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May 2007 - Posts

BITS download manager and .NET wrapper for BITS API
This is a note to self. When I need it I can never find it. The name of this tool that wraps the BITS api, using C#, and provides a smooth BITS client. http://sharpbits.xidar.net/ Read More...
New WindowsClient.com website...
The www.WindowsForms.net website is no more; it's just been recast as WindowsClient.com - to take advantage of the SmartClient, WPF, etc. parts of the client side experience. Although, the SmartClient verbiage is light on the site - definate focus is Read More...
Netflix of the Future with SilverLight (fka WPF/e)
I've been a big fan of Netflix for years, but definately see the horizon on their mail to home business model coming to an end, or at least siginificant contraction as video on demand becomes truly viable. The Netflix folks have been working with SilverLight Read More...
Viewing user calendars in Microsoft Exchange OWA 2007
One nice feature of the Outlook thick client is to view other user's calendars. In OWA 2003 it was a different URL that was needed, as along as you had the permissions. Now with Exchange 2007 OWA the URL is different. Below is the syntax - all on one Read More...
BlackJack Cheating - One Approach is Well Known.
Recently, a bunch of people were caught cheating casinos by various means. One of those ways was something that I saw first hand when I worked as a BlackJack dealer in Atlantic City back in the mid-1980's for the Sands Casino ( which is now gone ). This Read More...
Batch File Renaming Utility - Updates by Greg Poole
Greg Poole has updated the batch file renaming utility that I posted a while back ( http://cicoria.com/CS1/blogs/cedarlogic/archive/2006/07/10/260.aspx ) Here's his updates: http://m4dm4n.homelinux.net:8086/blog.php?id=31 From Greg's post: I've spent Read More...
TFS Project Server Connector
If you're using both TFS & Project Server (god bless you BTW) the Project Server Connector has been released on CodePlex. The Visual Studio Team System Project Server 2007 Connector is designed to integrate the project management capabilities of VSTS Read More...
Enterprise Library 3.1 Released...
A few updates to EntLib for the May 2007 releaes. Just released in April, the P&P team updates (bug fixes & more functionality) the distrubution, now on CodePlex http://codeplex.com/entlib Tom Hollander posts the changes in the 3.1 release: http://blogs.msdn.com/tomholl/archive/2007/05/21/enterprise-library-3-1-is-coming.asp Read More...
Diving into MOSS 2007
Needing to learn MOSS "fast" - Tim points me to a bunch of nice videos on MOSS features. Kinda like the MSDN nuggets on MSDN UK site. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=621566FD-A3D8-4628-A2CB-538CC173509F&displaylang=en Read More...
Bowser? A typo in Vista LanMan code.
I was looking in the event log at some issues and noticed a source "bowser"? Well, that sounded like Browser. Here's what shows up below - clearly somebody fat fingered the "r" in the provider name missing it altogether. Some QA on that spelling... - Read More...
My old company causing heart attacks?
No, sorry, that's Avandia. http://www.upi.com/Health_Business/Briefing/2007/05/21/dems_pledge_avandia_investigation/1138/ Read More...
Microsoft's Popfly - Taping the MySpace Generation.
I tend to think the MySpace generation is already aged. However, Microsoft has put up a site called Popfly ( www.PopFly.com ) that allows mashups of content based upon blocks. There's a Popfly Explorer VS 2005 add-in allowing users to work with Popfly Read More...
Microsoft ESB Guidance up on CodePlex...
The Microsoft ESB Guidance, Co-authored by Neudesic and released back in December 2006 in a "partner only" set of bits, VPC, documents, has been released to the public up on CodePlex http://www.codeplex.com/esb This is CTP code with lot's of good patterns Read More...
Tablet PC is now Mainstream - if it wasn't already...
Usually, as it was in the past, when Dell finally started producing systems supporting a technology is was considered mainstream. In reality, it's when the economics start to make sense that Dell's model, capital structure, turnover ratios, etc. all make Read More...
Article on Windows Home Server
PC Magazine has a quick article on Windows Home Server - something I've been testing out at home for a bit. I personally like it. The WiFi limitation is more based upon reliability of a link than anything else. WiFi still is not reliable (just do a search Read More...
MSDN Subscriptions Download Issues on Vista - Error Code 11001
If you're having issues downloading from MSDN Subscriptions the following steps cleared it up for me. I had the issue over the past several days. So, I tried MSDN support and in the end they were of no help. First they said I was the only person with Read More...
Airplane Boarding - Aren't the airlines paying attention?
On Marc Adler's blog, I noticed a link to a paper on improving the airline boarding process. http://www.math.duke.edu/news/awards/MCM2007lmw.pdf It never ceases to amaze me the herd mentality when it's boarding time, or in actuality, about 30 minutes Read More...
Cyberhomes - Web 2.0 for Real Estate
Check out Cyberhomes http://www.cyberhomes.com/default.aspx My wife spends lots of time looking at homes through real-estate sites. In fact, almost every night I come home and I found out about where I'll be moving soon This site was done by my current Read More...
Batch Processing - It will never go away...
The Spring Framework for Java now has a Batch Processing Framework. Something that will always be around it seems is Batch. No matter how hard we try, things aren't always real-time and there's a need to run things in "batch"... But, this is not your Read More...
Workflow Demo & Presentation from N3UG...
The following links are for the Presentation & Demo's (and a whole bunch more) from the presentation that I did at SetFocus on May 8th, 2007 for the Northern New Jersey .NET Users Group (N3UG). Presentation in PDF format http://cicoria.com/CS1/files/folders/general/entry507.aspx Read More...
Joost Users - Free Invites (www.Joost.com)...
Well, I don't have an invite, but apparently all Joost users, currently enrolled, can send out unlimited invites. So, if someone out there who's listening, can you send me one? Read More...
Leveraging Microsoft Technologies to Enable SOA Webcast - Curt Peterson from Neudesic
One of my peers, Curt Peterson, that's extremely articulate on SOA, ESB, and general services, is presenting a webcast on 5/16/2007 - 10 AM PDT, 1 PM EDT. https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=117593 Join Neudesic’s Enterprise Solution Architect/Distinguished Read More...