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January 2006 - Posts
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This past weekend I made dinner for Kim and a few of her friends. Now, I don't pretend to be a great cook, but I do occasionally enjoy making something that people like to eat. So this weekend's menu included smoked chicken (one of my better Read More
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Put your name and other information online, answer a marketing survey, receive a discount card good at almost no places I go. But it is another thing I can potentially carry around in my wallet:
-- Matt Ranlett Read More
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First of all, does everyone know who Jeffery Richter is? He's a cofounder of Wintellect, he's the author of several books, including this one, he supposedly contributes to this blog (although I can't find any of his posts after 3 seconds of searching), Read More
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The web site www.somethingawful.com has a weekly Photoshop contest where people do some crazy funny things. This Public Service Announcement parody was too funny not to post.
-- Matt Ranlett Read More
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Back when the four of us were preparing for the SharePoint 1, 2, 3! presentations, Keith Rome showed the rest of us how XPath worked in 30 seconds or less while I was working on a Windows SharePoint Services web services demo. Incidentally, this Read More
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I very nearly shot myself in the foot big-time today. I have been trying for 2 days to get XP Media Center Edition installed on my home PC, the old desktop that we only use for web browsing. I figured that since I was expecting to get my Xbox Read More
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Does anyone remember that scene in Lawnmower Man where the "smart" guy straps his girlfriend into a video game so they can have sex?
Well, apparently some people are so interested in this concept, sex in games, that they've established an Read More
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Last night Comcast experienced an outage covering most of Atlanta. Of course I spent an hour at home trying to figure out what was wrong with my network before I called them. The entire night was wasted.-- Matt Ranlett Read More
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TRY AT YOUR OWN RISK
I just got a call from a friend of mine asking how to copy a file from the GAC. I quickly told him and then asked around to see if it would be good for a blog post.
So here it goes, it is pretty straightforward.
Open up DOS Read More
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Per this CBS news article, flying cars like the Moller Skycar and the AirScooter might be actually allowed to fly soon due to an invention at NASA called the "Highway in the Sky" (which is apparently old news)-- Matt Ranlett Read More
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She's protective of her privacy, so I'm not going to give out her last name. My friend Jennifer got engaged! Already discussing a September wedding, my advice is to move quickly because there is less time than you think to wrap up all the Read More
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This past weekend I decided I'd earn credit with my missus so I tried to be a bit romantic. I made us reservations at a swank restaurant and even got her a card. Of course, I gave in and gave her the card early, but it's the thought that counts. Read More
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Have you ever seen a Power Point slide show where the person seemed to be using the tool to do silly things just because it could (examples include gratuitous animations and sound effects). Well, just when you think you’ve seen the limits, check Read More
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Kim and I just got back from our local AMC theater where we watched Kate Beckinsdale in Underworld Evolution. My review – pretty good. Not great, but entertaining. I don’t think it was quite as good as the first one. The final Read More
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Statistics can be made to say anything. No one is a champion of manipulating statistics like Nielson ratings corp. They've been studying the users of iTunes and they've found some interesting things, according to this report:"The legal music Read More
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They look nice. They seem fast. Not quite as fast as the promised 2x speed increase over the G5, but the dual core Intel chip driven Power Macs sure seem sweet. MacWorld and PCWorld both have reviews of the new Mac online. Sweet Read More
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Matt was just asking me how to see the function calls in a dll so I said the usual:
B: Reflector, OLEView, Depends?M: No, non COM/.NETB: OH? [This is me thinking about what I used to use, can’t remember and so I asked my friend in the UK Phill, he reminds Read More
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Yesterday a standard was agreed upon which will push wireless speeds up to a minimum of 100Mbps, up from the maximum 54 Mbps we enjoy now with 802.11a/g. The new standard is 802.11n and is currently in draft form. It will take about a year Read More
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I don’t know how many of you attend the free MSDN Events that Glen and other DCCs put on, but they are usually full of useful information. The best part about the event is the DVD that you get.
Check out what you get this time:
Register Now to Read More
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In my last post about data access woes, I talked about how using the Enterprise Library to handle my data access might be responsible for slowing processing down to intolerable levels. So now it looks like I have to rip it all out. Sigh. Read More
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A friend of mine, Jim Wooley, asked me if I noticed the download of the next version of Visual Studio, code named “Orcas”, to be slow? Now I may be the slow one this, but I didn’t even know Orcas was out to be publicly downloaded. I guess Read More
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Yesterday morning I had a long morning and on the way into work I was hungry, but I had forgotten my pop tarts, so I decided to bite the bullet and spend a little bit of money. I was trying to think of somewhere with a relatively low cost for breakfast Read More
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Been working on Winforms code and you're finally feeling like you know what's going on? Now Microsoft is throwing some new stuff at you - Avalon or the Windows Presentation Framework. Avalon is this crazy new breed of Windows Forms where you Read More
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James Shaw, Brendon, and I met for lunch on Monday and talked about all kinds of things. Past work, crazy code we’ve seen, working from home, etc. I wanted to post this before I forgot about it thought. James Shaw drives a cool car. Read More
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Last night seven of us met at the 5 Seasons to talk about everything geeky. We talked about some code (mostly me bringing up my recent issues I've been covering in the blog), cellphones, video games in general, and more. Results of the conversation? Read More
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Check out the Atlanta Microsoft Professionals site to get the presentations and hands on labs content from SharePoint 1, 2, 3! Brendon, Dan, Keith, and I spent months training ourselves and preparing this content. Now we're giving it away Read More
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I want to be a good boy, I really do!
