Oh yes, the iPod is the shiznit.  I had a Rio 500 for a number of years with 128 megs of ram and got my iPod about 6 months ago.  I do recommend, however, immediately jettisoning the crap MusicMatch software and using these tools: EphPod for the quick and dirty work: Add a song, edit IP3 tags, adding Outlook Calendar appointments, vCard...

Just when I'm asked to start thinking about Technology Roadmaps, I find this great dissection of the Microsoft Technology Roadmap.  Some highlights: Disappearing Code Names (Gone, But Not Forgotten) Product Name/ "Code Name" Additional Info. Projected Ship Date "Shorthorn" (33) Stopgap release of Windows client 2003 .Net My Services/...

Finally got around to installing my new shiny version of SoapScope, the little sniffer that could.  I showed an early beta at TechEd 2003 in Dallas, but now it's released!  It's wicked cheap, and when you're doing Web Services development in a workgroup situation, especially when the interface is in flux and the folks on the other side...

My buddy Jonas Blunck, hero of the people and maker of ComTrace and IEHttpHeaders has done it again (along with Kim Gräsman) with DeveloperPlayground.  At first it looks like Process Explorer from SysInternals, but it includes such cleverness as: Shows run-time DLL dependencies for running processes Hooks any process, and tracing single...

A nice clean way to describe the ramifications of the decisions we have to make every day.  Also, a way to describe to our bosses (in term$ they understand) why doing something quick-and-dirty may bite us in the ass. "Technical Debt is a wonderful metaphor developed by Ward Cunningham to help us think about this problem. In this metaphor,...

Still on vacation...it's my first one in I don't know how long and I am ALL kinds of jet-lagged.  I just don't know what time it is.  When we went to Zimbabwe (+10 hours) I had no jet-lag, but Malaysia (+15) is messing me up. Anyway, turns out that the Zen of .NET presentation at TechEd Malaysia did all right.  Apparently there was...

Here's an interesting idea via Bill Wagner - a code copyright watermarker...it creates an obfuscated function that contains your copyright notice.  Clever...of course when you look at the generated code, you can see it isn't required and it's easily removed.

Kevin Schuler's PDCBloggers.net is up and it looks like it's going to be HUGE - much bigger than TechEdBloggers.  Already the list of blogging Attendees is 46 and growing! 

My blogging buddy Jeff Key (maker of the increasingly useful NetPing) has posted yet another snazzy util, a Code Snippet Compiler.  As .NET folks, we all find ourselves creating junk Console applications with a Console.WriteLine just to test a snippet of code!  His utility sits in the tray and is always ready when you want to whip...

Well, we're back from Malaysia, and I'm officially on my first vacation in recent memory.  I've had a couple of bloggable things on my mind, but I've been limited by time and internet access. I arrived home and checked my hanselman.com email from my home machine.  (I'd been checking my email remotely with OddPost, which is only the...

It's almost over.  We're having a great time at TechEd Malaysia.   We've spend a great deal of time with a great many friends, some new, and some old.  I've put up a small photo montage of Malaysian Faces. The Zen of .NET presentation went fabulously.  I started out on stage in the Lotus Position and everyone seemed to...

Yesterday was an exhausting day.  I had back-to-back-to-back sessions.  Tim Huckaby and I did a Web Services Chalk Talk and had a blast.  Tim and I have very different philosophies but when we work together we compliment each other very well.  We had to do a little (a lot) of "teeth-pulling" to get folks to open up, but humor...

Finished my Web Services Enhancements talk today, and I think it went OK.  We'll see tommorow when the speaker scores are announced.  Tomorrow is a big day with a Web Services Chalk Talk, a session on Internationalization (I18n) and ASP.NET, then a Tutorial/Lab on I18n and ASP.NET.    They've really done an amazing job...

Mo's asleep and Day (-1) is ending.  TechEd Malaysia starts tommorow, and I've got a talk on WSE - Web Services Enhancements at 4:30pm and God willing it won't suck.  Speaking to a non-U.S. crowd is an art, and it's not easy.  If you present to a crowd that is part Muslim, part Hindu, part Christian, part Buddist, part Chinese, part...

TechEd Malaysia...T minus 2 days.  Had a lovely day today.  Saw my buddy, the Aussie, Adam Cogan.  Chatted with Stephen Forte on MSN, but haven't seen him yet.  Can't get my IPsec VPN to work behind whatever firewall they are running here, but not to worry, I'll figure something out. ;)  Spent the day with a local friend...