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- December 29, 2009 - Deran Schilling, Learner
- December 29, 2009 - What to do if your Windows 2008 install won't activate complaining about no KMS server
- October 3, 2009 - Ethan and Lord Nobleton!
- August 29, 2009 - Bankai! New ink - Kurosaki Ichigo hollow mask
- July 27, 2009 - Homemade Don Juan Especial!
- April 23, 2009 - New ink: Japanese devil mask!
- April 17, 2009 - New ink: killer octopus!
- April 9, 2009 - New ink: hacker emblem
- March 18, 2009 - Kevin Devine @ Mohawk's
- March 3, 2009 - New ink: Hook ups girl
- February 26, 2009 - at the Rockets game vs Cleveland
- February 20, 2009 - Ethan & Ricky pup!
- February 3, 2009 - February ALT.NET Geek Dinner
- January 30, 2009 - Ethan's a little snagglepuss!
- January 25, 2009 - The Don Juan Especiál
2008
- December 20, 2008 - Ethan's got holiday spirit!
- November 22, 2008 - RAWR!
- November 22, 2008 - Andre 3 stacks in NY
- November 13, 2008 - SubSonic 3.0 preview 2
- September 30, 2008 - Houston ALT.NET Geek Dinner - Thursday Oct 2nd
- July 3, 2008 - Good Luck, Yex
- June 23, 2008 - jQuery - There is no spoon
- May 21, 2008 - Welcome Back, Dare
- May 14, 2008 - Professional Ribbon control for Windows Forms
- February 20, 2008 - Error: Could not open the requested SVN filesystem
- February 5, 2008 - Bring it on!
- January 24, 2008 - Oh, she amazed me!
- January 2, 2008 - Cheap Thrillz: TortoiseSVN overlay icons in Windows Vista
2007
- December 13, 2007 - DataGridView ColorPicker using a DataGridViewButtonColumn
- November 28, 2007 - Guitar Hero: Pros
- November 25, 2007 - Darren Neimke on building ajax applications in asp.net
- November 14, 2007 - HappyMappy
- November 14, 2007 - O Hai.
- November 14, 2007 - Blog Moving
- July 27, 2007 - Setting up a new External to Internal IP mapping on OpenBSD
- July 25, 2007 - Paul Stovell has lost his marbles.
- June 29, 2007 - Christopher is ...
- June 7, 2007 - So quiet...
- May 25, 2007 - Sql Server Management Studio Express - you suck.
- April 25, 2007 - Exposing Hidden Events
- March 22, 2007 - Windows Updates Make Me Nervous
- March 22, 2007 - skmMenu code change to work with xhtml doctypes
- March 15, 2007 - ASP.NET - UrlRewriting with PathInfo and base urls
- March 8, 2007 - SubSonic Scaffold control - a GridView with Class
2006
- September 11, 2006 - ..||..
- August 22, 2006 - RE: What about PostXING?
- August 17, 2006 - Windows Live Writer
- August 11, 2006 - RE Finding calling method using reflection
- July 20, 2006 - Whip it Real Hard
- July 14, 2006 - What's this? My Application won't Exit?
- July 8, 2006 - Gaffling that ribbon style
- June 29, 2006 - Step your game up, Microsoft.
- June 13, 2006 - We'll miss you, Mr. Holmquist.
- June 7, 2006 - RE: Using DLINQ with ASP.NET (Part 2 of my LINQ series)
- June 6, 2006 - Community Server 2.0 BlogML Converter Beta - success!
- May 12, 2006 - RE: Bad news gets worse
- May 10, 2006 - PostXING: Shameless request for feedback
- May 4, 2006 - Getting a temporary filename the easy way - feedback
- May 4, 2006 - Getting a temporary filename the easy way
- May 4, 2006 - I Flipped a Coin
- April 14, 2006 - the yield statement - not so mysterious after all?
- March 31, 2006 - Visual Studio 2005 Designer: Touchy, Thouchy!
- March 20, 2006 - NetVibe: Listen for SSID change
- March 14, 2006 - RE: SecurePasswordTextBox update
- March 13, 2006 - tësting ûnïcode
- March 13, 2006 - Quick shoutout to RegexLib.com
- March 12, 2006 - BackgroundWorker.isRunning : take two
- March 10, 2006 - RE: What is with Blogger.com?
