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My million dollar idea please steal it hardware mfrs [My million dollar idea please steal it hardware mfrs]

JR Thomas — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:45:16 GMT

Why not sell a pair of wireless transcievers with DVI, HDMI and/or VGA interfaces on them. Have Drivers for the OS that once your monitor meets the transceiver in your laptop they out synch when they are both turned on within 30 feet of each other or so.

One less cord to plug in. You could build the transcievers into displays and laptops after a few generations.

Why hasn't this been done?

Docking stations the next generation:)

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using Sys.Services.AuthenticationService.login and Decoding url in Javascript [using Sys.Services.AuthenticationService.login and Decoding url in Javascript]

JR Thomas — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 02:27:55 GMT

So I have the following code using JQUERY with Sys.Services.AuthenticationService.login.

var username = $('#username').attr("value");

var password = $('#password').attr("value");

var isPersistent = false;

var customInfo = null;

var redirectUrl = $.jqURL.get('ReturnUrl');

Sys.Services.AuthenticationService.login(

username,

password,

isPersistent,

customInfo,

redirectUrl,

loginCompleted,

loginFailed);

Life is great except when the service redirects it does not decode the query string parameter before using it so it ends up at:
http://localhost:54201/%2fAdmin%2fdefault.aspx

With a 400 bad request HTTP error.

Anybody know of a sample where the decode a url in javascript?

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Skype Wan Party Wenesday (Tonight) 7:30 PM [Skype Wan Party Wenesday (Tonight) 7:30 PM]

JR Thomas — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:05:45 GMT

http://girldeveloper.com/vlog/my-first-video-blog/

.NET Wan Party yet again! Tonight on Skype 7:30 (UTC -5) Chirp me for details.

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No partay like a Skype Party [No partay like a Skype Party]

JR Thomas — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 02:20:22 GMT

http://girldeveloper.com/vlog/my-first-video-blog/

Come crash the 2ND Wan Party this Wenesday at 7:30 PM EST (GMT -5) on Skype. See the above url for the Conference organizer's Skype ID.

If you ever wanted to flame me in person this as close as you ll get. Trust me my lawyers are on it.

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IE 8 comments [IE 8 comments]

JR Thomas — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:13:42 GMT

1)Flash does not work. No Hulu, no Netflix, no nothing.
2)Gmail looks like a 3rd grader tried to draw my inbox.

Think I will give the powers that be sometime to get major websites in line. Not ready for primetime. I blame the work arounds everyone is using. Hope for epic fail so hopefully some browser that works better FF or Chrome don't care which can lead us to the promise land:) Where web developers don't have to get it to work in IE and then all other browsers. Or vice versa depending on your world view.

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Microsoft Research should definately pick up this project [Microsoft Research should definately pick up this project]

JR Thomas — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:41:53 GMT

http://wiseperception.com/node/110

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MSDN events are now charging [MSDN events are now charging]

JR Thomas — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:23:18 GMT

http://blogs.msdn.com/gduthie/archive/2008/11/04/the-msdn-developer-conference-is-coming-are-you-ready.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage

Not to look a gift horse in the mouth but why would one pay to see the content when they can:
1)Watch the PDC content on the same subjects
2)Wait a month or two after this MSDN Conference thing and watch the content on VisitMix.com.

MSDN events folks need to get with program. If it is expensive to send your evangelists out to event sites and your budget is getting slash why not virtualize your content so it is widely available instead?

For 99 dollars I can buy three books on Book pool on the technology of my choosing and get more out of it. There is afterall an inherent cost in going to MSDN events for attendees. They are held on Tuesdays and Thursday, so you have to get permission from the boss or in some cases take a personal day to go.

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PDC content [PDC content]

JR Thomas — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:22:32 GMT

I thought the goal was to publish the sessions 24 hours after they took place. Doesn't this mean we should already have videos for Sunday. Saw the keynote from yesterday. Like to start getting my feet wet with the more important content.

http://microsoftpdc.com/Agenda/Preconference.aspx#data-access-from-a-to-z

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ScottGu MIA [ScottGu MIA]

JR Thomas — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:01:50 GMT

Just curious what happened to ScottGu and his blog. He hasn't posted in over a month. Really missing his posts.

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Look whose filed under retards [Look whose filed under retards]

JR Thomas — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:48:36 GMT

http://tinyurl.com/687rp9

Look at the second picture :)

Coincidinc I think I not.

Just thought it was cute

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PDF from XSLT [PDF from XSLT]

JR Thomas — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:01:58 GMT

I was reading XSLT (http://tinyurl.com/69ch5h)

In the 2.5.2. The Hello World PDF File sample he uses the XSLT appended to the end of this message and then uses :
java org.apache.fop.apps.Fop greeting.fo greeting.pdf

Is there any .NET equivalent without having to have dependency on a Java lib? Or is third party lib abstracted object model the way( like PDF Sharp ). Its interesting either way to see where JAVA draws the line and where .NET devs have drawn the line.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">

<xsl:output method="xml"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
    <fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
      <fo:layout-master-set>
        <fo:simple-page-master master-name="standard"
          margin-right="75pt" margin-left="75pt"
          page-height="11in" page-width="8.5in"
          margin-bottom="25pt" margin-top="25pt">
          <fo:region-body margin-top="50pt" margin-bottom="50pt"/>
        </fo:simple-page-master>
      </fo:layout-master-set>

      <fo:page-sequence master-reference="standard">
        <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
          <xsl:apply-templates select="greeting"/>
        </fo:flow>
      </fo:page-sequence>
    </fo:root>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="greeting">
    <fo:block line-height="76pt" font-size="72pt" text-align="center">
      <xsl:value-of select="."/>
    </fo:block>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

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.NET 3.0 Add-ins in VS2005 [.NET 3.0 Add-ins in VS2005]

JR Thomas — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:53:25 GMT

I start a new job in a week that work in WCF. I been working samples in VS 2008 just fine.

I am trying to figure out what install I need to get the project templates in VS 2005. I can create services and all just fine manually since .NET 3.0 is installed. But it would be nice to have a SVC template for example for hosting services on IIS. What do I need to install to get the templates in New Project.. and Add New Item...?

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