Duncan Mackenzie .NET

I was searching the web for details on how best to take all the various body measurements that is a standard part of any personal training program, when my search brought me to this essay. […]

Currently I'm running .Text .94 + a bunch of private modifications and some version of CS:Forums + a bunch of private modifications... so now that CS 1.0's source is out, I want to incorporate my mods into the combined package and then migrate my data and get my site up and running on the new stuff. […]

On the various programming forums I read, a common question is "how can I find out the IP address of my router"... for whatever reason (and there certainly are a few reasons that I can think of) people were really looking for their IP address on the Internet. In general, the solution was to hit one […]

If you sign up for one of the sites created by Gratis (free flat screens, free ipods, free handbags, etc...) then one of the available offers is Zooba.com, and I have to say it is one of the best offers I've tried. Basically, if you are someone who likes to read then you probably won't mind the 'req […]

or am I being scribbled? […]

Richard Grimes posted some fairly negative thoughts around .NET and VB.NET specifically, comments that Scott decided to reply to with his own post. I have to say that Richard's comments about C# vs. VB.NET are something that I hear all the time, that it is easy for a VB6 developer to pick up C#, […]

A while ago I moved out of the Content Strategist role and over onto the development team at MSDN, but until this week my position had remained empty! Well, the wait is over, Brad McCabe has joined the illustrious content strategist team at MSDN. No 'official' link to point you to yet, but I'm sure […]

Gratis, the company behind the various www.free***.com sites (and the original free iPod folks), provide banners for use on sites like mine, but they don't really keep them up to date. For example, the banner for the Free PC site is all about the Dell machine you can get, but they recently added a S […]

I saw a newsgroup post (by Todd Bowra) that an update was available for my XBox media center extender, but I can't find anything about this on any of the media center sites on http://www.microsoft.com or xbox.com, so I thought I would spread the […]

Aaron Brethorst has a little page of his code samples up at http://www.brethorsting.com/code/ which include a few interesting items including a software version of the Enigma machine in C#. Cool stuff. Aaron is also the author of iRooster, an alarm clock application (that uses playlists from iTunes) […]

Telligent Systems, the company founded by former Microsoftie (and ASP.NET whiz kid) Rob Howard, has finally released Community Server 1.0. Community Server combines the functionality of forums (based on the ASP.NET forums engine Rob worked on while at Microsoft), blogs (based on the […]

Found via the very well-named coolthingoftheday.blogspot.com blog... […]

I'm up to 6 out of 8 referals on the free flat screen offer site, it will be interesting to see what the 'order' process is like if I ever get to 8. Of course, in the time it has taken, I could have probably found some other way to get a LCD monitor for my wife's computer, but that wouldn't be sport […]

SQLServerCentral.com's newsletter included a link to a newly built ring similar in many ways to Stonehenge... overall it looks like a really cool project to illustrate how this technology was originally used. Someday, a similar project will be formed to recreate a massive scale version of a P4, that […]

I won't be bidding on this, but with some work I bet it would make a great addition to a home theater/gaming room :)

Further to my previous post, the results are now available here: Visual Basic Usage Survey

First things first, this article is not for people who already code in Visual Studio, or Eclipse, or who are in anyway an experienced developer. This is for folks who are new to code and have decided that VB.NET is the way to get started into this world. I just put this reminder here in the hope of […]

A few months ago, I posted a VB survey up onto my site. That survey received over 1000 responses and I believe it provided some useful data back to the Visual Basic team. I'm considering put the results back up onto my site so you can see them, but I need to determine how much interest there is in s […]

Check it out at http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/searchbeta/, pretty cool stuff coming out of some of the other members of the MSDN dev team.

I signed up for RefStop, where you create a list of the current 'free offer' sites that you have accounts with and then you are matched up with folks who can do a referral for you in return for you doing one for them... and […]

Get the inside story on VB. Watch these Channel 9 interviews with Visual Basic team members Paul Vick (technical lead) and Amanda Silver (program manager), […]

Quick sample (calling the GetShortPathName API) in VB.NET posted to http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/Samples/

I bet I've mentioned these before, but the joy of rediscovery is the positive side of a poor memory... Christopher Frazier pointed to these in a email discussion today, and I thought you might be interested! […]

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I've mentioned it before, but it is worth saying again. When I decided to build my site up from its static beginnings and add on various asp.net-driven

Wanted to get this into a better place for discussion than my blog comments.... new forums here ... I should warn you though that I've been having a ton of errors with the Forum code of late though. I've even turned on full errors (bad, bad, duncan) as part of a desperate attempt to track down an an […]