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October 2006 - Posts

Texas Renaissance Festival

Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 1:21 PM by noahc
This past weekend my wife and I flew down to Houston Texas for the largest renaissance festival in the US, the Texas Ren Faire . Dawn has been going to the fair for over a decade and I've been the last four or five years. We always have a blast! There Read More...
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Andre Rieu Concert

Posted Monday, October 30, 2006 11:43 PM by noahc
Last week Dawn , my sister Sarah, and I attended an Andre Rieu concert in Seattle, it was a blast! Andre is known around the world for his orchestra w/ choir and traveling guests. The orchestra ladies dress in beautiful gowns, they play fun music, and Read More...
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VSTS Love w/ Korean Rap Music Video

Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 8:40 AM by noahc
Check this out! The Koreans really love VSTS, they even have a song about it ! <lol> This was good entertainment, even though I only understood four words (you figure out which four). I wonder what they're saying the rest of the song... A transcript Read More...
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VSTS Desktop Wallpaper

Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 8:27 AM by noahc
It's desktop background image w/ my product on it! I typically have wallpaper turned off with a plain blue colored desktop, but this is a real nice blue. The logo is in the bottom right corner so it doesn't interfere with desktop icons (typically in the Read More...
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Gang Green Team Photo

Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 10:19 AM by noahc
My hockey team, Gang Green , just entered the Winter 2006 season of the Greater Seattle Hockey League (part of USA Hockey ). This is our 2nd season and we just got new jerseys! Our team website is http://ganggreen.org/ That's me in the middle with the Read More...
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SlickRun: Command Your PC

Posted Monday, October 23, 2006 12:37 PM by noahc
Get SlickRun ( download now ) I'm a keyboard guy. Give me shortcuts. Let's see how long I can go w/out touching the mouse. To this end, for years I've wanted an app that would let me type short commands to access files, folders, programs, web pages, write Read More...
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KANO Analysis - Prioritize Your Backlog

Posted Friday, October 20, 2006 9:29 AM by noahc
A product I once worked on completely failed when it got into the customers hands and the business eventually went under, for one key engineering reason.  The product had too many customer dissatisfiers (missing key features, broken workflow, etc) Read More...
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Register a Custom URL Protocol Handler

Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 7:58 AM by noahc
Perhaps you're familiar with such URL protocol handlers such as http://microsoft.com , ftp://user:pass@server outlook:Contacts , file://http://www.coad.net/blog/images/Greenstone.bmp , ms-help://... Want to make your own client-side URL handler? Maybe Read More...
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400GB HDD for $90

Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 11:46 AM by noahc
Fry's Outpost is has a great deal on a 400GB HDD for only $90 . It is the slightly older EIDE ATA 100 interface (not SATA) but looks like a good drive. Its a great deal and includes free ground shipping. It uses the new Perpendicular Recording Technology Read More...
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ChoiceMail - 100% of Junk Email Gone

Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 7:58 AM by noahc
Get a lot of spam? My personal address, noah@coad.net , gets about a 1,000 a week, but I don't see a single one of them. If you don't mind getting spam, this isn't for you. If you find junk mail annoying, and the viruses, identify theft (from phishing Read More...
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Copy Paste HTML From MS Word: IE's DHTML Editing Control (in a .NET WinApp)

Posted Monday, October 16, 2006 2:53 PM by noahc
When copy/pasting from MS Word, the HTML it generates is really messy and can't be used verbatim. This has been a pain of mine and many others. I've found that many 3rd party controls, and some client-side blogging tools (like BlogJet) have a miraculous Read More...
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Profiling a Unit Test

Posted Friday, October 13, 2006 10:12 AM by noahc
A little known feature of VSTS Team Developer is the ability to use the run-time analysis of the Profiler specifically targetting the code in a Unit Test. There are a two key scenarios this integration feature targets: Collect Performance Data on Specific Read More...
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Change Screen Resolution with One Keyboard Shortcut

Posted Wednesday, October 11, 2006 2:46 PM by noahc
Do you find that you need to frequently change your screen resoltion? I do several times a day and some reasons are when: doing demos, showing my laptop screen to serveral people at once, switching between monitors, recording/capturing the screen, connecting Read More...
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Bill Gates Answers the Phone

Posted Friday, October 06, 2006 5:25 PM by noahc
< LOL > I picked up my phone, hit a number, and got BillG (well, his voice)! When you dial the main Microsoft phone number, 425-882-8080, an automated operator says "Who would you like to contact?", you just speak the name and it connects you. Real Read More...
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Team Foundation Server for Texas A+M University CS Dept

Posted Friday, October 06, 2006 2:33 PM by noahc
Two weeks ago I visited Texas A&M University's Computer Science Department for an Industrial Affiliates Program meeting and do so some recruiting. I had the privilege of presenting just how easy it is to do team software development with Visual Studio Read More...
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FeedBurner + FeedBlitz = New RSS Feed + Subscribe via Email

Posted Friday, October 06, 2006 1:53 PM by noahc
I just set up my blog with a new RSS feed provided by FeedBurner . Please subscribe to the new RSS feed . It should help provide better usage stats. I've also signed up with FeedBlitz which let's you subscribe to receive e-mails of new posts . If you Read More...
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New VSTS Book: Global Outsourcing with MS VSTS

Posted Wednesday, October 04, 2006 2:36 PM by noahc
A surprise packaged just arrived on my desk and upon opening it, walla! A new book on Team System! Jamil Azher came and visited me a few months ago and mentioned he was working on a new book, well, it's out! Global Sourcing with Microsoft Visual Studio Read More...
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Calculating Stats on Sent Mail - Do you do a lot of e-mail?

Posted Tuesday, October 03, 2006 4:29 PM by noahc
It's common in today's high-tech jobs to spend a lot of time on e-mail, but just how much e-mail are we really dealing with? At MS, we're make such comments as "I'm swimming in e-mail!", "I've got x00 e-mails to get through", etc. But incoming e-mail Read More...
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Life Hacks - Improve Your Life

Posted Tuesday, October 03, 2006 4:09 PM by noahc
Life Hacking, which is defined as "anything that solves a problem in an clever or non-obvious way" in regards to general everyday life, is a new term I just "discovered". I'm excited because I love tools, organization, process improvement, etc when it Read More...
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VSTS Team Online Chat, Wed 10/4/06, 10am PST, Now w Team Data

Posted Tuesday, October 03, 2006 10:58 AM by noahc
It's that time again for another exciting 1hr live online chat with the Visual Studio Team System team. Team Data (aka Data Dude) will be present for the first time too. Come with tons of questions since this is a big investment of time for VSTS, with Read More...
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