Category: Miscellaneous

My VMWare Setup Steps

I thought I'd written this down somewhere, but apparently not, so I figured I'd make a blog post out of it. Despite the fact that it's been a long time since I've blogged, I don't think it's a secret that

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The danger of being out of date…

Tonight I discovered that my site had been hacked... as it turns out I was running an old version of WordPress and there was some injection code fed into a security vulnerability. I've upgraded to the latest version, which has

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Flowchart Programming

This has to be one of the weirdest little programs I've ever worked with... Back in 2003 I built a database to track our liquor inventories at work. It's fairly simple in that it has a table of product details

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Renewed for another year

I was really happy to see an email from Microsoft this morning to let me know I've been awarded as an MVP for my 4th consecutive year. 🙂 I've been pretty quiet since a couple of days into my vacation…

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PED 2nd Edition – Hello World!

As I mentioned in this post, I started working my way through the .NET Hello World example in PED 2nd Edition. I ran into a funny issue though, where it kept opening up my application in Excel 2003 instead of

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My 2nd .NET App on Windows Mobile

After playing around in Visual Studio, and taking my first foray into the VB.NET world, I thought it might be kind of interesting to try and see just how portable .NET code really is. So I decided to port the

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My first VB.NET application

Okay, it's a simple application. Really simple. I wrote this as an easy project to break into VB.NET. I'm actually feeling pretty good about it though, as it took me a couple of hours to code a working game, never

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MVP Summit Wednesday

And so, sadly, Wednesday dawned as the last day of the 2009 summit. Breakfast was a huge buffet at the WTCC: This is where we found Richard again, looking a little worse for wear. Reminds me of the first morning

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MVP Summit Tuesday

Again, another early rise to breakfast, and off to the bus again. Fortunately the session started late due to technical difficulties as the bus got a bit snarled in traffic! That morning we actually saw something very, very cool which

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