Random Technology Ramblings

MSDN has created a wiki site that will allow anyone to post along side of the normal MSDN content. Way cool I hope this takes off, I know I will start submitting code there. I know wikis can be a bit of a challenge to edit but I think they have done a good job […]

I found this picture on flickr… [Edit: this image was on Filckr but disappeared so I uploaded my copy] tags: OCCON06, OCCON2006, Portland

Here at OSCON they have opened OSCAMP a open space that people can post a topic for a time and anyone who is interested can show up. They have even let people who are not attending the conference to come in and participate. Me and some other people from Microsoft thought we should contribute to […]

There is going to be a online guided hands-on webcast titled “Creating Managed Applications for Windows Mobile 5.0 Powered Devices” For more information see the MSDN event site for the event MSDN Webcast: Guided Hands-On: Creating Managed Applications for Windows Mobile 5.0 Powered Devices (Level 200). This is the first time I have seen this […]

Yesterday Tim, Jason did a killer road trip from Portland to Seattle so we could attend a meeting of Developer Evangelists from around the world. I always enjoy these types of meetings, there is very few opportunities for me to interact with others that do this job and to say the least it tends to […]

OK I am going to be a bit inappropriate here… Jason Mauer took this picture of me pointing to a massive pile of beans as I was saying what to I care I am in Portland and my wife is back home so… beans beans 🙂

Yesterday I attended the Portland Code Camp all I can say is wow! It was great. I got to do a presentation on the Compact Framework. There were a whopping 5 people in the room but we had a good walk through my pubsDemo project and we looked at the OrientationAwareControl from the p&p Mobile Client Software […]

If you are not familiar with the “Live from Redmond” webcasts I would check them out. They are a series of webcasts by the product team members so the information is coming from the best source it can be had from. Check out Simon Muzio’s blog entry with the full schedule Upcoming team webcasts – […]

I have gotten a few questions about how I did the panoramic image from the Stand Down post. I found a great little utility called Autostitch it is “first fully automatic 2D image stitcher” you point it at a number of images and it dose the rest. You don’t need to do anything with aligning the […]

I get asked a lot by my family and friends about how they should secure their computers so this is another entry on this topic with some updates from the last time I covered this. First get router! I don’t care if you only have one computer in the house you still need this! I […]