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Participating in a Fox Sports World Soccer Focus Group
Fox Sports World is undertaking strategic initiatives regarding the branding, on-air look, and marketing of the channels. As a soccer fan (and a friend of an FSW exec) I’ve been invited to participate in a focus group to evaluate their projects tonight. My main suggestion will be start a new channel devoted to soccer. FSS (Fox Sports Soccer).
Read MoreCraig Says Tabs Are Evil, But I Like Them
I chuckled to myself when I read this “public service message brought to you by the Terminally Picky Developers Association for Readable Code” on Craig Andera’s blog.
Read MoreBandwidth-gobbling RSS aggregators: foiled!
This is great! Rather than wait for all the RSS Aggregators to properly use the If-Modified-Since header, implement it on the server instead via an IP address and User Agent combination. Now your first thought is probably “Wait, that’s not perfect. What about users of internet providers such as AOL which uses a shared pool of IP Addresses?”
Read MoreWhy You Shouldn't Be Using a Password Of Any Kind
Robert Hensing, a senior member of Microsoft’s PSS Security Response Team, writes this enlightening post why passwords are so 5 minutes ago.
Read MoreUnit Testing is a Poor Example to Demonstrate a Complaint About Methodologies
Although I agree in spirit with most of Joel’s discussion of methodologies and rock star programmers, I’m in a bit of disagreement over the quote from Tamir he posts.
Read MoreSoccer And Rain
Americans often have a low view of soccer players (though that is changing in recent years). They don’t think of the sport as physical as football or even basketball. However from my experience, soccer players are every bit as tough as their counterparts in other sports.
Read MoreAn Improved Plugin for Using w.bloggar with RSS Bandit
Recently I received some kind words from Scott Reynolds regarding my “excellent tutorial” on writing IBlogExtensions for RSS Bandit. Using my tutorial, he wrote a plug-in to send items in RSS Bandit to One Note. (There’s another plug-in that does the same thing here).
Read MoreTouched Some Dry Ice Today
Ouch that smarts!
Read MoreIn Toronto Today, Off to New York Tomorrow
I arrived in Toronto today and am staying at a very nice hotel. It’s called the SoHo Metropolitan and it sure beats the Super 8 I stayed in at Tech Ed 2004 (next door to Adam Kinney and Eric Porter). It’s too bad I’m only here one night as I was hoping to have time to check out the well equipped gym.
Read MoreCreating Self Contained NUnit Tests Requiring A Web Server
This is a fabulous post (did I just say “fabulous”?) on how to create self contained NUnit tests when you need a web server.
Read MoreBlogging and Rebuilding Baghdad
My neighbor Chris is in Iraq as the #2 guy overseeing rebuilding projects as part of the Army Corp of Engineer. He’ll be over there for several months helping to rebuild the facilities necessary for providing clean drinking water and electricity.
Read MoreSQL TIP: Connection To SQL via Windows Authentication over VPN
Rating Plug-In for RSS Bandit
NOTE: This plug-in is no longer available or supported
Read MoreHi My Name Is Phil And I'm A Blogaholic
The One Note Metaphor for the Tablet PC May Be Too Good
Today was my first day bringing the Tablet PC to work and I immediately put it to good use. I think that the paper pad metaphor that One Note uses may be implemented too well.
Read MoreDave Winer for President?
Dave claims that inhaling puts him out of the running for President.
Read MoreThis Is Patently Out Of Control!
From the Wintellect blog.
Read MoreOrganizing VS.NET projects and Solutions
Colin asks the question “How do you organize your code?” and then goes on to describe the system in use at his shop.
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