FrazzledDad

Hristo Deshev, one of the many smart folks at telerik , blogs that he’s writing a book on PowerShell . Hristo wrote a couple articles for W...

Getting errors when trying to install an MSI package on your system?  If you’re receiving errors like "The installer has encountered an...

I just got a copy of Visual Studio Team System: Better Sofware Development for Agile Teams in the mail and I have to say it’s got me almost...

Quick Solutions, Inc. , the cool place I work at, is having an open house on June 13th from 5pm to 8pm. We’re opening our doors to potentia...

Carl Franklin and Jean-Paul Boodhoo are both talking about the very cool-looking Data Hand keyboard system. This keyboard seems to be a ...

Oh, he did .  And oh, he does . If you haven’t read McConnell’s Code Complete then do yourself a favor and go get a copy right friggin’ no...

The materials from my presentation today at the DevCare event in Columbus are located here on my site . The zip’s got a text file with the...

There’s actually a FAQ on working with the “& nbsp ;” entity and why it can be a PITA to deal with.  The first item goes into seriously...

Cygwin rocks.  Cygwin under Vista with UAC enabled?  Less so. It’s back to admin accounts in Vista not really being admins, but there’s a ...

I’ve used HTML Tidy for a looooong time and have always loved its power.  Need to clean out the crap older versions of MS Word tosses in w...

I’ve got a couple short-notice talks I’ll be delivering this week. Thursday, 24 May, I’ll be presenting my Open Source Test Tools talk at t...

Jeff Atwood ran with a neat utility that Scott Hanselman pointed out that someone else wrote that was inspired by someone other than that so...

The Principles of Beautiful Web Design, by Jason Beaird. Published by SitePoint. ISBN 0-9758419-6-3. 170 pages (full color). This is perhap...

The XDI contact link on my right sidebar (“=JimHolmes”) was busted.  Now it’s fixed.  Feel free to drop me a note if you’re looking for ques...

Chris Woodruff did a helluva great job organizing the West Michigan Day of .NET . There were a lot of great sessions, including a terrific...

I’ve been pretty satisfied with my Vista experience so far, but running dual monitors on a laptop is a complete hassle.  Vista helpfully tur...

If you’re interested in MOSS/WSS and you’re in the Cincinnati region then you ought to show up for the first meeting of the Cincinnati Share...

It looks like XDI.org is having some issues, which sucks because it's a great service to help cut spam. Ergo, please go ahead and conta...

Quick Solutions , the company I work for, is looking for sharp, passionate folks in a number of areas.  We’ve got openings for .NET, Java, a...

My new Dell D820 laptop freaked out the other day when I hooked up an external monitor to it: the display on both monitors went in to portra...