June 2005 - Page 2 of 3

10 Jun

2005

TechEd Stuff and Notepad 2

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: Esoterica, New Post:

Firstly, take a look at the “podcast” of the man-on-the-street type interviews occurring at TechEd. This is pretty cool, but these WMV videos aren’t aggregated, so technically, they aren’t being casted. http://strategery.geekswithblogs.net/TechEdPodcast.aspx Next, thanks to Hanselman for the awesome tip in this post to try a new text editor, Notepad 2. I have been a faithful user […]

9 Jun

2005

ConnectionBuilder in ADO.Net 2.0

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: Esoterica, New Post:

This is a blatant ripoff from Aaron Skonnard, but I have to quote it to get across the idea of the post. Check this new class out, very sweet. SqlConnectionStringBuilder connbuilder = new SqlConnectionStringBuilder(); connbuilder.DataSource = “localhost”; connbuilder.UserID = “someuser”; connbuilder.Password = “somepassword”; SqlConnection c = new SqlConnection (connbuilder.ConnectionString); c.Open(); … // do something with […]

9 Jun

2005

Good to Great by Jim Collins

By: David Starr Category:UncategorizedTag: Books:

I read Good to Great by Jim Collins during my stay in Houston. The book is a study of publicly traded companies that met a particular set of criteria of out performing the general market. The companies must have “turned themselves around” to out perform the market by at X 3 and must have done […]

8 Jun

2005

More on the New Office Formats (XML)

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: Esoterica, New Post:

Brian Jones, Program Manager for MS Word, gives us a tour of the new MS Office formats coming in the next version of office. This is a video on Channel 9 and is of particular interest to my team as we are responsable for an in-house application with an embedded XML editor. Guess what, the […]

5 Jun

2005

Day 4 or So

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: Esoterica, New Post:

A complete meal of pie for 5 at House of Pies, $35. A chicken sopapia at Chuy’s just the way Mark said to order it, $12. New eye glasses in-an-hour (actually 2 hours) to replace the ones that washed away into the Gulf of Mexico, $350. 1 hour of grandmother induced Billy Graham Cruisade, priceless.

4 Jun

2005

Still Here

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: Esoterica, New Post:

Today, my glasses were washed away to their new home at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico and I had the best Mexican food I have had in 3 years. This is not a fair trade.

3 Jun

2005

Roostin in Houston, Part Duex

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: Esoterica, New Post:

I am writing this post in IE, but connectivity is provided to my mom (who I am visiting here in Houston) via AOL. I feel dirty. Doesn’t Starbucks offer free wireless? I brought my laptop, after all. I remembered this post by Scott Hanselman and I have just finished following most of the steps in it […]

2 Jun

2005

Blogging the Enterprise

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: Esoterica, New Post:

I am in the middle of introducing blogs into our workplace. “Good Lord, why?” you ask? “Aren’t blogs for nerds like you?” Well, yes. But there’s more. I have found several articles discussing the advent of blogs within the enterprise, but this is a recent enough development that there aren’t a lot of use cases […]