Bill Bosacker

Have a great 2009!

Bill Bosacker — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT

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Merry Fruitcake Christmas...

Bill Bosacker — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT

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Christmas Anagram

Bill Bosacker — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:00:00 GMT

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Plug for Sueetie!

Bill Bosacker — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:38:00 GMT

The ASP.NET platform is great for fast development and Dave Burke has put together an open source application suite that is comprised of several other open source projects and tied together with a unified application manager. His This could be big. Sueetie...(read more)

Sizing your browser window for Internet development

Bill Bosacker — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:15:00 GMT

If you have ever designed a web site you know that testing the site with a standard browser size is extremely important, but outside of manually changing your display settings most developers don't know of other ways to do this. I've been using...(read more)

Uru Live goes Open Source

Bill Bosacker — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:01:00 GMT

Yep, that's right! Cyan Worlds has recently announced on their Myst Online web site that they will be releasing all of the server, client, and tools code for Uru Live to the open source community. Once all of the code is available and I have a chance...(read more)

The Thanksgiving Story: in about a minute

Bill Bosacker — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT

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Gift cards: A bad idea gets even worse

Bill Bosacker — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:10:00 GMT

Hey Guys, You're propbably going to see my post frequency go up over the next couple of months for various reasons. I'm sure that everyone is aware of all the crap that is going on with Wall Street. There is an excellent post by Liz Pulliam Weston...(read more)

DirecTV support in Windows 7

Bill Bosacker — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:59:00 GMT

Here is a post on ZDNet: DirecTV’s HD tuner set to debut with Windows 7? I've been wondering when this was going to become available and I'm 100% certain that it is on the way. Why? Because the last firmware update to DirecTVs HD DVRs adds...(read more)

Fun Stuff: Kitties and Armageddon

Bill Bosacker — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:45:00 GMT

While checking out some news videos today, I came across the following videos. Enjoy... Roomba Kitty Kitty Thirst Cat Gets Into Yogurt Box Office Nerf War...(read more)

Google's twist on the AJAX AutoComplete tool

Bill Bosacker — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:04:00 GMT

I'm sure that you've been to sites that are using the new AJAX tools, one of them being the auto complete text box with a simulated dropdown list. The tool basically sends the contents of the text box to a search engine to help predict what you...(read more)

Silverlight 2 Released - October 14, 2008

Bill Bosacker — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:39:00 GMT

Most of you are probably like me when you first heard about Silverlight and saw the pre-release demo. You asked, "Why would I ever do video editing through a web browser, let alone over the Internet?" And you know what, you were not alone. Microsoft...(read more)

Windows 2008 Workstation, 4 months later...

Bill Bosacker — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:49:00 GMT

Hey All, While perusing the InfoWorld site today and seriously considering whether or not I want to drop my free subscription (most of their writers are complete idiots (layman term that they'll understand)), I came across the writings of Randall...(read more)

Visual Studio 2008: Debugging Web Applications on IIS7

Bill Bosacker — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:28:00 GMT

"Unable to start debugging on the Web server. The IIS worker process for the launched URL is not currently running." This post is mostly for myself so that I don't forget the information, but when setting up a web site on a Windows Server...(read more)

A look behind "The Mojave Experiment"

Bill Bosacker — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:04:00 GMT

After reading Dave Burke's post Everyman Links for July 25, 2008 , I immediately wondered what was actually presented to these people as the information presented was very limited. The major points of interest were: How was the hardware requirements...(read more)

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Released

Bill Bosacker — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:43:00 GMT

Service pack 1 for Visual Studio 2008 (all versions), MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2008, and Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server have been released today. If you have an MSDN subscription you can download all of them from the download...(read more)

Bluetooth for Windows Server 2008

Bill Bosacker — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:14:00 GMT

Microsoft in it's infinite wisdom has decided that Bluetooth is not for servers. I ask, what about voice mail systems, developer workstations, and whatever else the user needs it for? Well, the post Installing the Microsoft Bluetooth Stack on Windows...(read more)

Wanted: Massage Therapist

Bill Bosacker — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:16:00 GMT

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Windows Server 2008: Data Execution Prevention (DEP)

Bill Bosacker — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:51:00 GMT

I believe that this software was first introduced to windows with Windows 2000 and used to default to "Turn on DEP for essential Windows programs and services only", but this has changed with Windows Vista Ultimate and Windows Server 2008. It...(read more)

I upgraded my workstation to Windows Server 2008

Bill Bosacker — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:45:00 GMT

Well, it's been well over a year since I last rebuilt my workstation, so I decided to install Windows Server 2008 (WS2008) on it since more than 95% of the development that I do is based on IIS. I had toyed around with Vista Ultimate a few times,...(read more)

Madam Zora's Prognostications

Bill Bosacker — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT

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Security: FUN FUN FUN!

Bill Bosacker — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:34:00 GMT

Hey All, I thought that I should probably let everyone know that I'm still around, just extremely busy. As some of you I've been working on a credit reporting web site, in particular, the security system. I started with the sample .NET Membership...(read more)

New Amatuer Photography Site

Bill Bosacker — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 05:09:00 GMT

Hey Guys, I've been wanting to post the thousands of pictures that I have taken over the years and never really had a good platform to do this until I started using Community Server, which is the software that this site is running on. So tonight,...(read more)

Holie CardSpace Batman!

Bill Bosacker — Wed, 16 May 2007 16:17:00 GMT

WARNING: THE FINAL SENTENCE OF THIS POST MAY GROSS YOU OUT! Hey All, I went to another MSDN event yesterday, mostly for the AJAX.NET stuff, but the first presentation was for CardSpace. The only thing that I knew about CardSpace before the presentation...(read more)

Behinds the scenes look at Telligent in action!

Bill Bosacker — Wed, 02 May 2007 09:07:00 GMT

During a closed interview, a camera crew was able to take some sneak footage of Telligent in action when a customer called in with cursor issues. Click here to take a look at this never before seen footage....(read more)