- March 9, 2006 - PostXING - It's Beta Time!
- March 7, 2006 - Source, are you useful again?
- March 7, 2006 - SubText, BlogML, and PostXING
- March 1, 2006 - PostXING plugin: MetaPinger
- March 1, 2006 - PostXING plugin: TechnoratiTagger
- February 20, 2006 - FIX: Design View error in VS 2005
- February 15, 2006 - Got My ASP.NET Podcast Shirt
- February 14, 2006 - Subversion on Windows
- February 11, 2006 - BackgroundWorker.isRunning
- January 30, 2006 - All In Your Head: DJ Fred Castillo
- January 28, 2006 - CIDR Notation Cheat Sheet
- January 26, 2006 - MSBuild: Date-based build number blues
- January 24, 2006 - Thanks, RssBandit.
- January 20, 2006 - Gmail Delete Button
- January 19, 2006 - RE: PostXING: Better Keyboard Support
- January 17, 2006 - MonoDevelop to get a Design-Enabled
- January 13, 2006 - Got my new glasses
- January 11, 2006 - MVP Again
2005
- December 23, 2005 - PostXING v2 alpha and proxies
- December 21, 2005 - Yahoo! Widgets (Konfabulator) 3.0.2
- December 13, 2005 - MSN Spaces opens up MetaWeblog API support
- December 12, 2005 - NetVibe: listen for network changes and execute a script.
- December 10, 2005 - System.Net.NetworkInformation
- December 7, 2005 - PostXING: Offline Categories
- December 7, 2005 - PostXING conversation with Peter Provost continues...
- December 7, 2005 - Forcing the DataGridView to do my bidding - a tale of ComboBox hackery
- November 24, 2005 - Two years ago...
- November 18, 2005 - Jim Ross Dies
- November 17, 2005 - Project -> Properties -> Publish
- November 17, 2005 - PostXING: Recent Fixes
- November 17, 2005 - RE: 8 Steps to Better Windows Applications
- November 16, 2005 - PostXING Sux.
- November 16, 2005 - RE: MetaWeblog API beta for MSN Spaces chugs along
- November 15, 2005 - RE: PostXING Review - Yet Another Blog Posting Client
- November 10, 2005 - Woe unto the COM-referencing VS2005 Winforms Designer
- November 9, 2005 - xml-rpc.net and BOM
- November 7, 2005 - ToolStripColorButton: a WinForms 2.0 Control
- November 4, 2005 - Ctrl+K, X
- October 27, 2005 - VistaDB
- October 27, 2005 - Zeppelin: Babe I'm gonna leave you
- October 20, 2005 - Guess who's going to the World Series?
- October 19, 2005 - How not to use the PictureBox control.
- October 12, 2005 - Visual Studio Editor, how you mock me.
- October 11, 2005 - Creating a Google Maps .NET Control
- October 3, 2005 - RE: Microsoft Codename "Spang"
- September 30, 2005 - Starting to dogfood PostXING v2.
- September 21, 2005 - Houstonians are starting to panic.
- September 21, 2005 - Expected downtime
- September 18, 2005 - Ethan and Cody at the beach
- September 14, 2005 - My Weekend
- September 12, 2005 - Eric is a stand-up guy.
- September 9, 2005 - Virtual Earth for commercial apps
- September 9, 2005 - PostXING v2? Where's the goods?
- September 8, 2005 - It's fixed.
- September 8, 2005 - This is getting fixed. Today.
- September 7, 2005 - Hazaa! 0 unread feeds in my subscriptions
- September 7, 2005 - RE: RSS Bandit [Nightcrawler Edition] Alpha Progress Report
- September 7, 2005 - RE: www.windowsforms.net is dead
- September 6, 2005 - RE: Google maps .NET control
- September 5, 2005 - Darren and BlogML
- August 26, 2005 - Dual booting Linux Redhat 9 and Windows XP using a CD
- August 10, 2005 - Insanely simple GradientPanel for WinForms
- August 5, 2005 - A week already
- July 28, 2005 - Thanks!
- July 27, 2005 - RE: Blog APIs
- July 23, 2005 - Applesauce tastes gooood.
- July 23, 2005 - Ethan's got some money...
- July 22, 2005 - Clearly a windows user...
