April 2003 - Posts

Reactions to the day...
29 April 03 12:22 AM | RWlodarczyk | 1 Comments   
The response to my announcement with regards to being the winner of the Imagine Cup 2003 competition is absolutely phenomenal. My inbox was filled with a ton of "congrats" emails. Thanks for everyone's fantastic support! Also, I'd like to thank all the Read More...
Day 2 of 2 @ Microsoft
28 April 03 11:08 AM | RWlodarczyk | 9 Comments   
Ok, this is a bit late, but still relevant. First I'll begin by sending a shot out to Scott for the cool new stuff added to the blogs! Thank you!! :) Ok, now onto my second day at Microsoft. BTW, this was on Saturday. This was the day of the US Finals Read More...
Day 1 of 2 @ Microsoft
26 April 03 01:24 AM | RWlodarczyk | 2 Comments   
It's great being back here at Microsoft. Quite a nostalgic feeling from the last time when I was here which was last summer when I interned. Today I got to go to lunch (to Malay Satay Hut... mmmm) with my Microsoft University Relations manager, and a Read More...
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Off to Microsoft later today...
24 April 03 01:35 AM | RWlodarczyk | 4 Comments   
Here comes the news that I've been holding out on for about a week and half now... Microsoft is having this Imagine Cup 2003 competition on XML Web Services for college undergraduates and graduates. I entered my Photo Album WS in the regional competition Read More...
64-bit SQL & Windows 2003 Server
24 April 03 01:28 AM | RWlodarczyk | 1 Comments   
Ok, this is just insane and amazing at the same time! Way to go 64-bit SQL Server on Windows 2003 Server!! Oracle and IBM have a tough fight ahead of them if they wish to stay competetive in the databases market... Read More...
In response to...
21 April 03 01:37 AM | RWlodarczyk | 3 Comments   
James writes in his blog about IE and some feature requests... Well a while ago I found this little app, MyIE2 , which is basically a simple little application that uses the IE ActiveX control. It includes tabbing, and other features. It's a nice little Read More...
GDI+ Kicks some serious butt!
21 April 03 01:32 AM | RWlodarczyk | 0 Comments   
Within this Photo Album WS, I've been working with GDI+ quite a bit lately... and wow, it really does kick some serious ars! I sorta knew this for some time, but seriously, it rocks. I recall "back in the day" having to do so much to do similar types Read More...
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Been really busy...
17 April 03 10:08 PM | RWlodarczyk | 0 Comments   
This week has been crazy. I've been coding like mad to get some features added to the Phot Album WS. It's almost done!! Yay! Beside that I installed Windows 2000 Server (yes I know, I know, I should have installed Windows 2003 SErver, but I don't have Read More...
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Memories of my time at Microsoft...
13 April 03 10:58 AM | RWlodarczyk | 1 Comments   
I was reading Steve's blog (well, I think his name is Steve (I apologize if I screwed up)) just now about his first week at working at Microsoft. This brought back memories of when I interned at Microsoft in the Windows Group last summer... I remember Read More...
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Annoying thing happening with AutoScroll...
13 April 03 02:08 AM | RWlodarczyk | 0 Comments   
This AutoScroll feature on controls that are ScrollableControls is pretty neat, but there is a slight problem. Here's the scenario... Project Setup : Add a Panel control to a Windows Form. Set it to AutoScroll . Within this Panel add a PictureBox . Make Read More...
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Microsoft's Greenwich IM
12 April 03 01:19 AM | RWlodarczyk | 0 Comments   
On Thursday, c|net had an article on Microsoft's planned release of its Greenwich corporate IM server. Being that I'm not on the beta for this product, I'm hoping that there are some feature for developers that are added to Greenwich. Granted the basic Read More...
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Ok, I hate to do this but...
12 April 03 01:10 AM | RWlodarczyk | 0 Comments   
I feel really bad doing this... but my Outlook XP decided to corrupt my PST file the other night so I lost most of mail except for a month old backup. Anyway, a while ago I asked if anyone wanted to beta test or add any features to the Photo Album WS Read More...
