Site Archives for April 2006


Hiding files inside a zip...

Posted on April 26th

Cool article on Code Project shows how you can have additional files in a .zip file that normal extraction programs like WinZip will not extract or list. […]

Laura Foy and a Flamethrower .... hot enough for you?

Posted on April 24th

So I'm back from the San Francisco area, and I'm while I'm too tired to give you all the details right now, here's a sneak peak of some of the things you'll be seeing on 10 in the near future: […]

Just showed up in San Mateo, heading over to Makers Faire tomorrow morning...

Posted on April 22nd

I'll be there tomorrow with Laura Foy (host) and Scott Finley (expert camera dude).... and I'll be doing... well, it is hard to describe what I'll be doing, but hopefully most of it will be fun! Check out the program at http://makezine.com/faire/ and let me know what you would want to go see... […]

Considering Team System? Check out the Team System Customization Toolkit...

Posted on April 22nd

Customizing VSTS to work exactly how you or your company needs it to isn't an easy job, but this toolkit should make it easier! […]

A letter to North Dakota by Randy Sarafan...

Posted on April 21st

I was browsing around on Randy's web site after reading about an upcoming session of his at Makers Faire (hacking USB keyboards!!), and I found this: http://www.randywritesletters.com/005.html All of the letters on that site (which has little or no navigation elements, so just edit the URL approp […]

RE: I stumped Major Nelson

Posted on April 18th

The source behind several of our questions for the recent Major Nelson bit on 10 is revealed, thanks Xbox Elle! A fun little game show, How well do you know your box(or is it Xbox? I can't tell), was posted to on10.net on Friday. Laura and Tina try to stump Major Nelson with a bunch of trivia ques […]

Ok, so *this* has never happened with a Visual Basic book...

Posted on April 14th

I've remarked to a few people that writing a more 'consumer' focused book […]

Another 'episode' by me is up on 10

Posted on April 13th

Yesterday my segment on Heart Rate Monitors went up onto on10.net, featuring a new monitor from Polar and the cool EnterTrainer product... check out the video to learn more! Oh, and unlike some of the comments suggested, lifting up my shirt on camera is embarassing... and yet, I did it twice on came […]

on10.net's tagging gets a little bit more 'connected'

Posted on April 6th

Erik extended our tag pages on on10.net a bit, check out the full details here as part of our on10.net news blog.

Scoble finally gets a 360...

Posted on April 5th

Seems you can actually buy them now, maybe I should send him a book?

Found some pre-existing source code to send test pingbacks

Posted on April 5th

I wrote my own for Trackbacks, which I used to incorporate trackbacks into http://on10.net, but Geoff provides one on his blog (that doesn't appear to support comments, but does support trackbacks, so I thought I had better blog about it to thank him) that does both. Silly me, I hadn't built pingba […]

I think I'm not the only one who ordered the Prima Oblivion Guide

Posted on April 1st

That Elder Scrolls Oblivion guide book I mentioned in an early blog post today, I just saw that it was #20 on Amazon today. That's just crazy!! […]

Some free chapters of the Oblivion guide (Prima) are online...

Posted on April 1st

You can get 3 chapters from xbox.com (as PDF), a guide to the Fighter's Guild quests, character classes and some misc. stuff.... great content for no $$ or effort :)

I think it is a good sign that Oblivion makes me anti-social

Posted on April 1st

So, another blog post in my series about how much I'm enjoying Oblivion... I really want to buy Blazing Angels, but it seems pointless to get it right now... I know I won't play it. At this point, I probably haven't play anywhere nearly as much as a more dedicated (some one with no children, and […]