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Announcing InfiniteSoccer.com
Today I announce InfiniteSoccer.com, a site for finding and scheduling pick-up soccer games based on...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 02/02/2004
New "Business of Software" Column Up on MSDN
Eric Sink has a new Business of Software column up on MSDN entitled Getting Started with Your Own...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 01/28/2004
Embedding Scripts as Resources in Whidbey
Whidbey has a method of embedding scripts, images, css, htc, etc. as resources in your code-behind...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 01/28/2004
Drag and Drop Attachments in Outlook Web Access
Here's an Outlook Web Access (OWA) feature that's in some ways little known. Although if you search...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 01/12/2004
Outlook Web Access Addressing Shortcut: Avoiding Ambiguous Name Resolution
Here is a handy little shortcut for you Outlook Web Access users out there, one that I use all the...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 01/10/2004
HOWTO: Make Outlook Web Access Your Default Mail Agent
Here's a little off-topic post for you all. HOWTO: Make OWA your default mailer. 1. Add the...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 01/08/2004
InfiniteHoops.com Milestone 100
My little .NET project InfiniteHoops.com for finding and scheduling basketball games reached 100...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 12/22/2003
Make More Mistakes
Eric Sink has a new Business of Software article out on MSDN columns, entitled Make More Mistakes....
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 12/22/2003
Popups for fun and profit
I just came across the ruling that allows a company, D Squared, to resume sending pop-ups to...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 12/17/2003
Rolling Stone Interview of Steve Jobs
Here's a link to the Rolling Stone interview with Steve Jobs talking about iPod, iTunes and the...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 12/09/2003
Don't Leave, Frans
So yesterday Frans Bouma posted his concern about weblogs.asp.net becoming less of a .NET community...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 12/07/2003
SportsML
I am kind of interested in applications of XML. To be sure, it was an interest in RSS which led me...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 12/02/2003
GIMPS finds 40th known Mersenne Prime
From www.mersenne.org... On November 17, 2003 Michael Shafer's computer found the 40th known...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 12/02/2003
InfiniteHoops.com and Google AdSense
I decided to sign up for Google AdSense and start serving content specific ads (in this case...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 11/27/2003
Finance for Geeks
Eric Sink has another article on the business of software on MSDN. This time it's Finance for Geeks....
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 11/25/2003
Newsweek Interviews Bill
Here's an interview of Bill by Newsweek's Steven Levy. A little bit of Longhorn vision, a little bit...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 11/18/2003
MathML Working Group Notes Published
From the W3C Weekly News - 16 November 2003 e-mailing: MathML Working Group Notes Published The Math...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 11/16/2003
The Business of Software Column
I hadn't checked out the MSDN column page in a while so I decided to hit it up and see what's new. I...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 11/12/2003
InfiniteHoops.com -- the first month
My .NET authored site for pickup basketball has been up for just over five weeks now. I have signed...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 11/11/2003
XBOX Wireless Adapter
Picked up the XBOX wireless adapter on Friday. Works very nicely. Setup was ok. It seems to work...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 11/10/2003
Monitoring ASP.NET Applications
MSDN TV has a nice episode with Erik Olson talking about various perfmon counters you can use to...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 10/24/2003
InfiniteHoops.com
Today I announce my .NET authored site InfiniteHoops.com, which is a kind of sports scheduling...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 10/02/2003
[OT] Quicksilver Review
I have been looking forward to the release of Neal's Stephenson's Quicksilver for some time. Now...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 09/22/2003
Class to convert HTML into XML -- SgmlReader
Handy. A class to convert HTML into XML. It's old, but news to me.
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 09/19/2003
Creating a new web project at the root of your web server
Q. How do I create a new project at the root of my websever? A. In the New Project dialog, you...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 09/15/2003
Referrers page
The referrers page is really interesting, especially the URLs coming in from Google or Yahoo. A...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 09/08/2003
PocketFeed
I got my hands on a PocketPC Phone Edition recently with a spiffy unlimited data plan so promptly...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 09/04/2003
IWAM account is NOT granted the impersonate user right for ASP.NET 1.1 on a Win2K SP4
Ran into a strange “Access is denied” problem running a web project on a Win2K domain controller...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 09/03/2003
Exchange related blogs
Scoble points to an Exchange related blog and in reading through it I find a link to another one....
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 08/30/2003
Radiohead
Hurray! Got tickets for Radiohead tomorrow night in Seattle (well not Seattle, Auburn, suburb,...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 08/30/2003
Viewing one page without having to be forms authenticated (the registration page case)
Q. How do I remove an individual page from having to be forms authenticated to view it? I don't...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 08/29/2003
Word-wrap in Visual Studio
If you're like me, you heard about word-wrap in Visual Studio and weren't impressed. Maybe you read...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 08/27/2003
Setting VDir authentication method with web setup project
How does one set the vdir authentication methods in a VS web setup and deployment project?...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 08/27/2003
Hubble Mars Pics
Space.com has some pictures of Mars taken by Hubble this week. K and I checked out the real thing...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 08/27/2003
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How sad. I am not included in this.
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 08/26/2003
Another fine episode of the .NET show
Just finished another episode of the .NET show. I am one of those nerds that downloads the 215mb...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 08/23/2003
Chess team nerd and the blonde
Scylla.org has a link to a story about a chess team nerd versus a blonde. Funny stuff.
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 08/23/2003
Asimo in the news
Honda robot Asimo, the diplomat....
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 08/22/2003
Terrible rewrite compulsion
I just opened a project that I hadn't touched in quite some time and noticed that I was building up...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 08/22/2003
ATI in XBOX 2
Wow. It seems ATI will be replacing nVidia inside the next XBOX. Here are a couple links. Xbox 2...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 08/14/2003
Friday, I'm in System.XML
So Friday, I got to spend some time in System.XML. First time in it actually, sad to say. Glad to...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 08/10/2003
The state of blogging software today and the need for Swiss army software
When I think about all the different tools for reading and writing blogs today, the early days of...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 08/09/2003
VS loves RESX
I have a web project where all my strings are in a satellite resource assembly. As a result, I have...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 08/08/2003
Prototyping: Do it right or get it done?
Given that prototype code has a way of becoming ship code and that one usually doesn't have a whole...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 08/04/2003
Cool feature for a news aggregator
Nobody wants to post a link to a story that is old news. All you aggregator writers, how about a...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 08/03/2003
Microsoft Developer Tools Roadmap 2003-2005
Seems like many of you guys are already up to date on future Visual Studio releases. In case you...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 08/03/2003
Feedback for Scott
Why is the user name case-sensitive? gertrude - green.css is blue? When are the stats coming?...
Author: Tosh Meston Date: 07/31/2003