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August 2003 - Posts

Exchange related blogs

Scoble points to an Exchange related blog and in reading through it I find a link to another one. There's a couple OWA tips listed which is very cool. http://hellomate.typepad.com/exchange/index.rdf http://www.exchangetrainer.com/exchangetrainerrss.xm Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 30, 2003 5:33 PM by Tosh Meston | 0 Comments
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Radiohead

Hurray! Got tickets for Radiohead tomorrow night in Seattle (well not Seattle, Auburn, suburb, whatever). Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 30, 2003 5:06 PM by Tosh Meston | 2 Comments
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Viewing one page without having to be forms authenticated (the registration page case)

Q . How do I remove an individual page from having to be forms authenticated to view it? I don't want to reorganize my site to have a wide open directory containing only one page. I just want this one page accessible. It is a registration page for new Read More...
Posted Friday, August 29, 2003 11:49 AM by Tosh Meston | 4 Comments
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Word-wrap in Visual Studio

If you're like me, you heard about word-wrap in Visual Studio and weren't impressed. Maybe you read this article , or maybe you watched this MSDN TV episode . But you could not see a use for it. You're detail oriented. You take pains to format your code Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2003 6:23 PM by Tosh Meston | 2 Comments
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Setting VDir authentication method with web setup project

How does one set the vdir authentication methods in a VS web setup and deployment project? Basically, I would like to turn off anon and windows integrated and turn on basic auth with my setup. I hope I don't need a custom action for this. Looking for Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2003 9:57 AM by Tosh Meston | 1 Comments
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Hubble Mars Pics

Space.com has some pictures of Mars taken by Hubble this week. K and I checked out the real thing last night. The sky was perfect for it, but doesn't look like people up in Seattle will be able to see it tonight. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2003 9:55 AM by Tosh Meston | 1 Comments
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tosh.style.display == "none";

How sad. I am not included in this . Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 26, 2003 10:33 PM by Tosh Meston | 8 Comments
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Another fine episode of the .NET show

Just finished another episode of the .NET show . I am one of those nerds that downloads the 215mb version and plays it fullscreen locally. Chris Sells ' demos using the MapPoint web services and the Messenger sockets programming was pretty sweet. Have Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 23, 2003 7:53 PM by Tosh Meston | 0 Comments
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Chess team nerd and the blonde

Scylla.org has a link to a story about a chess team nerd versus a blonde . Funny stuff. Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 23, 2003 7:35 PM by Tosh Meston | 2 Comments
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Asimo in the news

Honda robot Asimo, the diplomat. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=1&u=/nm/20030822/od_nm/robot_dc Read More...
Posted Friday, August 22, 2003 1:06 PM by Tosh Meston | 0 Comments
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Terrible rewrite compulsion

I just opened a project that I hadn't touched in quite some time and noticed that I was building up my SQL statements by concatenation, which as we all know is a bad idea. I then felt that old compulsion to start rewriting -- this time to use OleDbParameters. Read More...
Posted Friday, August 22, 2003 12:22 AM by Tosh Meston | 4 Comments
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End of the Internship for the Mentor

Microsoft, as you may know, has a great internship program. We expect a lot from our interns. They usually learn a lot while they're with us and we expect them to work hard and produce naturally. This time of year in Redmond, the days are getting shorter Read More...
Posted Sunday, August 17, 2003 8:30 PM by Tosh Meston | 2 Comments
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Robota

I came across Robota by way of Slashdot today Robota is an “film book” by Doug Chiang , the Concept Art Director of the Star Wars prequels, telling another story human enslavement by machines and the glorious rebellion. He has two trailers for it. Must Read More...
Posted Sunday, August 17, 2003 12:37 PM by Tosh Meston | 0 Comments
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ATI in XBOX 2

Wow. It seems ATI will be replacing nVidia inside the next XBOX. Here are a couple links. Xbox 2 powered by ATi on Spong.com Microsoft books ATI for Xbox 2 chipset gig on The Register ATI wins Xbox deal from Nvidia, stock surges on MoneyCentral Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 14, 2003 11:23 AM by Tosh Meston | 3 Comments
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Friday, I'm in System.XML

So Friday, I got to spend some time in System.XML. First time in it actually, sad to say. Glad to see my old buddies of selectNodes, selectSingleNode, load, loadXML, etc. of ol' MSXML had their Pascal-cased equivalents in .NET. Hope to take advantage Read More...
Posted Sunday, August 10, 2003 12:46 AM by Tosh Meston | 0 Comments
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The state of blogging software today and the need for Swiss army software

When I think about all the different tools for reading and writing blogs today, the early days of MP3 culture comes to my mind. I remember the not-so simple act of taking a song off a disc and putting it on my computer. I had a tool for ripping, a tool Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 09, 2003 6:04 PM by Tosh Meston | 4 Comments
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VS loves RESX

I have a web project where all my strings are in a satellite resource assembly. As a result, I have been deleting the resx files that are created with each new web form. The annoying thing is that when I open up a web form and click the designer, Visual Read More...
Posted Friday, August 08, 2003 10:36 AM by Tosh Meston | 3 Comments
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Prototyping: Do it right or get it done?

Given that prototype code has a way of becoming ship code and that one usually doesn't have a whole lot of time to play with a prototype, should one take the time to "do it right" or just mock up as many features as you can in your timeframe? Hard-coding Read More...
Posted Monday, August 04, 2003 5:42 PM by Tosh Meston | 3 Comments
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Cool feature for a news aggregator

Nobody wants to post a link to a story that is old news. All you aggregator writers, how about a “check this link” feature against the recent entries in your blog roll? That way when I post the Developer Roadmap, I won't feel bad when I realize Scoble Read More...
Posted Sunday, August 03, 2003 10:24 PM by Tosh Meston | 3 Comments
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Microsoft Developer Tools Roadmap 2003-2005

Seems like many of you guys are already up to date on future Visual Studio releases. In case you are interested in reading more on Whidbey and Orcas, you can visit this article on MSDN . Read More...
Posted Sunday, August 03, 2003 9:45 PM by Tosh Meston | 1 Comments
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