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How to delay all outgoing email in Outlook
I've been burnt many times on sending out an email that wasn't quite ready to go out. This could happen for a couple different reasons. I was really pissed off when I composed the email and wasn't thinking properly about it. I copied and pasted something...
Community Server and its "Poison" to McAfee
I came home tonight to another automatic virus scan of my machine. Yes, it's McAfee, so there is problem one. Problem two is an issue that's being going on with me between Community Server and McAfee anti-virus software in general for nearly a...
March North Dallas User Group
I've had it as a goal of mine for nearly two years and I finally was able to pull it off. It was a long arduous journey to get there, mostly out of confidence reasons, but I finally found a topic I was knowledgeable about and not everyone does. I've...
I never imagined the day
Tivo always suggests some music shows from my girlfriend's viewing habits. I've normally just let them fall off, but recently I've been watching more and more MTV. I'm doing research for an application that targets the MTV market using new mobile phone...
Please fix Visual Studio F1 key press
I just spent 2 minutes of my life waiting for my computer to respond and started this blog post before I could go back to work. I hit F2 trying to rename a file in my solution, but studio quit responding. I started getting more and more frustrated that...
Searching Outlook Emails
Outlook has always crawled when searching for emails. It probably would be faster to export mail to a .csv file, open it in notepad, and find what you are looking for then using the built in Search mistake feature. I came across Lookout. It was an outlook...
Visual Studio 2005 Power Toys
Download from Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=cd7c6e48-e41b-48e3-881e-a0e6e97f9534&DisplayLang=en Microsoft has just dropped a set of Visual Studio 2005 PowerToys. Here's what you get: Source Code Outliner ...
IDisposable on a Struct
The ReaderWriterLock is an excellent thread syncing object. Instead of having a single lock() statement that control access, it will allow simultaneous reads, but retain blocking writes. It becomes very useful through a singleton object where you have...
Telligent Koolaid
"Drank the Telligent Koolaid" I heard this joke in passing my first week at Telligent, or at least I thought it was a joke. We have hired an Evangelist . Read into it what you want, but the Koolaid tastes fine...
Default case "default" on switch block
Several days ago I spent about an hour and a half tracking down some problem I had with a new codebase. I added a new sort field to the Header of a table and couldn't figure out why the sort wasn't working. After stepping through the UI code, then the...
400+ Differences
Microsoft put together a site with the 400 plus differences between Studio 2005 and 2003. The marketing geniuses came up with a great self describing website. http://www.400plusdifferences.com .
IE Developer Toolbar
I know this tool has been out there for a while, but it is highly recommended. It seems every time I refresh my ie7 beta I need to reinstall this plug in, get a new machine, or new job ; I never can remember exactly what it is called and it takes me too...
Government IP Addresses
No, this isn't some secret list I have hacked out of the NSA, a black market purchase, or this is not intel that the terrorist could use. This is the list of IP addresses that the government uses. So as a responsible technologist (sounds more like a doctor...
Microsoft Open Source Release
Microsoft has release the source code for the built in ASP.NET providers. This includes all the Navigation, Menu, Security, SessionState, etc. Good stuff! http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/04/13/442772.aspx
What?! Oracle's Not Perfect?
I thought every piece of software except for Microsoft's was perfect and had no security flaws? Well apparently the "evil, non-caring" corporation of Oracle has its own problems . The flaw in question affects versions 9.1.0.0 through 10.2.0.3 of Oracle...
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