of my apps broke on me. I got to find out how much stuff I use is actually implemented using ActiveX Controls in an IE browser window - The Yahoo! IM LAUNCHCast player, some HP Printing software, and of course, the addictive flash internet games my wife and kids love to play.
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Articles Table
Recently I posted about what fields you might want to include if you were building a newsletters table so I thought somebody out there might find it useful if I posted information on how I'm building my Articles table. DevCampus is going to contain technical content in the form of articles so the Articles table is going to have quite a number of columns. This is your chance to provide feedback to me too, while I'm still building the database. I've visited various technical websites and looked at what they offer along with their articles to help form my ideas. Anyway, I'll get right to it:
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Uninstall routines (in general) are teh sux
Tonight I have decided to do some house cleaning on my hard drive. For me, this means uninstalling software that I don't use much or installed just to review a product. So I'm in Add/Remove Programs and I'm going down the list, uninstalling quite a few applications.
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What is your RSS strategy and how is it designed?
As I've been working on my DevCampus.com website, one of the things I am taking very seriously and spending time thinking about and researching is my RSS strategy (or "xml feeds" in general, I'd like to at least offer ATOM and maybe another format to please everyone).
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Couple of books added to the queue
Speaking of Books - thanks to my gracious contact at Osborne-McGraw Hill, I received a couple of books in the mail today.
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Amazon.com Web Services
Since I'm an author and I like to write about technical stuff, I'd really like to be able to use Amazon.com's web services to display books on my DevCampus.com website that relate to the topic(s) covered in an article or whatever text is on the page. Sorta like the way Google AdSense works, but for books. For example, on an article page that covers XML Web Services, I'd like to see the top 4 or 5 search results for XML Web Services (w/ a cover shot image, associate link, price (maybe), isbn, star rating (maybe), etc.) in a simple ASP.NET user/server control package. From what I've looked at so far, it seems like Amazon.com Web Services are up to the task. And it's free to register as a web services developer - nice.
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Newsletter Table(s)
As part of my DevCampus website, I plan on allowing people to get newsletters via email or RSS. For those newsletters, I'm building a database table and trying to think of every kind of possible attribute (column) associated with my newsletters I might want to track. After asking my friend Darren for his input he suggested I blog about it to get feedback from readers and so, here you have this blog post. I'm sure a lot of you guys have built a "newsletter table" or something similar before - if so - what did your table or tables look like?