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Archive for January, 2006

Dilbert

Posted in Everything, Miscellaneous, tagged on January 30, 2006 | 1 Comment »

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LUA and Windows XP

Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged , on January 25, 2006 | 2 Comments »

For those of you that read my blog often (or talk to me directly), you’ll know that I am constantly advocating that users operate their computers under a least-privileged user account – LUA.  Many have taken my advice, of not running day-to-day operations under an administrator account, or account with elevated privileges (yes, that includes [...]

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NOAA Weather Service and .NET

Posted in Everything, Software Development, tagged , on January 24, 2006 | 34 Comments »

I have been fighting with the national weather web service, provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, today.  Like a lot of developers, who like to make their web sites fancy with the current weather forecast, I have been developing a component for the web site I am working on. NOAA seems to be [...]

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.NET RTM 2.0 Bug

Posted in Everything, Software Development, tagged on January 19, 2006 | 1 Comment »

Eek, this is pretty bad…. http://codebetter.com/blogs/sahil.malik/archive/2006/01/19/136771.aspx

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MCTS, MCIP, MCPD, and MCA

Posted in Everything, Software Development, tagged , on January 13, 2006 | 4 Comments »

Phew! So many acronyms.  I mentioned in an earlier post about gaining a Microsoft Certification, and had originally set my sights on an MSCD.  With the release of the 2.0 .NET platform, the certifications are changing.  So I’m going to dive in and shoot for becoming a MCPD (Microsoft Certified Professional Developer), and eventually a [...]

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Visual Studio Team System

Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged on January 12, 2006 | 4 Comments »

I was at the DC launch for Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 yesterday, and was fortunate enough to sit through a few talks on Visual Studio Team System.  So naturally,  I now want to install the server (VSTS) – currently in Beta 3 – and hook Visual Studio 2005 to it. There are [...]

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MSDN Downloads on Steriods

Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged , on January 11, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

How to speed up MSDN downloads. Thanks for the tip Ed… http://emooers.blogspot.com/2005/11/speeding-up-msdn-downloads.html

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WebResource.axd

Posted in Everything, Software Development, tagged , on January 4, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Winform applications have been using resources (embedded images etc) for some time.  .NET allows developers to embed binary files into assemblies, which can later be retrieved by code at runtime.  ASP.NET is no exception.  How many times have you written a web control, which requires images, and you’ve had to rely on the client web [...]

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Web Design Templates

Posted in Everything, Software Development, tagged on January 4, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Good at web site development, but design challenged? Not to worry, Microsoft has come to the rescue with free design templates: http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/reference/design/templates/ Thanks to Andrew Duthie.

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