11 Mar
2006

VS 2005 – It’s the Little Things

As a pointy haired manager, I do not get to code anymore unless I forcibly pry a coding task from the unrelenting hands of the real developers around here. As a result, I am using VS2005 for the first time, really. So here’s something small, yet cool. When you rename a setting key name through […]

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7 Mar
2006

All Mashed Up

The Wikipedia explanation for Mashups is: A mashup is a website or web application that seamlessly combines content from more than one source into an integrated experience. Content used in mashups is typically sourced from a third party via a public interface or API. Other methods of sourcing content for mashups include Web feeds (e.g. […]

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6 Mar
2006

A Well Run Beta Program

The rest of us might take a hint on how to run a beta program from the good folks who are building MSN Messenger 8. The things that they are providing are not necessarily groundbreaking, but good execution of the basics is what makes this work. Here is a small list of some things that […]

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5 Mar
2006

eBay Developers Network

Who knew? Apparently eBay has an incredibly extensive developer outreach program. Check this out to download an SDK for your favorite programming platform. The one thing that I wish I could do on eBay is subscribe to a query as an RSS feed so that when a new item matching my criteria is put up […]

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3 Mar
2006

Kudos to You, Jackass

I would personally like to congratulate the individual on my team who jacked up my laptop while I was out of the room yesterday. Having the gay cowboy song play every time I get email is really mature. Nice one. OK, this is pretty dang hilarious. Drop this thing into you friend’s C:\windows\media folder for […]

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2 Mar
2006

The Death of DOS. Finally.

Monad is the new scriptable command shell from MS that will come natively to Vista. This is different. It means that we don’t need to install all the little helper utils into sys32 any more to get a decent command line. It means that the OS will be truly scriptable. It matters. Find more on […]

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