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The CodeBetter.Com/Devlicio.Us Endowed Scholarship in Computer Science

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Published Tue, Dec 8 2009 2:02 AM by Brendan Tompkins
Is FeedBurner a Dead Project?

Recently, I'd say in the past month or so, our FeedBurner flare icon RSS feed subscriptions have been dropping like flies. We went from 25K to 12K and now today to 7K! There's one of two things possibly going on here 1) Kyle is becoming the most hated blogger on the planet (which is one extremely...

Published Wed, Oct 15 2008 2:48 AM by Brendan Tompkins

Filed under: Feedburner
Dave Laribee Video Coverage of Mix08

Just a quick administrative note, as this information is timely and not to be missed. Dave Laribee is our man at Mix08 and is doing some great Qik.com videos with the CodeBetter Video Phone (Nokia N82)... Be sure to check it out, and if you'd like to get in front of the camera to say hi, try to hook...

Published Thu, Mar 6 2008 3:50 AM by Brendan Tompkins

Filed under: Featured, Video, Mix08
New Ajax-Enabled CAPTCHA for Community Server 2007

Just a quick post to announce the release of the latest version of CodeBetter.CommunityServerExtensions which includes some bugfixes and the much anticipated CAPTCHA validation on the server via Ajax stuff. I knew it was time when I started getting comments like this to the original announcement : sorry...

Published Wed, Dec 5 2007 4:57 AM by Brendan Tompkins

Filed under: Community Server, CAPTCHA
ASP/ASP.NET MVP!

Got the word yesterday that I received an MVP award for "Visual Developer - ASP/ASP.NET" ... I'm going to be spending the next few weeks brushing up on my ASP skills, because as an MVP I surely must be expected to know these things. Thanks to Raymond for the nomination this year, Sahil...

Published Mon, Jul 2 2007 3:50 AM by Brendan Tompkins
Refactoring Unsafe Code: GIF Image Color Quantizer, Now with Safe Goodness

I've had a few requests to create a safe version of the Image Quantization library I've blogged about quite a few times: see Use GDI+ to Save Crystal-Clear GIF Images with .NET. It turns out this is quite useful for a lot of people, but the old version contained unsafe code, which wouldn't...

Published Thu, Jun 14 2007 3:07 AM by Brendan Tompkins

Filed under: Refactoring, GDI+
Lazy Friday Thoughts on Addictive Technology

There's something in me that's generally skeptical about new technology. Recently I've been trying to understand why I'm slightly under-whelmed by Silverlight. On the face of it, having a truly cross-platform CLR sounds absolutely incredible. I've invested the last 6 years of my career...

Published Fri, May 18 2007 2:35 PM by Brendan Tompkins

Filed under: Silverlight
CAPTCHA for Community Server 2007

I'm happy to announce that CodeBetter.Com is carrying on the legacy of CAPTCHA for Community Server . CAPTCHA for CS2007 is the next generation of CS Guru Dave Burke's most excellent CAPTCHA control for Community Server 2.1 . This version is implemented as a Control Adapter which allows CAPTCHA...

Published Fri, Apr 27 2007 12:17 PM by Brendan Tompkins

Filed under: Community Server, CAPTCHA
CodeBetter.Com Community Server 2007 Upgrade!

If you're a regular visitor. You may have noticed that today CodeBetter.Com has a new site skin. Hopefully this skin is better to look at, and loads faster than our old ugly digs. I'm happy to report that we're up and running on Telligent's Community Server 2007 , which was released earlier...

Published Fri, Apr 20 2007 5:05 PM by Brendan Tompkins

Filed under: Featured
An Open Source Translation Dictionary for Windows Mobile

Over at Devlicio.us I'm blogging about my experiences developing an application for my Samsung Blackjack: It's a Translation Dictionary with a Flashcard feature that supports multiple dictionaries, with the ability to create and more. Currently I'm packaging an English-French dictionary with...

Published Fri, Mar 30 2007 2:51 PM by Brendan Tompkins

Filed under: SQL 2005, Compact Framework
Edit SQL 2005 Analysis Server Cube Report Models

I've been spending a good portion of the year so far working with SQL Server 2005. I have to comment that when Microsoft hits the mark with a product release, they really nail it. With SQL 2005 and all of its component services, they've created a hugely powerful suite of servers. It's been...

Published Wed, Feb 28 2007 9:34 AM by Brendan Tompkins

Filed under: Reporting Services, SQL 2005
Funny Error Message

While unfruitfully plodding my way through creating an OLAP cube with SSAS 2005, I saw this error today which made me chuckle: "If you see this there was a major bug while creating object Dimension" Is this the coding equivalent of the "If you can read this, you're too close"...

Published Mon, Dec 18 2006 1:58 PM by Brendan Tompkins
Book Giveaway - Final Winner

Congratulations to the final winner of The Great CodeBetter Eight-Week Fall Book Giveaway, Miguel Jimenez Antelo . Miguel gets a copy of : Essential ASP.NET 2.0 By Fritz Onion , Keith Brown . We'll be getting some more books to give away, and next time, I promise to make the contest more interesting...

Published Fri, Dec 15 2006 1:34 PM by Brendan Tompkins

Filed under: ASP.NET
GIF Image Color Reduction in .NET

A while back, I posed a solution for creating an adaptive GIF image from a JPEG image source in .NET, Use GDI+ to Save Crystal-Clear GIF Images with .NET Recently a question was asked in the comments about how to save a 16-color GIF image using this library. It's pretty simple actually, in fact,...

Published Fri, Dec 8 2006 1:26 AM by Brendan Tompkins

Filed under: ASP.NET
Book Giveaway - Week 7 Winner

Congratulations to Week 7 winner Keith Rull! Keith runs Devpinoy.Org , a Filipino Developers Community... definitely check it out. Keith gets a copy of Data Structures and Algorithms in Java, 2nd Edition by Robert LaFore . One more week left, and it's a doosey! Essential ASP.NET 2.0 By Fritz Onion...

Published Fri, Dec 8 2006 7:49 AM by Brendan Tompkins

Filed under: ASP.NET

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The CodeBetter.Com/Devlicio.Us Endowed Scholarship in Computer Science

Is FeedBurner a Dead Project?

Dave Laribee Video Coverage of Mix08

New Ajax-Enabled CAPTCHA for Community Server 2007

ASP/ASP.NET MVP!

Refactoring Unsafe Code: GIF Image Color Quantizer, Now with Safe Goodness

Lazy Friday Thoughts on Addictive Technology

CAPTCHA for Community Server 2007

CodeBetter.Com Community Server 2007 Upgrade!

An Open Source Translation Dictionary for Windows Mobile

Edit SQL 2005 Analysis Server Cube Report Models

Funny Error Message

Book Giveaway - Final Winner

GIF Image Color Reduction in .NET

Book Giveaway - Week 7 Winner