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April 2009 - Posts

• Today's Summary: Thursday, April 30, 2009

  Trebuchets are harsh mistresses http://tinyurl.com/cy44sa via @ codinghorror Constructing NetworkCredential from WindowsIdentity so I can interact with web service that requests ICredentials http://is.gd/vrrR ToRead: An Unschooling Manifesto http://bit.ly/18eWNI Read More... Posted Thursday, April 30, 2009 10:27 PM by Tod Birdsall | 22 Comments Filed under: Tweets

• Today's Summary: Tuesday, April 28, 2009

  I need to try the boardgame Power Grid , but may wait until my 9yr old son is a bit older. Innovation is the New Black The Freedom of Fast Iterations: How Netflix Designs a Winning Web Site I stumbled upon User Interface Engineering website . Liking it Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 28, 2009 10:46 PM by Tod Birdsall | 23 Comments Filed under: Tweets

• Today's Summary: Monday, April 27, 2009

  BrandonTurner Suggested that I allow the users of my Windows Live Writer plug-in to specify fewer than 20 tweets and that I should add a border. Follow the Swine Flu in Real Time With Google Maps http://rly.cc/Va0Nr Speaking of Swine Flu, if you have Read More... Posted Monday, April 27, 2009 11:22 PM by Tod Birdsall | 22 Comments Filed under: Tweets

• Today's Summary: Sunday, April 26, 2009

  Reading through notes from Stack Overflow Podcast 50 with special guest Steve Yegge http://is.gd/u8vI While I have never listened to a Stack Overflow podcast , all the way through. But I enjoy Jeff Attwood's bullet point breakout. What do I need to do Read More... Posted Sunday, April 26, 2009 10:41 PM by Tod Birdsall | 34 Comments Filed under: Tweets

• BNUG Leadership Position Open

  If you are interested in leading the Bloomington .NET Users Group , please contact Jesse Baird. He is stepping down as president and is looking for a replacement: Hey BNUG, I have officially decided that I am going to be looking for someone else to run Read More... Posted Sunday, April 26, 2009 4:47 PM by Tod Birdsall | 25 Comments Filed under: BDNUG

• Today's Summary: Thursday, April 23, 2009

  " Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware " looks very promising. http://is.gd/u5eN Checking out DimDim as a WebEx alternative for web conferencing. There is a free version: http://www.dimdim.com Read More... Posted Thursday, April 23, 2009 10:45 PM by Tod Birdsall | 25 Comments Filed under: Tweets

• Today's Summary: Wednesday, April 22, 2009

  Finding references on how to format strings in SQL Server Reporting Services 2005 using Textbox Format proprety http://is.gd/tFNp LEGO Rock Band is official http://tinyurl.com/cgtxzz Doing research on Smallestdotnet http://www.hanselman.com/smallestdotnet/ Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 22, 2009 11:50 PM by Tod Birdsall | 11 Comments Filed under: Tweets

• Today's Summary: Monday, April 20, 2009

  Are regular expressions supported in SQL Server 2005 . It looks like it is possible due to CLR support http://is.gd/txka Figured out that I didn't want to mess with the steps needed to use regular expressions in SQL Server 2005 and was able to solve my Read More... Posted Monday, April 20, 2009 10:08 PM by Tod Birdsall | 10 Comments Filed under: Tweets

• Today's Summary: Sunday, April 19, 2009

  Checking out Query Express . Free Query Analyzer look-alike that is only 100KB. http://is.gd/l4WW (via shanselman ) Exception-Driven Development: It's not a question of if you will ship with bugs, but how quickly can you fix them. http://is.gd/sVzM Why Read More... Posted Sunday, April 19, 2009 9:45 PM by Tod Birdsall | 8 Comments Filed under: Tweets

• Today's Summary: Thursday, April 16, 2009

  Via @ DanielSchaffer : open source .NET Facebook API Client: http://bit.ly/swM71 This video appears to be timeless. Tyrannosaurus Debt http://is.gd/sPEE Sharing my favorite YouTube video with @ shanselman . David Hasselhoff's "Hooked on a Feeling" http://is.gd/1U8H Read More... Posted Thursday, April 16, 2009 11:56 PM by Tod Birdsall | 10 Comments Filed under: Tweets

• Today's Summary: Wednesday, April 15, 2009

  I want a simple 2 dimensional key/value container. Brushing up on the C# HashTable http://is.gd/sztE @ davidmmorton Thanks for suggesting the Dictionary<TKey, TValue> as alternative to HashTable . WIll try and keep in mind. @ balexandre Thanks for Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 15, 2009 11:58 PM by Tod Birdsall | 8 Comments Filed under: Tweets

