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February 2005 - Posts

Monday, February 28, 2005 11:38 PM

Convert TivoToGo Files to Normal MPG for DVD Recording

I've had a TiVo for a couple of years now and just recently installed the TiVo Desktop and TivoToGo software. I immediately ran into the problem that it's impossible for me to burn shows to DVD without using Sonic's software (I already have Nero so why
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Friday, February 25, 2005 8:45 PM

Community Server Source Available

Rob Howard announces that Community Server , which was released last week, now has source available as well. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Tuesday, February 22, 2005 7:57 PM

Spec Writing

I'm taking all my paper notes that I've accumulated over the last year (or two) on what the next version of my Internet advertisement server application will look like, and putting them into an electronic specification document . Not wanting to start
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Monday, February 21, 2005 11:17 PM

More Updates To AspAlliance

Last week I built some RSS consuming pieces for AspAlliance.com . I decided late in the week that I wanted to go ahead and add a listing of blog entries made by any AspAlliance Author , but although I had all the code to merge the many RSS feeds, I didn't
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Friday, February 18, 2005 12:34 PM

Rules to Live By

Bob Parsons , owner and founder of GoDaddy.com , has published his rules for survival, “Robert, they can't eat you!” . It's definitely a good read. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Thursday, February 17, 2005 5:40 PM

An Interesting Prediction/Critique of Microsoft's .NET Platform

Richard Grimes, a very recognized author and speaker on .NET topics, addresses what he considers as some missteps in the development of .NET and offers words of warning about the future of the platform . I have to say that some of his predictions, while
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Thursday, February 17, 2005 5:27 PM

Wireless Dropping Problem (and Solution)

On one of the AspAdvice mailing lists somebody was asking for help with their wireless card that kept dropping and re-connecting to the wireless network. The solution seems to be described in this ArsTechnica article, Ask Ars: routinely dropping WiFi
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Wednesday, February 16, 2005 11:13 PM

Merging Multiple RSS Feeds

I've been working on a feature for the AspAlliance.com home page that would show some news and articles from a variety of sources in a single listing. So for the last day or two I've been building a couple of classes and methods and unit tests, etc. to
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Wednesday, February 16, 2005 6:40 PM

Data Access Performance Comparison

My article on Data Access Performance Comparison with .NET, ASP.NET and ADO.NET was published today on AspAlliance.com . In it, I compare the performance of several common data access techniques, including using DataReaders vs using DataTable or DataSet
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Sunday, February 13, 2005 9:42 PM

Reason Number 10,001 Why I Am Glad To Be Self Employed

This article, When Blogging Gets Risky , talks about some of the negative effects blogging can have on employees when their employers read everything they say on their blogs. It also makes a good point that companies should have blogging policies, and
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Saturday, February 12, 2005 1:43 AM

Update Completed

Updated the AspAlliance.com a few minutes ago. The new site looks like this: First off, it won't look anything like this if your CSS file is cached. So if it looks goofy to you, hit CTRL-F5 to refresh all files including the new CSS. I ran into one problem
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Friday, February 11, 2005 11:12 PM

Big Update To AspAlliance

I'm getting ready to push a big update of AspAlliance.com tonight. I've implemented a number of Scott Mitchell's articles/samples into the site now, including his UrlRewrite article (which someone referred me to when I was asking about resources on the
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