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Wanye Rooney should not have recieved a red card. What a joke.
It's sport. Things get heated. Especially when you're playing for your country. Most
people who have played sport ...
Reminiscent of the classic Simpsons scene where Burns realizes the age of "Crippler",
one of his beloved hounds - Burns: "What's wrong with Crippler?" Smithers: Ah, he's
getting...
Episode #4 is online.
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Roy and HG. Please come to Vancouver.
Please. Please. Ice Dream, Vancouver 2010. Please.
...
My friend, Kenny Carruthers has been travelling across the globe for the past six
(6) months and has quite an impressive blog to show for it:
http://kennyctravels.blogspot.com/
I...
Episode
#3 is ready to go. Check it out!...
We've set the venue & date for our wedding; July 15th at the Summerhill
Winery in Kelowna, BC. W00t! Now...you
mightbe wondering,"What's next for a geek likeJohn to do"Why,
...
A new podcast for your geeky pleasure: Plumbersat
Work.Check it out our first episode; Mostly
Harmless.
...
In my first podcast interview with sister Ashley,
we talk turkey... literally. (Seeenclosed MP3 file.)...
While watching the trailer for ""Match Point""
earlier this morning, there was a song featured in the background which tickled my
ears. After some research, I discovered the track was entitl...
Yes, the news is true. Tomorrow, I will be joining Microsoft as a Developer Evangelist
for western Canada.
...
Earlier this week, I receivedthe followingnotice in the mail:
Ramsay Community Public Information Session
Topic: Land Use Proposals for Stampede Expansion to 12 Avenue S.E.
...
Do you live on the bleeding edge Does your company install every CTP that comes out
Are you building the Next Big Thing with Visual Studio 2005
If the answer to any of these que...
Are you a Canadian developer or DBA If so, you can get your hands on the SQL Server
2005 CTP by hitting the following URL:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/previewsqlserver2005/
...
The latest episode of Security Now! is online:
http://grc.com/securitynow.htm
In this episode, Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson discussed passwords. Specifically, they
cover what con...
Savas
Parastatidis: "Today the movers picked up my stuff and tomorrow I am flying to
Seattle."
Moving cities is rough. Moving countries That's even harder.The "wait-until-movi...
Canadian Developers! Get your calendars ready! Here's a sneak peek at the Canadian
launch for Biztalk 2006, SQL Server 2005, and Visual Studio 2005:
Tuesday, November 8, 2005: Toronto,...
Recently, I've been listening to a lot
of podcasts through iTunes. Earlier tonight, a friend informed me of DevRadio.com,
the Developer's Podcast Channel. Check it out!...
Is it possible to love another man purely on his technical ability Absolutely. Here'smyCasey
Casem:
John Bristowe's Top 10 Geeks
Tim Ewald
Don Box
...
Aaron has got me feeling the BizTalk
love. Man, what a cool product. I think it's safe to say that you should expect
to see more posts on BizTalk in the near future.
...
There were a lot of questions asked during my talk at the Victoria
.NET User Group. Here they are (in no particular order):
Did we fix the hack with Subversion
Why do to ...
I just got back from Victoria after presenting for about three (3) solid hours on
Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005. I'm exhausted. I had to get up at 4:15
AM this morning to catch...
Today presented a challenge. I spoke in front of approximately 500 people. Now, I
should clarify that I've spoken in front of groups many, many times in my life.
But neve...
Well, I'm here in warm & damp Orlando, FLA.
I have already bumped into or met some very cool folks. On the first day, I presented
at the Microsoft Academic Days and met Joel
Pobar. ...
I really hope the conference organizers have got the wireless situation nailed this
year. Every year, it's always a big dissappointment; either you can't connect or the
speed is horrible. It...
Passport... check.
Digital camera... check.
Laptop... check.
External HD... check.
Clothes... check.
Running shoes... check.
Mobile phone... check.
Powerpoint presentati...
Many thanks to one of my partners in crime, James
Kovacs - fellow .NET affectionado at Quadrus.
He provided me with the solution to a
problem I was experiencing earlier. As it turns out, ...
The .NET Framework 2.0 introduces a new namespace: System.Net.NetworkInformation.
Its purpose is self-explanatory; to provide information about the network. Specifically,
the System.Net.Netw...
Back in May 2004, Daniel Cazzulino - XML
wonk of the .NET blogosphere - published an article on MSDN entitled,
"Code
Generation in the .NET Framework Using XML Schema". In his article, ...
I've been having a lot of fun playing around with all the new goop in the .NET Framework
2.0 recently. Although my focus has been mostly on what's new in the ASMX stack, I've
also been looki...
Ashley snapped this photo of Sloane (my
niece) and I. Sloane is wearing a lovely
Microsoft baby jumper I bought her from the Microsoft store.
Yikes! She doesn't look to happy....
I'm a fan of Robert Duval. That stated, I love the smell of [a new hard drive] in
the morning. ;-)
I just picked up my new toy: a Maxtor OneTouch II. (You can check out the Flash demo he...
Dude...
Please fix this.
And by the way, I love QuickTime. I love the video quality. I love the fact that
we'll be getting H.264 in vNext. All goodness. However... I re...
Microsoft
has posted a security bulletin to TechNet, advising end-users to update their
machines ASAP. This security bulletin highlights eight (8) new vulnerabilities; listing
five (5) as "criti...
Last Friday, Dad called, asking me if I knew why his Internet connection was
"acting a little slower than usual". (I should mention that I host various Web sites on
a server...
Mark Relph
announced the introduction of Canadian Developer Community Radio earlier today. Way
cool. It will be interesting to see how popular this gets. My hope is for as much
content as...
There's nothing like waking up on a beautiful Saturday morning, making yourself a
fresh cup of coffee, and sitting down to a wonderful blog entry like Steve
Maine's on serialization and enco...
This entry represents one of many entries covering the features and enhancements being
introduced in Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0 for Web service developers.
In this entry, ...
In this entry, I will examine how the .NET Framework 2.0 supports interface-based
service contracts.
Service endpoints are typically defined as follows in the .NET Framework 1.x:
[W...
I have stumbled across a fantastic Web site: DeepHousePage.com.
The site has - to use the "Turner lexicon"
- a spectacular number of mixes from all the masters, from Frankie
Knuckles to...
Red: "You have insulted my architecture. Now you must die."
Yellow: "Ha! Your calls into System.Reflection are much too slow!"
MSDN Canada has launched the Last
Deve...
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