- July 22, 2005 - Richard...
- July 19, 2005 - Ethan and Mama re
- July 18, 2005 - Saving an embedded resource xml file at runtime in C#
- July 14, 2005 - Set the passive port range for IIS ftp
- July 13, 2005 - I feel like a commercial
- July 13, 2005 - My favorite Top 11 Country Songs
- July 13, 2005 - Divelements SandDock 2.0
- July 7, 2005 - Object cannot be stored in an array of this type.
- July 5, 2005 - Free at last...
- July 2, 2005 - ReverseDOS Configuration for CS::Blogs revisited
- July 1, 2005 - Dangerously close...
- June 27, 2005 - ReverseDOS attracting ire...
- June 25, 2005 - What's this? PostXING can post to dasBlog?
- June 23, 2005 - ReverseDOS: 8 days later
- June 23, 2005 - CS::Blogs : beware the permission set
- June 20, 2005 - PostXING and interfaces
- June 19, 2005 - Maybe I'm Amazed
- June 17, 2005 - Blogging API commonalities
- June 16, 2005 - ReverseDOS in Community Server
- June 15, 2005 - RE: This is just a test
- June 15, 2005 - PostXING Answers for Yex
- June 15, 2005 - Greasmonkey goodies; embrace and extend
- June 10, 2005 - PostXING development
- June 10, 2005 - A new face for PostXING
- May 27, 2005 - If I only knew then...
- May 27, 2005 - Converting a Base64 String to an image
- May 25, 2005 - We're back online!
- May 24, 2005 - To those that care...
- May 23, 2005 - Ever looked back in time?
- May 23, 2005 - A couple of PostXING ideas
- May 18, 2005 - PSKit: Replacing that pesky Lorem Ipsum text with dynamic content
- May 12, 2005 - On Community Support give and you shall recieve
- May 5, 2005 - RE: Announcing Subtext, A Fork Of .TEXT For Your Blogging Pleasure
- April 29, 2005 - PSKit: FormView initial thoughts
- April 25, 2005 - ObjectDataSource goodness.
- April 21, 2005 - RE: Digital Pontification - Podcast Show Notes (4/21)
- April 19, 2005 - CS::Blogs: allowing anonymous comments
- April 15, 2005 - RE: ObjectDock
- April 9, 2005 - Goodbye, Lynn
- April 8, 2005 - New PostXING release
- April 6, 2005 - Little Tony
- April 2, 2005 - RE: We're back!
- April 1, 2005 - Re: Here we go!
- March 26, 2005 - Running WebMatrix with a Whidbey Beta installed
- March 24, 2005 - Enabling styles in CS
- March 24, 2005 - A little CS hack for the metablog API
- March 22, 2005 - Customer Service Message
- March 17, 2005 - A little down time...
- March 16, 2005 - PostXING's vaultpub works.
- March 16, 2005 - My comments are broken...
- March 15, 2005 - PostXING feature requests
- March 1, 2005 - Using OpenSSH tunneling for RealVNC on Windows
- February 17, 2005 - Channel 9 guy...
- February 17, 2005 - BradA at the Houston .NET UG
- February 15, 2005 - Updated my engine.
- February 9, 2005 - Asian "Just Lose It"
- February 7, 2005 - They're pretty useless but...
- February 2, 2005 - Added Tabbing
- February 1, 2005 - RE: /aiCAPTCHA article FAQ
- January 29, 2005 - This is gonna piss some people off...
- January 29, 2005 - RE: This is gonna piss some people off...
- January 29, 2005 - New PostXING coming soon
- January 24, 2005 - Sun's Open letter to IBM.
- January 21, 2005 - Score for CS Blogs
- January 21, 2005 - Halo (both of 'em)
- January 17, 2005 - New PostXING release
- January 13, 2005 - IBlogExtension, from the other side
- January 12, 2005 - RE: New PostXING release.
- January 12, 2005 - New PostXING release.
- January 11, 2005 - A new feature...
- January 7, 2005 - RE: Couple of feature requests
- January 6, 2005 - Using the NetSpell plugin for PostXING.
- January 6, 2005 - RE: I am Nerdier than Paul
- January 6, 2005 - Extensibility Application Block - a review of an implementation.
- January 5, 2005 - RE: MVP Again OR Here Come the "MeToo's"
- January 5, 2005 - How bad do you want spellchecking?
