If you get to work early (before 8, generally) the cafeterias (at least 4 and 36) have GREAT fresh fruit -- yummy ripe strawberries and blueberries, and fresh cut/sectioned pink grapefruit and pineapple. If you get to work later, your choice is limited...

The chronicles of Riddick are now playing at theaters - it's interesting to see some of the write up's about this movie - this is after all just a movie, and movies should entertain you, right ? - ok, so the movie is full of special effects and isn't...

I got an SMS message a while back to install a new update to my Treo 600. I never installed the update before this one -- my phone was working fine, and I didn't want to lose the ringtones that I worked so hard to get ;-) This time, though, I went to...

Traditional writing "looked confusing"....

They're neat, but be aware of the cost....

Someone asked me recently about FTP support in Whidbey… here is the answer I tracked down from the owners of the net classes. That's right, we're adding FTP support in Whidbey. There is an FtpWebRequest/FtpWebResponse class for general use...

This post contains resolution for a list of problems you might face when upgrading to the Feature Pack. I have compiled this list based on the Newsgroup questions and I will keep updating this post with any new issues. 1. Unable to access the catalog...

Cyrus says he doesn't need a debugger when developing managed code. He is not advocating using printf here. He is claiming that with TDD (Test Driven Development) most of his bugs can be resolved by "sitting and mulling on it" and having a "gestalt flash...

It's been a while - and a team name change - but another one of my teammates has made the leap into the blogosphere. John Evdemon is a member of our vertical industry architecture team focusing on near and long term web service solutions as well as regulatory...

Whether you are a sound engineer or software engineer, before the big event, you have to go on stage in front of a select few (the diehard fans/users/tester) and make sure that all of your hard work behind the scenes actually works and does what its supposed...

Thanks to the wonders of Google - a bunch of stories from the local press about the BillG visit.... Microsoft's Australian charity Australian IT, Australia BILL Gates will make a flying visit to Australia later this month, which will include an announcement...

DrawingContext is Avalon's equivalent of hdc (handle to device context) in Win32 programming or Graphics in GDI+. It provides us with low level calls to render/draw on the surface (screen/print/other visuals). Here's a list of useful draw method in...