Section: Blogs

Displaying RSS on my own site

Sep 28, 2003 1 min.

Kent recently wrote an ASP.NET control (ascx) to display the contents of an RSS feed onto a web page (for use on MSDN) so I decided to slap it on my own web site to display blogs entries at http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/blog/default.aspx, and I think it looks pretty good!  /dc:rssview

They had me… and then… they lost me

Sep 18, 2003 2 min.

I don’t know if it is just me, but there are some times when a new product comes out and they have me from the moment I see the ad; the price is right, the features are exactly what I am looking for, etc… Well, that happened this weekend… I have been pondering on getting a progressive scan DVD player for some time, and I had been stuck on a few things;

Great Quote from G. Andrew Duthie on Chris Sells Blog

Sep 18, 2003 2 min.

Like Card, I earn much of my living on intellectual property, and I don’t buy 90% of the arguments in favor of internet “music sharing”. In my view, it’s theft. If you want to do it anyway, at least be honest about it, rather than trying to tart it up as justice for the “rapacious” record companies. Posted by G. Andrew Duthie , Tuesday, September 16, 2003 I have had the exact same conversation with a few of my friends… and even some of my family…

Hmmm…. and I thought ANTS was a profiling tool…

Sep 18, 2003 1 min.

Nice to know my colleagues are keeping busy… ([Listening To](http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dncodefun/html/code4fun04252003.asp): Why Don't You Get A Job? [[The Offspring](http://www.windowsmedia.com/mg/search.asp?srch=The+Offspring) / Americana])

Getting slightly caught up…

Sep 15, 2003 2 min.

Well, I haven’t produced anything of staggering brillance tonight, but I’m a little less behind on some of my writing obligations (now those SAMS editors will stop posting my picture in the coffee room with nasty words beneath it)… still behind on 3 or 4 other projects, but progress is progress… I’m not going to complain! Some very cool stuff coming soon on the Visual C# Developer Center, which I have recently taken over ‘stewardship’ of, I’ll leave it to someone else to give away details if he wants and just say that if you care at all about the C# language itself, beyond the basics, then you are going to want to spend some time at the developer center in the next while!

Ugh.. I want to code…

Sep 14, 2003 1 min.

I have a bunch of writing to do, but what I really want to do is code! It turns out I have a bunch of coding to do as well… but the writing is more overdue than the coding (at the moment)! Of course, I could just say to hell with them both and go play some SW:KOTOR, but I finished it a couple of nights ago and I’m not quite ready to start again… although the dark path should provide some interesting replay value.

Some new MSDN links of note

Sep 14, 2003 1 min.

You probably already subscribe to the MSDN RSS feeds, so this might be a duplication but here goes; Drag and Drop in VB.NET finally gets covered… an important topic that needed some more attention gets its own article from Steve Hoag of the VB team. There is a new “Ask Dr. GUI” up… and although these Q&A columns are a collaborative effort the main writer is someone new And there are some new articles on the ASP.

Hey, my glasses made it onto a blog

Sep 11, 2003 1 min.

Kent has been posting pics and my glasses made it into the shot! Wow, this is pretty exciting, I think I’ll go lie down. Here’s another pic from that day… just to keep up with the trend; note the lack of glasses… generally a sign of a bad day, it means I was busy holding my head in my hands or rubbing my eyes 🙂

Hmm… maybe Chris Sells has a point, no more interviews at Microsoft

Sep 11, 2003 1 min.

I took the test Chris has been talking about, ended up as an ENTJ as well… I didn’t read the descriptions before or after… but I think I get the general idea. As Chris was saying, I bet we could come up with quite a few similar traits amongst people at Microsoft… even my son has noticed. Whenever he sees another Microsoft developer (t-shirt, glasses, maybe a little below the peak of physical fitness.