Archives
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To Content Editors of VS.NET 2005 Express Pages
Not sure how to report this, so I figured this would be a great way to do it...
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Important VPC Note
Now that Beta 1 of Visual Studio .NET 2005 has been launched, and most developers **know its not that great** of an idea to install betas on their host machine (or main production machine), you should note 1 important thing about using VPC backup images.
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Express Profiling
Is it just me, or does it look like Microsoft tried to generalize the users of each express product? (http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/)
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Review: MoodLogic
This weekend I ran across a utility called MoodLogic in the search for an application that would allow me to easily sort my music library as well as generate music mixes easily. With tag lines like "The Ultimate Music Experience" and "We make Mixes from the best music in the world...Yours" I have to truly agree.
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Review: CodeBrarian VS.NET Add-In Framework
My first "official" review is on Brady Gaster's CodeBrarian Add-In framework. Brady first mentioned his framework on his weblog, and states:
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Becoming a Reviewer
My good friend Jeff read my latest review on VisualBlogger 2004, and made a comment stating I should do this on a more professional basis. Hmm, not a bad idea. I think I may start doing this, however I promise not all of my reviews will be bad...if I find something I like, I'll make a note of it.
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Review: VisualBlogger 2004 - Beta 3
So as I stated previously, I said I'd give VisualBlogger 2004, Beta 3 a better run for its money...I'm not so sure how long that will last. It still seems to be missing that ease of use that I love so much in BlogJet, however this post is written entirely within VisualBlogger 2004.
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You might be a geek if...
...you go to a fancy resturaunt and tell them your name is "Lan" in hopes that when they call your name they say "Lan party of 3".
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Get Credit Through PayPal
PayPal announced today that you can now get "Buyer Credit" through them. It's basically a online credit card that goes through them that you can use to pay for items without having any money in your account. Setup and authorization takes about 30 seconds (so they say), and you get 90 days same as cash.
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Updated Utility: WebDeploy
WebDeploy has now reached a stable 1.1! When I started working on the next wave of things, I figured I'd only have 2 or 3 items, and it would go to 1.0.1, but as I got in and tested it more myself, I actually found a lot more bugs. This version doesn't have any breaking changes, again, but it does enhance the product to a mature level. I'm hoping this version is nearly bug free...but, what about the changelog? Ahh, here it is...
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Bug Tracking Provider Block
The past few days I decided that my bug tracking component that I created for WebDeploy needed an overhaul. It was built directly to interface with FogBUGZ, and didn't allow for support of any other method. Alas, I thought the provider model could come in extremely handy - and it did.
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Centrall IL Dot Net UG Meetings
I guess its time for a recap, in case anyone is interested.
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When Dynamic Code Goes Wrong
So, how many days has it been since November 21, 2003 - Lets see by opening Snippit Compiler...216
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Updated Utility: WebDeploy
Note: WebDeploy has recently been upgraded - check out the more features here.
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XP SP2 RC2 Woes: Followup
So after my computer mysteriously decided it wasn't going to connect to the internet anymore (got me on that one, tried everything short of throwing the computer out the window) I determined my computer was destined to its second rebuild in 1 month. Most commonly I do this every 6 months, but not having internet can put a damper on that experience. So, even after my initial woes of SP2 not working with my DVD burner, and having it freeze on me, I decided, what the hey - I'll do a fresh install and try it out again.
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Standardized Installers
As I typed the title, I just had a flash back of ACT, SAT, CAT (I think) tests that we all knew and loved back in our early days of schooling. Standardized Testing, oh how great it was, and made it nice for the schools to accurately judge our abilities.
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VisualBlogger Beta 3 Shot
So Robert posted a new screenshot of VisualBlogger Beta 3, and asked for our feedback. Here it comes...
