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

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