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Posted On Monday, December 19, 2011 3:16 PM

Oct 08

Ubuntu / Kubuntu 8.10 out

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Head on over to http://www.kubuntu.org/ or http://www.ubuntu.org/ to get the freshest drops of the slickest OS out there. As always you can boot it off a liveCD if you want to try it our with NO changes to your existing OS. If you choose to install it, it dual boots nice with any Windows, and as long as you install it second, it will add a nice boot ......

Posted On Friday, October 31, 2008 1:31 PM

Sep 08

Joel & StackOverflow

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Hi Guys, I just found a good resource for development questions & answers. Here is a post about the site and how it works: http://www.joelonsoftware.c... and here is the site: http://stackoverflow.com/ Sounds like a great idea, and Joel is known for taking great ideas and making them into great things ......

Posted On Wednesday, September 17, 2008 11:44 AM

Feb 08

Support the eBay Strike!!Feb 18 - 25

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eBay sellers are planning a sellers strike Feb 18 - 25. Hit this cnn link for more info, including a couple videos -
http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/07/smbusiness/ebay_boycott.fsb/index.htm?postversion=2008021009

Posted On Sunday, February 10, 2008 5:19 PM Events

Feb 08

Sony Vaio Wireless Vista Update

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This past week I blogged a problem I was having with a friend's Sony Vaio Vista laptop and wireless randomly dropping. After some digging on the Sony site, I came up with this: http://www.iq.sony.com/srvs... Details from the Sony KB article Knowledge Article C568483 The wireless network connection intermittently fails to connect. ......

Posted On Saturday, February 2, 2008 7:09 AM

Jan 08

MSDN Code Gallery

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In case anyone else missed it besides me, MSDN launched it's Code Gallery site this week. You can check it out at http://code.msdn.microsoft.... thanks to Somasegar's WebLog : The MSDN Code Gallery is a portal for snippets, samples and other resources. In it you can find pages that describe samples and supporting documents including screenshots and ......

Posted On Thursday, January 31, 2008 3:01 PM

Jan 08

Great Download - Query Express

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While checking different tools lists of people I admire, (Hanselman's is still the best) I came across a great little exe called Query Express. It's a single EXE, no install no mess. It's written in .net and you can get the exe or the .net project to compile yourself if you are paranoid. It also sounds like you can take the project and roll it into ......

Posted On Wednesday, January 30, 2008 10:17 PM

Jan 08

No More MS Acropolis

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Talking to someone at our user group this evening, I got the bad news that the Acropolis project will see no more CTP releases. It seems that the project is now in the hands of the Patterns & Practices group. From the Acropolis website : "We are very excited to be entering the next phase of the project where we will begin to roll many of the Acropolis ......

Posted On Tuesday, January 29, 2008 10:13 PM

Portable Apps and You

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Well I've seen these about thirty times now, tried them once or twice, but now that I am doing a little more work with my side company, I've found this great tool for becoming a bit more mobile. Check out the suite here. You can run Open Office from a USB drive. Never be without the ability to open word, excel, access or powerpoint files again. I recommend ......

Posted On Tuesday, January 29, 2008 3:38 PM Gadgets

Top 10 Reasons to not buy Visual Studio 2008

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Bravo Dave, Bravo!

http://blog.dmbcllc.com/2007/11/30/top-ten-reasons-to-not-buy-visual-studio-2008/

There's both a movie and some text, enjoy!

Posted On Tuesday, January 29, 2008 2:54 PM

CONGRATS to S.B. Chatterjee

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Wow, didn't realize I was this slow on things.

CONGRATS to S.B. Chatterjee on his MVP for Office Groove!

See more here : http://weblogs.asp.net/sbchatterjee/archive/2008/01/13/microsoft-mvp-award-for-groove.aspx

Way to go man, 'bout time!

Posted On Tuesday, January 29, 2008 2:51 PM

Sony Vaio, Vista & Wireless

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Anyone having problems where they get an intermittent connection to a Wireless AP using a Sony Vaio laptop running Vista? The only thing that seems odd to me is that you have to set the Wireless AP settings in both Windows Network & Sharing and also in the Vaio Communications center. I have a friend who can connect fine, but every so often, only ......

Posted On Tuesday, January 29, 2008 2:41 PM

New England Code Camp 9 - April 5 & 6

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Well, Chris Bowen has posted it on his blog, so we are official; Code Camp 9 Will be April 5th and 6th in Waltham. Hard to believe it has been 9 already. He is also looking for a subtitle to number 9. Also if you have a little artistic talent, maybe you can help him design a new logo for us? Head over to his blog for all the info. Also Registration ......

Posted On Tuesday, January 29, 2008 12:44 PM Events

Feb 07

New England Code Camp 7 Reg. Open

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Get Ready New England Geeks! March 31 - April 1 2007 Via Chris Bowen's Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowe... Hmmm, something's *really* fishy about Code Camp happening on April Fool's Day, I'm very very afraid... Give a yell if you're going, I'm definitely going, most likely speaking. Any ideas for ......

