Noah Coad
A Microsoft Program Manager on Visual Studio Platform (and an underground coder, lifehacker, hockey player)
Funny! White and Nerdy
Weird Al does it again with a new geeky music video... White & Nerdy is just hilarious! Warning,...
Author: noahc Date: 11/03/2006
Chris and Sharon Wed at Ren Faire
Dawn and I just visited the Texas Renaissance Festival where friends of ours, Chris Aquino &...
Author: noahc Date: 11/01/2006
Texas Renaissance Festival
This past weekend my wife and I flew down to Houston Texas for the largest renaissance festival in...
Author: noahc Date: 10/31/2006
Andre Rieu Concert
Last week Dawn, my sister Sarah, and I attended an Andre Rieu concert in Seattle, it was a blast!...
Author: noahc Date: 10/31/2006
VSTS Love w/ Korean Rap Music Video
Check this out! The Koreans really love VSTS, they even have a song about it! <lol> This was...
Author: noahc Date: 10/26/2006
VSTS Desktop Wallpaper
It's desktop background image w/ my product on it! I typically have wallpaper turned off with a...
Author: noahc Date: 10/26/2006
Gang Green Team Photo
My hockey team, Gang Green, just entered the Winter 2006 season of the Greater Seattle Hockey League...
Author: noahc Date: 10/24/2006
SlickRun: Command Your PC
Get SlickRun (download now) I'm a keyboard guy. Give me shortcuts. Let's see how long I can go w/out...
Author: noahc Date: 10/23/2006
400GB HDD for $90
Fry's Outpost is has a great deal on a 400GB HDD for only $90. It is the slightly older EIDE ATA 100...
Author: noahc Date: 10/17/2006
ChoiceMail - 100% of Junk Email Gone
Get a lot of spam? My personal address, noah@coad.net, gets about a 1,000 a week, but I don't see a...
Author: noahc Date: 10/17/2006
Copy Paste HTML From MS Word: IE's DHTML Editing Control (in a .NET WinApp)
When copy/pasting from MS Word, the HTML it generates is really messy and can't be used verbatim....
Author: noahc Date: 10/16/2006
Profiling a Unit Test
A little known feature of VSTS Team Developer is the ability to use the run-time analysis of the...
Author: noahc Date: 10/13/2006
Change Screen Resolution with One Keyboard Shortcut
Do you find that you need to frequently change your screen resoltion? I do several times a day and...
Author: noahc Date: 10/11/2006
Bill Gates Answers the Phone
<LOL> I picked up my phone, hit a number, and got BillG (well, his voice)! When you dial the...
Author: noahc Date: 10/06/2006
FeedBurner + FeedBlitz = New RSS Feed + Subscribe via Email
I just set up my blog with a new RSS feed provided by FeedBurner. Please subscribe to the new RSS...
Author: noahc Date: 10/06/2006
New VSTS Book: Global Outsourcing with MS VSTS
A surprise packaged just arrived on my desk and upon opening it, walla! A new book on Team System!...
Author: noahc Date: 10/04/2006
Calculating Stats on Sent Mail - Do you do a lot of e-mail?
It's common in today's high-tech jobs to spend a lot of time on e-mail, but just how much e-mail are...
Author: noahc Date: 10/03/2006
Life Hacks - Improve Your Life
Life Hacking, which is defined as "anything that solves a problem in an clever or non-obvious way"...
Author: noahc Date: 10/03/2006
4GB SD Card for $59
From NewEgg.com, Sale ends Tuesday...
Author: noahc Date: 09/11/2006
MS Conference Presentations for Watch Online
Microsoft EMEA (Europe)'s TechNet website has a site called "IT's ShOwtime!" where you can all the...
Author: noahc Date: 09/07/2006
Team System Online Chat - Wed, Aug 6th, 10am PST
Engineers from all five of the Team System product units (TFS, Team Dev, Team Test, Team Architect,...