• Today's Summary: Tuesday, April 14, 2009

  Introducing Google Big Brother - We know where your friends are http://is.gd/ijx0 Checking out @ paulirwin software development tools list http://is.gd/snc6 RT @ RussAdams : Odd and Unusual Twitter Icons - The Social Bird icon set http://ping.fm/Aw64x Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 14, 2009 11:31 PM by Tod Birdsall | 8 Comments Filed under: Tweets

• Today's Summary: Monday, April 13, 2009

  @ BrandonTurner Pointed me to the Twitter plugin included with the Windows Live Writer SDK for an example of how to store user credentials securely when creating a WLW plugin. Learning about Adobe AIR runtime. Sounds a bit like the .NET framework. http://is.gd/1qK Read More... Posted Monday, April 13, 2009 11:59 PM by Tod Birdsall | 9 Comments Filed under: Tweets

• Today's Summary: Sunday, April 12, 2009

  It would be nice if Twhirl would alert you when you have replies. Blu and TwitterFon handles that nicely. Blu is pretty, but can't resize. Still unable to determine how to edit the blog post's title in Windows Live Writer . Posting to WLW dev forum for Read More... Posted Sunday, April 12, 2009 10:24 PM by Tod Birdsall | 6 Comments Filed under: Tweets

• Today's Tweets: Friday, April 10, 2009

  Setting up http://tod1d.net with Google Analytics . This is my first experience with GA. Anything I should be aware of? http://is.gd/6HtR An oldie, but a goody... Nihilist Job Resume http://is.gd/rPPH Sweet! There is finally a PC demo for the game Braid Read More... Posted Friday, April 10, 2009 11:54 PM by Tod Birdsall | 5 Comments Filed under: Tweets

• Today's Tweets: Thursday, April 9, 2009

  @ HumanCompiler I like to think of turning 30yrs old as having 1 foot in the grave. RT @ SpeedReadingNow Why we are slow readers and what we can do about it? http://tinyurl.com/c4xpxx TweetSharp and Introducing Tweet Sandwich http://tinyurl.com/df937z Read More... Posted Thursday, April 09, 2009 11:00 PM by Tod Birdsall | 6 Comments Filed under: Tweets

• Today's Tweets: Wednesday, April 08, 2009

  "If all else fails... your coworkers are edible ." http://tinyurl.com/ddj73z @ balexandre Magento looks slick for E-commerce . It's free. Is it easy to customize so not being .NET doesn't matter? http://is.gd/kDE Downloaded and installed TweetDeck , for Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 08, 2009 12:00 PM by Tod Birdsall | 6 Comments Filed under: Tweets

• Today's Tweets: Tuesday, April 07, 2009

  RT @ procload : Stanford is offering up a free course through iTunes (videos and materials) for developing iPhone apps. http://is.gd/qkOR C# Generics and Predicates http://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/archive/2004/07/10/310.aspx Thank you K.Scott Allen! Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 07, 2009 12:00 AM by Tod Birdsall | 5 Comments Filed under: Tweets

• Today's Tweets: Monday, April 06, 2009

  Dilbert: "...get input from all executive stakeholders." "But that's impossible." http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-04-05/ #funny Doom History, 1994 http://rome.ro/2009/01/doom-history-1994.html Follow me on Twitter Read More... Posted Monday, April 06, 2009 12:00 AM by Tod Birdsall | 6 Comments Filed under: Tweets

• Today's Tweets: Saturday, April 05, 2005

  Where to start? Can you point me to resources for integrating an ASP.NET app with SharePoint for documentation management? Finished updating the web design style and some of the content of http://tod1d.net I wanted something brighter. Follow me on Twitte Read More... Posted Sunday, April 05, 2009 12:00 AM by Tod Birdsall | 11 Comments Filed under: Tweets

• Today's Tweets: Thursday, April 02, 2009

  @ dimebrain you RULE! Thanks for fixing TweetSharp, after the JSON responses for user objects changed. I will get latest. RT @ dimebrain #tweetsharp Very recent Twitter API change will require you to update to Preview 12 - details here - http://tr.im/i7TK Read More... Posted Thursday, April 02, 2009 12:00 AM by Tod Birdsall | 5 Comments Filed under: Tweets

• Today's Tweets: Wednesday, April 01, 2009

  Finally upgrading my home PC from Windows XP SP2 to SP3. http://tinyurl.com/6yqqcb Refreshing my memory on when database denormalization is appropriate: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001152.html RT @ MonkeyDeLaCode : Common Mistakes in Web Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 01, 2009 12:00 AM by Tod Birdsall | 6 Comments Filed under: Tweets