June 2004 Entries
Scoble writes about the new Visual Studio Express Editions. Think of Visual Studio for beginners. In other news, Scott Hanselman collects cool little registry tweaks. Use at your own risk!
Right now I'm in training. Brio, now Hyperion, training to be precise. Now I'm not saying I'm bored but I'm bored. Anyways, I've decided to update my MCSD to MCSD.Net. I've already passed one exam and I've got four more to go. Hopefully I'll be finished with this latest venture sometime this fall. For those who are wondering how I'm going to study I always use the Transcender practice exams. They are the best tool for exam preaparation. I haven't failed a MS exam yet. Yet.
Those of you who are wondering how I finished in the city tournament, I didn't...
Here is an article on MSDN by Dino Esposito titled Rearchitect Your Web Applications for Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0. I haven't had a chance to read it it's by Dino so it must be good.
Last night I gave a presentation at the Universtity of Miami on our .Net application, RSIWeb. I had a great time talking about our application and what goes on underneath the hood. I did share about our extremely long login times (15 - 30 seconds) and how a good design is the focal point of what we do. (Don't worry about the long login time we've got it down to under a second.) Thanks Dr. Rushinek for allowing me to speak to your .Net students!
VB Power Pack activate! Shape of an ImageButton. Form of ice water!
Yesterday morning, I was having problems getting to MSDN and Yahoo. I gotta check my fantasy baseball league ya know. The same fantasy league that I'm leading. Anyways, for some reason I couldn't get into these sites. The first thing that ran through my mind was "Something's gone wrong with our pipe." But low and behold I read this. Yup, that's right linux got a boo boo. Some of the largest sites on the net went down because of a flaw in the Linux kernel. See, Windows ain't the only one that got problems.
Working with HttpContext.Current Use Threads and Build Asynchronous Handlers in Your Server-Side Web Code ASP.Net Page Lifecycle
This is way cool. It's a wired-wireless-bridge-USB-print-server-analog-optical-audio-source-thingie and I want it. Just imagine sending an iTunes playlist over your home network to your receiver located at the other end of your house. It's also a wireless bridge. It's also a print server. It slices, it dices, minces, chops and mops. It's called AirPort Express and yes, it's from Apple. Did I mention it has an optical port? No? Well, it does. Maybe it can find Jed a date. Or get MountsPlus.com a higher Google ranking.
For a while now I've been a Newsgator .Text plug-in from James Geurts to make blog posts. If you use Newsgator and .Text I highly recommed this plug-in.
Finally the Orroz has come back to the blogsphere. Here is some good news, you can access iTunes from .Net! It looks like the COM type libraries are in iTunes.exe. Add the reference and you're off and running. For all of the juicy details go to Dan Crevier's blog.
Scott Hanselman has linked to a map of the Simpsons' Springfied. Cool.
XMLSpy now has has a FREE home edition. Stop reading this and download it!
Microsoft's most popular blogger, Robert Scoble, has blogged about Burger King's recent success. He also points to a Reuters TV report on the turnaround.
So I was reading this Reuters article on Yahoo! Finance on Overheated PCs mean hot business for cooling firms when I saw this.
"British medical journal The Lancet in 2002 reported the case of a man who used a notebook computer on his lap for about an hour -- and developed blisters on his scrotum."
At what point did this guy figure out that something was wrong down there? You've got your notebook on your lap for over an hour and you didn't notice that your crotch was just a tad bit warm. Or didn't notice that burning flesh smell. This guy deserves...
Ever wanted to know what is taking up all of your hard drive space? Now you can find out visually with Space Monger. Space monger maps out your file system so that you can see your hard drive graphically. Now you can know for sure that Visual Studio is taking up all of your hard drive space! Or was it all of those Bleeding Charity MP3's?
If you notice I've got a bunch of music. Oddly enough they are all legal. I still haven't had time to rip the other half of my CD library. In fact I just ripped all...
Peter Rysavy gives a complete run down of the "Does Your Code Think in Ink" contest winners. He isn't too impressed with the winner and the runner up. But he does give Scott Hanselman props for his second runner up entry. The winners can be downloaded from http://www.pcmag.com/tabletpcpowertoys.
This is a comment from my KFC oven-roasted rat post. It's also a shamless plug for my boy's site. If you're into firearms go see what they've got at www.mountsplus.com. Sorry Steve, I own no guns.
I wonder if they use any of my AR-15 Accessories to kill those Rats. You know we specialize products discriminating shooter in the varmint disciplines at Mounting Solutions Plus. With a good set of scope rings & scope mounts they could of killed that rat a mile away. LOL What else can I squeeze in you blog.
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PS - I hope this helps with your Google ranking. I can't...
On Friday night I started on week three of my plyometric routine. I also thought that it would be a good time to incorporate weights into my routine. After the workout I was feeling unusually sore. I double checked my routine and sure enough I did the week four of the routine not week three. So all day Saturday and Sunday my legs were in pain. That's alright though I was able to play ball against one of my old friends from college, Steve, yesterday. In the burning heat of the Keys I trounced him 15-4, 15-2 and 15-2. (Make it...