Archives
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Trying Out FogBUGZ
After some discussion with Jeff Key this morning, and reading in Coder to Developer by Mike Gunderloy, I decided to start testing out FogBUGZ to see if I like using it for a bug tracking software for my personal development.
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Hop on the eWorld.UI Train
I've finally come to the crossroads of having very little time to advance my custom controls, and realized that I need to take on 1 or 2 development partners to help make the custom controls great.
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"Hatteras" - the new SCC on the block
Update: Eric responds to the speculations and states that Hatteras is more on the lines to compete with ClearCase and not Vault.
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New VS.NET CTP Out
According to briankel, there's a new "hot" build of VS.NET 2005 CTP available that didn't make the attendee bag drop. Any TechEd attendee can pick a copy up at the Visual Studio booths in the Pavilion area.
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Coder to Developer, Take 1
So I finally received my copy of Coder To Developer by Mike Gunderloy. I started reading it today, and so far I've gotten through the first two chapters, and both of which have hit points that I constantly think about at work starting a new project. I've also walked away with a better understanding of how I should be prepping myself as well as a new project prior to actually writing some code.
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VisualBlogger 2004 - I have some Truth
I would like to preface this post with the following:
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VisualBlogger 2004 - Whats the Truth?
After a nice comment from Paschal, he noted what I was thinking after writing my original post this morning. So - what was it that he and I had the same thoughts on? Well, when Robert intially launched the idea of VisualBlogger, he stated in a comment on his initial post:
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VisualBlogger 2004, Beta 2 Release & Comments
Robert and his team launched VisualBlogger 2004, Beta 2 this morning, and so I decided to give it another shot since Beta 1. Overall, I really wasn't that impressed just like last time.
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Need a Terabyte - be a lucky user of Gmail
Yesterday, Google decided to bump particular users' email storage limits to 1 Terabyte instead of 1 Gigabyte. And unfortunately, mine didn't make the cut (not like I'm really using it, though). Read the CNet article.
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ADO.NET Provider for NNTP
Now this is just plain cool. If I had only had this several moons ago when I was developing the NNTP Posting Plugin.
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TiVo Reader - RSS Aggregator for TiVo
Okay, so my boss has gotten my brain churning on a new project, something that isn't work related (wahoo!). As you can see from the title of this post, I'm going to attempt to make a TiVo Reader, aka - a RSS Aggregator for TiVo.
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Updated Article: Drag and Drop List View
I took some more time late last week and this weekend to fix a few more known issues to my Drag and Drop List View control article on Code Project. Here's a listing of updated items:
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I want Coder to Developer, please Amazon?
Well, Test Driven Development in .NET will show up today, however I'm dissapointed that the main book I had ordered at the same time is back ordered and won't be shipping until June sometime. Yup, wish I had Coder to Developer by Mike Gunderloy to read today, but I guess it'll just be some TDD in .NET for me.
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Free Home Media Edition Trial for TiVo
After church today I was pokin' around the main menu of my TiVo only to realize that I somehow had the Home Media Edition working for me. This was truly a suprise since I hadn't bought it, but after a bit of searching on the community forums, I found out that they're doing a 30-day free HMO edition trial for all Series 2 DVRs. Very sweet indeedy since I've been plugging my MP3's to my TiVo all night while setting up the new entertainment center. Still gonna be a hard purchase for $99, though.
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New Entertainment Center
So me and my girlfriend spent the better half of the last few days searching for and putting together a new entertainment center for the living room. After about 6-7 hours of driving around to different stores in the Bloomington-Normal, IL area, we had finally found one that we liked from Walmart. However, much to our dismay, when I went to go purchase it late last night, Walmart had only the floor model left and the model had seemed to be discontinued.
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Updated Article: Drag and Drop List View
I took some time this morning to fix a few known issues to my Drag and Drop List View control article on Code Project. Here's a listing of updated items:
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Article Released: Drag and Drop ListView
The past few days I've been working on a Drag and Drop ListView that allows you to reorder list items within itself as well as transfer list items to other ListViews. I took some time tonight to write up an article and post it on Code Project. Luckily my manager allowed me to share this control with the world, and so I'm doing so.
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Office Moving
I just love it when I have to pick up my office space only to move, again. This is move number 5 in 3.5 years (I think?) for me at work. I guess they like to keep us on the ball, and again, this time its the same reason we've moved each time before.
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Outlook Remembers My Selection
I just found a major plus about Outlook 2003 that I just love! I'm constantly setting flags and then digging into my "for follow up" search folder so I can easily access emails I need frequently. One email that I've been using a ton lately, is an email with several different login's and passwords for an application I'm working on. It turns out that jumping between folders within Outlook is extremely smart. Whenever you return to a folder, it re-selects which email/post you had selected last. Very handy when I don't have to dig through 30 emails to find the one I'm looking for.
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Large File Uploading in ASP.NET
I posted this to the ASP.NET forums back in November of 2002, and, too much of my dismay, still is an issue and people are still having problems figuring this out. I don't really know how many times I've helped people with this problem, and just recently I had to do the same. So, for my own personal reference (mainly), and to share the information, I decided to re-post it in my blog...
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EmptyDataGrid - Bug
I was working with my EmptyDataGrid control on a project at work today, when I noticed a bug that could affect just about anyone using it. It turns out that if you have Paging turned on, and no data is returned, the EmptyTemplate gets appended to the DataGrid after the Pager item.
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New BlogJet - Not Free Anymore
Well as I BlogJet kept telling me that it was time to upgrade, I kept checking. Alas, today there is a new version. However, its not Beta anymore, and comes with a 30-day trial and a $19.95 registration fee. I guess I actually have to determine how much I like BlogJet over other free utilities now.
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Longhorn Notepad Icon
Not sure if anyone noticed, but the latest build of Longhorn, 4074, has a completely different icon for Notepad now. -
Are we Greedy for Speed?
I'm sitting here watching over my download from MSDN for the Longhorn 7.2 SDK, and I constantly find myself suspending and resuming the download. But, why? Well, because I think downloading the 700MB file at 40 KB/sec is just too darn slow, so if I suspend and resume, it'll jump to above 100KB to 200KB for about 1 more minute.
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Looping for Dummies
Ahh, so I just had a revisit of why For loops are not as good as While loops sometimes. Most commonly, I try to avoid using While loops, but after trying to convert this Master Detail example I realized that I needed a While loop instead of a For loop.
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Yes I am...
... downloading longhorn, but I don't have time to do some of the suggested things because its almost time for our Central IL Dot Net User Group meeting.
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Central IL Dot Net User Group Meeting Tonight
If you're in the Central IL area tonight and would like to take a glimpse into my company and our efforts into the K-12 market using SIF, make sure you stop by the Central IL Dot Net User Group meeting.
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Free NFR VB.NET 2003 Standard
Just saw this come across SlickDeals.net, but in short - you can get a free copy (not for resale) of Visual Basic .NET 2003 Standard by just viewing and rating 5 movies from VB @ the Movies. This would be very cool, if I didn't already have VS.NET 2003, but I may just check out the movies & get a free copy anyway.
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Got GMail?
GMAIL REQUESTERS: This is NOT a place for requesting GMail accounts. I IGNORE each one of these pleas for an account, and have ALREADY given away my 3 invites.
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TiVo
So last night I took the plunge and bought a TiVo, and much to my dismay - $600 later, I have a working TiVo. I guess I should have done my research to find out that you need to purchase their subscription ($12.95 per month, or $299 for the lifetime of the box) along with the actual hardware. Either way, the investment will pay off in the long run. I've already setup several "season passes" to record the shows I watch most of the time.