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  • Code Project Blogs?!?!

    Friday, April 30, 2004
    So this is very interesting and very cool...I went to my profile (just clickin' around) on Code Project and I noticed that I have a blog!  :|  All members do!  How cool is that?  All those people that want a blog, but don't want to setup their own now have a blog if they've signed up on Code Project before.  Very cool.  Definitely like the format too.  It's just their thread engine, so comments can be threaded, etc, right?  Damn cool...way to go CP!  :)
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  • I will be at TechEd 2004

    Friday, April 30, 2004
    As you can see by the new image on the left-hand side of my blog (for those of you reading this from an aggregator, it's the “I'll be there.” TechEd image), I will be at TechEd.  I will be representing the MVP Program and hanging out in the lounge area quite a bit.  If you have any questions or just want to hang out and chat it should be a fun place to be when you don't feel like going to a session.  ;) I'll also be at sessions checking things out, etc.  Hope to meet some new people, learn
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  • Portable Media Centers

    Thursday, April 29, 2004
    Seeing these at the Summit this year was awesome!  Now I'm seeing more about them coming up here and there. This week I bought the Microsoft Blue Tooth Mouse.  Very cool and I'm looking forward to getting more devices that use Blue Tooth. So I'm reading about PMCs and come across this... <quote location=“Portable Media Centers: Frequently Asked Questions“>Q. How do I get my music, videos and pictures onto the device? A. Your entertainment will be easily and automatically transferred to your Portable Media Center using smart sync technology delivered in a future release of Windows Media Player. Smart sync
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  • Confessions of a Recovering Blog Addict and Rants About Categories

    Thursday, April 29, 2004
    Julie's talking about the problems with the main feed being just too much.  I see Marcie is too.  I'm in total agreement (not to mention the “huge“ size of the feed...around 200KB right now.  Do a little math and that's a lot of bandwidth).  In fact, even more it was as big as it is now, but was still big, I gave up on blogging temporarily!  :P  From sometime in November of last year until just a week or two ago I did not open up SharpReader once!  I'm a very slow reader, so when I'm looking at blogs, I
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  • Separating Date and Time in T-SQL

    Wednesday, April 28, 2004
    This usually isn't necessary, but I'm setting up some Views for a customer doing some reports in Access and the customer needed two fields, one with just the Date and another with just the Time.  At first search on Google, it came up with using the DATEPART Function to get each part of the date or time and concatinating those parts together to get what I wanted.  Not only was that pretty disgusting, it didn't pad the minutes or seconds (couldn't find an easy way to pad them myself either).  So, after doing some more searching, I found that CONVERT
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  • Microsoft Acquires ActiveViews’ Business Intelligence Functionality

    Monday, April 26, 2004
    Ad Hoc Reporting Tool to Elevate Future of Microsoft’s SQL Server Business Intelligence Offering http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2004/apr04/04-26ActiveViewsPR.asp This is great!
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  • Using Outlook to Stay Organized

    Tuesday, April 20, 2004
    If you're a developer like me, you probably sometimes think of cool ideas while you're at work that aren't really work related.  Maybe you might also think of something you need to do tonight once you get home or a grocery item you forgot to get and need to pick up.  How do you remind yourself at home to do whatever it is you need to get done?  For me, I just send myself an e-mail to my home address so I'll see it and remember what I need to do. To help try to make it a bit more
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  • Showing Separators in a Repeater in Intervals and VB.NET Mod

    Tuesday, April 13, 2004
    I'm building something for a client and they wanted to display Save and Cancel links every 12 rows in the output of a Repeater.  I remembered the SeparatorTemplate and went with that.  Setup an HtmlTableRow in it, then wrote the following code in the ItemDataBound Event to only display the Separator every 12 rows. If e.Item.ItemType = ListItemType.Separator Then     DirectCast(e.Item.FindControl("trSeparator"), HtmlControls.HtmlTableRow).Visible = e.Item.ItemIndex + 1 Mod 12 = 0End If Unfortunately this code doesn't work.  I REALLY should've known this already, but I did not.  The Mod operator happens before the + operator does, so you need to add parentheses to
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  • Rafael M. Munoz

    Tuesday, April 13, 2004
    There's really no point to this entry other than to say that Rafael (MVP Lead for the .NET MVPs [Academic, C#, VB, etc]) is a great guy.  I wish everyone could meet him.  He's a very cool guy that really cares about his MVPs and does a great job with us.  Not to mention he's just an all around cool guy in general!  For all of you who have met him, you know what's up...werd...  :P Now back to your regular blogging schedule...
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  • Dealing with Dates and Times in a Web Project

    Sunday, April 11, 2004
    This evening, I've been struggling with how to deal with storing times in the database and having them display correctly to users based off of their current time zone.  The System.TimeZone Class is unfortunately not enough and really only deals with the current machine, which would be handy in a WindowsForms app, but not in ASP.NET since the machine where the code runs is not the machine the user makes the requests from).  This Class will however make it so if the user is browsing anonymously we can display the correct time. First off, you'll want to always pass in
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