- January 4, 2005 - Set your FileAccess!
- January 4, 2005 - RE: new domain name for Aceh Aid
- January 4, 2005 - New customizable version of BlogThisUsingPostXINGPlugin available
2004
- December 31, 2004 - IPlugin implemented.
- December 30, 2004 - A couple of releases
- December 22, 2004 - RE: IBlogExtension
- December 20, 2004 - RE: Cross-posting - A new trend?
- December 16, 2004 - Paul D. Murphy's Google Juice research
- December 13, 2004 - Southpark Me.
- December 7, 2004 - Project Distributor: the chicken AND the egg!
- December 3, 2004 - Wooohooo!
- December 3, 2004 - Wes, you Rock.
- December 2, 2004 - Prince of Persia 2: the Warrior Within
- December 1, 2004 - Does this mean I've made it?
- November 30, 2004 - Posted too soon?
- November 30, 2004 - LoreSoft.com
- November 30, 2004 - IBlogExtension
- November 26, 2004 - Hey Scoble
- November 25, 2004 - Fact check first, Christopher
- November 24, 2004 - We've come a long way, baby.
- November 24, 2004 - I've got a little pirate.
- November 19, 2004 - Free Icons at EggHeadCafe
- November 19, 2004 - CODESNIP - Creating C# like indexers in VB.NET
- November 19, 2004 - Bring Back KLOL!
- November 15, 2004 - Happy Birthday to me
- November 11, 2004 - test
- November 4, 2004 - Stupid error messages.
- November 4, 2004 - ProjectDistributor rox your sox.
- October 28, 2004 - How I use the new "preview template" in PostXING
- October 22, 2004 - PostXING Released.
- October 12, 2004 - I see ya...
- October 6, 2004 - How Jedi Are you?
- September 28, 2004 - Happy Birthday, G!
- September 23, 2004 - CodeSnip: Getting Currently Playing info from Windows Media Player using the blogging power toy.
- September 11, 2004 - Embrace and Extend: MikeDub's IUI article
- September 1, 2004 - Added New Articles
- August 17, 2004 - url123.com
- August 10, 2004 - In case you didn't know,
- July 27, 2004 - Where in the hell have you been?
- July 1, 2004 - THINGS YOU WISH YOU COULD SAY AT WORK
- June 24, 2004 - The road to enlightenment
- June 22, 2004 - Another personal post
- June 11, 2004 - All quiet...
- June 4, 2004 - Searching for Adam Sills
- June 3, 2004 - Starting a conversation - I want to hear your opinion.
- May 27, 2004 - The Tao of Programming
- May 22, 2004 - What's the point of comment spam?
- May 13, 2004 - Office 2003 Faces
- May 11, 2004 - Okay, That was pretty cool.
- May 1, 2004 - er...maybe I DO need to get out more often.
- May 1, 2004 - I can ping everything now.
- April 30, 2004 - Links for Monte Carlo Simulations
- April 30, 2004 - Achooo!
- April 27, 2004 - holla!
- April 21, 2004 - HtmlComponent
- April 9, 2004 - Freakin a(tof)!
- April 8, 2004 - Imitation vs. Innovation
- April 3, 2004 - Hell freezes over
- March 29, 2004 - Madrid
- March 24, 2004 - How did I format that code?
- March 24, 2004 - Drag and Drop Urls in Windows Forms
- March 22, 2004 - This sucks.
- March 20, 2004 - my first desktop cross-post
- March 20, 2004 - last try I promise.
- March 19, 2004 - I feel ya.
- March 17, 2004 - What do you want from WinForms?
- March 17, 2004 - That's what I'm talkin bout!
- March 16, 2004 - I had to blog this.
- March 14, 2004 - Movin on up...
- March 11, 2004 - Public Apology
- January 23, 2004 - The internet is shit.
- January 23, 2004 - It's coming...
- January 21, 2004 - Guess who's also an MVP?
- January 15, 2004 - Come back to ASP.NET for the first time.
- January 6, 2004 - HtmlComponent.Document.Selection
- January 3, 2004 - Blatant "Me Too" Post
2003
- December 31, 2003 - 2004
- December 24, 2003 - PostModern Crossroads
- December 17, 2003 - sorry to my 2 readers
- December 12, 2003 - Local DasBlog
- December 10, 2003 - \[deactivatedstyle\]
- December 10, 2003 - It has begun or Does size really matter?
