February 2005 - Posts

• Argh... Kimmel as Well?

  OK read this first. Guys there are a lot of really smart people who are apparently missing out on some very simple facts. First ‘Visual’ is a paradigm. Second ‘Basic’ is a language. Let’s not get the two confused because Read More... Posted Saturday, February 26, 2005 6:04 PM by pmurphy | 0 Comments

• Nice One Guys. FireFox takes one on the chin

  Hey every single FireFox bigot who seems to get kicks out of bashing Microsoft, how ‘about that 1.0.1 release? God forbid if a version of IE shipped with the same level of quality. Where’s the outrage now over quality. Has Microsoft ever released Read More... Posted Saturday, February 26, 2005 2:20 AM by pmurphy | 2 Comments

• FileEnumerator

  public class FileEnumerator : IEnumerable < String >, IEnumerable { private String _fileName = String .Empty; private Boolean _isLoaded = false ; private TextReader _reader = null ; public FileEnumerator( String fileName) { _fileName = fileName; Read More... Posted Saturday, February 26, 2005 2:08 AM by pmurphy | 1 Comments

• Nudge Bomb

  Ok. So I like to have fun. Having fun, to me, means messing with people and generally being a prick. Certain friends of mine who also like to ‘have fun’ are often the victims of this fun because well, if you can’t take the heat stay Read More... Posted Friday, February 25, 2005 9:52 PM by pmurphy | 4 Comments

• Hot Off the Presses!

  Dave Bost dives into Team System. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/vstsinstallguide.asp Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Sponsor Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 23, 2005 6:41 PM by pmurphy | 0 Comments

• au revoir l'idiot

  I read this article which I picked up from my buddy Wally . Needless to say it got me slightly ticked. Why? Well because it’s pretty clear to me the guy who wrote has something else bothering him and is using managed code as a whipping post. IMO, Read More... Posted Thursday, February 17, 2005 9:35 AM by pmurphy | 10 Comments

• New Rule for My Blog

  If your comment doesn't have a link back to your blog, it will be deleted. I don't care how good the comment is or how bad it is, if you aren't willing to own up to it; I'm not willing to publish it. If you don't have a blog you can get one from http://www.blogger.com Read More... Posted Thursday, February 17, 2005 5:46 AM by pmurphy | 4 Comments

• Data Access Performance Comparison

  Steve Smith wrote an article on Data Access Performance Comparison with .NET, ASP.NET and ADO.NET. It was published a little while ago on AspAlliance.com . In it, he compares the performance of several common data access techniques, including using DataReaders Read More... Posted Thursday, February 17, 2005 5:09 AM by pmurphy | 0 Comments

• FireFox Zealots Are Just Stupid, Angry People who Download to much Porn and Warez

  http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/02/15/373104.aspx Just read the comments and laugh your (_(_) off. Seriously guys, Mozilla has been around for over 10 years. Thier core engine has had countless revisions, has been totally rewritten multiple times Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 16, 2005 2:44 AM by pmurphy | 19 Comments

• Oh man is Team System sweet.

  I recently had the opportunity to work with a more recent build of Team System. I really can’t say anything of any substance, but I will say this. It’s so damn cool. Oh man this thing is just awesome. I was a licensor of the Rational Suite Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 15, 2005 6:37 AM by pmurphy | 8 Comments

• A prediction

  I’ve been reading all the Microsoft blogs for a good while now. There is tons of information there. I’d like to point out two entries and then I’ll make a prediction. First read this guys stuff on the SQLOS , there are 9 entries and Read More... Posted Saturday, February 12, 2005 3:12 AM by pmurphy | 5 Comments

• How to join Windows Media Center 2005 to a domain

  From Microsoft ------------------- Q. Can I connect a new PC running Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 to a work network or domain? A. While you can access network resources on a work network or a domain, you cannot join a Windows XP Media Center 2005 Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 09, 2005 11:04 PM by pmurphy | 32 Comments