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November 2005 - Posts

• Tracking your time at work

  Are you one of the poor schmoes who has to fill out time tracking reports every week?  Do you work on dozens of different tasks every day and continuously forget to write down what you are working on every time you make a change?  How would Read More posted 30-11-2005 03:39 by Matt Ranlett | 0 Comments Filed Under: General

• Buy your Xbox 360 on Ebay

  So the company I work for sells CDs and DVDs in stores, mostly in malls.  I work at the corporate headquarters, which is in the same building as the warehouse.  My major function here is to support the IT that keeps the warehouse humming.  Read More posted 30-11-2005 03:33 by Matt Ranlett | 2 Comments Filed Under: General

• Yesterday's Launch Party was a blast

  I spent most of my time in the Community booths with Jim Wooley and Douglas McDowell, smack in the middle of the vendors and too close to the coffee for my health.  I must have downed five cups o' joe while I talked to a huge percentage of the 2100 Read More posted 30-11-2005 03:26 by Matt Ranlett | 1 Comments Filed Under: .NET Community, .NET Events

• BizTalk Server starts a PodCast

  If you like PodCasts and if you like BizTalk check out the new BizTalk PodCasts. http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/evaluation/podcasts.mspx —Brendon Schwartz Read More posted 18-11-2005 10:21 by Brendon Schwartz | 0 Comments Filed Under: Microsoft Products

• It has been a busy week

  Las Monday was the C# User Group.  32 people showed up to hear Dan Attis present CodeRush and Mitch Harpur present Custom Remoting Contexts.  Both did a great job and were very informative.  One of these days, Dan will get through all the Read More posted 14-11-2005 12:29 by Matt Ranlett | 1 Comments Filed Under: C# User Group, User Groups

• Sony drops Xbox Live competition

  Sony had been planning a PlayStation 3 focused central online service to compete with XBox Live, but news as of late last week is that this has been dropped.  That's too bad for prospective PlayStation 3 owners.  In my opinion, XBox Read More posted 07-11-2005 02:43 by Matt Ranlett | 0 Comments Filed Under: General, Microsoft Products

• Problems with XHTML compliant HTML in VS2005

  Chris Wallace and I were talking about ASP.Net development and HTML standards compliance.  Guess what?  We think we found a problem (very minor, but still) in the new VS2k5 IDE.  Chris posted a great writeup on his blog.  Stay tuned Read More posted 07-11-2005 12:36 by Matt Ranlett | 25 Comments Filed Under: Programming, Microsoft Products

• Visual Studio 2005 - how to change the default environment selection

  Did you do something like I just did?  I'd just gotten VS2005 installed on my work machine and I wanted to set it up as a web developer environment, but I'd accidentally chosen general.  Looking for how to change this?  Check this link Read More posted 07-11-2005 11:20 by Matt Ranlett | 3 Comments Filed Under: Programming, Microsoft Products