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Dates are fun. See, by default most dates come out like 5/6/2008. But computers, and programs like them formatted as 05/06/2008. That way, all the dates, no matter what month or day, are all the same length, cool huh?
Well, in Reporting Services, if you have a date field coming back in a dataset, and you [...]

The other day, Microsoft came out with “Microsoft Pro Photo Tools” which allows you to geocode your photos. It is a pretty cool app, but there are some things that I wonder, like why didn’t they just build this functionality into Windows Live Photo Gallery?
Anyway’s, with any new thing I download and play around with, [...]

Not sure if this is the best way to do this, but this is what I do. Say you want to auto submit a form on an aspx page. You can call document.formname.submit(); from the body onLoad event and it will submit, but ASP.net will automatically post it back to itself.
I tried added buttons [...]

Gah. I have a love hate relationship with Linux. It is pretty cool, can do pretty much everything. But.. But.. wireless support is just a joke. Same issues with Yellow Dog Linux on the PS3.
Wireless should JUST WORK.
I downloaded the 8.04 iso, and burnt it to cd. Installed it in windows, which is [...]

So, this evening I got the urge to get Ruby on Rails working on Vista, with MySql. I haven’t done much with RoR, but figured I would give it a go. I have this test hosting account that has RoR hosting, so that is what got me somewhat motivated…anyway’s, on with the show.
 
Install Ruby
Installing [...]

I have been using Microsoft’s Windows Vista since it came out RTM, Oct 30 2006. I had it on a Dell desktop, which worked fine. Some driver issues before January 2007, but it still worked. I have had it on my main Dell laptop since May 2007. I use this laptop for work (read: Visual [...]

I have been playing around with Pownce and their API. They offer HTTP Basic Authentication and OAuth authentication. I decided to give a go with OAuth since BASIC auth just seems, dirty insecure to me. I started digging around, and http://oauth.net/ has some good info. Under code there is a C# (CSharp) version - http://oauth.googlecode.com/svn/code/csharp/  [...]

In the last couple of weeks, many cool new iPhone native apps have come out, so I have been tricking out my iPhone lately.
First, Aqwoah Battery is really cool. It changes the generic battery screen to what you see here. The percent that your battery is charged, a no brainer!

Next, my first screen, [...]

I was reading through some blogs this morning, and ran across this one, from my MSDN Feed.
Here is my answer (I wanted to leave a comment, but it wasn’t working, and I figured it would be a good blog post anyways)
Right now you can make an MFC app and it can run on win98,2k,xp,vista, [...]

Ok, maybe I am a real newb on Mac OSX, but I didn’t know this one. Took me some fooling around in the OS to get it working. A little background. I am getting into some iPhone development. I want to dig into the Native app dev, and using SDK.
Using the Native app stuff, [...]