- December 4, 2003 - posting from the desktop...
- December 4, 2003 - Posting code snippets from the desktop...
- December 3, 2003 - What's in a name?
- November 26, 2003 - Blogert
- November 25, 2003 - I want a new...
- November 19, 2003 - Hannah Henson
- November 18, 2003 - Ever heard of role-based security?
- November 14, 2003 - Tomorrow's my birthday.
- November 14, 2003 - Exception Management
- November 4, 2003 - Seeing the Matrix Manana
- November 1, 2003 - May be changing servers soon...
- October 31, 2003 - Singing the praises of the ASP.NET Version Switcher.
- October 28, 2003 - I don't speak German, but...
- October 27, 2003 - This *is* a cross-post from .Text.
- October 24, 2003 - My Thursday Night
- October 23, 2003 - For anybody who's running .Text...
- October 21, 2003 - Somebody likes the blue Lighty.
- October 21, 2003 - For anyone who wants the Lighty skin to look a little better in Mozilla...
- October 20, 2003 - sigh of relief
- October 16, 2003 - Test from MetaBlog/w.bloggar
- October 14, 2003 - Simple Scrolling added to my blog
- October 11, 2003 - Hannah Henson
- October 10, 2003 - New Skin, new Gallery!
- October 9, 2003 - A different OS this time...
- October 6, 2003 - ATM - Galaga
- October 1, 2003 - Thanks Darren...Show us your-Regex!
- October 1, 2003 - More cross-posting shennanigans.
- September 26, 2003 - Archives
- September 24, 2003 - Note to the Windows Forms team
- September 23, 2003 - Intellisense problem solved.
- September 19, 2003 - technology is like
- September 12, 2003 - Paying it forward
- September 11, 2003 - Wow. It's a website. (part deux)
- September 11, 2003 - I remember.
- September 10, 2003 - test
- September 10, 2003 - oops.
- September 10, 2003 - geourl
- September 10, 2003 - added emoticons :)
- September 10, 2003 - ImageLists
- September 9, 2003 - thanks.
- September 9, 2003 - System.Net.WebProxy.GetDefaultProxy()
- September 9, 2003 - No command-line proxy for you, buddy.
- September 6, 2003 - Coming real soon...
- August 25, 2003 - flat -> normal shudder
- August 23, 2003 - Got an importer.
- August 21, 2003 - Testing geourl
- August 21, 2003 - moving to .Text
- August 6, 2003 - Mono
- August 5, 2003 - Hits from a survival guide.
- August 1, 2003 - From the Trenches...
- July 30, 2003 - Mission Possible
- July 30, 2003 - AcceptChanges()
- July 23, 2003 - WhoIs, and my first WinForms Project
- July 23, 2003 - Finally, my upgrade!
- July 14, 2003 - I just made it to Redmond.
- July 11, 2003 - nyt hackers
- July 11, 2003 - Yeah, it's swell...
- July 11, 2003 - Managed Quake II? swell.
- July 9, 2003 - Comment Reply
- July 8, 2003 - v1.1.4322 w/o VS.NET 2003
- July 6, 2003 - Robert Sindall
- July 1, 2003 - Comment Reply
- June 30, 2003 - So VB.NET just ain't that bad after all.
- June 26, 2003 - WORA...log4net
- June 23, 2003 - Object ref....
- June 23, 2003 - Corporate Blogs Catching on
- June 17, 2003 - WinXP wipe
- June 16, 2003 - Things that make you go...
- June 16, 2003 - Added a snippet DHTML ImageButton server control
- June 14, 2003 - Member cap
- June 8, 2003 - ypXmlTree
- June 8, 2003 - That's great. It's a website.
- June 7, 2003 - The .NET pledge
- June 6, 2003 - xsd2db and Me
- June 4, 2003 - Must...resist...
- June 4, 2003 - Log this!
- June 3, 2003 - Srinath says
- June 3, 2003 - Exception Management Block
- June 1, 2003 - +1 reader
- May 31, 2003 - VS.NET being difficult...
- May 30, 2003 - You're a nerd.
- May 30, 2003 - Pattern Primate...
