In case you haven’t noticed, I haven’t been a very faithful blogger over the last several months. I wouldn’t say that I’ve abandoned it, because I haven’t, but other things have definitely taken priority. Aside from the typical “family and work distractions”, one thing in particular that has disrupted my blogging is Twitter. I am much more active on Twitter, and you should follow me there. In the meantime, don’t unsubscribe from the blog just yet. I have a few posts in mind f...
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I have an HTC Windows Mobile phone (touch screen + keyboard). For the last several weeks, I’ve been using a trial version of Twikini to access my Twitter stream. I really got to like it. There are a few things I’d like improved. For example, on refresh it seems to have to get the whole stream and reload it rather than just getting updates since the last request. Also, it does a timeline refresh after I tweet instead of just adding mine to the list on the client side....
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On Friday, April 17, Jeffrey Palermo will be giving a full-day seminar on ASP.NET MVC at UWM in Milwaukee. The event isn’t free, but is affordable at $125 – cheap for a day-long training session, especially from someone of Jeffrey’s caliber. If you’re interested, you can find out more at Jeffrey’s blog. I’m hoping to be able to go myself, but haven’t got that worked out yet. P.S. This is not a WI .NET Users Group event, so I don’t have any more details than what you can find on Jef...
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I've been sitting here at the keyboard for an hour now, and I've started writing half a dozen different posts. They're all too much work for a lazy Saturday, though. They each require hundreds of words, time spent editing and more time spent re-editing. So I haven't written them yet. Maybe tomorrow. Or next month.
Categories: Personal | Blogosphere
At work, we are having a fundraiser for Diabetes Research Institute. To try to get more sponsors, one of my coworkers decided to turn himself into Mr. T, step by step. He's skinny. He's white. But so far he's raised $1400. Read his story after you take a peek at this video of him getting the haircut. Share this link with your family and friends: MrTDiabetesChallenge.com.
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I'm very excited to announce that we are planning the first ever GiveCamp in the Milwaukee area: GiveCamp MKE. In fact, it's one of the first GiveCamps anywhere. "What's a GiveCamp?", you ask. In short, it is an opportunity for developers, designers, DBAs, project managers and anyone else involved in the software development process to give back to the community. And we do it by doing what we know how to do best -- building software. We will soon be accepting a...
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I'm using this post to test PreCode -- a code snippet formatting plugin for Windows Live Writer. It uses SyntaxHighlighter on the client side and this plugin just sends the needed code to my blog engine. As a test I thought I'd just add a couple short snippets, using some of the different available options. //C#, using PRE
bool b = true;
' VB, using TEXTAREA, "Showing Columns" Dim b as Boolean = True
' VB, using PRE, Starting at line #20
Dim i as Int32
i = 1
i += 3
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As I mentioned earlier, I was bored tonight. Rather than visiting MySpace I decided to do a little work on the categories I use in my blog. I didn't remove any categories, but I did add a few. As of right now, all of my posts are tagged as either Personal, Professional or both. I don't have any hard fast rules for how I'm going to apply these, but here is the gist of it. If it's something my wife, parents, other family or non-techie friends may want to know, it's Pe...
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I have finally updated my OPML file, which is always linked from the sidebar of the site. If you have any suggestions for other blogs I might be interested in, please let me know.
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Chris just mentioned this so I thought I'd write a follow up post. Several months ago I created a Facebook group for the WI .NET Users Group, although I never really publicized it, and had actually forgotten about it until today. Well, today, Chris created a LinkedIn group for the UG, and that prompted me to create a Twitter account for the UG. If you are a member of the WI .NET Users Group and are on any of these networks, please feel free to join the groups (or follow us on Twitter). ...
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