March 2009 Entries

Deep Fried Bytes Episode #29: Let’s Rumble with the Rails Rumble Champs

Listen To This Episode http://deepfriedbytes.com/podcast/episode-29-let-s-rumble-with-the-rails-rumble-champs/ In this episode we found the Rails Rumble 2008 Champion team while at the CodeMash 2.0.0.9 conference in Sandusky, OH. We sat down with the Rails Rumble champs to discuss Ruby and their award winning site MeetInBetween.us. We talked about Ruby, Rails, Gems, Why Ruby, C# and much more.

posted @ Thursday, March 26, 2009 6:08 PM | Feedback (0)

Getting Rid of ESET Signatures in Outlook

This is a short simple post that shows how to remove the auto attached messages generated by ESET Antivirus in Outlook. This is a sample message that shows what gets attached. Obviously this can be very annoying and junk up emails. __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3952 (20090320) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com The fix is simple. First, select the ESET NOD32 Antivirus drop down in the Outlook toolbar and choose “scanner setup”. ...

posted @ Saturday, March 21, 2009 8:18 AM | Feedback (4)

My First IE8 Encounter

IE8 was released yesterday during the Mix keynote yesterday. I installed IE8 on my machine yesterday and rebooted late last night (yes I ignored the warning to reboot immediately all day). When I came in this morning I had a fresh rebooted machine to start the day with. I opened up IE8 and went to the first place I go usually, email. Here’s what I saw: For those that don’t know, this is the GMail interface. For full disclosure, the GMail interface is not perfect. I have had the user interface render weird things like this before. ...

posted @ Friday, March 20, 2009 9:40 AM | Feedback (7)

Deep Fried Bytes Episode #28: Networking Silverlight

Listen To This Episode http://deepfriedbytes.com/podcast/episode-28-networking-silverlight/ In this episode we sat down with John Stockton, RIA Developer at Ascentium, at the Codemash 2009 conference. We discussed a variety of things when networking Silverlight applications such as REST and WCF.

posted @ Monday, March 16, 2009 10:27 AM | Feedback (0)

Using SqlDependency and ServiceBroker With Sql Server Express

This past week we were building some integration tests for a new feature we are adding into our framework. In order to do the integration tests we needed to enable Service Broker on the SqlExpress database so SqlDependency could be used. NOTE: Before you try to run this, be sure you are using the correct version as noted on MSDN. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition (SQL Server Express) database engine supports Service Broker only with a different edition of SQL Server 2005, such as Workgroup, Enterprise or Developer edition. Service Broker functionality is not...

posted @ Saturday, March 14, 2009 9:16 AM | Feedback (0)