- May 30, 2003 - Cross-posting revisited
- May 28, 2003 - Unwittingly giving Google Juice...
- May 23, 2003 - HashConfigCs
- May 21, 2003 - RegExValidator Tester
- May 20, 2003 - dmrader
- May 20, 2003 - The Bridge Whatsis?
- May 15, 2003 - WYSIWYG 4 Opera
- May 13, 2003 - developerLabs
- May 13, 2003 - Lessons learned.
- May 13, 2003 - Delimma
- May 12, 2003 - Functional Decomposition
- May 6, 2003 - From one of the funniest blog titles department...
- May 5, 2003 - Effective Linking
- May 4, 2003 - My favorite Exception.
- May 2, 2003 - Comment Storage
- May 2, 2003 - To CommentAPI, or not to CommentAPI?
- May 2, 2003 - Hyperlink This!
- May 2, 2003 - Comments...help?
- May 1, 2003 - Win2k Terminal Services.
- May 1, 2003 - Last ping w/o post...
- April 30, 2003 - Success.
- April 30, 2003 - Almost.
- April 28, 2003 - The new Look, feel, and function of dotnetweblogs.com
- April 28, 2003 - More Integration.
- April 25, 2003 - The logic (or lack thereof) behind xhtml:body
- April 25, 2003 - GeoBlog.
- April 25, 2003 - A sexy UI
- April 23, 2003 - Pingbacks/trackbacks
- April 18, 2003 - Need Logo
- April 17, 2003 - BlogThis - Thanks Simon
- April 17, 2003 - Added new Story on using Reflection to make dynamic about pages.
- April 15, 2003 - xhtml.xsd?
- April 14, 2003 - dotnetweblogs integration.
- April 12, 2003 - asp.net user control to display scrollable rss2.0 feeds
- April 12, 2003 - Scobleizer vs Dvorak
- April 12, 2003 - More on aggregators...
- April 11, 2003 - Where is everybody?
- April 11, 2003 - Clippy
- April 9, 2003 - the Scoble says...
- April 9, 2003 - MBSA
- April 8, 2003 - devenv.exe /setup
- April 8, 2003 - Ok, I'll try one more time...
- April 8, 2003 - I love this stuff.
- April 7, 2003 - SharpReader
- April 7, 2003 - Aggrrregator Overload! ---- SharpReader.
- April 7, 2003 - Aggregator integration
- April 6, 2003 - In need of direction...(was:Don...you're doing it again :|)
- April 3, 2003 - Starter Kits Rule!
- April 1, 2003 - More! More! More! - It's Coming - Woohoo!
- March 31, 2003 - More! More! More!!
- March 31, 2003 - Boy, am I glad to see you!
- March 31, 2003 - 10 hrs on the road and over 600 miles covered...and worth every second.
- March 28, 2003 - Have YOU ever heard of Detroit....TX? No one else has, either
- March 28, 2003 - A Blessing in disguise? (follow-up to 'Boo! on Validators')
- March 27, 2003 - Boo! on ASP.NET Validators!
- March 18, 2003 - Happiness is getting...
- March 17, 2003 - added custom config section handler story.
- March 16, 2003 - Remote Desktop
- March 16, 2003 - I've taken the plunge...
- March 14, 2003 - Stupid [fill in the blank]
- March 12, 2003 - Taking Custom Configuration Sections A Step Further
- March 11, 2003 - Custom configuration sections
- March 11, 2003 - Added 'Extending the MetaBuilder's RollOverLink' Story
- March 11, 2003 - Added Editing a custom icon to a web server control story
- March 10, 2003 - Added HTTP Request code snippit
- March 5, 2003 - Stupid Cookie.Domain
- February 28, 2003 - I am the Framework. I run managed code. I am without flaw.
- February 26, 2003 - Cool uses for DHTML
- February 22, 2003 - Getting Started on some Controls Issues
- February 21, 2003 - Jump into VB.NET - feet furst
- February 18, 2003 - .NET Brain Farts
- February 13, 2003 - ReporT!!
- February 11, 2003 - Nearing completion...
- February 11, 2003 - Generating Ideas...
- February 10, 2003 - Monday morning...
- February 8, 2003 - HELPING C VETERANS WITH .NET
- February 7, 2003 - WOOT! FIRST POST!