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England vs. Portugal and Wayne's Push

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 ...

[Funny] Fiona's Ordeal with "Whopper"

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...

Please, Please, Please: Roy and HG at Vancouver 2010

Roy and HG. Please come to Vancouver. Please. Please. Ice Dream, Vancouver 2010. Please. ...

Kenny's Travels

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...

JohnAndFiona.com

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, ...

Plumbers at Work - Episode 1 - Mostly Harmless

A new podcast for your geeky pleasure: Plumbersat Work.Check it out our first episode; Mostly Harmless. ...

Ashley and John Talk Turkey (Podcast)

In my first podcast interview with sister Ashley, we talk turkey... literally. (Seeenclosed MP3 file.)...

2002 Dude, You're Kidding Me...

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...

Joining Microsoft

Yes, the news is true. Tomorrow, I will be joining Microsoft as a Developer Evangelist for western Canada. ...

Public Notice for Residents of Ramsay (Calgary, Alberta, 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. ...

Customer Evidence Contest

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...

SQL Server 2005 CTP

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/ ...

Security Now! Episode 4: Personal Password Policy

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: Moving to Seattle

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: Are You Ready

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,...

Introducing DevRadio.com

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!...

OT: Climbing Up The Charts This Week...

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 ...

Feelin' the BizTalk Love...

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. ...

Some Questions to Answer

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 ...

Whew!

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...

TechEd 2005, Day 2

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...

TechEd 2005

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. ...

A Near Necessity for TechEd

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...

Heading to Orlando (TechEd)

Passport... check. Digital camera... check. Laptop... check. External HD... check. Clothes... check. Running shoes... check. Mobile phone... check. Powerpoint presentati...

UPDATE: System.Guid with XmlSchemaProviderAttribute (.NET Framework 2.0)

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, ...

System.Net.NetworkInformation in the .NET Framework 2.0

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...

Ode to the System.Xml.Serialization.Advanced.SchemaImporterExtension Class

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, ...

A Cry for Help (AKA, Implementing a XML Schema Provider)

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...

"What's that You don't like Microsoft!"

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....

My New Toy: Maxtor OneTouch II

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...

Paging Apple QuickTime Development Team

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 Security Bulletin Summary for April 2005

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...

Planet Simpson Featured on Slashdot

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...

MSDN Canada Introduces Canadian Developer Community Radio

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...

POST: Serialization vs. Encoding (Steve Maine)

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...

WS-I Basic Profile in the .NET Framework 2.0

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, ...

Interface-Based Service Contracts in the .NET Framework 2.0

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...

SITE: DeepHousePage.com

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...

COOL: Last Developer Standing Contest (MSDN Canada)

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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