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VMWare Workstation link
Wanted to give you guys the link to download VMWare 4.0 Beta2. This is the latest build, and it's easy to get access to. Why my phone number was a required field, I'll never know, but who cares? It's pretty cool. I'm going to install it tomorrow.
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Civic pride & my morning rant
I read this morning that my hometown and current residence, Mesa, AZ, is the nation's 19th safest city. Right on. I'm sure it has nothing to do with the large Mormon population in the city tho ;).
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Will wonders never cease
The army is using dolphins to hunt for mines in the Gulf. How frickin cool is that? Something out of SeaQuest. Worried about AlQaeda addtack divers Fear not! Deploy the sea lions (no, not sea monkeys).
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You thought <b>I</b> had balls.....
I saw a fantastic article today that really says it all. I'm not going to spoil the fun... just go check it out.
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More misinformation from my OTHER employer
This time CNET.com comes through with it's own misinformation. I just read an article on RSS, and I was amazed at some of the valuable resources that were completely overlooked. I love CNET (read: I have yet to be paid), but some times it amazes me what makes it to "print". This is not an attack on the author of the article nor anyone else, I'm just pointing out a trend.
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Scoble does .NET
Scoble, always the one in the know, posts his take on what .NET is. My response: good answer. I hope Steve Ballmer was listening.
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Apple & Al
Yahoo reports that Al Gore has joined the board at Apple Computer. Who better to help the company then the guy who invented the Internet ;).
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Someone get this guy his pacifier already
It amazes me how far off base Sun's CEO is. A few quotables:
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Good morning
I saw this outstanding article on adding a control to the toolbox programmatically. I'm DEFINITELY going to have to take advantage of this.
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Other Axis of Evil Wannabees
Other Axis of Evil Wannabees, by John Cleese
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Was just walking out the door...
and had to post about the Anti-War Babe. Now, I'm all for the war that will be starting tomorrow, but let me just say this: For her I'd give piece a chance (as in break me off a piece of that!).
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Joyous Morning
Finally, after 2 weeks of very long, hard work, my employers new website is finally online. I'm thoroughly excited, because now I can talk about what they do. The company is myKB.com Inc., and they build knowledge base software. The system is really slick, and the architecture is top-notch. We've been working really heavily with RSS over the past two weeks, and I will be working on a series of RSS-related items over the next several days, including a detailed white paper on everything I'm working on. It may very well be the coolest thing I've ever done.
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Warning: Post contains gratuitous ranting. Viewer discretion advised.
I haven't had a good rant in a few days, and I just dealt with something that really burns me up, so I'm gonna talk about it.
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Question for the .NET Community
Does anyone know of a really good TreeView control? Preferrably one with examples I can look at? I need to see if I can find a better one for my boss, because the one they are using is less than desirable. Thanks guys!
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SQL Injection Article
Roy pointed to this article about OO SQL Injection avoidance. Unfortunately, I'm going to have to disagree with him entirely about his excitement for this method. It still uses direct query strings, which is the biggest security risk imaginable. There is a real simple way to stop SQL Injection attacks, and it will be the focus of my next article on Builder.com (still open for business unlike Wrox): use Stored Procedures (SPROCS), and explicitly deny SELECT, INSERT, and DELETE privleges on your tables. Think what happens if someone gets your connection string and gets access to your database... they could have a field day.
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Just short of an orgasm....
I wiped my computer today to make way for the 15 disk monster of the Office 2003 Beta that came in the mail yesterday. Unfortunately I can't talk about it due to the "shut up or die" clause in the NDA, however I will say this: My blog now has a new front-end a la Don Box. I used InfoPath to generate a set of really nifty forms in about 5 minutes for all the different web services that ScottW has exposed. I'm feeling a little giddy :). Maybe at some point I'll use the PIAs that come with Office 2003 to run an installation checker routine, and make the InfoPath forms I just created available to anyone who has it installed.
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Delegates in VB.NET
I saw this great post a few minutes ago on delegates, and needed to archive it for future reference. I'm giving a crash course in delegates for the AZDNUG next Tuesday, and I need a bit of a crash cource myself. Thanks Kirk!
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VB.NET = C#.NET in 2K3 and beyond
Addy Santo posts in this entry: "it seems (at least at first glance) that C# programmers are getting lots of new goodies which the VB guys aren't."
