Chad Z. Hower a.k.a. Kudzu's Blogspace
News, Views, and Articles from the Regional .NET Developer Advisor (DE) for Middle East and Africa.
I will be leaving Microsoft on September 30. This has nothing to do with Microsoft, and I wish I was...
Date: 09/19/2006
It appears after my last trip to Pakistan there is still some confusion about why some of my...
Date: 08/27/2006
Over the years I have encountered a lot of really weird computer problems. But my latest one has me...
Date: 08/26/2006
Unfortunately I will not be on this tour as I have conflicting events, but if you are in the Gulf...
Date: 08/21/2006
Having trouble with a disk shrink utility? Either it will not shrink the disk or will not shrink it...
Date: 08/18/2006
Hoping to spur interest among video game enthusiasts, creative types and students, Microsoft will...
Date: 08/15/2006
Everyone knows software RAID is slower and because of this most RAID installations are using...
Date: 08/13/2006
Everyone told me RAID 0 was a bad idea. But I am always the odd man out. But in my case, RAID 0...
Date: 08/12/2006
Ok, it is not really a super computer. But it is FAST, and it is portable. I will match it up...
Date: 08/12/2006
I just built a new machine and loaded it up with RAM to 4 GB. Little did I know that I would need a...
Date: 08/12/2006
Do you work with a lot of computers? Always wondering how much memort it has, what CPU, how much...
Date: 08/10/2006
I have not used a desktop computer for more than 10 years now. I have always used laptops. I did not...
Date: 08/10/2006
I use remote desktop a lot. But 800x600 is too small, and if I use 1024x768 then it goes full screen...
Date: 07/10/2006
I am starting to see more and more applications which offer localization. It is important that more...
Date: 07/08/2006
Looking for my slides from Pakistan Developers Conference? More info
Date: 07/03/2006
I’m not blogging in multiple languages. Well to be fair, I’m blogging in English and MVP...
Date: 06/13/2006
I am at TechEd US this week and have a new camera as well. If you are not able to attend TechEd but...
Date: 06/12/2006
Pakistan Developers Conference is June 28-30th, 2006. It will be held simultaneously in Karachi and...
Date: 05/28/2006
I’m putting together a multilingual project. We will be targetting more language later, but...
Date: 05/27/2006
Microsoft has launched a community website for hosting of open and shared source projects. And best...
Date: 05/24/2006
Using only a few hundred kilobytes and an inexpensive processor, the Microsoft .NET Micro Framework...
Date: 05/12/2006
Microsoft has put online all of the sessions from the MIX 2006 conference. More information
Date: 05/11/2006
I’ll be speaking again at SDC in The Netherlands. This year on Vista and various other topics....
Date: 05/03/2006
I am still working on my more detailed SQL Express comparison with Oracle Express. But while...
Date: 05/02/2006
Just a follow up note on my previous post. We are not accepting submissions quite yet. In late May...
Date: 04/23/2006
Bill Gates is doing the final keynote Friday morning at TechEd: Developers. This is the first time...
Date: 04/22/2006
I am the track owner for the Base Framework Track at TechEd 2006 Europe. What does this mean? Well...
Date: 04/22/2006
A few weeks ago I blogged about the Origami and several users wrote to tell me why they were not...
Date: 04/11/2006
Come join the first Microsoft developers conference in Dubai. A two day event with new releases and...
Date: 04/11/2006
Someone wrote to me and asked why I did not go anywhere last week. Well I did – I was in...
Date: 04/11/2006
Next stop is ISV Days in Saudi Arabia. I will be presenting the “Best Development...
Date: 04/11/2006
No it’s not a late April fools joke. In case you missed the announcement Virtual Server is now...
Date: 04/05/2006
Sure I do a lot of speaking. But ocassionally I wield weapons of mass (cake) destruction too.
Date: 03/31/2006
Internal conference this week in Berlin. I'm flying in just before and leaving just after. I doubt...
Date: 03/31/2006
Are you a president, secretary, or other position responsible for organizing or running a user group...
Date: 03/31/2006
March 27 and 28 I will be speaking at MVP Open Days in Cambridge.
Date: 03/24/2006
Last stop was in Kuwait on Wed, March 22 for the last of our launches. This launch happened quite...
Date: 03/24/2006
Next stop on my schedule is Gulf Developers Conference (GDC) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia this Sunday...
Date: 03/16/2006
This week I was in the south of France at the Connect 2006 event. I enjoyed meeting many of you who...
Date: 03/16/2006
No it is not! But unfortunately this is the impression that a lot of people have. I understand where...
Date: 03/11/2006
What is an Origami? It is a new tablet computer about the size of a small book. But it is not just...
Date: 03/10/2006
This is a question that is being asked more and more from users. Both SQL Express and Oracle Express...
Date: 03/03/2006
On Wed March 8th I will be speaking at Developer Days in Belgium. More info
Date: 03/03/2006
Recently I posted that I would be putting all of my new blog entries here and ocassionaly linking...
Date: 03/03/2006
Wednesday night I left Amman, Jordan and arrived in Nairobi, Kenya early afternoon Thursday....
Date: 02/25/2006
I am speaking this week at EDC in Amman, Jordan. While I normally focus on .NET I'm presenting a lot...
Date: 02/22/2006
It is still snowing. I have not been able to make it out of our compound, and I have not seen any...
Date: 02/07/2006