Nexus6Studio - Mike Houston

Microsoft Sync - A quick review

mhouston — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:15:00 -0700

So, my wife’s new vehicle has Microsoft Sync. I had seen the goofy commercials and was not really interested. I’ve never enjoyed most of the voice activated goofiness in new consumer gadgets. Well, I was surprised. It took all of about 5 seconds to connect my HTC running WinMo 6.1. The features are great. total control over the phone’s functionality via the vehicle’s interface and voice commands: calling, visible address book, texting and media player. If you have a vehicle with synch it is totally worth having a WinMo phone.

Technorati Tags: WinMo,Sync,Windows Mobile,Ford

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Do not buy the Logitech Harmony 890 Remote

mhouston — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 05:25:00 -0700

What a POS! Looks cool…but just doesn’t work. This was given to me as a birthday present. BTW, E, I do appreciate the thought. I struggled with this silly thing for a few hours. Of course, after searching online, I find out it is a complete POS. The few people that did get it to work said it turned into a ‘brick’ within a few months of usage. Logitech has been no help at all to the people that purchased this model. Lucky for me the ‘retailer’ is going to credit the purchase. Logitech’s online support FAQ and forums are completely useless. The phone support wasn’t really useful, but at least the CSR was nice and admitted to me that this is an extremely common problem with the device (and that there is no known fix). For any of you out there, if you see the following in the initial setup give up on it and ask for a refund.

At the time of this post –> I am extremely pissed off at Logitech!

Technorati Tags: Remote,Hardware,Logitech,Crap,Bad Customer Service

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SNL - Ras Trent

mhouston — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:30:00 -0700

Okay, this is old now, but I was searching for something else and came across it again...it made me laugh uncontrollably.

Technorati Tags: Humor,SNL,Video

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youtube - Butter Menthol Batman

mhouston — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 06:14:00 -0700

Again, looking for something and came across this. I'll never get through my current research task, but this is hilarious!

Technorati Tags: youtube,humor,video

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January NashDotNet Meeting 01-15-2009

mhouston — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 04:54:00 -0700

Event Link :	http://www.nashdotnet.org/archive/2009/01/03/10.aspx
Topic :	Continuous Integration with JetBrains TeamCity
Speaker :	Chris Hefley
Description :	TeamCity, the new Continuous Integration application from JetBrains (the people that brought you ReSharper) provides easily configurable continuous integration, advanced reporting and metrics, and integration with Visual Studio (and It's free for small teams). This presentation will cover installing and configuring TeamCity and connecting it to source control, with examples using various build runners (MSBuild, NAnt, and Rake) to build .Net applications. We'll also cover NUnit integration, artifact generation, and configuring notifications. We'll show you how to troubleshoot broken builds, run the .Net duplicate finder build, Visual Studio integration, and how to use TeamCity as an automated deployment tool.
DateTime :	January 15, 2009 6:00PM CST
Location :	Brentwood Library 8109 Concord Rd Brentwood, TN 37027-6740 Map Link

Technorati Tags: User Group,NashDotNet,.NET

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NORAD Santa Tracker - Merry Christmas!!!

mhouston — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:45:54 -0700

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PockeTwit - WM Twitter client - Worth a try

mhouston — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:46:35 -0700

Download Here ( http://code.google.com/p/pocketwit/ )

Thanks to @slimcode for letting me know about this one!

Technorati Tags: twitter,mobile

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Just because it makes me laugh...

mhouston — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 05:34:42 -0700

Thanks to Scott Gordon for the much needed laugh today!

