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February 2006 - Posts
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Rik Robinson recently started blogging and posted this gem about how to get Google and MSDN searches inside of Visual Studio. I'm a month behind in blogging about it, but this info really deserves to be spread around. Great job Rik! Read More
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Last night was the February installment of the Atlanta Dot Net group, this time featuring Paul Lockwood giving us a rundown on unit testing. Paul took an interesting approach and rather than just show us a tool and tell us "Unit testing is good" Read More
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The game is a lot of fun. I've only been playing it for a few days so I really can't offer much of a review. If you want a real review, check this one out at GameSpot (my favorite games review site). Really, I just wanted to enter my Read More
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I won't mention names yet because I'm not sure this is supposed to be public information, but one of our own just got what is essentially his dream job (in large part because it's 100% telecommute) with ASPSoft. I'm really happy to hear he had Read More
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Friday was a long day at work because my entire department was out for one reason or another. We're a smallish retail shop and I make up part of the MIS department, which means that not only do I get to create new programs and support Read More
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Have you watched latest Code Room video yet? This is a "professionally" produced movie featuring the likes of Keith Brown (who I met at Tech Ed 2005) as they have pretend hackers break in and then a security swat team fixing the holes.Sweet sidenote Read More
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Windows Media Player has a decent quality list manager built in but when it comes to looking for songs you like, looking at long lists of song names and album names is really boring.
Windows Media Center does things a little better with images Read More
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Yesterday was my brother's birthday. Happy Birthday! He's just turned 27 and he's a single lawyer in Washington DC making nearly double my salary. I'd say everyone should send him gifts, but probably no one else knows where he lives Read More
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Taxes suck.I got a small raise at work. A bump up of about $1,600. I get paid every two weeks so I just got my paycheck today, and I compared it to the previous one. The net increase in my salary is $35.79 per check * 26 checks = $670.54 Read More
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Brendon and I drove 233 miles last night (round trip) to present to the Macon and Warner Robbins area Middle Georgia Dot Net User Group. We ended up presenting our Level 100 SharePoint 123 material to about 15 people. They all seemed very Read More
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It took me about an hour to get everything set up, but to be honest a large portion of that was me ripping out the old Xbox and my broken DVD player. Then I had to figure out where to put the Xbox. It's placement is constrained by the length Read More
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Expect a drop in my online and real world performance. I've got a brand spanking new Xbox 360 on my desk.-- Matt Ranlett Read More
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When I get a new device (get means purchase) I like it to replace two or more devices I currently have (or wish I had). Here is a great example. Sony Ericsson is producing a line of Walkman phones that compete with the iTunes phones from Motorola. Read More
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Popping up just in the nick of time as I work on a project dealing with unmanaged code, Jeffery Richter gave us a great presentation on threading and reliability. Among the things I learned...IntPtr is bad. Time to go rewrite some code! Read More
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Ok - it's not even mine. But it is funny. Brokeback to the Future-- Matt Ranlett Read More
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There are many times when I just need to create an HTML file for a very small page, but I hate not having the Intellisense. To add the Intellisense in the VS designer for HTML or old ASP pages just put the line below in your HTML head section. Then Read More
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If you work with SharePoint you should check out a new podcast dedicated just to the SharePoint topic. Gene Kraybill over at www.sharepointshow.com has launched a series on SharePoint. If you listen to the first Podcast you might even hear Read More
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Months ago, Kim and I combined bank accounts. This meant I needed to close my accounts (checking and savings) at Bank of America. I used their online system to transfer all my money from the savings account to the checking account. Then Read More
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I took the plunge and accepted the completely free Blackberry 7100 phone with it's unlimited voice and unlimited data plans. I figured, what's the harm? I can always lock it in a drawer. Maybe I should have. Read More
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So I've got an object. My object exposes a few public events. Now, being an enterprising developer, I want to take advantage of these events and add code which will actually DO something when these events get fired.In C# I'd write MyObject.MyEvent Read More
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The company I work for has offered me my very own Crackberry - one of these
Should I take it? I can think of several pros and several consPro:It's free with unlimited data and unlimited local and long distance.It synchs Read More
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***! ***! ***! ***!That's what I get when I type in $h1t!, Fu©k!, A$$hol3!, and S©hmu©k!I find it funny that Community Server imposes this level of censorship. I'm sure there is some way to turn that off. I don't really care. Read More
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Let's say that you have a script that does a task, say for example a script to create an account in Active Directory. That script would look like this:Set objOU = GetObject("LDAP://OU=myOrganizationalUnit,dc=MyDomain,dc=com")Set objUser = objOU.Create("User", Read More
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Try this out. Open a command window and type in "netstat -abno". You'll get a list of active network ports on your machine and what programs are using them. You'll see the connection type (TCP/UDP), the Local IP Address:port number connected Read More
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If you're in an emergency situation and you need to move some databases from one SQL Server host to another, one of the myriad problems you'll face is how to preserve the login IDs associated with the databases so that your applications don't Read More
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