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Monday
Nov 19th
2007

What's New in Visual Studio 2008 et. al.

VS08, .NET 3.5, C# 3.0, LINQ

Visual Studio 2008 was released today to Microsoft Partners and MSDN Subscribers. Below are a few links you may find useful…


0 Comments • 548 Views • Posted on 11/19/2007 at 11:55 PM • Tags:  .NET 3.5, C# 3.0, LINQ, Team Systems, Visual Studio 2008

Wednesday
Oct 17th
2007

F# goes from research to product

“F” is for Functional

S. Somasegar announced today that F# is going to be “productized”…


0 Comments • 262 Views • Posted on 10/17/2007 at 2:03 PM • Tags:  F#, Microsoft Research

Monday
Sep 10th
2007

Local MSDN Event this Thursday

Silverlight, LINQ and WCF

There is a local MSDN Event this coming Thursday at Citrus Park Mall Theater which focuses on Silverlight, LINQ and WCF. This session might be a good developer–centric view on the up–and–coming aforementioned technologies…


0 Comments • 311 Views • Posted on 9/10/2007 at 12:38 PM • Tags:  LINQ, MSDN Event, Silverlight, Tampa, WCF

Saturday
Aug 18th
2007

Fixing the PyAverager sample on ADC

Two simple changes

A few days ago I ran across this old sample on ADC: Using PyObjC for Developing Cocoa Applications with Python…


0 Comments • 311 Views • Posted on 8/18/2007 at 3:30 AM • Tags:  Mac, Python

Friday
Aug 3rd
2007

2007 Buccaneers Home Game Schedule

The first pre–season game is Friday, August 10th


0 Comments • 281 Views • Posted on 8/3/2007 at 2:16 PM • Tags:  Sports, Tampa

Saturday
May 12th
2007

Deepfish technology preview

Microsoft’s new beta browser for WM5

Back on March 28th, Microsoft Live Labs announced Deepfish—a zoom able, mobile web browser. Today I finally received an activation Id to preview the technology…


0 Comments • 327 Views • Posted on 5/12/2007 at 3:00 AM • Tags:  Deepfish, Pocket PC

Monday
Apr 9th
2007

Accessing a Paradox database in .Net using ODBC


I wrote this how–to for a potential client…


0 Comments • 310 Views • Posted on 4/9/2007 at 5:00 PM • Tags:  .Net, ADO.Net, ODBC, Paradox

Sunday
Feb 25th
2007

My short–lived iTunes Everywhere experiment


A while back I stumbled across this article describing how to host your iTunes library on Amazon’s servers so that you could access it from anywhere…


0 Comments • 429 Views • Posted on 2/25/2007 at 3:34 AM • Tags:  iTunes

Sunday
Feb 4th
2007

Super Boring XLI

Blue 42… Hut, hut, Hike! Zzzzzzzz

This year’s Super Bowl started out exciting with a kick–off return and several turnovers early on. But the excitement drizzled out as the game and rain continued…


0 Comments • 1158 Views • Posted on 2/4/2007 at 11:22 PM • Tags:  Sports

Saturday
Feb 3rd
2007

V640 ExpressCard

Not too bad

This past Friday I had the pleasure of having to camp–out in the waiting room at Courtesy Nissan while my car was getting new brakes etc…


0 Comments • 450 Views • Posted on 2/3/2007 at 5:30 PM • Tags:  Mac

Wednesday
Jan 31st
2007

New Business Cards


My new satin–finish business cards arrived today and they look great…


0 Comments • 401 Views • Posted on 1/31/2007 at 4:00 PM • Tags:  Business

Monday
Jan 29th
2007

No iPhone for me

Apple approached Verizon first

USA Today reports on how Verizon rejected Apple’s iPhone deal…


0 Comments • 332 Views • Posted on 1/29/2007 at 12:30 PM • Tags:  Apple, iPhone

Thursday
Jan 25th
2007

Miniature Sushi

Bad chi rears its ugly head

Tonight for my birthday we decided to try this new sushi restaurant here in Westchase, called Zen Bistro…


0 Comments • 401 Views • Posted on 1/25/2007 at 11:15 PM • Tags:  Dining, Tampa

Thursday
Jan 25th
2007

Doninoken

Entertaining WPF example

Doninoken is an entertaining WPF example created by Bascule design agency for the Japanese release of Vista…


0 Comments • 356 Views • Posted on 1/25/2007 at 3:30 PM • Tags:  WPF

Tuesday
Jan 23rd
2007

Microsoft AJAX 1.0 Released


So AJAX RTM was just released and WebParts still do not work properly…


0 Comments • 349 Views • Posted on 1/23/2007 at 4:00 PM • Tags:  AJAX, ASP.Net

Monday
Jan 15th
2007

Local Microsoft Events


As you may know, it’s customary for Microsoft to host launch events nationwide on the cusp of major product launches. This month Microsoft is officially launching Vista and Office 2007 and has a big event planned…


0 Comments • 355 Views • Posted on 1/15/2007 at 6:03 PM • Tags:  Microsoft, Tampa

Monday
Dec 18th
2006

Vivid Spacewalk Image


In one of my psuedo–random web surfing sessions today I came across this vivid spacewalk image from NASA…


0 Comments • 330 Views • Posted on 12/18/2006 at 8:19 PM • Tags:  Desktop Background, NASA, Space

Friday
Dec 15th
2006

Microsoft.com Redesigned

IE7 triggers redesign?

If you haven’t already noticed Microsoft has redesigned their home page…


0 Comments • 379 Views • Posted on 12/15/2006 at 2:30 PM • Tags:  Design, Microsoft

Thursday
Dec 14th
2006

Microsoft AJAX RC1 Released


Microsoft released the next iteration of their AJAX library today, RC1…


0 Comments • 331 Views • Posted on 12/14/2006 at 9:50 PM • Tags:  AJAX, ASP.Net

Friday
Nov 17th
2006

Upgraded to Vista Ultimate

Yet another upgrade; this time the OS

Last night Microsoft gave MSDN subscribers and Partners access to the final version (RTM) of it's next OS Vista.…


0 Comments • 299 Views • Posted on 11/17/2006 at 11:00 PM • Tags:  Upgrades, Vista

Tuesday
Nov 14th
2006

Office 2007

It’s upgrade time!

Today I upgraded to Microsoft Office 2007 (Professional edition)…


0 Comments • 337 Views • Posted on 11/14/2006 at 8:00 PM • Tags:  Office 2007, Upgrades

Friday
Nov 3rd
2006

2007 Tampa Bay International Auto Show

Pictures from this year's local car show

Every year I try to attend the annual local car show. Since Tampa is only a medium–sized metropolitan area the car show here can be somewhat uninspiring. This year seemed to be another one of those “ho hum” years…


0 Comments • 334 Views • Posted on 11/3/2006 at 4:00 PM • Tags:  Cars, Tampa

Thursday
Oct 26th
2006

SQL Server Naming & Formatting Conventions

The Do’s and Don’ts

Today I had to review several stored procedures for a client which were written overseas. As a result I created this quick list…


0 Comments • 3595 Views • Posted on 10/26/2006 at 1:25 AM • Tags:  SQL, SQL Server

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Tampa, FL

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