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Ottawa Launch Event Pictures

Posted Monday, November 21, 2005 9:54 AM by PeteL
I just posted the Ottawa launch event pictures on my website. I shot film using a Holga , a first for me. I usually shoot film using a Hasselblad , but this event I wanted to do something a little different, thus, we have this! http://www.bigbackpack.ca/ngallery/albums/VS+Launch+Event+in+Ottawa.asp Read More...
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The Migration QA Folk Dress Up

Posted Friday, November 18, 2005 2:00 PM by PeteL
For some reason, the two people on my team who are mostly responsible for migration both dressed up today. I only had my camera phone with me, so I figured I'd post that picture... Read More...
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RSS Reader Recomendations?

Posted Monday, November 14, 2005 10:42 AM by PeteL
I'm looking for an RSS reader for the PC that will allow me to have different categories for different RSS feeds. So for example, I can group all the technology ones together, all of the ASP.NET stuff together and so forth. I'd prefer it not integrate Read More...
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Answers To Common Launch Event Questions - Back In Seattle

Posted Monday, November 14, 2005 10:02 AM by PeteL
Wow, well, I'm back in Seattle and sitting at my desk here in Redmond today, and I'm stoked. The fact that VS 2005 is in your hands now is fantastic. I'm really excited to see and hear the feedback from everyone out there and how excited everyone is. Read More...
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Ready To Rock! Launch Event In Ottawa

Posted Thursday, November 10, 2005 8:10 AM by PeteL
I just heard the Dev track here in Ottawa is so full that people are sitting on the floor! There are so many people who want to see the Dev Track presentations that they are actually having to turn people away at the door now! That's how exciting these Read More...
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Toronto - A Success; See You In Ottawa!

Posted Tuesday, November 08, 2005 8:40 PM by PeteL
What a fantastic day! I'm back in my hotel after a pretty long, but very good day. Up this morning at the crack of dawn and over to the Toronto Congress Centre for the VS 2005, SQL 2005 and BizTalk launch events. This was the first of a 10 city Canadian Read More...
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VS Launch Tomorrow in Canada!

Posted Monday, November 07, 2005 6:33 AM by PeteL
As I was getting ready this morning, I realized something kind of cool, and at the same time, a little scary. The last launch event I was at, I was in my teens, just finishing up high school, and working for Microosft as a high school intern. It was the Read More...
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Removing Spam Comments from nGallery

Posted Saturday, November 05, 2005 4:47 PM by PeteL
Well, I guess one advantage of getting popular is that people seem to like to put spam on your website. I had a commenting enabled on my nGallery web pages, allowing my friends to comment on pictures that I had posted. I noticed this afternoon though Read More...
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Styling Links - Making the Mundane Somewhat More Interesting

Posted Friday, November 04, 2005 10:28 AM by PeteL
It's been a while since I've done a CSS style post, so I figure its about time, and today I want to touch on something pretty simple, the <a> anchor tag. Most anchors are pretty boring, some blue text that is simply underlined. Some people go a Read More...
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T-7 Days: The First Of The Canadian Launch Events

Posted Tuesday, November 01, 2005 3:14 PM by PeteL
I'm super excited to announce I'll be attending 3 of the Canadian Launch events! Toronto - November 8th Ottawa - November 10th Vancouver - November 22nd These are going to be great opportunities to see what is up and coming from Visual Studio 2005, Visual Read More...
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