Welcome to AspAdvice Sign in | Join | Help

May 2007 - Posts

Wednesday, May 30, 2007 1:44 PM

Surface Computing

A new tool coming from Microsoft soon will allow users to work on a tabletop surface as a computer interface. Watch this video – it’s very cool. I can totally see having one as a coffee table in a living room or home theater room that controls
Posted by ssmith | 2 Comments
Filed under:
Tuesday, May 29, 2007 10:25 PM

Optimize ASP.NET HTTP Connection Limit

Mads has a nice post on optimizing ASP.NET to utilize more than its default of 2 concurrent web connections . Here’s the relevant config info: <system.net> <connectionManagement> <add address="*" maxconnection="8"/> </connectionManagement>
Posted by ssmith | 1 Comments
Filed under:
Wednesday, May 23, 2007 2:10 PM

Lake Quincy Media Launches AdSignia

We just launched AdSignia , our new advertising management platform for online advertisers and publishers. Read the full AdSignia online advertising server press release for more details. We're still working out a few things and will have a better
Posted by ssmith | (Comments Off)
Filed under: ,
Tuesday, May 15, 2007 7:07 AM

Oh *** Outlook Email Rule

I have a rule in Outlook that I call my “Oh ***” rule. It delays all messages from being sent for 1 minute, which is plenty of time for me to realize that I said the wrong thing, sent the wrong thing, forgot an attachment, or copied the wrong
Posted by ssmith | 3 Comments
Filed under:
Monday, May 14, 2007 4:54 PM

Why Russia

First of all I’d like to say Thank You! to everyone who has congratulated us and wished our family well. We really appreciate the support we have received from our family and friends, both locally and online. I’ve had a number of people ask
Posted by ssmith | 6 Comments
Filed under:
Monday, May 14, 2007 4:49 PM

Microsoft Fans - Raise Your Hand

I have trouble, as a long time Microsoft developer community member and (dare I say) community leader, believing that someone could miss the fact that there are Microsoft communities and, by extension, community members and fans. I would definitely consider
Posted by ssmith | 7 Comments
Filed under:
Monday, May 14, 2007 1:46 PM

Outlook Data File PST Not Closed Properly

A common problem with Outlook is the infamous data file issue that pops up when you launch Outlook and says it must check the data file for constency because it was not shut down properly. In Outlook 2003 this is annoying because Outlook is unusable until
Posted by ssmith | 136 Comments
Filed under:
Friday, May 11, 2007 11:53 AM

New Arrival

I could go the total geek route and write some pseudo-code to the effect of adding a new instance of a person to the smith family, but that’s been way overdone and I’m so overloaded now that it probably wouldn’t even compile anyway…
Posted by ssmith | 17 Comments
Filed under: ,
Wednesday, May 09, 2007 5:49 AM

Moscow User Group Presentation - Caching Best Practices

In my last post I wrote that I would be speaking in Moscow this week - well, I did so Monday night and it went quite well I thought. I have uploaded the presentation and demo code from the presentation as promised - sorry it took a couple of days but
Posted by ssmith | 3 Comments
Filed under: , ,