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because everyone always wants more documentation...
March 2004 - Posts
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While surfing/reading blogs, I ended up at Chris Pirillo's site and followed a link to this great Rasterbation site.
What is rasterbation? There are many definitions but it boils down to useless graphic exercises.
Well, I am all about useless graphic exercises, so I uploaded a test photo. I used a photo of my eye. The first thing that caught me off guard was that the default size of the image was HUGE. I resized it down to the point where it would only use 8 sheets of paper. After Read More...
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When XP SP2 breaks a 3 year old application or project that a consultant/contractor has long since forgotten, a call from the client is inevitable. Correcting the error is a given. But who eats that cost?
Is it really fair to make the client pay you/me in order to install a Windows Service Pack?
Is it really fair to ask the ISV/contractor to eat the cost of correcting Windows-introduced bugs? Read More...
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March 20, 2004: Shannon realizes that looking up his name in Google returns enough matches to justify the smile when looking up his last boss's name returns 'Your search - "deleted in order to keep this post true" - did not match any documents.'
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While looking around CafePress today looking for info on their new-ish publishing functionality, I noticed that they had a “hiring” link. A quick glance “aspx“ in the address bar told me it was worth checking out and sure enough, they're hiring devs (along with marketing, etc).
Senior Software Engineer
We use IIS / SQL Server / ASP.NET with VB.Net. Yes, we have been using .Net since beta 1 - we are an early adopter, Microsoft Case Study.
If you're a VB dev, check it out. Looks like fun. Read More...
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4 years ago today, Scripting News was the first web site to support RSS. I'm not sure when I first heard about RSS but it was at least a year, maybe two years later. My first RSS experience was coding a Flash 5 component that consumed an RSS news feed, a component I quickly forgot because I was only doing it as a testing ground for Flash's xml parsing, which I went on to use in other, similar ways. RSS syndication seemed to be a very cool idea at the time but it was still at least a year or m Read More...
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Maxim V. Karpov does a great job of clearing the fog for me regarding the use and mis-use of the term “Sharepoint” regarding the set of technologies that fall under the Sharepoint umbrella [via Scoble]. I constantly see and hear “Sharepoint“ being used when “SPS“ and/or “WSS“ would be more appropriate. For those of us that don't know every feature, function, and difference between the two, “Sharepoint” isn't precise enough a term. I have come to assume that “Sharepoint” means “SPS” because it Read More...
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This is incredible.
A couple wonderful examples of his logic:
“many people here don't setup rules to filter their email into separate buckets“
“some of my coworkers have so many rules that they can't add anymore“
“RSS is usable not just in an email client“
I understand that it is his usual tactic of throwing any argument remotely possible at whatever position he's decided to promote, but damn there is some faulty thinking in this post. I predict a post soon along these lines:
Why RSS Read More...
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Well, deeper than me, anyway.
Inside, he finds good news and bad news.
The good news: IssueVision source code in C#, MC++, J# along with the promised VB.NET.
The bad news: a strange License that allows IssueVision to be used in closed source but not open source projects. I have not looked at the disk yet (haven't installed the DVD drive yet) but I assume it is due to one of the components used. I can't remember exactly, but I remember something being said about a third party compone Read More...
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Looks like I may have to stop complaining about MS pretending that Everette is gone and forgotten. Shaykat has been posting VS7 tips on his blog and the rest of the C# Team has been pumping out some great Q&A posts regarding what some like to call “the most elegant of languages”. Hopefully they'll keep this up for another 6 months or so.
Thanks, guys.
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The geek implications of the title alone scares me.
Spice is Life.
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I admit that I have actually mapped the .asp file extention to Dreamweaver MX 2004 and have completely stopped using Visual Interdev here (home). The only problem is the fact that DW runs so slow. Looks like this may be fixed now. Macromedia released Read More...
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Wow. Today was nice. Why? Because other than parts of the opening closing sessions, today was a day full of conversations about that old, retro tool we all used to hear about on MSDN all the time. You remember it, it was called Everette back when we still used to read about it. When it was finally released, they called it Visual Studio .Net 2003 and then promptly ditched it to start talking about Whidbey, a product that will not be released for another 10 to 16 months or Longhorn, a product Read More...
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Very interesting. I had never heard of this before today's mention in this story on Slashdot . Read More...
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I am totally fine with this. The versions we have to work with at the moment are “good enough” (unlike Longhorn, in my opinion) and delaying the final release can only be good for the quality of the products. I think Microsoft has gotten a reputation for releasing a “gold” version of a product when it should probably be the last Release Candidate and have caused too many customers and businesses to come to consider SP1 the true “final release”. Hopefully Whidbey and Yukon (I guess we can safe Read More...
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I am amazed that it took this long for people to realize what a scam Microsoft's Corporate licensing plans were. Apparently some company still have had a little trust left for MS. Microsoft seems to be doing all it can to prevent such mistakes from happening again.
Microsoft Office and MSDN benefit from yearly subscription plans but the rest of their software is probably better left to traditional purchasing methods, i.e. those that actually tell you what you are getting (and IF you are get Read More...
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I wasn't sure that I would be able to go but I have now officially registered for DevDays here in Charlotte, NC, thanks to Blue Sky Technologies. I won't be blogging there, and hopefully I'll manage to stay awake for most of it, but I will put up a short report on it afterwards.
I signed up for the Smart Client track but I think I may try to catch a session or two on the Security track. Both seem pretty interesting.
Anyone else from the CLT going?
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I first stumbled into Spalding Gray around 1991 or so, randomly flipping through the channels late at night. A&E was somewhere near the middle of his best known work, Swimming to Cambodia, and within seconds of seeing his face framed by shadows tossing words at me like machine gun, I grabbed a semi-blank VHS tape and began taping the film even though I had no clue who or what it was until I looked up the time slot in TV Guide the next day. I later rented the video and hoped to actually be able t Read More...
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Chris Sell has posted a link to his OPML for Longhorn-related bloggers. About 39 feeds, some of which you may already have, but unless you're Scoble, I doubt you have all of them. Read More...
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Funny how some lies bother Tim Bray but other lies are encouraged by him. Read More...
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One year to the day from being posted, Luke's I am a highly gifted visionary philosopher post is still recieving comments. Read More...
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Frans Bouma reported a licensing violation on his blog last weekend. A pretty silly one, too, since all the offender had to do was point out that their code was based on Frans'. They refused, though, and claimed that the code was theirs. They did take down an article that was blatently stolen from MSDN, so they apparently had some sense. In his comments, Frans mentioned that if he had used the GPL license, he thought that he could report the violation on /. and a lynch mob would ensue. Alth Read More...
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How to create a new shortcut that connects to a database with QA. Not very secure, but great for certain conditions. Definitely useful here. Read More...
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Mike Chambers, a Developer Relations Manager at Macromedia, throws down the gaunlet with a challenge for developers:
lets start off with something easy, can you create a search engine in Flash in 4 lines of code or less?
This is a great idea, a great way to get the wheels spinning. Who wants to throw down a C# challenge? Read More...
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