Technorati Tags: Humor,Video

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Pics from the NashDotNet User Group Christmas Party

mhouston — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:06:00 -0700

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NashDotNet User Group Christmas Party - Fri., December 12th

mhouston — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 14:35:33 -0700

Food and conversation is free…beer will cost you ;-P

NashDotNet

When:	Friday, December 12th, 2008 6:00PM
Where:	The Flying Saucer 111 10th Ave S. Nashville, TN 37203 Map - http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?country=US&addtohistory=&address=111+10th+Ave+South&city=nashville&state=tn&zipcode=37203&homesubmit=Get+Map Web - http://www.beerknurd.com/stores/nashville

Technorati Tags: User Group,NashDotNet,.NET

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Upcoming Microsoft Events At the Franklin, TN office

mhouston — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:35:00 -0700

MSDN Unleashed - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 1:00 PM - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 4:00 PM Central Time (US & Canada)
Session 1 - What’s New in SQL Server 2008 for Developers
Session 2 – Build next generation applications with Silverlight 2.0
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&eventid=1032391568&flag=1
Microsoft Executive Briefing-Nashville, TN - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 8:30 AM - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 11:30 AM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
In an effort to provide visibility into our software roadmap as well as deeper integration with the local Microsoft team, we will be hosting a monthly invitation only executive briefing series for our enterprise and select agreement customers.
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&eventid=1032395341&flag=1
Microsoft ArcReady: Professional Patterns On The Job - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 9:00 AM - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 11:45 AM Central Time (US & Canada)
Session 1: Mastering the Soft Skills
Session 2: Organizational Dynamics
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&eventid=1032391707&flag=1
Join Microsoft and Compuware for a Developer Tools and Platform Roadmap Presentation - Thursday, December 11, 2008 6:00 PM - Thursday, December 11, 2008 9:30 PM Central Time (US & Canada)
Welcome Time: 5:30 PM
Topics for this presentation include: · What is coming in Visual Studio Team System 2010 · .NET 4.0 and C# futures · Azure and Software + Services
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&eventid=1032396380&flag=1
Connect + Share Summit - Tuesday, January 27, 2009 8:30 AM - Tuesday, January 27, 2009 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
The Microsoft Connect + Share Summit is an executive-level event designed for business and technical decision makers, that will demonstrate how leveraging Microsoft solutions can help overcome costs, optimize the organization, and respond to changing needs. This innovative executive session is designed to showcase the benefits of the full integrated Microsoft platform.
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&eventid=1032393582&flag=1

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Some interesting quotations

mhouston — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:36:00 -0700

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
Ronald Reagan 40th president of US (1911 - 2004)

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
Thomas Jefferson 3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)

"The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism, but under the name of 'Liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day, America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened."
Norman Thomas Socialist Party Presidential Nominee (1928-1948)

"How can we live in freedom and maintain that we are entitled to *anything* that we can't get without the labor of others? Remember, if we are entitled to the labor of others, that makes slaves of those others."
Marilyn vos Savant Guinness Book of World Records Highest IQ (1986)

Technorati Tags: USA,America,Philosophy,Freedom

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A hotfix rollup is available for WPF Designer

mhouston — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:07:00 -0700

This hotfix rollup fixes several issues in the WPF Designer. This hotfix rollup applies only to the computer that has Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 installed.

•When a resource in an external resource dictionary is updated, Visual Studio 2008 crashes.

•WPF Designer cannot load read-only attached properties, such as the VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups property.

•If users or codes set a data binding locally, and then the users or codes clear the data binding, WPF designer reports the following error message:

'System.Windows.Data.Binding' is not a valid value for property

•If a Win32 project is set as the startup project, WPF Designer cannot load solutions in Visual Studio 2008 or in Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1.

•When you set and then delete the Source property of a WPF WebBrowser control, Visual Studio crashes.

•When you move a control that uses the MultiTrigger class or the DataTrigger class in the Style class, WPF Designer may generate an InvalidCastException exception.

KB Link - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958017

Technorati Tags: Visual Studio,.NET,WPF,XAML

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Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0

mhouston — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 12:22:00 -0700

A few people in conversation over the weekend had no idea about this...so I'm posting for the 'fashionably late' crowd ;-P

Link : Microsoft Pre-release Software Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP)

Technorati Tags: Visual Studio,Technology,.NET

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Funny Dilbert...

mhouston — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 05:28:00 -0700

Technorati Tags: Dilbert,humor,technology

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