Blog Archive - Posts from 2006
I've been researching source control products lately, dreaming about a day when I might be able to move away from SourceSafe. You see, due to limited ...
The CSS box model is something that has always tripped me up. I've read a bunch about it, but I never found a nice, concise, easy-to-follow explainat...
I spent most of the morning tracking down what appears to be a significant bug in the way Visual Studio 2005 compiles web sites. The short of it: If ...
Even though I work for a recruiting company (as a developer, not as a recruiter), I found Mike Taber's posts about his experiences with recruiters t...
Zink has posted up a nice example of how to handle embedded resources in an ASP.NET 1.1 application. I personally don't have to deal with this anymore...
It's been a while since I've used Google Translate, but for whatever reason I stumbled upon it this morning. Nothing new for some of the old languages...
A few days ago I posted a conversation Zink & I had regarding Lotus Notes, and how crappy of software it is. Here's a few updates... Noah comment...
A little off topic, but I wanted to congratulate my friend Marty on his success on NBC's The Biggest Loser. Marty & I went to high school together...
The other day I complained about Expression Web and it's seeming lack of support for custom controls. Well today, AndrewJ, the Expression Web program ...
Today in Campfire, Zink and I got onto the topic of Lotus Notes, which we both concluded to be utter trash. A fairly funny dialog ensued... (edit...
Today I got my blogroll & OPML file up for everyone to see. I'm currently subscribed to about 260 blogs, which doesn't even put me in the top 100...
I'm cleaning up my bookmarked blog posts over the past few months, and I'm finding that most posts that I "saved" had to do with entrepreneurship and/...
I had a bit of a flashback to college the other day when i stumbled upon an article about the college classified listing site Chegg.com. You see...
I just read over at LifeHacker that Adobe Reader 8 has the ability to read rss feeds. Now maybe there's a perfectly plausible reason for wanting to do...
As I move forward with dustyd.net, I've decided that it's time to rethink how I handle my photos site. My previous thinking was that I wanted to put ...
From time to time, I have a tendency to run marathons. I ran in the Omaha Marathon in 2005, and the Minneapolis Marathon in 2006, as well as a number...
The always excellent Software by Rob blog has a fun "Open Letter to the Software Managers of the World". Nothing too terribly ground breaking he...
As someone who once played around quite a bit with Community Server, I still follow the CS developer community quite closely. A while back there was q...
I recently started paying closer attention to the unhandled exceptions that are occuring on dustyd.net. My error log is FILLED with ArgumentExceptions...
I posted some time ago about a fantastic utility for web developers -- Firebug. Since that post I've come to rely heavily on it... truly an amazing an...
In my previous post I mentioned my excitement for the final build of Microsoft Expression Web Designer. Well I got it all downloaded and have had some...
I'm quite excited today as the final version of Microsoft Expression Web Designer has been released! For those not familiar with this, it's Microsoft...
I'm writing this post in Windows Live Writer.. I know I'm a little behind the game, but I finally got around to implementing the MetaBlog API in my bl...
For a while now I've become quite interested in the business of online newspapers. For instance, the local site for the Omaha World Herald - Omaha.com...
For about the past month or so, I've been following a couple of guys in their quest to hitchhike to all 50 state capitals in 50 days. Yup, you heard t...
Well, it's that time of year again. Some of you may remember that about this time last year, I ran in the Omaha Marathon. You may also remember that I...
NOTE: I took a bit of a ramadan from posting, I'm back now, and will try to post more frequently. I've got a backlog of stuff to write about, so bare ...
My buddy Kevin Zink, whose blog I've mentioned before, has setup a *new* blog, located at http://www.zinknation.net
This is of special note because h...
We're currently working on getting the invitations & "save the date" cards layed out for the wedding, and I stumbled upon this excellent...
As everyone should be well aware of by now, I'm currently in the process of planning my wedding. Well, actually Marlina's doing the brunt of the plann...
Ian posted a nice writeup outling how to add a global Ajax activity indicator to the bottom of the page. The end result looks a little something like ...
