What the hell is YAUOTCMSUDAPI? Yet Another Use Of The MCMS Undocumented API. While catching up on some of my RSS subscriptions, I noticed I was considerably backloged in the GotDotNet: Samples feed. …

I admit that I don’t know much about AMD. I bearly understand their product line and what everything means (the model numbers)… typically I just go with what’s familiar: Intel. CNET just posted a …

Now I know UPS’ little trick if they happen to fall under the circumstances where they’ve promised delivery within 2 days but it doesn’t look like that will happen… Just before Christmas I ordered a …

[via Jason Haley] This post by Philip Chu is a fantastic read… anyone in software consulting or development should consider it a must read. » Seven Habits of Highly Effective Programmers

[via Jan Tielens] Jan points to another post that details how you can use a registry hack to make adding DLL’s to the GAC easier. » %20Add%20DLL%20to%20GAC/"Tip: Right Click => Add DLL to GAC

Twas two days before Christmas and I was hoping for a PSP under my tree, and after a good trick by my wonderful wife, I’m now the proud owner of a Sony PSP! Until I had one in my hands Christmas …

Chicago 9 vs. Pittsburgh 21 (-6.5) (30 O/U) Cleveland 20 vs. Cincinnati 23 (-12.5) (43 O/U) Houston 10 vs. Tennessee 13 (-6.5) (44 O/U) Indianapolis 26 (-9.5) vs. Jacksonville 18 (42 O/U) New …

Atlanta vs. Tampa Bay (-3) (36.5 O/U) Buffalo vs. Cincinnati (-13.5) (43.5 O/U) Dallas vs. Carolina (-4.5) (37.5 O/U) Detroit vs. New Orleans (-3) (38.5 O/U) Jacksonville (-6) vs. Houston (37 O/ …

Tampa Bay 0 vs. New England 28 (-6) (38.5 O/U) Kansas City 17 vs. New York Giants 27 (-2.5) (48.5 O/U) Denver 28 (-8.5) vs. Buffalo 17 (36 O/U) Arizona 19 (-3) vs. Houston 30 (42 O/U) Carolina 27 …

Horribly absent since week 13 that’s where I’ve been.  I’ve been keeping track of my picks, but I’ve only managed to circle them in the back of the USA Today on Friday’s beacuse so much stuff has …

Merry Christmas to all my blog readers… I hope all the gadgets you want are sitting under the tree all wrapped up and resting for some marathon usage next week.  I’m hoping there’s a PSP under my …

[via Todd Bleeker] Ever heard a SharePoint portal, portal area, WSS site, site collection, top level site, web site in IIS [insert many more here] called a “site”?  That’s a problem… one word can …

[via Chester] The Resource Browser (Web Author - Resource Manager) ships with MCMS doesn't provide a thumbnail preview for bmp files. That is acceptable as bmp is not a web image format. But if you …

Last week I posted a little testimonial about DevExpress’ DXCore addin for Visual Studio.  In the post I mentioned that I was working with Mark Miller on a little toolwindow plugin built using the …

[via Scott Guthrie] Scott has posted recently about a new project template his team is creating that will give you the VS2003–like web projects within a VS2005 environment, minus the FrontPage Web …

It’s been quite a while since I last posted about my experienced in the Media Center buildout.  I moved the MCE into my living room in late October, replacing the DVD player, and moved my Tivo into …

You’ve probably seen others rant & rave about two development productivity utilities offered by DevExpress: CodeRush & Refactor! I first got my paws on these two utilities in April of 2005… right …

[via Scott Guthrie] Dmitry’s got a slick little project he’s posted that offers an alternative to the memory-based output cache in ASP.NET.  The two benefits: Preservation of cached output across …

I haven’t had the op to work on a VS2005 project yet (more than tinkering with projects already written that I just review or compile & use) thanks to my current workload and working in a CMS SP1 & …

Back in early November, just after the RTM release of VS2005 & SQL2005, I posted about a custom targets file you can use with MSBuild to get VS2005 to build projects against the v1.1 CLR.  This is …

Microsoft has released two post-SP2 rollup updates for Windows SharePoint Services & SharePoint Portal Services. » KB#900929: Description of the WSS post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package » KB#897722: …

A new white paper has been posted that answers many questions about SP2 for SharePoint (WSS & SPS). » Service Pack 2 for Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Joel Oleson …

Yesterday the Launch 2005 roadshow hit Florida, the Orlando edition. I headed down from Jacksonville to Orlando with some co-workers and other dev-friends in the JAX community. Other than missing the …

When writing an app that will use GUIDs as the ID for certain items, or just for any reason that your app will be creating a bunch of GUIDs, am I the only one that has this nagging guilt thinking …

This will be the first of a few posts on managed debugging… just too much to discuss in one post. Ever had one of those moments (maye not a single moment, but in general an experience) where you …

[via MCMSFAQ.com] Spence posts a great walk though article on using ASP.NET 2.0 Master Pages in a MCMS site… » Using ASP.NET Master Pages in your MCMS Applications

I’m sure I’m not the first one you’ve seen post their personal blog & comment policy, and I’m not claiming to be starting a little trend, but after a bit of a flare up between a comment/email poster …

Atlanta 6 vs. Carolina 24 (-3) (43 O/U) Buffalo 23 vs. Miami 24 (-5) (34.5 O/U) Cincinnati 38 vs. Pittsburgh 31 (-3) (41 O/U) Dallas 10 vs. New York Giants 17 (-3) (41 O/U) Green Bay 7 vs. …

If you’re using the Class Designer in VS 2005, these PowerToys are a must. This set of add-ins augments existing functionality in the Visual Studio 2005 Class Designer and the Distributed Systems …