David Findley's Blog

Nice to see that OnCare has made it out into the wild. I was on the beta for OneCare and found it to be very usable. I've used Norton AV and McAfee virus scanners in the past. I really have not liked the 3rd party antivirus apps because they eat up alot of resources and cause compatibility issues. OneCare seemed to play nice and I didnt notice any system degradation while using it. If your still riding bare back I highly suggest you try out OneCare.

P.S. another really nice light weight virus scanner is portable clamwin. It's free and can run from your usb thumb drive. Good for those times when you have to play IT guy for your family or friends. :)

Oh boy! While a friend and I were browsing for books we came across this little  gem:

http://www.nerdbooks.com/item.php?id=0471783307


This proves my theory that there's a "For Dummies" book on everything.

I tried the forgot my password option and codeplex sent me the email with the link to reset my password. I clicked it and went to the page that let me specify a new password. When I submitted the form it took a long time and eventually just died with no response. (Just aborted the connection, Fiddler showed that it didnt respond with any data.). Now my account is locked out. I sent the codeplex guys an email via the contact us link about a week ago and still havnt recieved a reply. I guess I have to create a whole new login with a different email address if I want to continue trying codeplex.

Has anyone else been able to successfully use the forgot my password option?

I just got Office 2007 Beta 2 installed and lo and behold Word can publish blog posts!

I have about 20gig of digital photos. And I'm constantly adding more pictures from my Canon Digital Rebel. I am really looking forward to the Windows Photo Gallery app in Vista. I just installed Vista beta2 and the app seems to run really well.

I have one big complaint though. The photo import for digital cameras. Why do all the photo apps insist on using the "film roll" metaphor? They all seem to want to organize the filesystem storage based on the date that you import them into the photo app. This is my biggest complaint about iPhoto as well so I'm not just picking on MS. ALL digicams these days stamp the date and time of the picture in the EXIF data. Why cant we use this data for naming the folders and files? Windows Photo Gallery can use this data but in a VERY limited way. I have all my photos organized like this on the file system:

My Pictures\2006\May\2006-05-01 12-05-37_1.jpg
or
My Pictures\Year\Month\YYYY-MM-DD HH-MM-SS_#.jpg

bsimser has a good writeup on CodePlex and Team Explorer here.

It would seem that Team Explorer still works with any TFS. I'm still in shock that MS actually did this. Now I just have to get everything set up and give it a spin.

bsimser says that the Team Explorer client comes with TFS. I just finished downloading the CD image and I'm having problems finding a stand alone server install. I know that on MSDN theres a 5 user version of TFS that you can download separately.

A friend of mine (Preston Ridley) just alerted me to this blog that says Team Explorer is available for free download now. This is for use with codeplex. This is great news! Thank you MS! The pondering has already started on how this effects CALs for users that need just TFS access. My guess is that the free version is only for use with codeplex.

Yet another ruby tool I'm gonna have to spend some time with: http://wtr.rubyforge.org/

P.S. I need to take a look at IronRuby as well. With all the great work done on the 2.0 version of the CLR for dynamic languages it seems that a Ruby implementation in .NET is inevitable.