Ok, so it is a really bad pun.  It is tough writing blog post titles sometimes. :) Anyway, we finally got a beautiful metallic official sign for our office after inhabiting our office space for almost two years.  (Now if we could just do something about that door!).      In our first office suite in Vienna (VA) we ...

Thanks to everyone for contributing!  It was really neat to read everyone's ideas and see the discussion and review (talking about code is always fun!).  Here is a summary of responses and the "fixed" code.  If you are interested in the original problem, go here.   @drakiula: The idea with the Response.Redirect is ...

For the last couple of days, the weblogs.asp.net website has been unable to accept posts from Windows Live Writer.  For the first time in the history of this blog, I can blame someone else for not posting.  In fact, I even started queueing up draft blog posts! :) Kudos to the weblogs.asp.net team for fixing the issue ...

This is a real bug that I came across yesterday in some code I had written about a week before.  I was a little surprised at the mechanics but it makes sense once you understand what is happening ... 1: private void Foo() 2: { 3: try 4: { 5: AuthenticationInfo authenticationInfo = ...

You are probably getting ready to hear about some error dialog or weird setting in an application but not this time - it was a photocopier!  I was copying some printouts for a meeting and discovered midway through the job that the paper tray had fancy paper in it that I shouldn't be using.  Not a problem, right?  Just hit the ...

I love my 8820 ... I have had it for about a year and it replaced my 8700 which I also loved.  I was a little skeptical when I first got the 8820 because the beloved thumb wheel was gone and replaced by a track ball in the middle of the phone.  But it didn't take long before I was happily scrolling around the screen enjoyed the improved ...

Kevin has posted some of our photos from TechEd 2007.    My personal favorite was the Secret Server remote office at the Orlando airport bar - 4 geeks all with laptops! :) TechEd was very different for me this year since it was my first experience as an exhibitor and not an attendee (I didn't attend a single session!).  ...

This has been going around for a while and Andy finally got me. I was born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa (yes, that gives me a funny accent!). I worked for a few years in London (my folks are British). My first professional programming language was Perl (and I still dabble in it every now and then). I studied Microbiology and ...

My new laptop is a Toshiba M400 Tablet PC – it only came with 1GB RAM which I planned to upgrade.  I ordered two 1GB sticks of M400–compatible RAM from EZ-Computer (EDGE MEMORY - PERIPHERAL KTT667D2/1G-PE 1GB PC25300 NONECC UNBUFF 200PIN DDR2 SODIMM).  When the sticks arrived, I started poking around the back of the tablet ...

My new laptop is a Toshiba M400 Tablet PC – it only came with 1GB RAM which I planned to upgrade.  I ordered two 1GB sticks of M400–compatible RAM from EZ-Computer (EDGE MEMORY - PERIPHERAL KTT667D2/1G-PE 1GB PC25300 NONECC UNBUFF 200PIN DDR2 SODIMM).  When the sticks arrived, I started poking around the back of the tablet ...