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September 2004 - Posts

Writing Solid Code

I've just finished reading Writing Solid Code , which it seems everybody at Microsoft has and recommends. I think one of my past dev leads bought each of us on the team a copy. The odd thing is that it's having immediate effect. Maybe that's not odd, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 28, 2004 12:21 AM by Tosh Meston | 3 Comments
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Offended by a Robot

One of the sites I run on my home web server is my baby photoblog for my friends and relatives. I built it during the fantastic paternal leave Microsoft gives its employees (one month off at full pay!), and I am still actually really into it. I recently Read More...
Posted Sunday, September 26, 2004 9:09 PM by Tosh Meston | 5 Comments
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First Impressions on VoIP

K and I signed up for AT&T CallVantage voice over IP at our place and last week the D-Link DVG-1120M telephone adapter (TA) arrived. I spent some of the weekend integrating the thing into my home network. I run a Linksys wireless access point / router Read More...
Posted Sunday, September 26, 2004 8:17 PM by Tosh Meston | 4 Comments
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Are styles illegal on COL elements?

Consider the following HTML: IE displays the background color of the second column blue, but Firefox does not. My question for you CSS pros out there is: Is the background-color style not supported on COL elements? (or is there something I can do to make Read More...
Posted Sunday, September 19, 2004 3:54 PM by Tosh Meston | 4 Comments
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Blog Paging via T-SQL Stored Proc

It's around two a.m. on a Sunday morning. I am finishing off a bowl of Frankenberry after completing some work to incorporate paging into my photoblog site. At first I thought I'd handle the paging at the application level and just do a simple query and Read More...
Posted Sunday, September 19, 2004 2:30 AM by Tosh Meston | 1 Comments
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Reasons Why You Should Not Introduce Your Parents to IM

They will ask you every time you change your display name. -- “What does ‘t-money’ mean?” They will talk to you every time you sign into your computer. They likely only have you and one or two others on their contact list so a toast saying you just signed Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 11, 2004 4:54 PM by Tosh Meston | 6 Comments
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A Few Interesting System.Drawing Posts

Here are a few posts on some fun stuff in System.Drawing that I found interesting. The first is a follow up to Omar Shahine's earlier post on a perf tip loading an Image from a Stream. The second I forgot to flag for follow up, but RSS Bandit has a nice Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 08, 2004 12:33 AM by Tosh Meston | 0 Comments
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To elaborate...

...on why Engadget is on the short "can't live without this website" list. Here are a couple post from today: News on Tivo & NetFlix teaming up to deliver your 3 movies at a time directly over the net. Awesome. Also, a How-To on turning your old Nintendo Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 08, 2004 12:07 AM by Tosh Meston | 0 Comments
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Web Sites I Can't Live Without

Scott Mitchell asks on his blog what are the sites you can't live without. Here's mine: Outlook Web Access - my e-mail Google CNN / MSNBC / BBC News (I am a kind of a news junkie) Gizmodo / Engadget NBA.com Baby photo sites of my kid and my niece For Read More...
Posted Sunday, September 05, 2004 5:13 PM by Tosh Meston | 3 Comments
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XP SP2 and .NET 1.1 SP1

With all the articles and blog entries about these two recent service packs I was wondering if I would see anything interesting when I installed them on my laptop and home web server. The answer is no. Everything just works. My sites continue to chug Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 04, 2004 6:17 PM by Tosh Meston | 4 Comments
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Sink on the Micro-ISV

Eric Sink has a new Business of Software on the Micro-ISV (one person ISV) and is running a micro-ISV experiment to sell a winnable solitaire program. Eric says he will disclosure sales figures in future blog entries or columns. Should be interesting. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 01, 2004 9:14 PM by Tosh Meston | 3 Comments
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