Archive for June, 2005

iTunes 4.9 has podcast support

Posted: June 29, 2005 in IPTV, Podcasts

For about two months I have been really looking forward to the 4.9 version of iTunes – I expected seamless podcast support and most importantly auto conversion to bookmarkable aac files. When you listen to number of podcasts I do you want a good podcast receiver. So what did I find: Intergration with iTunes is [...]

My first day at Realtor School

Posted: June 27, 2005 in Other

Bet you did not expect that! Has Paul given up on technology and turned to the slippery side? Nah of course not; property is vague hobby of mine and the material is fascinating. Plus when flipping houses you save almost 3% on each transaction (less MLS + Broker fees). Recently I worked on Real Estate [...]

Moved to dasBlog

Posted: June 26, 2005 in Other

It took about five hours all-in to move from .Text to Das Blog. Thanks to Michael Earls for his part in dottext2dasblog. I had to make a change to their codebase so my comments would import (I simply made the tool drop bad comments rather than stop the entire import), but that was about the [...]

Where were I? (StackTrace Class)

Posted: June 26, 2005 in Other

On my current project we wished to impersonate a WebService for test purposes and decided to record live messages using XmlSerialization. For the first few messages I manually implemented code to serialize to a file. This cut-and-paste reuse obviously had to be refactored but I was unhappy manually passing in the filename to every call [...]

Just a heads-up. Love or hate certifications we will likely be hearing that next year for any senior .Net position. Even if you are already MC*.* you don’t have this one which is coming next year: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/architect/ I stumbled across this while researching MCDBA. Apparently if you are an already MCSD, only two more exams are needed [...]

Two important points here: Radio Me is a term coined by Peter Day of the BBC for what was formerly known as podcasting. English media appears to bending over backward to never say the word iPod or podcasting If you have a commute more than a few miles each day and are not listening to [...]