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I meant to post this weeks ago, but forgot. A couple of weeks ago I went out to dinner with Bill Ryan, his girlfriend Kim, and Dana Coffey. I hadn't met Bill or Dana in person before. They're just as cool in person as they are over the Internet. The more
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The transcript from the 1st MVP Live Chat has been posted. You can download it here . Please note that the MVP Live Chat has been renamed to the Ask An Expert Live Chat. Look forward to Microsoft MVPs, ASPInsiders, Regional Directors, and other experts
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Tonight was a big success. Thanks to all the MVPs that participated. The transcript from the chat will be posted soon. The next live chat is in the works. However, it is being renamed to the Ask An Expert Live Chat, so look forward to asking your tough
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Don't miss the continuation of the MVP Live Chat tonight from 8-9pm EST. http://community.strongcoders.com/blogs/ryan/archive/2007/02/03/february-16-2007-mvp-live-chat-experts.aspx http://community.strongcoders.com/blogs/ryan/archive/2007/01/25/don-t-miss-the-continuation-of-the-1st-mvp-live-chat.aspx
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Spam of the year
I get a ton of spam every day from blog comments to emails. Here's what I feel deserves the spam of the year award. The spam email of the year goes to, "Don't click. Just type." And the spam blog comment of the year goes to, "Good day! Why do dogs eat
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Dean Fiala was telling me about GhostDoc , which looks like it could be a promising replacement for NDoc. If so, then that would be cool as NDoc was put to rest and to this date there hasn't been an add-in for generating documentation based off of XML
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It looks like Gmail is now open for registration without needing an existing member to send you an invite. The only catch is you need to use your cell phone to receive an invite code. https://www.google.com/accounts/SmsMailSignup1 Share this post: email
You be the judge. Compare the anonymous image from Community Server to a picture of Rob Howard. It looks like his silhouette. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Below is a list of the experts are participating in the MVP Live Chat on February 16, 2007. They'll be there to answer your questions. Bill Ryan Bill Ryan is a typical .NET nerd. Currently, he works as a Senior Consultant for Magenic Technologies in Atlanta,
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If Fox created a special called When Bad Code Attacks , I think this would be in the first episode: http://msmvps.com/blogs/williamryan/archive/2007/02/01/programmatic-malpractice.aspx Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick
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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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