Well last year, my emails all bounced back, my phone calls went to disconnected numbers. I'm not sure where you have gone to, but with no other way to contact you I'd figure I'd post the message here. Perhaps the internet will find its way to you...

I hope everything is going well, perhaps your trying to work a little less (doubtful). Wherever you might be I hope you have a wonderful and happy birthday!

In remembance of my bike...

The sad day has finally come. Tonight I had to say good bye to a dear friend. My beloved and trustworthy friend and traveling companion. She was my second bike and for 4 years we travel near and far. Though ever climate from the desert to the snow, from scenica pacific ocean to the highest peaks of the Sierras.

Riding changed my life, in a time where I was "lost" I was able to find myself. All I needed was my bike and the open road. Many a miles were logged on solo journies to distance roads. But also a great many friends were made and many more miles were traveled in the company of friends. Those adventures were journies of epic porportion that will be remembered always. Good times.

The time has come to put my helmet away, to focus on matters financial to make right the descisions of my past. For this reason I sold my dear friend. It might very well be a couple years before I find another companion. But never will the memories of my F4i be replaced. ...

ClickOnce: Beyond The Basics

I went to this session to finally find out more information about ClickOnce, I had kept hearing about it at previous TechEds but never used it. A few weeks back I wanted to use it for a project but oddly enough didn’t find out very much information on it. I thought it was supposed to be integrated with Visual Studio. As it turns out it’s the “Publish” method in Visual Studio.

ClickOnce allows .NET applications to be deployed via a web browser. Application will be installed into the user’s local app directory (Document Settings\Local Settings) and once installed into a folder that is created, can’t access any files outside of its sandboxed directory.

Security access is controlled but the .NET Code Access Security. This is the security model that defines certain permissions based on the browsers internet zone. However, most useful application need to be given Full Trust to access resour ...

The penultimate day...

In case anyone has been wondering where all this stuff takes place...

Architecture Decisions: DataSets or Objects

Birds Of a Feather: DotNetNuke 4.0

Well let me start with a quick blub about my adventures last night at the birds of a feather meeting at 9PM in the food hall. The session started off on a bad note when Shawn Walker, creator and leader of DotNetNuke didn’t show up. He was in New York& ...

Ever Wondered how big Tech Ed was? Here’s the dinning hall? It was filled at one point and not everyone eats at the same time.

Windows SharePoint Services (version 3) Development 2: ASP.NET, Web Parts, Master Pages, Field Types, and More

This session went over the low level architecture of SharePoint version 3. It’s predecessor was built almost as a hack around the ASP.NET runtime and that resulted in many issues. Now SharePoint is built on top of the ASP.NET 2.0 runtime using best practices that have developed.

The base of all SharePoint site is based on Master pages. By changing the default template you can change all of ...

So in less than 48 hours now I'll be in Boston, MA. I haven't started packing, I have a million and one erans to run before I leave, what else is new. It's always exciting when the extra erans I hadn't planned for show up too. I was atempting to take a red eye Sunday night in order to accomidate the things I needed to acomplish but it wasn't to be. From the time I get off work tonight until 5am Sunday morning when I wake up to get ready and leave for the airport, it should be a fun time.

I did however get to see this, an early preview of the TechEd 2006 bag. I think it looks useable so I'm going to find away to not take a laptop bag so that I don't have to try and smash an extra bag into my luggage for the trip home like I do every other year. I'm more of a fan of backpacks these days, but I'm sure it'll make due as long as it is of sturdier construction than last years bag.