October 2005 - Posts

New Meme from Scottt

Published 30 October 5 1:15 PM | William

Your IQ Is 130 Your Logical Intelligence is Below Average Your Verbal Intelligence is Genius Your Mathematical Intelligence is Genius Your General Knowledge is Genius A Quick and Dirty IQ Test

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Security Code Camp Schedule

Published 25 October 5 2:53 PM | William

Just in case you're interested, here's the Security Code Camp schedule for this Saturday . If any of you are going to be there, drop me a line and hopefully we can hang out afterward.

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Congratulations to Michael Earls

Published 25 October 5 10:10 AM | William

Just got this regarding my buddy Michael Earls <<I've just accepted a position from Microsoft as an ISV Developer Evangelist. Please contact me if you have any questions or need any assistance.>>

Filed under: Life in General

New Reading list (non-Tech)

Published 23 October 5 5:53 PM | William

I picked up The Unknown Mao by Jung Chang and Jon Holiday. It's been fluctuating in the Amazon top 10 for a while and I recently grabbed a copy. So far, i got through the first 10 chapters. It's a pretty heavy read weighing in at around 800 pages and...

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Upcoming Code Camp Presentations

Published 23 October 5 5:39 PM | William

I'll be doing two code camp presentations in the upcoming weeks. Mid Atlantic Code Camp [Security] ( Register ) I'll be presenting on the security features of Web Service Enhancements (WSE 2.0, 3.0) Hampton Roads SQL Server User Group ( Register ) I'll...

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Another Blast of Cold Water in the face - "The Build Master" by Vincent Maraia

Published 23 October 5 10:23 AM | William

Eric Garulay, one of the uber cool folks over at Addison-Wesley shot me a copy of The Build Master Microsoft's Software Configuration Management Best Practices by Vincent Maraia ( Build Master Web Site ) . Well, looks like Kim is going to appropriate...

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Design Patterns really due lead to reuse

Published 22 October 5 11:4 AM | William

My homie and former co-worker Jason Burton sent me proof that design patterns == reuse . Probably inspired by watching my pathetic attempts at getting fly with patterns using the book. Now the only problem is that I can't think of a good implementation...

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Microsoft WSYP Program - I must see

Published 21 October 5 4:28 PM | William

I figured this was NDA but it came out on the Microsoft UK Site. Enjoy!

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Schadenfreude Light

Published 19 October 5 12:45 PM | William

It's not exactly schadenfreude but finally, finally, something like this happens and it's not in a state I live in! And check the URL listing, how did they do that with a straight face?

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Web Services + Computer * x = Justice for spammers

Published 13 October 5 11:43 PM | William

I was hesitant to post this, but I've frigging had it. A few months back I started using a Skin that didn't have the CAPTCHA b/c I got so many complaints about it. All in all, things have been pretty good w/ respect to blog spam. However in the past few...

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New Freestyle Link for Everyone...

Published 11 October 5 12:30 PM | William

Since each of these links fills up fast - I'm posting another one. Enjoy. If you're wondering how my site turned into a popular place for freestyle battles, here's how it started Mobility Freestyle Battles More Freestyle Battles This shouldn't be funny...

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Visual Spang

Published 7 October 5 11:6 AM | William

Does anyone have any non-NDA details about Visual Spang ? Wally just told me about it, I flipped over to Channel 9 and low and behold I thought I was in the other Coffeehouse. Is this the lamest crap you've ever heard or what? I've heard this crap over...

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Pro ADO.NET 2.0 - By Sahil 'El Maliko' Malik

Published 5 October 5 1:20 AM | William

Well, I typically only blog about books that I like but I just came across one. Sahil just released his new ADO.NET book [Pro ADO.NET 2.0] and it's a friggin masterpiece. I could sum it up in one sentence as so “If Aishwarya Rai was a book, she...

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First - Do no harm?

Published 4 October 5 9:32 AM | William

So I'm surfing around this morning and see that Google , is trying to provoke WWIII . Great, just what we needed. I like google as much as the next guy, but they are a bit too self-righteous at times with their whole 'Do No harm thing'. Anyone remember...

Filed under: Life in General

Help with Certifications

Published 2 October 5 9:5 PM | William

Ok, I've puss'd out long enough on this. I'm officially laying down the gauntlet. I'll have my MCAD within 35 days. Microsoft gave me a certificate for it (Casey, Mark, Shawn et al - if you don't need your certificate - please shoot it my way ;-) ) so...

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Newest geeky gadget

Published 2 October 5 7:46 PM | William

Looks like I'll be getting one of these in a few days . Totally stoked. If you have one, let me know what you think - I'm pretty excited since I've had the same phone for the last year and a half.

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Update

Published 1 October 5 12:54 PM | William

Sorry I dropped off of the grid everyone. Here's my flickr pics so far but I got a lot more common. Will be responding to emails shortly and will be posting summit details shortly. www. flick r .com More of cuckoozpikshurz's photos

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