Consider this scenario for me: I've got a SQL query which returns 7000 rows. I need to put a single value of this row into a combo box. This value is also the primary identifier for one of my custom Read More
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I've been getting back into the habit of going to the gym. In fact, Kim and I have both been going after work. We're generally working out with weights one day and doing cardio the next day. However, I've been going the extra mile (literally Read More
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I'm working on an app here at the office which is currently made up of one executable and one DLL full of objects shared by (currently) 2 programs. I'm working in both of these projects simultaneously so I've got two copies of VS2005 open on my Read More
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Sources I can't name but trust completely have reported that Sony has committed to release the PlayStation 3 in November. Apparently they are waiting longer to build up physical inventories so that they can go to market with five times the inventory Read More
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I mentioned the Daily WTF in my last post, so I thought I'd read through a bit of it for a laugh. I had to quit when I got to this one: Yessssss! Noooooo! (laughing too hard)
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Do you like to talk about tech stuff (not necessarily .Net programming). What about food, do you like food? How about putting the two together at this week's Geek dinner. It's not too late to RSVP to Shawn via e-mail. Please show Read More
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Last night the Atlanta Microsoft Professionals got together with Kenny Wolfe and Kirk Evans to go over some actual code examples of working Indigo code. We got to see how you could change the transport and easily generate data contracts via the Read More
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So Kim and I are gently poking fun at each other for the romantic way I announced that I'd made reservations at Kim's favorite restaurant for Valentines day. In response to her calling me a pig for being so romantic, I sent her this lovely piece Read More
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A funny thing just happened. Some guy called me asking about a meeting with Microsoft. Apparently the building is locked because he's there too early and he needs to be let in to meet with someone. It also appears that last night Read More
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I completely feel that it's a Hallmark holiday, but that doesn't matter. I now have the dinner reservations taken care of at Kim's favorite restaurant.
-- Matt Ranlett Read More
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Ok, so let's see where we are. In Post1 I talked about getting an animated gif on the screen to indicate the machine is thinking. After struggling through my own pigheadedness, I got that working - almost. It was basically a complete flop because the Read More
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My previous post talks about adding an animated gif to a Winform app to act as a progress indicator. Well, I got that working and found that when my single threaded app makes the animated gif visible, then starts to do a bunch of work - the animated gif Read More
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Sometimes, the hardest battles I face when programming is when I square off against myself (or something bone-headed I’ve done). I wanted to add an animated gif to a VB.Net Winform app to indicate that progress was occurring and the user should Read More
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Heads up! There is a free training event here in town next week (Jan 19) for all of you SharePoint developers (or those learning to be SharePoint developers).
Workplace WorkshopsLearn how you can build collaborative business Read More
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Ok people, I need a hand with this .NET 2.0 code.
I've got a CBO to represent an bin (for putting stuff in) in my company's warehouse. My bin object has 10 or so properties and I've got a collection of them which inherit from ArrayList so I can Read More
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Last night's meeting of the AtlantaMDF was heavily attended (nearly 60 people showed up) as Teo Lachev presented what turned out to be part one of his Analysis Services 2005 presentation. I have to agree with what Geoff Hiten said about Teo Read More
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Dan just asked me a question about how to accomplish a simple task in Microsoft Excel that I think other people might be interested in learning about. Imagine you have a single row of values that you want to change into a column (perhaps for sorting Read More
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Microsoft has released a cheesy "Spot 10 differences between these two photos" game and is giving away prizes including a brand new Alienware PC. Check it out at TheDifferenceIsObvious.com.
-- Matt Ranlett Read More
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Google has released a pack of several tools which they feel make your computer "just work". Looking at the tools, I really only see one product that I really see as necessary or better than alternatives offered by Microsoft. I have to admit Read More
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As some of you might have heard, thanks Shawn =), I did receive and accept an MVP for ASP.NET for this year.
I would like to personally thank Matt Ranlett for his contributions to my MVP because without him and his help I could not have accomplished Read More
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Microsoft runs an annual high school outreach program to teach kids software engineering by building them into a project group to build their own "Hunt the Wumpus" game. This year it's being brought to Atlanta, starting with the St. Pius X high Read More
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I’m nearly a month late in announcing this, but BlogJet (still the best offline blog editing tool out there) has been updated to version 1.61
Enhancements include native support for MSN Spaces and improved Flickr support.
— Matt Ranlett Read More
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Earlier this morning, Chris Wallace was showing me that the Palm Treo 700 had just been release. This is the first Windows Mobile 5 device I've heard of to actually hit the US market. My criticism of it requiring an SD card to do WiFi had Read More
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It’s been a while since I posted something (work is busy, life is busy, etc) so I thought I’d post some photos of what’s been going on these last few months in terms of general holidays and whatnot
For Thanksgiving, Kim and I met with 20 members of our Read More
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