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Family

Cameron’s World: Asleep falling off the Couch

These pictures are kind of hard to tell, but Cameron right now is literally hanging half way on|off the couch. Neither of his feet are touching the carpet. Poor lil’ guy. I only left him like that long enough to snap a few pictures, then carried (all 33 lb’s) of him up to his room.

VSTricks

#31 Changing the Visual Studio Background Color

Have you seen screen casts, or demos, or other folks using Visual Studio with a funky color scheme? Back backgrounds? Green backgrounds? Pink Backgrounds? Hey, whatever tickels your fancy, Visual Studio will come through for you. Kidding aside, there are some pretty cool themes with dark background

Family

Cameron’s World: Made Up Characters

This week during fun and play time, Cameron and I made up characters. I said “My name is Billy, but my friends call me Bouncer” in a funny (probably not so good) Australian accent. Cameron fired back with a simple, “My name is Johnny, and my friends call my Johnny”. Then we p

Family

Cameron’s World: Funny Saying on January 20, 2009

Earlier this week Cameron (my 3 year old son) had a tiny pimple on his cheek. Jamie has (great looking might I add) tiny mole on her cheek, and Cameron thinks they now match. To express his opinion, in a very excited voice he says “Look mommy, I have a nipple on my face”. So

Technology

Arizona Technology … Where are you?

As you probably know, I run the AZGroups.com. It’s a simple calendar page, that shows what’s happening with technology user groups around the valley. It should be a single place to see what technology events are happening. Support your local community and user group by participating. Thi

Technology

AZGroups.com Feb 10, 2008 Meeting : Microsoft Enterprise Library

From the February AZGroups Calendar … Enterprise Library is a framework and collection of reusable components that allows developers to focus on delivering applications and less on building the plumbing. Enterprise Library was initially developed by Avanade and licensed to Microsoft and while it has

VSTricks

Receive VSTricks Notifications via SMS on your Phone

Did you know the Visual Studio Video tricks are mobile enabled. Try it — Browse to http://ScottCate.com/Tricks/002 on your phone, and see what happens. It’s actually a different video that plays, with a really nice zooming and panning effect, so it’s nicely formatted for the small screen. Now you ca

Technology

Windows 7 In Virtual PC 2007 and Virtual Machine Additions

I just installed my 3rd version of Windows7 (this time into a VPC Image) and I remember hearing online that there was a problem with Win7 running in VirtualPC2007. Something about the Virtual Machine Additions causing a blue screen on startup. A quick search found this post, and in the comments I no

Technology

Presenting AJAX Client Templates from ASP.NET v4 Preview

Tonight (Jan 13, 2008 5:30-8pm) at the Arizona.net User Group, I’ll be presenting AJAX client templates currently available in the ASP.NET v4 Preview hosted on CodePlex. Below is a quick code sample to wet your appetite. C# / Service – Not really relevant to the call, but it’s where the data comes f