26 Jan 2008
A little late, I know, but I finally got some time to put my thoughts into place. First I want to send out my congratulations to Jim Holmes, Brian Prince, Jason Gilmore, Jason Follas, Dianne Marsh, Jeff Blakenburg, Josh Holmes, and John Hopkins for putting on ANOTHER wonderful event. I went into CodeMash ‘08 with very high expectations based on last years spectacular event, and the group did not disappoint. A quick thank you to the CodeMash sponsors for helping those folks do that job! Your loyalty to the development community will not be forgotten by this developer.
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03 Jan 2008
Looks like Glenn Block, from Microsoft’s patterns & practices group, is now blogging at CodeBetter. I’m sure it’s only a coincidence that Scott Bellware (ooold link, but only one still valid) no longer is (and had all his content removed).
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18 Dec 2007
Since I just switched jobs and my previous employer paid me due vacation time, we had a little extra cash in our coffers. My aforementioned wife suggested I get myself an early Christmas present. As you can no doubt tell by the GamerCard on the site, I am now the proud owner of a Xbox 360 Elite. I was also able to pick up the HDDVD drive. Though unlike the list earlier in the year I did not get the wireless adapter nor Gears of War. I had already gotten a wireless bridge for the PS2, so connectivity was no issue. I ended up getting Assassin’s Creed, as well as the Serenity HD-DVD. Feel free to send me a friend’s request on XBox LIVE. Which, by the way, is everything I had hoped. Between the marketplace and the arcade it’s nothing short of awesome. The XBox itself makes a wonderful media extender. I tried Windows Media Center, but quickly dropped it in favor of TVersity. Check it out! Now that I’m settled in at my new job, be on the look out for some blog posts in the coming days…
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13 Nov 2007
Peter DeBetta posted a while back with a function to take a hex string and convert it to varbinary It has a couple of slight issues, the biggest of which is it can’t handle an odd number of hex digits. Below is my replacement, because it’s using bigints the upper limit isn’t as high, but it’s good enough for most things:
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08 Nov 2007
It appears that the new Microsoft Campus for the Entertainment and Devices Division is going to have a bar. One wonders if they are not shooting for the “Ballmer Peak“…
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