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June 2005 - Posts

Nerds make better lovers... Ditch the pretty boys and grab yourself a geek!
Nerds make better lovers... Ditch the pretty boys and grab yourself a geek!
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/317296p-271224c.html (via Slashdot ) I've been telling women exactly that as far back as I can remember - glad the news if finally getting out !! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | kick it! | live it!


Sitting in Orlando Airport, waiting on baggage from Atlanta at 2:00AM
Sitting in Orlando Airport, waiting on baggage from Atlanta at 2:00AM
I'm not at TechEd this week, but between the web simulcasts of some sessions and stories like this one (from Eric Sink ), I feel like I am. http://software.ericsink.com/entries/teched_07jun2005.html This may be one of the funniest stories that I have ever heard (at least from a techie). An instant classic. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | kick it! | live it!
Working with DNN 3.0
Working with DNN 3.0
Just finished up my first “real” project with DotNetNuke : http://www.gettingconnecteddc.org I have played around with it for a while for some internal stuff, but this is the first one I've actually built for a client. We traditionally build our sites from scratch, but this one had a very short timeline (2 weeks!) and it needed content management, security and roles, etc. - DNN seemed like the perfect choice. All in all, I really like DNN. It is not the magical answer for everything,...
Interesting news on the Microsoft Office front
Interesting news on the Microsoft Office front
http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2005/06/01/424085.aspx I think there are 2 points here that may affect us. Probably the coolest – word documents, xl spreadsheets and even powerpoint files will be stored as XML with the format being fully documented. There will be updates to Office 2000, XP, and 2003 so they can use these new formats. I can see being able to dynamically create Word docs, spreadsheets and powerpoint presentations on the fly (for reports, etc) much easier than we’ve...