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The Programmer Code Off! 2008-03-11 15:30:27 I just came up with an idea for our developers in my office. We currently have a small team of 9 under the same manager. What if one Friday out of every month, we selected 3 team captins, where they then picked teams and had a code off challenge? I think that this would help [...] Read more:Programmer
Developer Tools for SharePoint 2007 2008-03-11 11:41:44 After working with SharePoint for awhile, I have found a few tools that I think save a lot of time.
Tools
I recommend looking into: Read more:Developer
Automating Word docs to PDF in c# for SharePoint 2008-03-10 17:33:51 Recently I was asked to write some code that would automate the conversion of word docs to pdf from a web upload. At first I figured it would be an easy task. I first tried to use the office.dlls, and everything worked… I then read a best practise. Do not use the Office.dlls on servers [...] Read more:Automating
Reasons Why Some People Shouldn’t have a PC! 2008-03-10 16:53:54 After many years in the IT field doing both reisdential and commercial work I’ve come to a very stunning conclusion, some people on this earth are not meant to have a pc. As many people know buying a PC is like buying a car, you get what you pay for. So don’t expect to go [...] Read more:Reasons
An average day at the Microsoft Technology Center 2008-03-13 23:24:15
Ever wonder what a day at the MicrosoftTechnologyCenter
(MTC)would be like? Have you ever even heard of the MTC? For those who dont know, MTCs are places where Microsoft sets up environments to help companies envision, architect and demonstrate solutions with their products. I recently was able to visit one and have a [...]
Asus Expecting EeePC Shortage 2008-03-13 20:52:35 Asustek’s wildly successful ultra-portable laptop, dubbed “EeePC”, is selling out faster than the PC maker can supply them. The Linux-powered laptop sports a 7″ LCD, 700Mhz processor, wi-fi, and 2GB or 4GB solid state hard drives at affordable sub-$400 prices. Since the EeePC’s initial release, the customized Linux OS has received generally favorable reviews and [...] Read more:Asus
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Capcom gives HD treatment to classic games for XBLA 2008-03-13 14:03:47 Team Xbox is reporting that Capcom
will remake some of their classics to give them HD graphics. Upcoming titles include 1942 Joint Strike, Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando 3, and Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix.
I don’t have an Xbox so the news doesn’t do too much for me but I’m excited about the [...]
No Blu-Ray for XBOX 360 2008-03-13 12:14:53 Yesterday Microsoft XBOX 360 product manager Aaron Greenberg announced that Microsoft was not in talks with Sony to support the Blu-Ray video format, which recently beat out HD-DVD in the next-gen video war when Toshiba threw in the towel. Microsoft’s Bill Gates sided originally with HD-DVD early in the format war as their next-gen gaming [...]
Blogging 101 2008-03-13 10:40:55 We’re all new to blogging here at coderetard.com, and I felt that a post covering a few blogging basics would help some of my fellow writers here as well as any other of our readers who may be interested. There are a few popular blogging frameworks out there, we use Wordpress, but the basics are [...] Read more:Blogging
…Poor Princess Peach 2008-03-12 18:18:02 Saw this recently and liked it. the laces on the underwear are key. I remember as a kid we would make fun of her dress in Super Mario 2. Read more:Peach
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the new and improved…hadouken! 2008-03-12 17:23:29 Street Fighter 4 is almost finished. I remember back in the day trying to get that damn shoyuken to work but I finally did it, thanks chun-li. Read more:improved
Gmail Finally Succumbs to Spam Bots 2008-03-15 22:06:53 Sick of the spam mail getting stuffed in your email inbox everyday? Well, prepare to get more. Gmail
became the latest victim to fall prey to captcha breaking spam bots, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail having been broken a year ago. Captcha is that image of jumbled random hard-to-read text that you have to enter to [...] Read more:Finally
A Mac Among Us: Hiding Macs at work 2008-03-14 16:05:41
Recently we wanted to get some Macs at work so that we could test our web applications. Our company mostly runs on Windows 2003 machines. So our solution? Hide them with our PC’s!
The new Mac Mini is perfect for hiding behind a monitor or around the corner somewhere. No one can really see it.
NOIZ2SA on iPhone Game Review 2008-03-14 13:14:27 Recently I downloaded NOIZ2SA on the iphone (running 1.1.3/1.1.4) and found it to be a very fun and exciting game. As of right now, it ranks as one of the top two games out. Read more:iPhone
How to Fit Super Smash Bros Brawl on Single Layer DVD 2008-03-14 12:33:05 In a previous post we instructed you on how to play a backed up copy of SSBB on your modded Wii on a single layer disc. What we did not cover was how to do this as the ISO for SSBB is 7GB and will only fit on a dual layer disc. Well, if you [...] Read more:Brawl
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Mindy’s Daily Links - 3/14/08 2008-03-14 12:00:55 Proper way to eat peeps
-there-ongoing-debate-house
Will You Marry Me? … Uh.. nm
Midget Bull Fight! Read more:Daily
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Playing Super Smash Bros Brawl on a Modded Wii 2008-03-14 02:19:50 The long anticipated SuperSmash
Bros. Brawl
was recently released, much to the joy and yet also dismay to Wii
gamers everywhere. Why the dismay? Those with modded Wii’s found themselves unable to play the game, even with a legal copy! We figured it out in a previous post, but what about those of us [...]
How to Convert Txt Docs to PDF in Aspose c# 2008-03-18 10:43:10 We are using the Aspose product for pdf to convert word docs to pdf. We also wanted to use that same product to convert txt docs into pdf. Unlike most other pdf convertor tools, aspose dosn’t have a auto convert to pdf for txt docs. The solution to this problem is to stream in the [...] Read more:Convert
Video Preview: Wii TV Guide Channel 2008-03-18 00:33:26 You’ve probably already heard about the new TV Guide
channel for the Wii
that got released in Japan a couple weeks ago and you’ve probably seen the screenshots… and you probably couldn’t make any sense out of it (at least I couldn’t). Well you’re in luck, as a video demo’s come out of the new [...] Read more:Channel
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Useful Quick References 2008-03-18 00:12:39 Whether you program in C++ or code in HTML, you’ve probably encountered a quick reference (”quickref” for short) at some point in your career. These handy guides aren’t meant to teach newbies how to use the language, but are more like the index at the back of your textbook except condensed and consolidated in a [...] Read more:Quick
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