NetFx3.com, a Microsoft community site for .Net 3.0 has announced that the 3.0 framework is now available. While there are no changes to VB.NET, C#, ASP.NET etc like there was with 1.1 to 2.0, .NET 3.0 adds a few new frameworks, namely Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation, WIndows Workflow …

Microsoft offers both current and past issues of TechNet Magazine in CHM format as free downloads. You can even get also receive free subscription via mail if you qualify (I believe you have to have some sort of buying influence in the company) here so be sure to mention your influence, even if you're stretching the …

While researching a possible '08 presidential candidate, Mark Warner at OnTheIssues.net, I saw he supported something called "Tek.Xam - a standard test for technology employment." I wondered what this was so I searched and found tekxam.com. I laughed a little as I clicked through each of the …

I just wanted to remember this URL, you may find it useful, too: Aptana Studio. (It's still nice and relevant 6 years later in 2012)

For those of you who loved dack.com's Web Economy Bullshit Generator back in the day, you will be pleased to know that there is a new BS generator for "Web 2.0". Web 2.0..hmm.. this O'reilly-infused buzzword was probably generated over at dack.com now that I think about it. So go on and play. Before you know …

My friend Dave pasted this awesome code to me. It comes from The Daily WTF, a website dedicated to whack coding.

I.like(bigButts) && I.canLie(false); otherBrothers.canDeny(false); when (girl.walksIn()) { if (girl.hasIttyBittyWaist() && roundThing.getLocation()==your.FACE) { you.getSprung(); } }

I recently installed Microsoft CRM Server in a lab environment. The install went smoothly.. every test passed successfully. But when I loaded up the Deployment Manager, I kept getting the error:

The specified Microsoft CRM Server is not responding. This might happen if it is currently unavailable or is not a Microsoft …

The US Government, as requested by the MPAA, threatend the Swedish government and forced them to break their own laws by seizing a pirating website.

It is now being reported that the Swedish Department of Justice received what amounts to orders from the U.S. Administration, who had in turn received 'requests' from the …

The Macbook keyboard layout maps "Delete" to backspace which effectively makes it impossible to hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete unless you have an external USB keyboard.

The Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit comes with a handy tool called remapkey.exe but if you don't want to download it, just save this code to a .reg …

I'm surprised this isn't built in.. I had the hardest time finding how to convert ATOM time (found in many RSS feeds) to something human-readable. The cleanest solution I have found thus far is this:

That outputs "04.22.06" but you can use any of the formats available from php date().

Here is basically the …