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Tag, I'm it.............
Ok, so I got tagged by Jerry Dennany. Well, I am not just going to dump 5 things out about me. I am going to give u five things, but there is also going to be some discussion about them. So, here goes, 5 things that you don't know about me:
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Much ado about nothin.............Laptops given to bloggers
Original url: http://morewally.com/cs/blogs/wallym/archive/2006/12/28/624.aspx
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TSql vs. SQL CLR Performance Analysis
Original Post: http://morewally.com/cs/blogs/wallym/archive/2006/12/27/616.aspx
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Is this http://wallyweblogs.asp.net ?
I'm not trying to subvert anything, but given the amount of downtown that people have from technology over the holidays and my increase in available time, I am afraid that someone might complain and start asking themselves if this is http://wallyweblogs.asp.net. We shall see................
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ASP.NET Podcast Show #80 - JSON Data Format
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Microsoft Zune Media Player - First Impressions
My absolute first impression of the Microsoft Zune Media Player is that Microsoft has done a good job with the interface. I am finding it simpler to use than my IPod Video video and it runs the video files for the podcast in the wmv format. Guess what, the ASP.NET Podcast distributes the files as wmv and mp4 formats. The only reason they are distributed as mp4 is because of the IPod. I have to go thru several steps to get the format correct for the IPod. With the Zune, I just download them and they are converted for me on the fly. This is much simpler. The one thing that I have not seen is the support for reading directly from a podcast feed. Since this is a generation 1 product, my guess is that will be added sometime in the future.
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Vote on the SYS-CON Reader's Choice Awards
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Norad tracks Santa Claus
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Doug Reilly has passed away
Doug Reilly, author, MVP, ASPInsider, Friend, and good guy passed away today. Doug had cancer. For more info, check our:
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays
I want to wish everyone Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.
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Festivus is fast approaching
Only a few hours until Festivus. Oh, how I enjoy the airing of grievances. I hope that your Festivus pole is up already. Oh, the excitement is building..................
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Saint Nick comes late from Intel - mmmmm, faster is always better
Looks like Intel is going to be shipping out new processors in January
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Lori McKinney jingle from Huntsville
Lori sent me this jingle that was published in the Huntsville .NET / VS.NET mailing list. I wish she would sing it for the podcast.
(chorus)
Oh there's no user groups quite like Huntsville has,
VS NET, IT Pro, or Office fan,
If you pine for geek fellowship or techno-talk,
We get that in Rocket City, Alabam'
(verses)
We've had two speakers come from Tennessee, Ron C. and Wally M.,
plus Greg Y., Marks B. and D. from north G-A,
Russ F. and Joe and Blain came traveling up from Tampa's sunny shore,
TechNet John came up from Texas, DE Doug did not neglect us.
From the east coast, INETA Rock Stars Brian, Julie and Miguel,
Up from Texas, Chris, and Russ from bright LA, (plus Wally M.)
We so appreciate your insights and your coming all this way,
From Atlantic to Pacific, thanks folks, you were all terrific.
As for our locals, five guys stepped up, ably handling meeting chores,
Thanks to Josh for January's launch event
And then to Ben, Kevin and Eric and to Rodney, thanks again,
With pride in them I'll be vocal, they're great talents right here local.
Thanks to Todd M. who drove from Birmingham and Andrew from Mobile,
Thanks to all who came to talk at Code Camp, too,
The guys from CLS and Compuware and all the volunteers
who taught folks from Valley Garden, our success, you've had a part in.
As always, thank you goes to Intergraph for giving meeting space,
and to Dominos and Pepsi for the nosh
Thanks telerik, ADTran, CODE Magazine, VS Net Pro, and more
Culminis and our INETA, your support could not be better!
(final chorus)
Since there's no place like home, we'll not meet this month,
Happy Holidays, best wishes for next year
Hope to see you all soon and together find
that we'll all be running Vista on new gear! -
Namespace change in ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Release Candidate (Atlas)
Just wanted to throw out the one major change that I have seen in the ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Release Candidate that I have seen so far. The namespaces have changed. What was previously Microsoft.Web has become System.Web. I think that this was a good to change to go ahead and move the code into what will most likely be the final namespace in the Orcas timeframe.
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CodeMash is coming up on January 18 and 19, 2007
If you haven't heard of it, CodeMash is coming up. It is a two day event in January in Sandusky, OH (right outside of Cleveland). There will be a number of big name folks there, including Scott Guthrie.
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Advanced Intellect and Dave Wanta
I wanted to give a shout out of thanks to Dave Wanta and Advanced Intellect. Dave has written a component called AspNetEmail. You may be asking yourself, "Email is built into .NET, so what?" Well, getting calendaring done is kindof a pain. I plugged in Dave's component and it just worked. I had a few questions and Dave knew the answers before I even asked. His components are well worth the money.
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Visual Studio 2005 Service Pak 1 has gone to RTM
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Why is Traffic to the ASP.NET Podcast up so much?
Its been an interesting last month or so. I've been watching traffic to the ASP.NET Podcast XML feed go way up. I've been trying to figure out why? Is it my sparking good looks, cute smile, sterling voice, or something else? Well, I think I have figured out why. Here is what I have found:
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ComponentArt ASP.NET AJAX Video
I should have put this on Tuesday with my previous post. There is also a video that ComponentArt has put out. The video is at: http://www.componentart.com/videos/webui20062/
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Microsoft Robotics Studio
Wow, I did not even know that this existed. Microsoft has released a 1.0 of the Microsoft Robotics Studio. It looks like they can connect up and program against a variety of these small robotic toys. Hmm, wonder what I will be getting my kids for Christmas(or is that me)..................
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ComponentArt ASP.NET AJAX
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More pictures from the ASPInsiders Summit
More pics.
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Half of PCs won't run Vista
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ASP.NET Podcast Show #79 - Microsoft AJAX UpdatePanel and Clientside Page LifeCycle Video
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David Penton shows how tough Texans are
Original pic: http://aspnetpodcast.com/CS11/photos/day_2/picture802.aspx
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ASPInsider Summit Pictures
Here are a couple of pictures from the ASPInsider Summit. These are from days -2 and -1 (today is Day 0).
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ASP.NET Podcast Show #78 - South Bend, IN Report with Sql Server CLR Objects
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Xander Sherry
There is no telling who you will run into. On my flight from Dallas to Seattle, Xander Sherry was on my flight. I didn't know what he looked like, but at the baggage claim in Seattle, he came up to me and introduced himself. He ended up going to eat dinner with us last night.
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Pictures from Day 1 - ASPInsider Summit
Ryan, Plip, Dave, and Christoph came in on Saturday. I got to Seattle on Sunday. Here are some of our clowning around pics.
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Office 2007 spam
I hate spammers. I wonder how many other people are getting the Office 2007 spam.
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Developer Language usage
eWeek Post: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2065392,00.asp
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Sql Server 2005 more secure than Oracle?
Original Post: http://morewally.com/cs/blogs/wallym/archive/2006/12/01/515.aspx
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ASPInsider Summit is coming up
Original post: http://morewally.com/cs/blogs/wallym/archive/2006/11/30/512.aspx