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  • Free Wi-Fi

    Friday, December 30, 2005
    I'm blogging from the Fort Wayne International Airport in Indiana.  I was very surprised to find that the wireless internet was free here.  I don't really fly that often, but all the airports I've been to halfway recently haven't had free internet.  It's usually pretty cheap, like 6 or 7 dollars, but still something.  I'm impressed with businesses that give out free internet access.  I'm not a coffee drinker, but if I was, I would rather hang out at a Panera Bread than Starbucks, because Starbucks charges for their internet (unless you're a T-Mobile customer) and Panera is free.  In
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  • The New MicrosoftGadgets.com

    Thursday, December 22, 2005
    As Scoble pointed out, our team has gotten the new and improved version of MicrosoftGadgets.com up and running.  Adam and I spent a few really long nights cramming as much cool stuff as we and our team could think of into this release.  If you're into developing gadgets for live.com, this is the place for you.  If you just want to see some cool gadgets that have been developed by the community, come check out our Gadget Gallery.  Here's a summary of the new features... Home Page Redesign Getting Started Random Featured Gadget Top 5 Downloads Last 5 Gadgets Gallery
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  • MIX.06

    Wednesday, December 14, 2005
    http://www.microsoft.com/events/mix I won't go into too much detail and let the official site explain, but basically, Microsoft is going to host a really cool conference in Vegas in March.  At its simplest this is going to be a great place for developers and designers to come together and learn and discuss how we can all develop super, cool, web experiences.  This is not your typical Microsoft conference, but it will be "typically" awesome!  I'll be there!  :) P.S.  I can officially say I've developed a page that's on Microsoft.com now.  How fun!?!?  ;)
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  • Channel 9: local.live.com

    Thursday, December 08, 2005
    I know I just posted about another video on Channel 9 and there are a ton of great videos on Channel 9, but I just have to post about this one.  Everyone should check it out.  It is totally awesome (like whoa) and you can even "hear" Scoble's jaw drop open.  ;)  The Virtual Earth team has taken maps to a whole new level! http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=143952 Oh and check it out...I work here.  Click on "bird's eye view" when it comes up.
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  • Channel 9: Concurrency and Coordination Runtime

    Wednesday, December 07, 2005
    If you're interested in what Microsoft is working on to help you better develop multi-threaded applications, you need to watch this phenominal video!  Extremely passionate and smart guys working on this.  Another great video for the Going Deep Show!
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  • Intellisense Not Working in Web.config w/ Visual Studio (Web Developer) 2005

    Friday, December 02, 2005
    Just had to post this one more time.  This is a hair saving post by Scott Guthrie on how to get intellisense to work again if it stops working in the web.config file and why it stops working, as well as just pointing out how cool the intellisense is in the first place!  Thanks, Scott!  :)
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  • Channel 9 Shows

    Friday, December 02, 2005
    http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/ There's a new concept of "shows" on Channel 9 today.  You can think of shows as a group of "things" like videos, podcasts, threads, etc as episodes.  At the time of this writing, there are 3 shows.  This is a really neat new idea for Channel 9 so check it out, subscribe to your favorites and keep coming back for more! Technically, this is also my first public code written at Microsoft.  It's not much though.  All I did was most of the underlying database work and setup the rss feeds.  Adam did a great job on the interface
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  • Upgrade Password Hashing From .NET 1.1 to .NET 2.0

    Tuesday, November 29, 2005
    If you're having troubles upgrading your ASP.NET 1.1 app to 2.0 because of hashing your passwords "not working", my long time friend, Joe, figured it out.
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  • Taking Advantage of Xml Data Type in Sql Server 2005

    Sunday, November 27, 2005
    There are a ton of interesting things you can do with the new Xml data type in Sql Server 2005.  The first quick thing that came to mind was to pass in an Xml document into a stored procedure to have many rows deleted at one time in a batch without having to use a loop with a transaction outside of Sql Server in .NET code.  This could be done before in Sql Server 2000 by passing in an Xml document as a nvarchar then using OPENXML to parse out the values you need.  I find the new way to
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  • ASP.NET MembershipUser ID Field

    Sunday, November 27, 2005
    I'm currently playing around with the new membership stuff in ASP.NET 2.0.  It is simply phenominal.  I love it.  It was a little hard to figure out at first, but once you get going it's really powerful and great.  I'll probably post some more "basics" on it down the road. When creating tables of your own to integrate with the aspnet_Users table like adding UserID to your own table that is an FK back to that table, you'll need the ID field (UserId in the aspnet_Users table) to pass into your Stored Procedures.  Unfortunately, it's not very obvious where it
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