Like Roy, we’ve decided to experiment with Google Adsense ads on our homepage.  There are a lot of things we could do around here with a little cash, such as upgrade our hosting account, so we thought, why not? Actually, we do everything around here by a voting process on our member forums.  It’s pretty cool - if we have...

I just had to post about this… It’s vacation time, and if you’re like me, every year you have the problem of how to connect from the beach, in the woods, on your road trip, or wherever your travel plans may take you.  Last year, I had to drive 50 miles to a library to do some emergency server work. This...

I just had to post about this… It’s vacation time, and if you’re like me, every year you have the problem of how to connect from the beach, in the woods, on your road trip, or wherever your travel plans may take you.  Last year, I had to drive 50 miles to a library to do some emergency server work. This...

I ran into a head-scratcher of a problem recently with WSMQ's new DbProvider, using the June Enterprise Library Data Access Application Block. I noticed that when running WSMQ under a low trust account, the application is initially very slow to respond.  Eventually, things seem to return to normal, but whenever...

I ran into a head-scratcher of a problem recently with WSMQ's new DbProvider, using the June Enterprise Library Data Access Application Block. I noticed that when running WSMQ under a low trust account, the application is initially very slow to respond.  Eventually, things seem to return to normal, but whenever...

Jeff’s having a good discussion over at A BizTalk Enthusiast : Transition from MSDN Universal to Visual Studio Team Edition about the new Team System Pricing. I know, it’s a dead horse, along with DataSets versus BEs, VB.NET vs C#, and all the other *blog post topics that tend to crop up every month or two .  Remember,...

Now that CodeBetter.Com is humming along fairly nicely, I’ve been turning my extra time (much to my wife’s chagrin) to my pet project, WSMQ. If you’re not familiar with WSMQ, it’s a simple queueing application that supports multiple backend data storage mechanisms  (currently SQL Server, and file-based XML) that can be accessed...

Now that CodeBetter.Com is humming along fairly nicely, I’ve been turning my extra time (much to my wife’s chagrin) to my pet project, WSMQ. If you’re not familiar with WSMQ, it’s a simple queueing application that supports multiple backend data storage mechanisms  (currently SQL Server, and file-based XML) that can be accessed...

The other day, I created a PDC Countdown Image that you can add to your blog. It grabs the PDC logo from Microsoft, calculates the days until PDC, and renders a new image to the outgoing Response stream, as a JPEG image. I’ve put up another version, that looks a little nicer.  In fact it looks like this:   To add this one,...

The other day, I created a PDC Countdown Image that you can add to your blog. It grabs the PDC logo from Microsoft, calculates the days until PDC, and renders a new image to the outgoing Response stream, as a JPEG image. I’ve put up another version, that looks a little nicer.  In fact it looks like this:   To add this one,...

Earlier today I was inspired by Jeff Atwood’s blog post on Software Rot: Coding Horror: The Broken Window Theory Don't leave "broken windows" (bad designs, wrong decisions, or poor code) unrepaired. Fix each one as soon as it is discovered. If there is insufficient time to fix it properly, then board it up. Perhaps you can comment out the...

Earlier today I was inspired by Jeff Atwood’s blog post on Software Rot: Coding Horror: The Broken Window Theory Don't leave "broken windows" (bad designs, wrong decisions, or poor code) unrepaired. Fix each one as soon as it is discovered. If there is insufficient time to fix it properly, then board it up. Perhaps you can comment out the...

Thinking more about this PDC contest thing, I realized that it be cool to have an image on my blog that would countdown the days till the PDC.  This way, if I win, I’ll know when to start really getting juiced!  And, I’ve got some extra time lately, since the CS 1.1 roll out here at CodeBetter is pretty much done. So, I threw...

Thinking more about this PDC contest thing, I realized that it be cool to have an image on my blog that would countdown the days till the PDC.  This way, if I win, I’ll know when to start really getting juiced!  And, I’ve got some extra time lately, since the CS 1.1 roll out here at CodeBetter is pretty much done. So, I threw...

This post is a bunch of things, wrapped up in one.  First and foremost, it’s my Official entry into the “Blog’n to PDC” contest.  Secondly, it’s way for you to create your own entry into this contest, with very little effort and HTML-Smithing. Third, it’s a shameless plug for WSMQ, my pet project.  Forth, it’s a...