As some of you may know, I'm a bit of a narcissist when it comes to my online presense. I'm constantly Googling myself, keeping an eye on what positio...
It may come as a big surprise to you, but Visual Source Safe (VSS) has a tendency to corrupt PDF files. To fix this less-than-optimal default behavior...
Matt Cutts has posted an interesting observation regarding ASP.NET 2.0 and search engine optimization. Aparently in some cases, ASP.NET's Url rewritin...
It's old news that Robert Scoble is leaving Microsoft, but what isn't old news, and what's actually interesting, is his "Exit Interview". Hi...
Frans Bouma has released a significant upgrade to his already-wonderful O/R Mapping tool, LLBLGen Pro.
I've been using LLBLGen since my days back at ...
Ever since Gmail was released, I've been and avid user. Lots of space, slick interface, yada yada. You know the drill. However, I've had the dustyd.ne...
I've been playing around quite a bit lately with Riya lately (and Riya-like technology). In fact, they've just released an API, and I'm in the process...
There's a nice read over at DeveloperDotStar entitled Software Team Turnover: Why Developers Leave (And What You Can Do About It). It's really a topic...
Well, ask and you shall receive! The one and only Kevin Zink has started up his own blog -- Zink's Hizzy -- complete with interesting and enterta...
Someone at work today raised an interesting question... Is there a compelling reason NOT to extend the standard Windows Forms controls (textbox, combo...
For those of you who I haven't told, and who haven't heard through the grapevine...
Marlina & I are ENGAGED!
It happened in Paris... we had a pi...
The title of this post is a bit deceiving... it's not that I wanted to be home from Europe, that's certainly not the case. Rather, it's just been a LO...
We made it on the night train to Paris, and have been having just a wonderful time! Paris truly is probably my most favorite city in the world.. for m...
We've been in Hamburg now for a couple of days, and I think we've pretty much exhausted all of the "sight-seeing" things to do here. This is...
We've reached the halfway point in our trip! AAAH! It's sooo hard to believe that we've been gone a whole week. Actually, it sort of seems that we've ...
Well, we really had a wonderful time in Copenhagen, but we've made it out of there, and we're now in Berlin. We'll be here for about the next 3 or 4 d...
Alright, I've only got about 2 minutes left of my internet time, but I thought I'd write up a quick note to let everyone know that we made it alive an...
For those of you who don't know, Marlina & I leave today for Germany for two weeks to see the World Cup! Actually, we'll be going to Copenhagen, t...
I just wanted to post a quick link to a wonderful library: BusyBox DotNet. This library inserts the necessary Javascript to display an animated gif ov...
Ever since moving to GoDaddy's shared hosting, I've had nothing but problems dealing with running in a Partial Trust environment. In fact, it really w...
Ian has been pestering me for the past week or so to get some links up on my site pointing to his. Rightfully so, as he was quick to add a link back t...
A couple of weeks ago, I posted about using C# generics to be able to serialize/deserialize objects. That solution was based off an article written ov...
Even though I haven't had a chance to use it yet, I felt I should pass along what looks to be an incredible tool for debugging JavaScript - FireBug. I...
Kathy Sierra posted a great entry the other day (and Jeff Atwood made some additional observations) regarding the concept of "Keeping Up". T...
Note: I've found another solution to this problem, and have posted an update here
I've subscribed to the Joy Of Code blog for a few weeks now, probab...
Yesterday I switched my RSS feed over to FeedBurner, basically so I can track who's reading my feed. I already have site statistics via Google Analyti...
I've made a few changes to the site today, most notably, the addition of the Recent Comments section in the right hand column.
This list shows the 1...
I thought I should mention that it looks like I'll be running another marathon again this year. Last year, I ran my first one, the Omaha Marathon.
P...
I just received an email saying that registration for the HDC06 Conference is open! I missed out on last year's conference in Cedar Rapids, and was ...
I just posted about flattery, and though linking to, or reposting one's content is certainly a great form of flattery, I definately think this takes t...
Many of you may have read my entry the other day about a site that had posted one of my old Genesis blog entries on their site. I was posting mainly t...
