I write this post with a mix of excitement and sadness. The exciting part is that I am helping form a new developer community site at http://www.TheRuntime.com . The sad part is that I will no longer be blogging at Codebetter. When Codebetter was first formed, myself and several other bloggers from DotNetJunkies...

All in all, it's been a pretty fun week so far. My favorite sessions by far were Rocky's architecture session and David Platt's jam packed session on Why Software Sucks . Rocky and David are both very engaging speakers who use humor and make the audience feel comfortable in interacting with...

Nuff Said.

Now if that title isn't a mouthful, I don't know what is. Anyways, this is something mostly for my benefit because I conveniently forget about this little trick and then have to go rooting through my code to remember and I'd rather have Google index it for me. =) So I have this nifty little...

One of the things I love about my job is that the IT department gets the new toys and our old toys are filtered to the rest of the company. This puts the latest and greatest power machines in the hands of the power users which is the way things should be! I used to get quite offended when the management...

Ready to pull my hair out over this one. Decided to use System.Transactions in my latest project, so being I'm doing my development on my local machine with a dev SQL Server 2005 install on a 2k3 machine I need to turn on MSDTC stuff... So running the code that uses system.transactions on the server...

To enable windows authentication on your domain. 1. Open Firefox 2. Navigate to the url about:config 3. Locate the following preference names and put as the value the comma separated values of the address roots. network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris network.negotiate-auth.delegation-uris network.negotiate...

It is undeniable that the blogosphere is becoming a prime time source of networking, information, and advertising. With this in mind, we've been watching the evolution of blogging. Authors like Scott Hanselman and Sahil Malik, business owners like Joel Spolsky and Eric Sink all are using the blogosphere...

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Here's a fun one I did for the IAmBrilliant project. There are several places in the system where there is entering and editing of address information. So we wanted to come up with a nice little user control that could be shared across pages. (You can download the source page here since community server...