January 2007 - Posts
Announcements Continuation of the 1st MVP Live Chat Join the Strong Coders Community, Scott Guthrie , General Manager, Microsoft Developer Division, and Microsoft MVPs for the continuation of the 1st MVP Live Chat on Friday, February 16, 2007 from 8:00pm-9:00pm
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David Silverlight has the best 5 Things You Didn't Know About Me blog post. Check it out . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Since the last 2 people I showed Google weather to didn't know it existed, I figure it's worth sharing. If you go to Google and type {zip code} weather , it'll give you a 4 day forecast as well as the current weather for the area. So, 22044 weather would
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I was first addicted to blog flair (those RSS feed subscription images on the left) when visiting Rob Carons blog and noticed his blog flair. Since that time, I'm proud to announce that I now have 21 pieces of blog flair, which is above the number of
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Just wanted to share with everyone the generic helper method I use for ExecuteScalar. A helper method for ExecuteScalar is the perfect candidate for generics due to the different types that could be returned. Of course, you could always return an object,
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ASP.NET Podcast - Interview with Matt Gibbs
Wally McClure just posted his latest podcast where he interviews Matt Gibbs, Development Manager for ASP.NET AJAX. Check it out . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Snap and Community Server
Up until an hour ago, this site was using Snap to render web page previews of images and links that linked to external sites. However, this caused the following JavaScript error when using the roles modal in Control Panel > Administration > Membership
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Join the Strong Coders Community, Scott Guthrie , General Manager, Microsoft Developer Division, and Microsoft MVPs for the continuation of the 1st MVP Live Chat on Friday, February 16, 2007 from 8:00pm-9:00pm EST. Get your tough questions answered by
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I suspected Charles Carroll would talk about me behind my back, but also discovered that he was talking about Dana Coffey and Bill Ryan behind their backs. It's a good idea when you do that to make sure it doesn't come back to me. I have all of the emails
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I normally never post any personal posts on my blog, but couldn't help it this time. So, here comes a cross post from my fellow MVP Bill Ryan. This is for those of you who wonder what Charles Carroll's been up to lately. It seems inline code boy has been
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:( Sorry
Tonight, I was attempting to connect to MSN Messenger via webmessenger.msn.com and got the below screen. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Fixing orphaned SQL users
I was migrating some databases and had some orphan users that I needed to fix. So, I found the sp_change_users_login stored procedure. It's pretty cool. Check it out. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it
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Tag. I'm it.
It's about time. Steve Smith tagged me. Here's 5 things you may not know about me. 1) I used to be very active in the animal rescue field, mainly with abandoned ducks and geese. I've literally rescued hundreds of abandoned birds. With team of people I
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1st MVP Live Chat
First of all, I'd like to say thanks to all those who attended. The 1st MVP Live Chat didn't go quite how I expected it to. Cute Chat ended up brining the server to it's knees within a matter of minutes. It took me 3 hours to get this server back to a
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WHEN: Friday, January 12, 2007 at 8:00 PM EST WHERE: Strong Coders Community MVP Live Chat chat room DRESS: Optional -- it's a chat room Microsoft MVPs will be ready to answer your questions live via chat. Instant answers to your deepest, darkest .NET
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Announcements The first MVP Live Chat will take place on Friday, January 12, 2007 at 8:00 PM EST. Microsoft MVPs will be there to answer your questions via live chat. To join the chat, click the chat icon ( ) on the main forum page next to the MVP Live
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