October 2004 - Posts

• Public Passport potentially put out to pasture

  Looks like Microsoft is finally publicly acknowledging that Passport isn't going to fly, and will be used only by Microsoft and key partners. Thank goodness. I'm a good sport and have always used Passport on sites that supported it -- and it's almost always been a hassle. The problem is compounded if you need to have more than one Passport. (Don't get me started.) Microsoft scales back Passport ambitions [InfoWorld] Posted Oct 21 2004, 08:39 AM by jeffreykey with 4 comment(s) Filed under: News

• Help wanted in Chicago

  About us: Small, growing, forward-looking product company Releasing 100% .NET solutions since the 1.0 beta time frame Practice agile methods Conveniently located downtown near the freeway About you: At least two years full-time .NET experience (preferably C#) Four or more years developing and delivering enterprise-level applications or frameworks, preferably on the Microsoft platform Knowledge of and experience with OOP, design patterns, refactoring and unit testing Comfortable working in an agile environment Not a recruiter, and authorized to work in the U.S. If this looks interesting to you, please email me either your resume or a URL pointing to it. Thanks! Posted Oct 18 2004, 09:49 AM by jeffreykey with 2 comment(s) Filed under: News

• Tabs finally done right

  I've been using Skybound's (free!) VisualStyles control for a while, but just noticed this: Not only are the tabs correctly "themed", but the side and bottom tabs are displayed correctly. Nice! Posted Oct 16 2004, 03:59 PM by jeffreykey with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Development, Utils

• Tom Guinther: Come on down!

  Tom, you won a prestigious GMail account, but I don't have your email address to send it to. Please drop me a note. Thanks. Posted Oct 14 2004, 08:29 AM by jeffreykey with no comments

• Add to cart to see low price

  Can someone please explain to me why this is necessary? The only thing I can think of is that they're betting on some genius forgetting that the 57" HDTV they price-checked two weeks ago is still in their basket when they buy the latest NASCAR Soundtrack CD. Am I wrong? Posted Oct 13 2004, 05:34 PM by jeffreykey with 12 comment(s) Filed under: Fun, Tech-free

• Updated XmlDocViewer

  Some people asked for an XPath search, so I added it and uploaded a new version. Double-click an XPath and it takes you to the node. Posted Oct 12 2004, 10:11 AM by jeffreykey with no comments Filed under: Apps, Utils

• Funniest thing I've seen on SNL in years

  An advertisement for "Best of Jimmy Fallon". What are they going to show, the first episode after he left? Posted Oct 09 2004, 11:45 PM by jeffreykey with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Tech-free

• Winner: Best sentence in an "artist overview"

  AMG generally has unpretentious and fairly accurate, if not boring, reviews. The artist bios are usually neutral as well, but today I ran across a gem. The final sentence of the artist bio for the Anti-Nowhere League: They did record a few full-length albums (including a live one recorded in Yugoslavia), and all are worthless. Bravo! Posted Oct 09 2004, 12:49 PM by jeffreykey with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Fun, Tech-free

• Microsoft Hardware: What have I done to deserve this?

  Seriously. It's bad enough that you rearrange my keyboard layout every year. Now, you release a new IntelliType that changes the default behavior of the bloody wheel button! Today I was viewing a zoomed-in image in the Windows Picture Viewer. Like any red-blooded XP user, I clicked the wheel button to drag the image and all of a sudden the window disappeared. As far as I know, wheel-button-click-move has always performed a drag -- so much so that many apps support it natively these days. What genius decided to change the default to the ALT+Tab behavior? Will my right mouse button have a new assignment in IntelliPoint v.Next? Does this fit under the "innovation" umbrella that's cast over the company these days? Please innovate the original behavior back in for the next release. Thank you. Posted Oct 08 2004, 11:23 PM by jeffreykey with no comments Filed under: Beef, Tech-free

• How many fingers am I holding up?

  (I will now join the silliness and give away the GMail accounts I can't pawn off to people I know.) Assuming there are six people left that don't have GMail accounts and actually want them, here we go: How many fingers am I holding up on my right hand? (This isn't a trick question. I actually took my hand off of the keyboard and raised zero or more fingers to be fair.) The first six people to guess correctly will be the proud owners of yet another email account they probably won't use. Good luck! Posted Oct 08 2004, 11:05 PM by jeffreykey with 18 comment(s) Filed under: Fun, Tech-free