Marquee de Sells: Chris's insight outletThoughts that Chris Sells has about whatever interests him that dayPoetry Proclivities- January 30, 2008 I'm not a big poetry fan in general, but notable exceptions are Poe's The Raven (especially the Simpson's version), Dr. Seuss and Shel Silverstein. However, I have to admit a certain fondness for the lowly limerick. I've done some composing, but the subject matter is often not something I'd want to post on my blog ("Hi, Mom!"), so when I ran into the rare clean one, I had to share: A Limerick packs laughs anatomicalIn a space that is quite economicalBut the good ones we've seenVery seldom are...http://sellsbrothers.com/news/showTopic.aspx?ixTopic=2167 Configuring VS08 to Debug .NET Framework Source- January 18, 2008 Shawn Burke has released the details to set up VS08 to debug into the .NET Framework source code, including the following assemblies: mscorlib.DLL System.DLL System.Data.DLL System.Drawing.DLL System.Web.DLL System.Web.Extensions.DLL System.Windows.Forms.DLL System.XML.DLL WPF (UIAutomation.dll, System.Windows.DLL, System.Printing.DLL, System.Speech.DLL, WindowsBase.DLL, WindowsFormsIntegration.DLL, Presentation.dll, some others) Microsoft.VisualBasic.DLL Others are coming. Thanks, Shawn!http://sellsbrothers.com/news/showTopic.aspx?ixTopic=2166 Bookscan says "Programming WPF" is 3 .NET book!- January 17, 2008 Wahoo!http://sellsbrothers.com/news/showTopic.aspx?ixTopic=2165 WPF Book Easter Egg- January 8, 2008 Does anyone have both the Anderson WPF book and the GriffithsSells WPF book If so, have you read Don's forewords in both bookshttp://sellsbrothers.com/news/showTopic.aspx?ixTopic=2164 The Annotated Turing!- January 6, 2008 I just saw that Mr. Petzold is re-publishing the paper that started computer science and annotating it so that even I can understand it. I can't wait!http://sellsbrothers.com/news/showTopic.aspx?ixTopic=2163 Time for some anti-social networking- January 5, 2008 OK, just after all my friends are on FaceBook, now I'm getting the requests to join Spock.com. I don't know what Spock.com is, but after the address-book thingie, MySpace, the high school alumni thingie, Friendster (), the Google ork-something, the business thingie and most recently FaceBook, I'm all done. All I ever do on these sites is approve friends requests! Isn't there supposed to be some value to it other than that Oh, sure, I've had a few messages from people I haven't heard from in a...http://sellsbrothers.com/news/showTopic.aspx?ixTopic=2162 "So easy to read, it should be illegal"- January 4, 2008 Thanks very much "ET" on the Canadian Amazon. I can think of no higher compliment. : )http://sellsbrothers.com/news/showTopic.aspx?ixTopic=2161 WHS Continues to Rock My World- January 3, 2008 In the same way that .NET manages memory for you, Windows Home Server manages storage. All you have to do is tell it the names of shared folders you want it to have and which computers to back up and it will spread it and duplicate it across however many HDDs you have, without you worrying about which actual HDD your "Music" folder is on or where your wife's computer is being backed up to. Plus, if you have more than one HDD and you have "Enable Folder Duplication" enabled for a shared folder,..http://sellsbrothers.com/news/showTopic.aspx?ixTopic=2160 |