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Hello from Tech·Ed
Hey everyone -- just got out of the Tech·Ed 2008 keynote and learned that this was Bill's last keynote as chairman of Microsoft... kind of cool to witness. Was a good session, outlining SQL Server Data Services and some other stuff -- but nothing "new...
Live Search -- Cashback Infinite Redirect
Classic... try it yourself: http://search.live.com/cashback And I was all excited about getting some of that proverbial "fat cash". (And yes, I tried this on both PC and Mac -- IE, Firefox and Safari!) Update Working now -- must have been some last-minute...
Tom Brokaw -- C# or VB.NET?
Not sure why this hasn’t been covered yet on the blogosphere, but yesterday at Microsoft 2008 Launch Event, Tom Brokaw gave a ~15 minute monologue about technology to introduce Steve Ballmer , the plight of our planet, and how technology (and those who...
Looking for a Consulting Career in the Entertainment Industry?
Does working on projects for a movie studio sound exciting to you? Do you want to parlay your consulting job into an acting career? Do you have a garage band and want to drop your demo tape at your record label client's desk? If you answered 'yes' to...
UTF8 Encoding Changes in Vista (Hashing Gotcha)
If you've used hashing to store passwords for your application, you may want to double-check you code to ensure it works on Vista. Thanks to information found in Shawn Steele's post from almost a year ago, it seems Microsoft made changes in the...
How-to: Change Windows Hostname and Keep Oracle 10g Running
So I realize it seems like I'm posting a bunch of stuff on Oracle and little on .NET, but it's all related to a large Smart Client application we're developing for our client, using Oracle 10g; thus, it's relative J In a geographically...
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