May 2005 - Brendan Tompkins

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  • Can Blogs be Trusted?

    Jay has been expressing his Mass Confusion... Information overload I'm getting all kinds of advice, but I'm not sure who to listen to at times because I really don't know who really knows what their talking about I left a comment to this post You can't be wrong on a well read blog without being told...
  • Web Service Thinking - Thoughts on Steve's thoughts on Sahil's thoughts...

    Sahil and Steve have been posting some really great stuff on this whole question of “What’s a Web Service.” I’ve been trying to wrap my head around this myself with my WSMQ project, so I thought I’d add my two cents. Sahil is right on the money with his post WebServices - A WHOLE new way of thinking...
  • If I were Peter Frampton..

    I'd gather you all in a big stadium, hook up a guitar to one of those voice box thingeys, and serenade the blogosphere with a 20 minute verision of "Baby I Love Your Way": Do you feel like we do? Get back. Do you feel..do you feel like we do? Oh baby do you feel? Oh baby do you feel, feel like we do...
  • New Site Design

    You may have noticed our new CodeBetter.Com site design and logo. This is the first in a series of site enhancements here, so stay tuned! -Brendan P.S. If you're still seeing blue nav buttons, you may have to refresh your cached images. Ctrl-F5 (Firefox users : Ctrl-R) should forces a full refresh of...
  • Screen Scraping Web Forms Content with System.Net.WebClient

    Sometimes you may have the need for accessing html web content from within an application. Why would you need to do this? Well, suppose you need to have a Windows Service periodically render a page with dynamic content and attach it to an email. Your application would need a way to request and save the...
  • Bloggers have Arrived...

    I just received my much anticipated copy of James Avery's Visual Studio Hacks today. Can't wait to get into it this weekend, but I read the credits and the list of contributers reads like my Bloglines subscriptions! Just a few of the bloggers he mentions are Dave Donaldson , Scott Mitchell , Alex Papadimoulis...
  • Building the WSMQ SQL Sever Database Installer

    As part of our release of the WSMQ 1.0 Beta (SQL Server Version) installer, we had to build an installer that would install our database. In the past, I've created database installers by hand, storing SQL Scripts in resource files, and doing the logic around installation options by hand. With the latest...
  • My Conversation with a Crystal Guru

    A Crystal Reports consultant was in town recently for a big migration project from Crystal to Business Objects XI for the port. I was supposed to get some face time with him at the end of his gig, so that he could enlighten me about how best to connect my .NET framework to the back-end BO server. This...
  • WSMQ 1.0 Beta (SQL Server Version) Launch

    I’m happy to announce the start of the public beta for WSMQ 1.0 (SQL Server Version). This downloadable beta is available to all registered users of the WSMQ site. For more information, register at http://www.wsmq.com . About WSMQ Web Service Message Queue (WSMQ) is a simple message queuing alternative...
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