Category Archives: Programming

Shutting down WIFI on my laptop

Programming
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I am about a billion times more productive on the road, despite being less organized and less resourceful. The other day I was in a hotel room with no wifi, no ability to lookup some javascript function and yet I … Continue reading

MSN/Live Messenger Protocol Gotchas

Programming, Shockey Monkey
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It’s almost 4 AM and I’m sitting around coding in MSN/Live/com IM integration for Shockey Monkey. The basic premise is that the system will IM me when there is a new ticket waiting or when a user had updated/escalated their request. I … Continue reading

Deported to India

Programming
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We have a little saying around the office, “If that patch isn’t committed to the cvs by noon we’re deporting you to India.” Tonight I decided to get cute and implement some visual effects. I’m ashamed that the stuff below … Continue reading

Live from Las Colinas!

Programming
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Several thousand Microsoft.com visitors come to Vladville every day. Perhaps one of you is doing Internet Explorer development and have to suffer through the debugging, I don’t know, but if any of you work in PSS and are… let’s say … Continue reading

Underestimating Human Complexity

Programming, Shockey Monkey
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Untitled document For the past month I have been embarking on a task of replacing myself with a shell script. This isn't as complicated as it seems, turns out I'm very predictable in terms of how I manage the business. … Continue reading

In the mood for free toys?

Programming
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Microsoft.com again offers two e-books on Visual Basic as free downloads. The two titles are Introducing Visual Basic 2005 for Developers and Upgrading Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 to Microsoft Visual Basic .NET. I know, I know, this seems irrelevant but … Continue reading

Downloads to check out this Weekend

Programming, System Admin
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Here are few downloads that caught my eye and are sure to fill up a boring weekend assuming I get more than an hour off to play around. Enjoy. Windows RSS Screen Saver Sample in C# Creating Windows Mobile 5 … Continue reading

Developer worlds collide: Atlas & CentOS

Microsoft, Programming, System Admin
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While the two are not similar in any perceptive way I feel these announcements mark a day on which two closet technologies really matured. First Microsoft releases Atlas, an IDE for AJAX web based applications and CentOS releases a stable … Continue reading