More on security
10 April 03 12:28 AM | RWlodarczyk | 1 Comments   
After looking through the links to my previous post, I noticed that G. Andrew Duthie referred to it in his latest blog . He makes an excellent point. Not patching is in my estimate Sin #1 when adminning any box. But secondly, there are tools like the Read More...
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Microsoft Triumphant in OpenHack 4 Competition
09 April 03 12:15 AM | RWlodarczyk | 2 Comments   
Ok, this is somewhat old news, but somehow this slipped off my radar back in February. Even when I showed it to a few IT admins today that follow such news very closely, they mentioned to me that they don't remember seeing anything about this in the SANS Read More...
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Odd error in consuming Web Service
08 April 03 09:01 PM | RWlodarczyk | 2 Comments   
Ok, this is really wierd. In my Photo Album Admin application I call the Photo Album WS. For one of the many web-methods in the WS, I get the following error: An unhandled exception of type 'System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException' occurred in system.web.services.dll Read More...
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No more SNOW, please!!!!
06 April 03 11:43 PM | RWlodarczyk | 2 Comments   
Ok, this is disturbing. It's April 6th already!!! This kind of thing isn't supposed to happen in April, especially in the NYC Metro Area. Sigh. URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY 1003 PM EDT SUN APR 6 2003 ...MAJOR EARLY Read More...
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Argh!!!
06 April 03 11:25 PM | RWlodarczyk | 5 Comments   
Ok, this weekend I feel like I've gotten no work done. I've been working on class projects. One of them was implementing two schedulers for our play NACHOS OS and the other are two programs in Prolog. My brain is totally fried. Hopefully I'll get around Read More...
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More updates planned for the Photo Album WS
04 April 03 10:35 AM | RWlodarczyk | 1 Comments   
Last night I wrote a little test app to add copyright/watermarking to a photo. I've wanted to add this to the Photo Album for some time so that those web users who want to steal photos from my website would have this ugly copyright text on the photo. Read More...
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USB LCD for your PC
03 April 03 09:58 PM | RWlodarczyk | 0 Comments   
Ok, I'm thinking to myself... "How cool would it be to have one of the 4 line, blue and white LCDs ( CFA634-TMC-KU) for my server?" Granted, they aren't that terribly useful, but they definitely seem somewhat cool. There is some limited usefullness to Read More...
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My code's controlled in my Vault
03 April 03 09:42 PM | RWlodarczyk | 1 Comments   
For the longest time I've been meaning to finally purchase Sourcegear's Vault , so finally today I placed my order for it and got my registration code. I was real lucky too since my trial of it was just about to expire on Sunday. Vault is a phenomenal Read More...
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Aw yeah!
02 April 03 11:53 PM | RWlodarczyk | 0 Comments   
Woohoo!! C# gets ISO standardization! This is certainly a huge win for the entire .NET and C# community, and Microsoft as a whole. The Java folks can claim all they want that they have a standard themselves, but I'm sorry, the Java Community Process is Read More...
Some interest in the Photo Album WS
02 April 03 10:59 AM | RWlodarczyk | 1 Comments   
There has been some interest by some out there in my Photo Album WS. As promised, I would delve into this into a bit more detail today. Q: Will it be available? A: Yes, it will be available "soon". If you're interested in helping me test it, please send Read More...
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Always something with memory management...
02 April 03 12:11 AM | RWlodarczyk | 3 Comments   
I've been working on this Photo Album Web Service for some time now. I started it about a year ago, and then I stopped working on it last May when I went to intern at Microsoft on the Windows team. So, I decided that I'd finally pick it up again and start Read More...
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Thank you Scott!
01 April 03 11:56 PM | RWlodarczyk | 0 Comments   
First, I'd like to thank Scott for generously providing this blog space. I've wanted to start blogging for some time, but I've always wanted to blog in style with .NET. Scott has done a wonderful job with this site. Thanks Scott! Great, so now that I Read More...
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