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My Take on Not Getting VSTS
After reading Early Adopter's post about how VSTS will not even be available via MSDN Universal Subscribers, I thought to myself - why the heck is Microsoft even implementing VSTS. If its not going to be available to most developers out there (unless your a super corp with loads of $$, not my company - we get ours from MSDN Universal) then the darn thing 1) isn't going to be bought by individuals/developers, 2) isn't going to be an available tool that MS will probably market it as, 3) isn't going to be worth the time spending thousands of hours developing it.
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GMail Invites Are Out - For me
So I finally got into GMail after several weeks and noticed I had 3 invites to give out. Well, due to the overwelhming response here, I decided to ignore all those requests and go back to the root of where I got mine, the Channel9 Gmail Request Wiki.
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XP SP2 RC2 Woes
Man, I have absolutely NO LUCK with XP SP2 on my machines. I downloaded and installed it tonight on my home machine (which was recently rebuilt), and WHAMMO! it doesn't boot up anymore, and when it first did I lost my DVD Burner (attached via FireWire). Anyone else having this much trouble? I know I had about the same problems with XP SP2 RC1.
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Here's Your Sign...
My dad and I went to the Menards yesterday and were looking for many household items including new shower fixtures and new patio furniture. Well, if anyone knows Menards, you know its emmensly huge, and finding things isn't that easy unless you ask. So, as we asked one of the guys working there where patio furniture, I couldn't resist and just say “Here's your sign...”
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Best Constructive Critiscm Ever
So, I'm not one to compete with WTF, but I just got the following email and it just completely irked me on how blatently obvious stupid people are:
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Page Breaks in Web Pages
How many of you have ever had to make some webpages that have page breaks. (Raising Hand!)
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TiVo Dropping Prices and We're Getting More!
So after DirectTV sold its shares of TiVo just the other day, TiVo announced that they'll be cutting prices of their DVR. According to this article, the monthly subscription will become $6.95, and TiVo will be giving price breaks to customers who already own a TiVo DVR. They also stated that the $99 Home Media Option will become part of the normal subscription! That rocks!
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Whidbey DataSources - Are they Cumbersome?
So I've had a bit of time to think about the new DataSources objects that are in ASP.NET 2.0, and I think I've come to the conclusion that ultimately they'll be more cumbersome than helpful. I state this in reference to how a lot of my applications are built, in which each page will have a TON of data access to do, all requiring their own business object to be called.
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GMail Invite Inquiries
Err - I have GMail, so what. I hardly use it because I don't need 3 dozen email addresses floating around. So, this means I *don't* get to see the "invite someone" link at all.
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Favorite Whidbey DataSource
What is your favorite Whidbey DataSource. Mine happens to be the ObjectDataSource because most of what I do revolves around writing business logic components that ultimately retrieves and processes the data for me. With the advent of Generics in .NET 2.0, this is seemingly getting easier to do because you can pass back a List<T> instead of just a plain old DataSet. What's yours and why? Do we need more DataSources out of the box?
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Updated Utility: WebDeploy
WebDeploy has hit v0.9 with some new features as well as some bug fixes. The user interface hasn't changed, but don't fret, here's the change log:
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BlogJet 1.1.0.19 BETA Out
For those of you who keep track of and love using BlogJet, I'd like to state that there's a new Beta out, check out the red item! I've already submitted a few bugs, so help Dimitri out and give 19 BETA a try!
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Central IL Dot Net User Group Meeting Postponed Tonight
Unfortuantely our user group in Bloomington will not be meeting tonight as it turns out that no one is available to stay at the Microsoft office. I've talked with Eric Sink and will be rescheduling the meeting for either June 9th or 30th. I'll update this entry after I find out tomorrow for sure.
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Code Colorizer
So Brady just pointed us to squishySyntaxHighlighter, and let me say one word..."yes!" So, with the combination of BlogJet and the squishySyntaxHighlighter, I'm all set. Now, maybe BlogJet and squishyWare should get together to wrap this up as a plugin!
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Central IL Dot Net User Group Meeting
Alas, its been another fun filled and packed month. It seems as if the time has just flown by since our last User Group meeting.