Posted On Friday, February 2, 2007 12:17 PM

Jun 06

CT MSDN Event announced - August 31, 2006

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CT MSDN Event announced. Thursday, August 31, 2006 1:00 PM -5:00 PM Welcome Time: 12:30 PM Session #1: Exploring the System.Net Namespace in the .NET Framework 2.0 Developers are increasingly being asked to create applications that interact with common network services. So, it’s a good thing the .NET Framework 2.0 enables you to write connected ......

Posted On Friday, June 30, 2006 12:06 PM

Jun 06

Great Deal from Apress

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Head over to the Apress site for a great deal on a bundle of VB 2005 books. They are offering: From June 16-30, purchase this limited edition VB 2005 eBook bundle for $50 (a $110 value!). That's right, instead of the standard eBook discount of 50% off the list price, you'll pay just $12.50 for each eBook. The four titles included are listed below. Sorry, ......

Posted On Tuesday, June 20, 2006 7:42 AM

Jun 06

Virtual Mobile User Group - Wow

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Wow, Don Sorcinelli is a genius! Head over to the Boston Pocket PC site for the announcement of their new user group. From the site: Our meetings will be held live via Microsoft Live Meeting every other 3rd Wednesday of the month from 12 Noon - 2 PM EDT/EST. What a great way to meet the challenges of starting a new user group! If you develop applications ......

Posted On Monday, June 19, 2006 8:13 AM

SQL Prompt Not for me.

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Ok I tried to love the new wonderful, highly acclaimed SQL Prompt, but can’t. It says it works with VS2005 and, although I no longer take the short yellow bus to work, I feel like I should. I cannot get it to work in the IDE. I checked all my settings, emailed friends, etc and… nothing! The conflict between SQL Prompt’s ‘hot keys’ and the ones I know ......

Posted On Monday, June 19, 2006 6:31 AM

CodeSmart for VB6

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Ok, I now know I am not the only one still writing VB6 code. I think the number I keep hearing is something link 50%? Well I am one of that whatever percentage. We have some apps that will never need enough maintenance / upgrades / enhancements to warrant a migration, but we work on a lot. The VB2005 upgrade wizard took *all* weekend when we analyzed ......

Posted On Monday, June 19, 2006 6:18 AM

Getting Sh-t Done

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I think I am still stuck in my analog world for task management. I love my moleskine and 3x5 cards from Levenger I needed to find a way to get my personal, fulltime job, side jobs, household and speaking tasks in order. I couldn’t find one I really loved, GTD was probably the closest, but I wasn’t in love with it. Enter Bill Westerman and his wonderfully ......

Posted On Monday, June 19, 2006 6:05 AM

Jun 06

TechEd Bot

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Hey I just found out, if you add the bot teched06@hotmail.com to your MSN messenger you can get all kinds of TechEd info, pretty cool. Can you find the hidden game? I’ll be up at TechEd on Thursday and Friday.

Posted On Tuesday, June 13, 2006 11:01 AM

Jun 06

NJCode Camp II another success!

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Ok, despite what the timestamp might say, it’s midnight here in CT. A late end to a long day. It started around 530 AM when I got in my car and headed to Iselin New Jersey. Many hours and many miles later, I do declare the day to be another success for Don, Scott and Peter, as well as all who attended and presented. I did 2 talks VB2005 for VB6ers and ......

Posted On Saturday, June 3, 2006 9:31 PM

Apr 06

Online flash card library

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Last night, while browsing lifehacker.com, I found a link to a great site, http://www.flashcardexchang... They have virtual flash card decks for anything you could ever want from science, to high school subjects to music to computers. I checked out the cards tagged 'Microsoft' and found some great ones for Microsoft Certified Developer exams. There ......

Posted On Tuesday, April 11, 2006 6:00 AM

Mar 06

A strange thing happened at the user group...

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Ok, here’s the scene, I’m sitting in the audience at the CTDOTNET user group meeting, stuffing my face with pizza and picking my nose when I hear SB (user group leader guy) say something that resembles my name. <munch><munch>&... There it is again, sounded like my name, something about Web ......

Posted On Tuesday, March 28, 2006 7:16 PM

Feb 06

Announcing the ASP.NET 2.0 Webcast Series! and free stuff!!!

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Announcing the ASP.NET 2.0 Webcast Series! From the site: Welcome to the Microsoft® ASP.NET 2.0 Webcast Series, sponsored by Microsoft, Dr. Dobb’s, and O’Reilly. Choose from 45 webcasts organized by track—JSP, PHP, and ColdFusion. Each track has been designed to take advantage of your existing Web development skills and includes ......

Posted On Tuesday, February 21, 2006 7:34 AM