I have to blog more often. Richmond Code Camp 3 When: Saturday, April 28 8:30 AM to 6:00 PM Where: ECPI Innsbrook Campus ( map ) Cost: FREE! Lunch provided! What: Code Camp is by developers, and for developers...it's an idea that started in the Eastern U.S. and has taken hold throughout various development...

Chris Sanders is working on a series of blog posts called Packet School 101 on network traffic analysis. It is using Ethereal , which anyone who has to debug network issues should definitely have.

A cool little utility: FolderSize

Fantastic! From TomArcher : From the standpoint of someone working at Microsoft and responsible for the Windows SDK, this is incredible news. We are basically acquiring some of the best tools for that space (low-level, hard-core devs) as well as the services of two very talented people in Mark Russinovich...

Want to make MSDN2 look better in Firefox? Me too. The worst part about the documentation on, say, this page , is the fact that the names and descriptions of classes, interfaces, delegates, and enumerations are way too tiny to read. Here's the hack. Add the following code to your userContent.css file...

Jon Galloway has an excellent tip on running IE 7 Beta 1 side-by-side with IE6 . IE has always been terrible about overwriting, which makes testing web sites with different versions of IE... difficult. Here are the steps: Download the IE7 Beta 1 Install from MSDN Open the install file with WinRAR (yep...

I just noticed Microsoft posted the MSN Weather Add-in for MSN Search Toolbar . Seems eerily similar to Forecastfox . That's after IE 7 Beta 1 copied all of Firefox, down to the little RSS feed icon (which they did turn 45 degrees counterclockwise). The only slick feature I noticed in IE 7 Beta 1 is...

And what days are you going to be there? Let me know, I'd like to catch up with everyone. Thanks!

Chris Millard has an excellent utility for getting past that annoying 1704 error message : Sometimes, Microsoft's Windows Installer package does not always uninstall a program properly, and even if you try and reboot your PC, you'll get the following error:- "Error 1704. An installation of My Program...

Microsoft Update v6 is now available. It combines the old Windows Update and Office Update, so no more updating in two different places! Plus it has a cleaner, more polished look. It doesn't run on Firefox though.