Archives
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Updated Utility: WebDeploy
I've updated WebDeploy this morning to fix several outstanding bugs that have come up since 1.2. This 1.2.1 version includes nothing new, but fixes the following:
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Fun Words to Type
You know what word is fun to type? Queue. Mississippi could fall into this category as well. What are fun words you like to type? What are hard ones that you hate?
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A little time, a little patience...
...is all it takes to create such a cool looking calendar. One of my happiest customers to date has modified my CalendarPopup javascript to his likings, and as such, has come up with one of the coolest looking Calendar's I've seen...talk about cool.
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Updated Utility: WebDeploy
WebDeploy has now reached version 1.2 with a major shift in how it handles matching files. Yes, the most important release note about 1.2 is that WebDeploy no longer uses file extensions, but rather relies on using File Masks to match and copy files. This new feature will hopefully be able to extend its functionality to even more users.
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BillG's Summer Home
Saw something extremely cool while taking a tour of Miami today, that was just a "must blog." The picture below, is the backside of BillG's summer home in Miami, FL. I sure wish I could live there...living next to the guy who created Asprin and Viagra, that estate ($49 Million) is wonderful itself.
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I'm Older Now
Well, one quick note from my vacation...today's my 23rd birthday, and what better way of spending it than sitting on the beach in beautiful blue skies. Yes, I've actually done that this morning, and plan on doing it later. So, off to lunch then back to the beach!
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Beating FTP Software
I'm not so sure if I'm beating the hell out of FTP software, but they sure seem to think so.
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Leaving for Vacation
For those of you keeping tabs on me...I'll be leaving for a week long vacation to Florida this evening. Yup, thats no programming, no work, no stress...just sitting on the beach getting burnt. So, don't expect me to respond if you have a pressing issue directed towards me. Catch on the flip side
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Async Call to WebService
So I ran into a bit of a problem this afternoon when calling WebServices asynchronously. It seems that if the process that calls the webservice ends right after you call the web service asynchrously, the process stops the async call and never makes that call.
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Lookout Bought by Microsoft
So all of you who've be such great users of Lookout (like me), did you know that they just got bought out by Microsoft? Here's their blip:
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Find Files with Mask
Preface: For my new version of WebDeploy, I wanted to disband the idea of using extensions. Now, don't freak out...I have a good reason why. One of the most pressing requests has been
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Scott Likes Me, or WebDeploy
Scott Watermasysk likes WebDeploy! Good! BTW - I've you've not seen or used WebDeploy, now is the time. I'm working on version 1.2 which is slated for a 1.2 release. If you follow to scott's post, you'll see some previews.
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Check out Before Find & Replace
So I had to make a change to a demo at work today, which is checked into VSS. This change basically was to modify the color of an element in CSS (which happens to be on every page, thats about 250 demo HTML pages).
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New Utility: TiVo Reader
Who want's to read your news on your TiVo? I'll wait while you think for a second...okay, thats enough. So, for those of you who have your hand raised right now, or those that don't read on...
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My Own WTF
Today I was visiting a client site doing some data mining on a third party product that they own. Ultimately we will be building reports off of their data using SQL Reporting Services. Well, as I was going through the tables, I kept seeing date fields that didn't look like a normal date field. Much to my dismay, this third party company (who uses SQL Server 2000 as a back end database) doesn't believe that the SQL DateTime field is appropriate for storing dates. No, instead they use a long integer data type and store the date as YYYYMMDD.
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Halo2 Beta
How lucky are MajorNelson and others that work at MS and got the Halo2 beta disk. I envy them.
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What is Microsoft .NET?
Crazy, isn't it. I thought so too as I was reading an article about how a China based company will be building .NET-based enterprise and e-government packages for the Chinese market. Towards the end of the article, it had a link to an older article about Microsoft's .NET initiative.
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Excellent ASP.NET 2.0 Resource Blog
I just ran across a great ASP.NET 2.0 Resource Blog by Fredrik Normen. The stuff he posts is just amazing, make sure to check it out.
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Review: Avant Browser
I was pointed towards Avant Browser earlier via a Blog Post and I must have to admit that I've pretty much fell in love with this.
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Central IL Dot Net: Eric Sink
Last night, Eric Sink from SourceGear paid our user group meeting a visit last night. It was truly an awaited presentation by all, especially after we had to postpone the initial meeting the first week of this month.