Thursday, May 29, 2003 STLtoday - business Seattle company buys tech-wreck survivor G.A. Sullivan posted by Kirby | May 29 11:24 AM | comments (0)
Wednesday, May 28, 2003 East Durham Irish Fest pix online in the gallery. Enjoy. posted by Kirby | May 28 10:34 PM | comments (0)
For many years, I used MultiEdit as my primary text editor. I loved that program. It did everything I needed except one thing. It does not support Unicode files. Lately I have been using Visual Studio.NET as my editor of choice but there are things I don't like about it either. For example, sometimes I want to create a simple console app and I don't want to have to create a VS.NET project for it. I would rather get create a new .cs file and F9 to compile it, or something like that. MultiEdit will do this but as I mentioned it does not support Unicode.
So my question for all: What would you recommend as a sweet text editor that I can use as my editor of choice? And please, don't say Notepad. posted by Kirby | May 28 09:48 AM | comments (0)
Tuesday, May 27, 2003 Press release
Avanade Inc., a premier global technology integrator for Microsoft solutions in the enterprise, today announced it has acquired G. A. Sullivan, of St. Louis, Mo.posted by Kirby | May 27 10:36 AM | comments (0)
Sunday, May 25, 2003 Melanie and I just returned from East Durham, NY in the Catskills. Christine and the Early family invited us up for the 26th annual East Durham Irish Festival, and for the second year in a row I had a blast. The music was great especially the Young Dublins from LA and NYC's McCabe. And as always, Lizzy Joe's shepherd's pie was delicious. But the funniest moment was when Christine grabbed the micro from the stage and shouted "Black 47 sucks...".
Thanks Christine for a great weekend. I can't wait until next year. posted by Kirby | May 25 04:54 PM | comments (0)
Thursday, May 22, 2003 A new version of Reflector is out. It is a class browser for .NET components and assemblies. It has a very nice C#/VB decompiler, which seems to be better then Anakrino, imo. Reflector is a must have for .NET devs.
***Update: It seems that Reflector does not show private code in the decompiler window whereas Anakrino does. Still, both are nice and both are a must have.
***Yet another update: Steve pointed out to me that Reflector will show private code. Go to View|Options to enable visibility on private and internal code. And thanks for the pointer Steve.
Lesson learned: I need to play with all features before posting on my blog. On the other hand, the fact that someone pointed out a feature I overlooked after reading my blog is pretty dang cool, and shows the power of weblogging. posted by Kirby | May 22 09:19 AM | comments (3)
Wednesday, May 21, 2003 New hacking tool sees the light | CNET News.com
A Princeton University student has shed light on security flaws in Java and .Net virtual machines by using a lamp, some known properties of computer memory and a little luck.posted by Kirby | May 21 02:57 PM | comments (0)
Friday, May 16, 2003 After being away for almost two weeks, I finally returned home last night. And one of the first things I did was setup our new Sony DAV-C770 DVD Dream System. These system is perfect for our place and has very nice sound quality. Afterbang never sounded so good. posted by Kirby | May 16 12:03 PM | comments (0)
Thursday, May 08, 2003 I am finally working on an interesting customer project with some guys from Microsoft. One of the coolest things about the project is how we are using WSDL to describe services and generating code for the service. My latest task is to spec out how to describe bindings for .NET remoted services using alternative channels, i.e., not HTTP or TCP, in WSDL. It's fun to hack up the XML then write a console app to try it out. posted by Kirby | May 8 04:11 PM | comments (0)
Wednesday, May 07, 2003 Saw the new X-Men movie tonight. Sorry to say but I thought it was a bore. The first one was much better in my opinion. Although I can say it is the best movie I have seen in the theatre this year. But at the same time, it is the only movie I have seen in the theatre this year. posted by Kirby | May 7 11:13 PM | comments (3)
Tuesday, May 06, 2003 Okay, so here's one issue with working in MON, NJ. I decided to see the new X-Men movie tonight. My plan was to have dinner first followed by a movie. Little did I know the last showing was at 8 pm. I hadn't even left for dinner at 8 pm. Oh well. Maybe I will catch the flick tomorrow night. posted by Kirby | May 6 09:12 PM | comments (0)
Sunday, May 04, 2003 Here's Melanie role playing as a federal air marshal during a recent flight attendant training course.
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Saturday, May 03, 2003 I figure it's about time for me to make another posting since it's been a while. It's been a busy week, that's for sure. First news is, I'm finally staffed on a project. I'm working for a customer down in Hopewell, NJ. Not the ideal location but the project works looks like fun. After more than two years with Avanade, I can finally excited about a project.
This project definitely will challenge me. I'll be working on a piece of a integration framework with Microsoft. System level coding using the System.CodeDom and System.Xml.* namespaces with some reflection here and there. Without a doubt, I will be learning a lot on this engagement. Heck, I have already learned a lot this week alone. And my favorite .NET feature of the week is the System.CodeDom namespace. Being able to generate code in different languages is so cool.
At the home front, our blinds finally arrived. It's bee a month since we ordered them but it was worth the wait. They look super nice in the apartment. And now Melanie can change clothes in the bedroom instead of hiding in the hallway or bathroom.
Wedding plans are coming along. We have a trip to Bryn Athyn planned for next weekend. We are hoping to get a lot done. And Dave is hard at work organizing my upcoming bachelor party to be held the first weekend in September in viva Las Vegas baby!
And finally, the WASTED Crew has been talking this week about the next WASTED trip. That and the WASTED movie has me dreaming of snowboarding once again. Skateboarding is fun and I am enjoying it, but it ain't like riding a snowy slope. Think I might have to buy a new board this year too. But first, we have to pay for the wedding and honeymoon.
That's it for the week in review. It's a glorious day in New York. I'm sitting out on the fire escape enjoying the weather as I type waiting for Melanie to return from Brussels. Hopefully you are outside as you read this. And if you're not then stop reading, shut off the computer and go play outside! posted by Kirby | May 3 03:22 PM | comments (0)