Author: noahc Date: 09/01/2006
Dawn Does 1st Triathlon, The Danskin
My wife has been training and preparing for months to do the Danskin Sprint Triathlon, which is a...
Author: noahc Date: 09/01/2006
Classic Arcade Games @ MS
You may have heard that there are video arcade games scattered around MS, that "all set to run for...
Author: noahc Date: 08/18/2006
I'm Using Windows Live Writer Too
Yup, I was a big BlogJet fan, until I started using Windows Live Writer a few weeks ago. Honestly, I...
Author: noahc Date: 08/15/2006
WinKey - Windows Key Assignment Freeware
One of my favorite apps, that was worth the time to share with the blogsphere, is WinKey. It is a...
Author: noahc Date: 08/11/2006
Jean-Luc David Joins Microsoft
Jean-Luc David is was a Team System MVP & a fellow C# MVP when I was an MVP. Just yesterday he...
Author: noahc Date: 08/11/2006
Daily Deals on Newegg.com
I've got to say, newegg.com is probably my favorite online shopping spot. They have consistently...
Author: noahc Date: 08/10/2006
Funny: Computer Tech Support Calls
These “silly tech support calls” have been around in e-mails and online since the dawn...
Author: noahc Date: 07/21/2006
My 13yr old Sister Hannah is Blogging! + Counts Binary on Her Fingers
Family came in from Idaho this weekend and last night we set up my 13yr old sister Hannah Joy with...
Author: noahc Date: 07/20/2006
Local: Sushi Etiquette + My Favorite Sushi Opens in Redmond
I like sushi! Very much. In fact, I enjoy eating raw fish more than cooked fish. Event most all my...
Author: noahc Date: 07/18/2006
News: Microsoft Acquires Winternals (Sysinternals)
Microsoft Acquires Winternals Software: Company appoints operating systems kernel expert Mark...
Author: noahc Date: 07/18/2006
CoadNet VS Project Templates, Quick Code + Console App for C# in VS05
Here are two project templates that I created and use on an almost daily basis that I packaged up to...
Author: noahc Date: 07/14/2006
Driving Directions Syntax (Coad Style)
Let’s face it, giving or using driving directions is an essential part life, but as much as we do...
Author: noahc Date: 07/12/2006
Blog Crawler - Blog Backup Tool
I’ve been looking for awhile for a way to back up my blog by capturing each post in a nice,...
Author: noahc Date: 07/10/2006
VSWindowManager PowerToy - VS Plugin for Tool Windows Management
I was checking out an MSDN Magazine post on “Visual Studio Add-Ins Every Developer Should...
Author: noahc Date: 07/10/2006
XPathmania - XPath in VS
This is a cool little plug-in from DonXML for VS that lets you run XPath statements against the...
Author: noahc Date: 07/10/2006
Seattle Downtown Tour - Revised
I’ve made some significant updates, including adding a lot of photos, to my tour of downtown...
Author: noahc Date: 07/07/2006
Wow, Just when I thought no one reads my blog
I’ve got to admit, there are times I really don’t think people actually read some of my...
Author: noahc Date: 07/07/2006
Tip: Beautifully Formatted .NET C# Code in Blog Post
I’ve been searching for a way to nicely display code on my blog for a long time!! These old...
Author: noahc Date: 07/06/2006
Automating iTunes with C# in .NET
When you install Apple iTunes, it includes a COM automation library (see link for SDK docs). It is...
Author: noahc Date: 07/06/2006
Freedom Quote
It’s the time of the season, for a quote on Freedom… “Freemdom is not the right...
Author: noahc Date: 07/04/2006
Noah's Ark Discovered in Iran?
When I was born my grandmother started a Noah’s Ark collection for me. I’ve grown up...
Author: noahc Date: 07/03/2006
My Wife, Dawn
My wife, Dawn Melody Coad, and I have been married for just over a year now! Wow, what a year!...
Author: noahc Date: 07/03/2006