April 2006 - Posts
My laptop had a display problem about 6 months ago and as a result the display was messed up, so I purchased a desktop. At the time, I borrowed a co-workers 15" bulky monitor. After feeling bad for the many times I heard, "My daughter wants her computer
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Two days ago I blogged about the 911 Pigeon Alert group. I'm currently in the process of migrating the application to .NET 2.0 in order to optimize the 1.1 code as well as take advantage of the new features of .NET 2.0. The current application is written
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In April of last year, I took on the project of creating an application for the 911 Pigeon Alert group to keep track of all reported found pigeons while, in the process of facilitating the birds return, assisting them in direct contact with both the finder
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Yes. Yes. Come one. Come all. Today Microsoft announced that Visual Web Developer 2005 will remain free forever vs. the 1 year free period that they had originally stated. While I have not used VWD myself, I have heard that it's a pretty good program.
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I just signed up to have my blog entries submitted automatically to Community Credit via DotNetSlackers . For those of you who aren't familiar with Community Credit, they give "stupid prizes to smart people" who give back to the developer community. For
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Mikhail Arkhipov from the ASP.NET Team created and just released a spell check add-in for Visual Studio 2005. Cool stuff. See here for more details. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Today I answered a thread regarding using generics with XML and it reminded me of the following blog entry regarding XML generics in .NET 3.0: XML Generics Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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This is a little off topic compared to my usual blog entries, but was too funny to pass up. Those brave stick figures, giving up their life or other body parts so we don't do the same. Stick Figures In Peril Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! |
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About 30 minutes ago, I received an email informing me that I received an MVP award in the area of Visual Web Development (ASP / ASP.NET). I'm not big on speeches, but I'd like to thank each and every person who made this possible. Rock on! Share this
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When I started this blog in November 2005, I didn't image that it would grow to the popularity it is today, averaging 500+ visitors a day (give or take) and growing. Amazing how something that starts out with 2 or 3 readers can grow. Below are the hits
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I've been active on Community-Credit.com for the past 3 months. Below are the cool, but stupid prizes I've won. I bet you're asking yourself, "How do I win stupid prizes too?" All you have to do is go to Community-Credit.com and log your contributions
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Ever wonder what all the .NET Languages are? See them all as well as links to learn more about them. .NET Languages - Resources Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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As a computer geek, I'd like to wish everyone a happy April Fools day the geekiest way I know how. using System; using System.Runtime.InteropServices; class AprilFoolsDay { [ DllImport ( "user32.dll" , ExactSpelling = true , SetLastError = true )] internal
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