July 2005 - Posts

Lost Love - Not For Me!
29 July 05 08:27 AM | dwalker | 0 Comments   

Jose Fuentes writes about Lost Love . I couldn't agree more with everything he had to say! At one point in my career I thought the grandiur and financial enticement of taking a traveling consulting position would be the best position for me. Luckily before Read More...

Filed under: General, Personal

Tip For Employees - Don't Stop Looking
29 July 05 08:26 AM | dwalker | 1 Comments   

Steven Smith posted this very intelligent article: Tip For Employees - Don't Stop Looking . But do take heed to his warning! Just a couple years ago I was working for a "Manager" who called me into his office and was very upset that I had posted my resume Read More...

Filed under: .NET, General, Personal

If only Integration was truely the focus!
28 July 05 01:01 PM | dwalker | 0 Comments   

If integration really mattered I should be able to take any game from any platform and stick it into any other gaming device. The platform makers would then have to actually focus on what matters - making the best gaming platform! That way Game/Software Read More...

Filed under: Games

.NET 1.1 Bug? If Boolean Then DoThis()
22 July 05 12:20 PM | dwalker | 2 Comments   

I had a problem with some code tonight that drove me crazy! It used to work, but now it doesn't! I have a Method (Function) called IsValid, for example, that returns Boolean. Public Function IsValid(TestText As String) As Boolean If TestText = "Test" Read More...

Filed under: .NET

Sounds of the Underground 7/10!
17 July 05 08:52 AM | dwalker | 0 Comments   

Band Schedule was: Devil Driver Madball Throwdown All That Remains A Life Once Lost Unearth Every Time I Die Norma Jean Poison the Well Strapping Young Lad Opeth GWAR Clutch Chimaira Lamb of God (If I missed any one or got them out of order I apologize Read More...

Filed under: Music

Longhorn loves RSS! But HATES the FileSystem?
13 July 05 01:43 AM | dwalker | 0 Comments   

I was reading on this blog about how Longhorn loves RSS . While I'm one who always likes new features. I just don't understand why Microsoft would waste their time integrating such a simple and open standard as RSS into the OS!! And yet remove a feature Read More...

Filed under: General, Personal

SQL Server 2005 already behind the competition?
08 July 05 09:51 PM | dwalker | 0 Comments   

Oracle and IBM are building native XML indexing capabilities into their databases. But, how long will it take SQL Server 2005 to have these features? Maybe version 2010? As we all know XML has been adopted in a huge way across our industry! Unless there's Read More...

Filed under: .NET, General

PayPal to stop doing Bill Pay! We Want Global Transfers!
08 July 05 09:50 PM | dwalker | 1 Comments   

My wife just told me that PayPal has announced that starting Aug 1st they are going to stop offering the bill pay service. How retarded! Here's another area that I truely do not understand. I just read an article in Information Weekly that talked about Read More...

Filed under: .NET, General, Personal

Happy Anniversary Baby! You're now married to an MCSD!
02 July 05 05:27 PM | dwalker | 0 Comments   

Today is my 11th wedding anniversary and one of my presents to my wife was taking the 70-300: Analyzing Requirements and Defining Microsoft .NET Solution Architectures exam and passing! So now, she has certifiable proof that she's married to a geek! :) Read More...

Filed under: .NET, General, Personal