Archives
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Those that Pass On...
Well, before you start crying, I'm not referring to a family member, though those who knew my grandmothers computer would say that it was. The old Compaq was 8 years old, and in computer years, thats about 80. It lived a fullfilling life for my grandmother, being that it was an old Pentium I with less RAM than what my smallest memory card for my digital camera holds.
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Interscape Provider Model
Sitting in on the MSDN Event with Jeff Julian and Robert McLaws, and Robert just released a new community site devoted to using the Provider Model in ASP.NET 1.1 and ASP.NET 2.0. The uber cool thing about this new announcement is that Interscape is releasing a Provider Model Framework free to the public in the next week or so.
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My File Extension
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Dilbert on Random Number Generation
I'm catching up on my Dilbert Desktop calendar and today's is going to be a keeper. Unfortunately, I can't scan it onto my computer (I think it may be copyright violation as well), but the strip is just great:
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Interesting Download Statistics
I'm doing some digging in my control download stats just to kinda see how things are going. Some of these results may be suprising, others just borderline insane.
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What does Rory Eat?
Aside from Rory's occasional run to Starbucks, I wonder what he pounds down that makes his posts so darn funny. If you've not been reading his blog today, he's let a slew crazy ass blog posts about SellsCon 5 (or if you're really picky, Applied XML Developers Conference (I just like the other title better (assuming that Chris doesn't try and con anyone about XML (but who would do that?)))). I especially love the "Space Hamster" picture...
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Google Desktop - Just Uninstalled
While the Google Desktop application is quite a feat by Google, I just think (like many others) that there are too many security risks and flaws in the current version that just render it useless.
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More on VS.NET Project Files - Unsupported Characters
Got another nasty bug relating to unsupported characters in VS.NET project files again, today. Unfortunately, my changes didn't handle ampersands, or other of those types of characters, and threw a nasty exception...not good.
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Awesome Code of the Week
So, "Awesome Code of the Week"? Yeah, I think you'll agree after this blog post. Let's just say if there was an award for this, I'd take the cake - AND the cake pan.
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Jeff Prosise's .NET Presentation
For those of you who attended last weeks Central IL Dot Net user group meeting (ASP.NET Hacking), you can download Jeff Prosise's presentation and demo code from here.
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MaxiVista and Dual Monitor Life
So about a month ago, my NVidia graphics card went out on me and I set out to purchase a new graphics card. Since I don't do much computer gaming (Sims 2 being the really only game), I figured I wanted a graphics card that had a TV tuner on it as well as dual-monitor support.
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Xdrive.com - Terrible
<rant>
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Updated Utility: Unleash It 2.2
Unleash It has been updated once again, this time being a huge update. Lots of things have been added, changed, or fixed since 2.1.1.1, all which are contained in the changelog being listed below. However, the most notable change is that now Xceed's FTP Library is now being used instead of a custom library. What does this mean? Well, you should no longer have issues with FTP like some have had before.
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Reading those Pesky Visual Studio Project Files
Way back when I implemented VS.NET project files as a source for Unleash It, a few users submitted bugs that stated they were receiving error messages when loading their VS.NET project file in Unleash It. I looked into it, and noted that their problems related to non-encoded properly characters in the project file.
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Jeff Prosise Coming to Central IL .NET User Group
I'm happy to announce that Jeff Prosise will be making a guest appearance at our monthly .NET User Group in Bloomington, IL this evening. More information about his presentation can be found at http://www.centralil.net
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Function for Creating Passwords
One of the things most of us have to do at one point or another, is generate a random password. I once thought this was a daunting task, however found some code at some point or another that gave me great headway into creating a good password generator.
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Adam Kinney's Shirt
So I'm talking with Adam Kinney about how he's making a guest appearance for our User Group coming in February of '05, and in my description I beefed him up by saying "THE XAML guy"...
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JavaHMO 2.0 Beta 1 - Released!
I've been waiting for this day to come for quite awhile. The alternative to the TiVo desktop software, JavaHMO, has finally been upgraded in a major way launching with a 2.0 beta release. Some of the new features include:
