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Welcome back (to me)
Hi Dear Reader. Eons ago I kept my blog over here on http://blogs.msdn.com/jblizzard , but then moved to my own site, http://snowstormlife.com/blogs/bliz . This evening, on a lark, I looked back here and yes, my old blog is still working, and I was even Read More...
My new blog home at www.snowstormlife.com/blog
I must be crazy. I've left the safety and warmth of http://weblogs.asp.net to move out on my own. No longer will my posts be displayed on that central page, ready to be viewed by the masses. Nope, I'm now on my own, but using .Text as my blog engine. Read More...
See you at the Boise NETDUG meeting Thursday evening...
During the general meeting , Cory Isakson and I will be talking about state management for web sites. After the general meeting the MCAD SIG will meet. See you there! Read More...
Cool shirt....
Last month I though I saw a cool geek shirt with the slogan “got msil”. Turns out that the shirt didn't say that. But now David Scott has created a real version of the shirt . Be the first geek in your user group to get one! Very cool... Read More...
Finding things...
Heh. Someone out there needs to know what to do in a snowstorm. How do I know? Well, weblogs.asp.net now has a cool stats section that shows referrers (thanks Scott!). Someone did a Yahoo! search for “what to do in a snowstorm” which returned Read More...
Agility...
Scott Stanfield from Vertigo Software gave a talk last night at the Portland Area Dot Net User Group (PADNUG). He made an interesting comment, with the net of: If you’re going to fail, you want to fail fast. That way you can figure out what went Read More...
What's in a name...?
Quite a bit. Otherwise, why would a grown man, driving to work in his car, have tears coming down his face while listening to names being read by children? September 11, 2003. Two years later, and it still seems just like it was yesterday. Read More...
Portland .NET User Group meeting tonight...
See you there! Read More...
Top 10 reasons...
For using the .NET Framework.... for System Administrators for Developers Read More...
Getting certified...
So how did you prepare to take a certification test? Did you use the MS Press study guides? Exam Cram series? Other non-study-guide books? Hands-on experience? Sample exams? Newsgroups? MSDN? GotDotNet? Quickstarts? WWW.ASP.NET ? Other? Did you buddy-up Read More...
Chicago, hear me roar...
I’m sitting through day 1 of a 2-day planning session, with about 100 people in attendance. If I see another presenter get up and say the words “I know you can’t read this slide…” I believe I’ll scream. (Everyone in the Chicago area, keep your ears open, Read More...
Up and running on Windows Server 2003...
I just finished rebuilding my laptop hard drive with Windows Server 2003. It's going to be fun to play with the new IIS6 features. I'll keep you posted on how things go. Read More...
What the heck? More places parens aren't required...
I work with the Boise .NET Developers User Group (NETDUG -- gotta luv that name). They’ve started an MCAD SIG, so I work the study guide labs along with them. I wanted to do some cross-language inheritance from VB (parent) to C# (child), just to see how Read More...
A comparison of the MS programming languages...
Not trying to start any language religious debates. Just trying to inform. ;) This article describes VB.NET, C++ .NET, C#, and J#, providing the language features, programmer constituency, unique language features, and unique environmental features for Read More...
PDC Bloggers...
Cool. There's a site for people who will be blogging at the PDC. Read More...
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