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Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - Posts

• Music recommendations: a tributary to the mainstream

  So I work at a company whos business it is to sell CDs and DVDs.  We're actually a big company, in the top 10 music retailers in the US.  As a result of our association with the various distribution companies like Sony/BMG and WEA, there are Read More posted 13-12-2005 02:03 by Matt Ranlett | 0 Comments Filed Under: General

• CooooodeRuuuuush

  Dan Attis has given several presentations to the various user groups (VB, C#) of his favorite dev tool - CodeRush.  This, plus the demo I saw at TechEd 2005 where one of the DevExpress people was flying through code so quickly I had trouble keeping Read More posted 13-12-2005 08:43 by Matt Ranlett | 0 Comments Filed Under: Programming

• An update about Gizmo

  When I took Gizmo to the vet last Tuesday, I asked them to do an autopsy to figure out why she (an otherwise healthy 3 year old dog) got sick and died in a single day.  The vet said that he couldn't find anything wrong in the autopsy and sent samples Read More posted 13-12-2005 08:29 by Matt Ranlett | 0 Comments Filed Under: General

• Talk about crappy weeks

  Last week was a spectacularly crappy week for me.  It started off with one of my dogs dying on Tuesday morning.  Then, on Saturday, I found out that the house I am trying to sell has water in the crawlspace and I can't get a letter certifying Read More posted 13-12-2005 08:17 by Matt Ranlett | 3 Comments Filed Under: General

• Last week's C# UG year end wrap up

  Looks like I forgot to blog my impressions of last week's C# User Group's 2005 year end wrap-up. The meeting began with a presentation on the Windows Communication Foundation (which used to be called Indigo) by Luthor Stanton.  Luthor gave us a Read More posted 13-12-2005 07:59 by Matt Ranlett | 0 Comments Filed Under: C# User Group, User Groups

• 2005 SQL Server UG year end wrap up

  Yesterday (Monday 12/12/2005) was the annual year end Atlanta MDF wrap party where we look back at our past successes and where we look ahead to our future successes. Before I go any further, everyone needs to take a moment or two to thank Douglas McDowell, Read More posted 13-12-2005 07:30 by Matt Ranlett | 0 Comments Filed Under: SQL Server User Group, User Groups