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Monday, April 24, 2006 11:57 AM

Divide and Conquer

I’m sorry to tell you folks that I will no longer be making any more posts to the Tech category on this blog. That’s right no more technical content. But I’m pleased to announce a sister blog Technical Thoughts of Jorriss at www.jorriss...
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Monday, April 10, 2006 7:38 PM

Project Management Skills from someone smarter than me.

Chris Sells , mensa member, Windows coding hero and all around guru has posted some great tips for project managers (program managers for those in Microsoft). I wish all project managers would follow his advice. PM Skill #0: Know Your Job PM Skill #1...
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Tuesday, April 04, 2006 5:59 PM

CSLA 2.0: Building Better Business Objects

For almost four years I’ve been using Rockford Lhotka’s CSLA. CSLA or the Component-based Scalable Logical Architecture is a framework to build business objects. It’s a powerful architecture that provides many different features for...
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Friday, March 24, 2006 9:55 AM

Join the Internet Video Revolution

It looks like internet video is finally taking off. Sites like YouTube and Libsyn are now allowing users to upload video and share it for free or a small cost. This is allowing the individual to create and publish video content without bandwidth and storage...
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Thursday, March 23, 2006 4:04 PM

Piss-controled urinal-based video game

“Marcel Neundörfer's On Target urinal has a pressure-sensitive screen recessed into it -- score points by shooting the moving images onscreen. Not only does this add much-needed entertainment to otherwise dreary elimination functions, but it...
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Wednesday, March 15, 2006 5:32 PM

A little refresher is always good

Recently, I needed to create a list of items that were to be manually sorted by the user. I decided to use the sorting mechanism that Netflix uses in its queue. The items are listed 1 to n on the page with the sequence number in a text box. If the user...
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Friday, March 03, 2006 12:57 PM

New Digital Photography site

I just ran across this new digital photography site JustShowMeHowTo.com . The site does exactly what it says; it shows you how to use your digital camera and how to take better pictures. Via Scoble .
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Wednesday, February 22, 2006 3:34 PM

Invalid_Viewstate_Client_Disconnected

While checking the logs at work I found this curious error “Invalid_Viewstate_Client_Disconnected”. After some research (i.e. Google) I found this knowledge base article Intermittent Invalid Viewstate Error in ASP.NET Web pages . Unfortunately...
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Wednesday, February 08, 2006 4:04 PM

MSMQ and .Net

I found this great two part introduction to MSMQ and .Net. The first part, Programming MSMQ in .NET and the second part, Programming MSMQ in .NET: Transactional Messaging are definitely worth a read.
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Wednesday, February 01, 2006 3:49 PM

DotNetNuke vs. Sharepoint

There is a good article available comparing DotNetNuke vs. Sharepoint . If you’re on the Sharepoint fence DNN might be a good alternative for you. Via Patrick Santry’s (aka wwwCoder) Blog . Now Playing: Speakers of Geek - CGS - Infinite Crisis...
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Tuesday, January 31, 2006 4:23 PM

Visual Studio Team System to be released in March

Yesterday at VSLive, Microsoft announced that Visual Studio Team System will be released in March . This is great news for those shops that have waited for the Team System release to evaluate Visual Studio 2005. A video of the announcement is also available...
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Friday, January 20, 2006 9:24 AM

Gmail does good!

I open my Gmail account this morning and what did I find? A delete button! Now it doesn’t take me two clicks to delete messages, one button is all I need. Thanks Google, it’s about freakin’ time. BTW, they’ve also made Gmail accessible...
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Thursday, January 19, 2006 3:27 PM

South Florida .Net Code Camp Coming Soon!

The 06 South Florida .Net Code Camp will be held on February 4, 2006 at DeVry University in Miramar. There are currently fifty sessions planned for the event with topics covering SQL Server, ASP.Net 2.0 and other .Net topics. Best of all IT’S FREE...
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Tuesday, January 10, 2006 9:31 AM

Microsoft is acting like Bill Clinton

When I saw this I was shocked. Microsoft has a sense of humor. If you have ever used a Microsoft product you must see this. When you reach the page , click “watch the entire show” to view the video. This could be the funniest MS video ever...
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Wednesday, December 21, 2005 4:40 PM

iTunes programming

http://maximized.com/freeware/scriptsforitunes/documentation.htm http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/iTunesTray.asp http://blogs.msdn.com/dancre/archive/2004/05/08/128645.aspx
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