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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 […]

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 […]

2 Jun

2005

Roostin in Houston

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

I am taking the 2 youngest kiddios and heading to Houston tomorrow morning. I am visiting the family back home where I came from for a few days. Is there anything to do in Houston? I grew up there and I am coming up blank.

2 Jun

2005

XML in the Next Office

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

According to an article on today’s AP feed, Microsoft is looking to simplify the XML within the MS Word. This could be huge for my company. We are still holding licenses for XMetal for authoring in XML and we sure wish we could code an Office app instead. I can’t wait to open an MS […]