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Attack of the Roberts
Had a wonderfully interesting conversation with NEC's sole Blogger, Mr. TabletPC himself, Robert Scoble. Scobie's been to many geek parties in Silicon Valley lately, and he says he's partied out for a while. I think sometime soon we need to have a party for all tech bloggers named Robert. So far it would be me, Scobie, Rob Howard, and Rob Fahrni (please don't shoot me if I left anyone out). I would probably feel like the odd man out tho, since those guys are heavywaights in the industry and I'm just a lowly coder. It would still be cool. I wish I lived in SV so that I could go to all the cool geek parties (or maybe just stand outside and watch lol).
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38 reasons to be disappointed....
Tim of LooselyCoupled disappoints me. I'm disappointed for two reasons (I know the title of the post said 38, I'm getting to that), the first of which being the fact that he asked the name of the song I referenced in the title of this post, when I clearly said later in the same post: "(In case any of you didn't know, the title of this post [Hold on Loosely] was a reference to a song of the same name from the 80s)."
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Wearable Computers, Redux
This is amazing. It's a far cry from what they have on display at Imagineering! in DisneyLand. My only question is: When does this stuff come out, and how many of my kidneys will I have to sell to get it?
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Hold on Loosely....
Tim of Loosely Coupled mentions that he was thinking of an ASP.NET Server Control instead of Snarf. Tim, I think you missed the part where I said that Snarf was based on a server control that he created, and Brady and I are putting the finishing touches on it now. It's a templated control, and it allows you complete control over the output. It includes caching on a feed-by-feed basis, and of course you can manipulate it programmatically. I'm using it right now in a proof-of-concept project that will blow your mind . More on that later
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ASP.NET News Aggregator
[Loosely Coupled] "I wonder if [an ASP.NET News Aggregator] exists."
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Website Redirection
I now have my domain name (www.robertmclaws.com) redirecting to this blog. This is because my website sucks right now because I'm busy making other people's sites kick some major butt. In the meantime I will continue posting about the cool things I come across. If you're new to my site, welcome. Have a look around, I have links to pretty interesting things, and more are to come.
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Snarf! Rules
My friend and coworker Brady Gaster came up with the coolest RSS aggregator I've seen in a while (besides NewsGator of course). Snarf stands for Simple News Aggregator for RSS Feeds. Say you're on the go, and not on your computer, but you still want to check on your newsfeeds. Well, click the link on the tatochip.com home page, sign in, and your RSS feeds are right there in IE's search bar. It's all based on Brady's RSS server control, which will be available to the public soon. I would highly recommend it to everyone to give it a go and see what it can do. I know Brady will be adding several features to it over the days and weeks to come.
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Mr. ASP.NET
For those of you that are not yet aware: Rob Howard is freakin awesome. If I ever have a problem and can't figure something out, and I have no where else to turn, Rob always has the answer. Anyone that says that Microsoft is not envolved in the developer community can suck on a dead dog's nose. The b0rg rule!
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Shortsighted
Rogelio Morrell "How can a product use more XML than the other? XML is XML everywhere you go. But I can understand that InfoPath might be more XML oriented (in that is using XSLT, XPath, etc) than say Word or Excel, because the only save in XML.
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Move over Apple...
This is the funniest thing I've seen in a good long while. My recommendation: watch it several times to catch all the in-jokes.
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Clueless
Anyone know how to flush the local DNS cache?
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If you're not worried yet...
This is what I'm talking about when I talk about the "pease at any cost" impotent wusses over at the UN.
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AZ Bloggers
In case you didn't know, I reside in Mesa, Arizona. I was approached online by Justin Rudd about an AZ Bloggers list, which I think is pretty cool. Good to see other from the Valley of the Sun (this week is should be changed to Valley of the Rain) blogging. If any of you know other Valley bloggers then please let one of us know.
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Wow
One of my rantings got the attention of the great Don Box. He didn't say anything other than it was interesting. I wonder what he thinks about it.
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Smart Displays
I saw the Viewsonic airPanel Smart Display at *Fry's Electronics [shudders]. Since they're still relatively new, I'll explain how they work.
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Interesting Comments on Open Source
" [James Avery] The open source movement is really only going to provide software for geeks like me to play around with before we go to work to build Microsoft applications."