April 2004 - Posts

microsoft.public.handheldpc makes me think someone dropped LSD in my drink

Published 30 April 4 8:40 PM | William

Being a eMVP,I wanted to check out some other mobility NGs. At the time, I thought the Smartphone group was/already has been, goofed up. Well, microsoft.public.smartphone is nothing compared to this place. There's some weird dude who calls himself bibleman...

N Softare IP*Works - I'm in Love!

Published 30 April 4 6:52 PM | William

I just got a Red Carpet Subscription to IP*Works. This has to be the coolest stuff I've played with in like Forever! I wanted to write some zip compression in a .NET app and well, had to head over to J# to do it. I'm not dogging J#, but how it escapes...

Kill Bill II

Published 29 April 4 4:58 PM | William

I rode my bike about 20 miles round trip and was really really tired. Really really tired. 20 miles is nothing, but I haven't ridden in a while. Anyway, I get back and I just missed the 10:05 showing. Fortunately, there's on at 12:25 which is just what...

Answering the same questions over and over

Published 29 April 4 4:54 PM | William

I couldn't take it any more. Question after question “I call AcceptChanges, then call Update and nothing happens. I call Remove on the datatable and call update, no errors...but no good update” All very valid questions and ones that I'm happy to help...

The Punisher --- doesn't get any cooler

Published 17 April 4 3:36 PM | William

[The review is toward the end here b/c I just had to vent about something] As you'd have it, Kim was in Spartanburg this weekend and two really cool movies came out (The Punisher and Kill Bill vol. 2). I've been dying to see both but didn't want to risk...

Must go to bed

Published 13 April 4 11:44 PM | William

I couldn't resist and had to start toying with the google web service again. I don't really know why I did it, I just felt the compulsion. You know you're a real dork when you sit up all night writing code to query Google/Amazon for things you can easily...

New Amazon Web Service - Why do they do this to me?

Published 13 April 4 10:56 PM | William

Sitting around tonight playing with Web Services when I check my email. At 12:00 am I get an email from Amazon announcing their new web service. I can't let it slide so I plug in the wsdl and get to cranking. It's 2:00 now, a little afterward. Still haven...

Second Day of Class

Published 13 April 4 8:17 PM | William

Tonight was an easy one. All we had to do was invoke a long running process asynchronously. Fortunately for me, I've been polishing up my skillz on this subject and just finished writing an Article on the whole subject. However, I wrote it in VB.NET which...

Mobility Freestyle Battles

Published 13 April 4 8:9 PM | William

Perhaps I'm dating myself, but I've been a fan of Rap Battles since the days of Old School. Ice-T vs. LL Cool J was one of my favorite. I'll never forget Ice-T in Power “that's weak s*** from a weak mind, and a weak mind creates weak rhymes, you ain't...

First Day of Class

Published 12 April 4 6:12 PM | William

Today, I started my first day of class w/ Joe Mayo on Advanced C#. The subject was thread sync and it was pretty cool. Here's the first problem “What's wrong with this and how would you fix it?” class BadSyncExample { public void SyncTest() { lock(this...

Friday Night at the Movies

Published 10 April 4 9:42 AM | William

I still have to get the rest of my blog from the Summit filled in, but took a break last night to see Walking Tall. It's a short movie, predictable, marginal acting, but Definitely worth seeing. I was hoping the Rock would have talked a little more trash...

MVP Summit - Day II

Published 9 April 4 5:57 PM | William

It was cuuckie. Things started nice and early and we headed over to Microsoft HQ. I met up with Dan Fergus and Rob Tiffany and after eating breakfast, we headed over to our particular building. The first part of the day was focused toward hard core embedded...

It Finally happened!

Published 9 April 4 8:3 AM | William

For months now, I've been scratching and clawing trying to make google give me my props on ADO.NET. It finally happened..... The Search terms Composite Key ADO.NET finally point to my article as #1 AND #2 . Rowfilter, #3 , DataView Rowfilter #2 , Now...

MVP Summit 2004 - Day 1

Published 4 April 4 10:15 AM | William

Kim and I got in today around 12:30. We got a cab from Seatac from an Indian fellow that was the coolest. Even though we were in a Minivan, we made record time. Got to the W around 1:15 and it's everything I expected. I have a different view of the city...

MVP Summit - 2004

Published 1 April 4 5:59 PM | William

I started packing tonight getting ready for the MVP summit. I can't wait! A whole week at the W in Seattle hanging out with some really really cool folks. I promise, I'll be better about my updates this time and I'll blog everything...