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August 2003 - Posts

Google Math, and Pascal's triangle

Posted Monday, August 25, 2003 7:42 AM by danielfe
Google recently added a cool calulator feature . Simply enter a math formula like " 5 * 5 " into Google and it will return a results page with the answer.   Asking Google: " The answer to life, the universe and everything " returns the calculator Read More...
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Back from New Zealand

Posted Monday, August 25, 2003 4:03 AM by danielfe
I got back from TechEd New Zealand on Thursday and I'm still catching up on all my emails, and blogging is always Pri 2 so I'm taking the time out to catch up on blogging too.  The city of sails was great although with three sessions I didn't have Read More...
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TechEd NZ Next Week

Posted Tuesday, August 12, 2003 2:31 AM by danielfe
I'll be in New Zealand next week for TechEd  and I'm pretty siked.  I'm delivering three sessions for those interested: C# Past, Present, and Future Building Middle Tier applications with C# C# Best Practices If you're attending, please stop Read More...
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XP Universe

Posted Tuesday, August 12, 2003 2:22 AM by danielfe
Alex Goyen is keynoting XP Universe  Wednesday morning.  He'll be presenting how we're using Agile methodologies in the big house, and the challenges with applying Agile methods in large scale software projects. If  you're in Read More...
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Disabling Win 2003 Shutdown Event Tracker

Posted Wednesday, August 06, 2003 10:31 PM by danielfe
Mark Michaelis discusses how to disable the often annoying, at least from a developers perspective, Shutdown Event Tracker in Windows Server 2003. Its basically a prompt that makes you explain why the machine is being shut down and won't Read More...
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Rockets on Prisoner Award

Posted Wednesday, August 06, 2003 2:01 AM by danielfe
/. mentions the "Academy Awards of Halo Videos," the first annual Rockets on Prisoner award , including categories like: Best Movie Best Cinematography Best Screenplay Best Musical Score Best Editing, Sounds, Visual Effects Best Documentary  Read More...
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Coder or Cannibal?

Posted Tuesday, August 05, 2003 11:29 PM by danielfe
I'm currently in sleep deprivation mode, which always reminds me of how Henry Rollins begins his spoken word Boxed Life tapes: [Henry Rollins screaming] "OPEN YOUR EYES! YOUR EYES, WIDE, YOU IDIOT!" [In a much calmer tone] "Me and the cab driver Read More...
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C# Samples & Your Ideas

Posted Sunday, August 03, 2003 10:37 PM by danielfe
C# Samples We recently posted 23 C# Code Samples on MSDN for your development pleasure.  The samples answer some popular questions and should "just work".  Here are just some of the topics covered to wet your appetite:  Read More...
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Great tech discussion

Posted Sunday, August 03, 2003 10:06 PM by danielfe
As Eric points out, on Wednesday Bruce Eckel  and Bill Venners came on campus to talk to members of the C# team.  They interviewed Anders  for a recently published  article  (Bill) as well as a series of interviews with industry Read More...
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Beep

Posted Friday, August 01, 2003 7:32 PM by danielfe
Brad Abram's has been posting some killer design guidelines on his blog which you should check out, and I also noticed he posted a useful  sample with different message beep types.  Scott Hanselman also included his sample from the Portland user Read More...
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Practice Safe Computing

Posted Friday, August 01, 2003 5:54 PM by danielfe
I received an email today from admin @ Microsoft dotcom saying my password has expired with a zip attachment indicating instructions.  Not being gullible, but still being curious, I virus scanned the attachment and saw that it was Read More...
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