So there I was, wondering how I was going to reward the winners of the January 2008 Caffeinated Codeys. I was just about to give up hope and begin sobbing like a little girl when I suddenly remembered the obscure “contest sponsorship refactoring” (Alt + c + s + desperate email plea) in ReSharper. Like [...]
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Yes, it’s true. I’ve packed my bags and am moving to a new location. For those of you with RSS Readers, please change your feed subscriptions to use my new feedburner location. I do not plan to do any new posts on GeeksWithBlogs with the possible exception of a few redirection reminders. For the rest [...]
The 2007 Caffeinated Codey Showdown is officially over and the votes have been tallied. Despite an early lead by the Canadian contingent (Justice Gray and D’Arcy Lussier), Rory Blyth rallied the troops and surged ahead to win both the Best Blog Humor and Most Fun with Multimedia categories in a landslide. Justice still dominated in [...]
The regular panel of judges used to select the monthly Caffeinated Codey winners are all far too hung over to competently decide the overall winners for the year, so I’ve decided to let the nominees fight it out pollDaddy style and then actually award the survivors real prizes for a change. Rules I have selected [...]
Do you think you have a good blog post in your, but aren’t ready for the commitment of maintaining a blog yourself? I’d like to open up my blog for a couple of guest posts each month. Send your masterpiece prose to rt_ball@yahoo.com along with a few sentences about yourself and possibly even a picture, [...]
I finally got around to creating an About Me page for my blog, which I’ve been meaning to do every since I read Jeff Atwood’s commentary on it in his Thirteen Blog Cliches post. My name is Russell Ball and I am 35 years old. I currently live in Kansas City, Kansas with my wife [...]
Raymond Chen, the mastermind behind the popular OldNewThing blog, linked to my New Employee Hall of Fame post a few days ago and my web traffic stats took a brief, meteoric spike (at least by my humble standards). I even got a few comments from readers who got errors when trying to listen to the [...]
It appears as though we will have a new version of SQL Server 2008 next February 27th. This is well ahead of what my sarcastically titled post on SQL Server 2008 predicted. So much for my career as a technical psychic… It will also be the launch for Visual Studio 2008 and Windows Server 2008. That should be one [...]
