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February 2004 - Posts

Testing BlogJet

posted Saturday, February 28, 2004 6:50 PM by rrinaldi
I have installed an interesting application - BlogJet. It's a cool Windows client for my blog tool (as well as for other tools). Get your copy here: http://blogjet.com"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." -- Pablo Picasso Read More
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FIX: Data Loss When You Switch View in WebForm Designer

posted Saturday, February 28, 2004 4:58 PM by rrinaldi
This bug hits me quite often, and first thing Monday I'm going to apply the patch.  This is pretty fresh off of kbAlertz, so I thought I would pass it on. FIX: Data Loss When You Switch View in WebForm Designer When you change the view of a WebForm Read More
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Venture into ViewState

posted Saturday, February 28, 2004 4:56 PM by rrinaldi
I was reading Scott's little rant about people that move ViewState to the Session object and I have to say that I agree with him completely.  The reason I bring it up at all is that he pointed out two really cool projects that I didn't know existed: Read More
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Yawn...

posted Saturday, February 28, 2004 4:43 PM by rrinaldi
Oh hey!  How you been?  Long time no see.  How's the kids?  Good, good. oh me?  I'm fine, just sitting here having a conversation with my blog.  No biggie. Really?  Psychiatric help? Why? "Cause I'm Read More
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Cubbies are gonna rock.

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2004 1:21 PM by rrinaldi
Hmm, can this rotation get ANY better? Wood, Prior, Clement, Zambrano, and Maddux. That is pure beauty I tell you.  Pure beauty. This is going to be one hell of a season. Read More
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Tablet with SXGA

posted Monday, February 16, 2004 10:14 PM by rrinaldi
Does anybody know of any Tablets that support SXGA (1280 x 1024)? .  So far all I can find is XGA (1024 x 768). I'm currently working on a Dell laptop that has UXGA (1600 x 1200) and I'm a little scared to give up that much screen real estate. Read More
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Shameless book plug

posted Monday, February 16, 2004 11:51 AM by rrinaldi
My brother (Robert Hendry) just had a new book published, and I figured I would use my space here to give him a little plug. Modeling Financial Markets: Using Visual Basic.NET and Databases to Create Pricing, Trading, and Risk Management Models. Read More
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How much COM InterOp is in the Framework?

posted Friday, February 13, 2004 5:34 PM by rrinaldi
Scoble always says that if you have a question, you should post it on your blog.  So I'm here with a question and I happen to be posting it on my blog.  I expect Scoble to go out and find someone to answer it now.  Read More
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WS-Eventing Part II

posted Friday, February 13, 2004 1:03 PM by rrinaldi
Bruce posts a follow-up to his post on WS-Eventing yesterday. This one covers the subscription response. Go read. Now. :) Read More
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Bad Bug Began Blackout

posted Thursday, February 12, 2004 5:36 PM by rrinaldi
According to this SercurityFocus article a wee-tiny little flaw in the energy management system (created my non-other than General Electric) caused the great catastrophe that was the August 14th blackout. I apologize.  It was me.  I got a little Read More
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WS-Eventing made easy

posted Thursday, February 12, 2004 5:25 PM by rrinaldi
Great little write-up! Read More
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Moving to .Text?

posted Thursday, February 12, 2004 5:15 PM by rrinaldi
If you are moving from some other blog engine to .Text, you might be interested in a utility Scott Willeke wrote.  His utility reads an RSS 2.0 feed and uses .Text's web services to enter each post in the feed to .Text. Very, Very cool. Read More
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A new Scoble?

posted Tuesday, February 10, 2004 7:57 PM by rrinaldi
Could it be? Could one man finally overtake the king of blogging? Read More
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SOA and Exceptions

posted Tuesday, February 10, 2004 5:40 PM by rrinaldi
So Ray and I were discussing SOA at the office today and trying to figure out how to handle exceptions gracefully.  When you get an exception from a webservice all you get is a SoapException.  That doesn't tell you much.  Take this example: Read More
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Name the flags in Outlook 2003

posted Friday, February 06, 2004 2:33 PM by rrinaldi
Via Jim Blizzard, via Marc's office zealot blog, via KC Lemson over at weblogs.asp.net a great way to make the flags in Outlook 2003 actually meaningful.     Read More
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Interactive ZipCode Locator

posted Thursday, February 05, 2004 6:21 PM by rrinaldi
From the "fun ways to amuse yourself dept." Via Pick A Bar: Zipdecode interactively zeroes in on the physical location of a given US zipcode. Say goodbye to a few minutes of productivity... Read More
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MSDN's new look

posted Thursday, February 05, 2004 6:16 PM by rrinaldi
Chris Kunicki pointed out that MSDN got a new look.  In his post he mentions that the new version of the MSDN Library online is faster than it used to be.  Also, amazingly, it seems to be faster than his local version of the library.  My Read More
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A knocking we will go...

posted Thursday, February 05, 2004 6:07 PM by rrinaldi
Port knocking that is. I'm not a network admin, but I found this quite interesting.  A network security system designed around a "secret handshake" of sorts. An example: I want to SSH into a server. Port 22 is closed. BUT, if I attempt connections Read More
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Microsoft Knowledge Base RSS Feeds

posted Monday, February 02, 2004 8:58 AM by rrinaldi
kbAlertz.com has created RSS feeds of Microsoft's Knowledge Base on a per category basis. If your not familiar with kbAlertz, they scan the MS KB and create a listing of all new knowledge base entries.  You can sign up to be emailed all the updates Read More
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