Rob Garrett - Blogs

October 2006 - Posts

• Management Advice

  I love nothing more than reading blogs that give out useful advice, and even more so if the author injects humor into their posts. Trizle is by no means an exception in the above statement, and I find myself amused by some of the daily posts, as well Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 10:28 AM by Rob Garrett | 2 Comments Filed under: Employment, Management

• A Question of Installation

  Just a quick question to pose to the masses: why is it that Firefox 2.0 takes no more than 2 minutes to install, yet Internet Explorer 7.0 takes about 15 minutes? Makes me wonder what core DLLs IE is replacing in my system. Share this post: Email it! Read More... Posted Monday, October 30, 2006 9:49 AM by Rob Garrett | 3 Comments Filed under: Microsoft Internet Explorer

• Scrobbling

  If you're into music (any play a lot of it) then you just have to check out http://last.fm - a community site dedicated to music enthusiasts. Once you sign up for an account you can share your music interests with others, and find similar music genre Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 5:03 PM by Rob Garrett | 0 Comments Filed under: Music Attachment(s): iSproggler-0.4.3.rar

• Pass by Reference

  Contrary to the beliefs of some developers, .Net reference types do not need to be passed as reference parameters (ref in C#, ByRef in VB) when a method is going to alter the contents of an object instance. Passing a object reference by reference parameter Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 12:17 AM by Rob Garrett | 2 Comments Filed under: Development

• Diarist

  Q: So what is special about this blog post? A: It was authored on my WM5 Pocket PC using a cool lightweight blogging tool called Diarist . It's not like I'll do much blogging using this method (need I say writer's cramp?), but it's good to know that I Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 11:03 PM by Rob Garrett | 0 Comments Filed under: Blogging

• Windows Media Stream CSModule

  I wrote my first Community Server module to display Windows Media Streams inside blog posts (bin and src download attached to this post). You can do something similar with the YouTube plugin that Scott W wrote, but I wanted to try my hand at writing a Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 6:17 PM by Rob Garrett | 8 Comments Filed under: Community Server, Windows Media, Video Rendering Attachment(s): mmsModule.zip

• H.I.D

  Getting away from the software theme for this post... I've been giving some serious thought into adding HID (High Intensity Discharge) lights to my 2006 Scion TC. What is HID exactly? HID is a newer technology for illumination, which uses xenon gas discharge, Read More... Posted Friday, October 20, 2006 11:50 AM by Rob Garrett | 5 Comments Filed under: Automotive

• Google Analytics

  I've been playing with Google Analytics this last couple of weeks to see how I can improve readership of my blog. I noticed this morning that over the last week 13 people from Microsoft have been reading my blog: Thanks for the support guys, I've been Read More... Posted Monday, October 16, 2006 8:56 AM by Rob Garrett | 0 Comments Filed under: Google, Blogging

• The Perfect Career?

  I have recently installed Live Writer Beta 1 on my desktop and am using it to author this post, let's see how I like it... It seems that everyone I speak to in the the software industry is looking for the proverbial golden egg in the ideal career - working Read More... Posted Thursday, October 12, 2006 12:26 PM by Rob Garrett | 0 Comments Filed under: Employment

• Slipstream Installation of SharePoint 2007 Beta-2TR

  Steve Smith has written an excellent document on how to create a "Slip Stream" installation of SharePoint 2007 Beta-2TR. The B2TR of Office, SharePoint Server and SharePoint Designer installers require a working installation of Beta 2, and exist Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 03, 2006 1:52 PM by Rob Garrett | 1 Comments Filed under: Microsoft SharePoint, SharePoint Designer, Microsoft Office

• Earn $1M

  Netflix is offering a cool million dollars to the person who can offer the best improvement for their movie recommendation system. http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=236215&GT1=7701 Got any cool ideas under your hat? If so, you might be Read More... Posted Monday, October 02, 2006 3:47 PM by Rob Garrett | 0 Comments Filed under: Netflix

• Hiding under a rock?

  Well.. sort of, just been really busy (story of my life). The good news is that some more blog-worthy content will be coming along soon. Meanwhile, those of you with a keen eye may have noticed that I upgraded Community Server from version 2.0 to 2.1 Read More... Posted Monday, October 02, 2006 11:39 AM by Rob Garrett | 0 Comments Filed under: Community Server