Since I've switched jobs, I've switched over to using a web-based RSS reader, NewsGator, and have also begun "flagging" good posts that I co...
Ian tipped me off to a site that I'm sure has been posted all over the internet before, but it sure gave me a good laugh tonight. How to Write Unmaint...
Those of you who read my blog on a regular basis know that I quote quite a few other blog entries from time to time. Obviously, I always quote the sou...
I've been reading Seth Godin's blog ever since I watched a pretty great video of a presentation that he gave to a group of engineers at Google. That t...
Ran across an interesting writeup today about a guy's impressions and experiences working for Microsoft. Really quite an interesting read, though the ...
Last week, Marlina & I joined the folks from my old company Genesis Systems, for a fancy-ish dinner for the first night of Infotec. It was a fun e...
Marlina and I aparently have the top two best jobs you can have, according to Money Magazine:
1. Software Engineer
Why it's great Software enginee...
UPDATE: 5/4/06 - I've posted the code and some more details about my implementation on my PhotoNotes project page. The code is still pretty rough, but...
A few days ago, a new site called Riya lauched. Riya is a photo site, much like Flickr, however Riya does something pretty interesting - It searches t...
In my job search, I recently interviewed with the Gallup Organization. As part of their process, they have you go through a comprehensive be...
With the addition of more and more photos, I continue to add new features to the photo gallery itself. Today I published a change so that when you're ...
For those of you that don't know already, Friday was my last day working at Genesis Systems. I've been looking for a new job for some time now, and la...
There's a new bill up for vote that would ammend the current DMCA legislation to protect fair use...
HR 1201 would give citizens the right to circum...
One of my favorite Scrubs episodes of all time, is the one featuring the song "Winter" by Joshua Radin. While trying to find out which episo...
There are a couple of nice articles out on the wire today that focus on starting a company. Since this is something that I've pondered for some time (...
Note: This is a reprint of a post that I made on the Genesis Systems Blog. See the original post here...
Well, at long last, I have finished my MAME ...
I'm probably pretty behind the times on the whole podcasting phenomenon - heck, I dont' even "subscribe" to them or whatever you're supposed...
I've got a buddy that works for a rather large company here in town, doing C++ programming on government projects. The other day I received an email w...
From the SvN Blog, a list of Entrepreneurial Proverbs posted by Marc Hedlund. These things are so relevant to a lot of the stuff I'm reading into...
Today we take another large leap forward in the saga to at long last get my photos site back up and running. With the advent of my spiffy new ASP.NET ...
I just spent the last few hours with my eyes glued to a collection of essays/articles about software development written by an ex-Amazon.com employee....
Eric sent me this link to a video showcasing EA's upcoming game Spore. It's from the maker of SimCity and all I can say is FREAKING WOW. Watch th...
I've been browsing through my del.icio.us bookmarks tonight, and I stumbled upon this amazing photograph that I bookmarked quite some time back. It's ...
Note: This is a reprint of a post that I made on the Genesis Systems Blog. See the original post here...
Last night I was digging through some old st...
I have a never-ending fascination with this concept that Eric Sink refers to as "Developers vs. Programmers".
For the purpose of this arti...
In digging through all of my old photos, I've been going through quite a lot of old files in general, some going back as far as when I was in high sch...
I've been every moment of my free time trying to get this website up to par. So far, it's progressing nicely I think. My first goal was to just get it...
Now that I've got the good ol' blog back up and running in a fashion that is both maintainable and better-looking, it's time for me to start the long ...
The other day, I stumbled across this video on MSDN's Channel 9. It's an interview with Microsoft's Anders Hejlsberg, chief designer for C#.
The guy ...
It's worth noting, that Marlina has put up a blog of her own over at Blogger. You can check it out here:
http://marlinahowe.blogspot.com
She's quite...
Most of you probably won't be able to readily tell, but I have finally decided to move away from the Community Server product for dustyd.net
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Pay no attention to the broken look and feel, and the lack of content here for the next couple of days. I'm currently in the process of switching host...