I just came across this - and had to post it. Some things just tickle that geek funny bone - y'know? Anyway, it's a SQL Script for an analog clock . <g> Here are the results on my machine: AnalogClock -------------------------------------...

While Greg is off at RIT doing one of my favorite work activities (recruiting) I thought I'd veer off topic for a bit and talk about extra-curricular activities. There's a stereotype out there that Microsoft people let themselves get consumed by work...

(Warning: This entry has nothing to do with Recruiting.) :) Some days I love being a blogger. Some days I hate it. When I started this blog, I thought the hardest part would be maintaining a regular posting schedule...

A common idiom I have come to appreciate in C++ is “ resource acquisition is initialization ”. The idea is that you acquire a resource in a constructor, and dispose of it in the destructor. Using a stack based class, you can make sure your...

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1557661,00.asp

Kris Kumar has posted his summary of MDC (including concept images of some new form factors that are enabled by Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition). It's great to read stuff like this and see that people are as excited as we are about this new release...

Jim posted a note about this bit of news - ASP.NET overtakes JSP and Java Servlets . The graph is cool, but I wont be excited until that redline gets overtaken!!

Jim Hungunin posted a paper about an implementation of Python for .Net IronPython: A fast Python implementation for .NET and Mono http://www.python.org/pycon/dc2004/papers/9/IronPython_PyCon2004.html In this paper, he started out trying to show...

Scott is doing a quick poll on what screen resolutions people use for development. It's an interesting question that our team has been talking about as well. As you may have noticed, our new emulators for VGA Pocket PC and QVGA Smartphone devices take...

WWDC (World Wide Developer Conference) is Apple's yearly developer conference. The 2004 session descriptions are now available here , although the interesting sessions usually don't appear on the schedule until the first day when they make all their big...

Don Box is playing with HTTP.SYS via the new Whidbey managed framework on Windows XP SP2. If you are really sharp looking at the service dependencies, you will find our first user on XP SP2 is UPnP. Don does mention the problem about coexistence of IIS5...

I've been scratching an itch - of the coding variety. For some while now, I've wanted to catalogue all the Windows Media files that I've (legally) ripped over the last year or so, but documentation on MSDN or the broader Internet was scant. So I've...