June 2006 - Posts

Do you have any ideas about preparation for 70-529?

Published 28 June 6 3:30 AM | William

As you may know, I'm coauthoring http://www.microsoft.com/learning/exams/70-529.asp . In particular, I'm covering the following objectives: Create and configure an XML Web service method. Create a public method. Attach the WebMethodAttribute attribute...

Filed under: Web Services / WSE, Books, .NET Basics, .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques, Misc Technology, Certification

AOL Customer Service Call from H3ll

Published 23 June 6 2:18 AM | William

This is a Absolutely shocking . It took this guy over 20 minutes to cancel his account (and although AOL claims they don't encourage this stuff, how many nightmare stories have you heard about people cancelling AOL? Granted, few people use such a lame...

Filed under: Humor, Life in General, Misc Technology

The momentum just keeps coming

Published 19 June 6 7:31 PM | William

Today, we've hit 246 overall and #2 in Computers and Internet at Amazon. We made #1 yesterday and are at #2 in Computers at Barnes and Noble. I'd like to thank Herb Sewell and Walter Bellhaven for their assistance in this matter.

Filed under: Books, Certification

Net Neutrality - Cox and Craigslist

Published 19 June 6 1:3 PM | William

I saw one report that described this as an issue where both sides 'are off their rocker.' Increasingly, I think that's an apt description .

Filed under: Net Neutrality

Wanna bet this is a PUBLIC School?

Published 18 June 6 12:13 AM | William

I know grade competition is mean and lots of kids get their precious self esteem hurt, but this this is ridiculous . One of the posters mentions how this same crap is going on with Soccer - where every kid gets to play. Back when I was born, I don't remember...

Filed under: Life in General, Mindless Babbling

10 Ten Things that piss you off

Published 17 June 6 11:55 PM | William

A thread started over at Sweet Feathery Jesus about Top 10 things that piss you off . Here's mine (other than the first one, there's no particular order). 1 - Public Service Announcements on XM Radio (In particular, the Hurricane survivial, everything...

Filed under: Humor, Me, Memes

Will there by an XBOX 360 Version?

Published 17 June 6 3:22 PM | William

First off, I came across this over at Sweet Feathery Jesus but heard it first mentioned by LLoyd Bonafide and it sounded great. I know Lloyd hates video games, Genxrs and most everything else but it still looks fun. Don't accidentally blow off your head...

Filed under: Humor, Me

Is Google's fortune about to change?

Published 17 June 6 5:50 AM | William

Well, for the longest time I was a big google fan. MSN Search is getting a lot better though and to be honest, I think some fierce competition is going to improve the search engine market the same way Linux/Windows competition improved the OS market and...

Filed under: Misc Technology

70-536 Moving Quickly

Published 16 June 6 3:44 AM | William

Well, we've got some pretty stiff stiff competition -- Ann's book is getting all the glory but our 70-536 MCTS Guide is already kicking some butt. We moved up 1,000 points since yesterday overall on Amazon's rankings and have just broken #60 in Computers...

Filed under: Humor, Books, Me

Biztalk Server 2004 Unleashed

Published 16 June 6 2:47 AM | William

Filed under: Books, Biztalk, Biztalk Server

Biztalk - What do you call a 'difficult' application

Published 15 June 6 3:19 AM | William

I think I'm going back into one of my hypomanic phases b/c everything seems so clear and I'm learning at an amazing pace. Back to Biztalk. Ok ok. Back in the day I was pretty big into Biztalk. For a while, it seemed like it was fizzling out and since...

Filed under: Coding Techniques, Biztalk, Biztalk Server

To use Stored Procedures or not.

Published 14 June 6 9:14 PM | William

A while ago, Frans wrote Stored Procedures are Bad, M'Kay . None other than Adam Machanic chimed in, arguing essentially the opposite . The always insightful Anatoly Lubarsky gives his take on it and well, my head is spinning. I was Mr. Stored Procedure...

Filed under: Data Access, Coding Techniques

I got snubbed again!

Published 14 June 6 2:1 AM | William

The old saying goes, "You don't want to be a member of any club that would have you." Well, doesn't look like I'm going to run into that problem b/c I got snubbed for Bilderberg . So far, I've gotten subbed by the Trilaterilists, the Council for Foreign...

Filed under: Humor, Life in General, Me

Foundations of Atlas - Rapid Ajax Development with ASP.NET 2.0

Published 14 June 6 1:47 AM | William

I just got a copy of Foundations of Atlas - Rapid Ajax Development with ASP.NET 2.0 by Laurence Moroney. All I can say is, It's just plain good. Actually, it's great. So far, it's the best Ajax book I've read ( Wally still hasnt' mailed me a copy of his...

Filed under: Books, Me

Where's the Extra Connection String Coming From?

Published 14 June 6 1:33 AM | William

One of the issues I came across when writing my new book was with ConnectionStrings. Examine the following configuration section: <connectionStrings> <add name="AdventureWorksString" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" connectionString="Data...

Filed under: Data Access, Coding Techniques

7 Deadly Sins of Software Development

Published 14 June 6 12:3 AM | William

Frans blogged about Jon Skeet's which was inspired by Eric's post. Since Eric is asking others to contribute, I'm throwing in my two cents. #1 Not understanding the problem that you're trying to solve Personal guilt rating: historically 7, currently 3...

Filed under: Me, Coding Techniques, Mindless Babbling

Net Neutrality - Dead in the water...

Published 13 June 6 6:31 PM | William

Well, until I really understood what Net Neutrality would entail, it sounded like a good thing. Afterward it seemed like just a ton of paperwork and a pretty clear back door way for governments to regulate the net. Anyway, it it died in the House

Filed under: Misc Technology

Shirley Phelps

Published 13 June 6 12:3 AM | William

Although I was stuck in bed for most of today, I got irritable and had to move around. Got to catch up on blogs for about an hour. One of the interesting things was Another news interview with Shirley Phelps, daughter or whatever of Certified Nut Fred...

Filed under: Humor, Mindless Babbling

Pablo Castro on ADO.NET 3.0

Published 12 June 6 11:39 PM | William

I'm bummed that I couldn't make it to Tech Ed, Sahil is presenting and everyone I know is up there. Anyway, i've been reading Kent Tegels liveblog of Pablo Castro's ADO.NET 3.0 presentation report on ADO.NET 3.0 and am green with envy. Pablo is one of...

Filed under: Data Access, Coding Techniques

Did you know

Published 12 June 6 11:18 PM | William

Did you know... It is impossible to lick your elbow. A crocodile can't stick its tongue out. A shrimp's heart is in its head. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in...

Filed under: Humor, Me