Author: Cory Foy

Several months ago Vikram Goyal emailed me letting me know he had a new book coming out from Apress – Pro Java ME MMAPI: Mobile Media API for Java Micro Edition. Having done mobile device development using J2ME, I knew how difficult it can be to do – or explain – some of the tricks…

So, in yesterday’s post, I mentioned a story that happened. Well, not so much happened, but I wish they had this in the states. While I was out walking, I ran across what looked like a small collection of stores. Going in, I discovered it was a 5 story mall, complete with bowling alley and…

My customer has kept me very busy here, not to mention that it gets dark at around 4:30 pm and it’s been raining, so it was hard to go out and get some pictures. Tuesday night, though, I had to go out to find something to eat, so I took my camera and grab some…

After almost 20 hours of traveling, I arrived in Budapest this morning to teach a Visual Studio Team System class to a company over here. I’m getting the chance to stay right on the Danube river, and wanted to share some pictures before I collapse into bed. ;) The hotel is in an old converted…

So, one of the tough things about Ruby development has been lack of things like Intellisense and Debugging. There was always the Eclipse tools for Ruby, but for those who use Visual Studio – rejoice! Sapphire Steel Software has released Ruby In Steel, which lets Visual Studio users do all sorts of Ruby goodness – even…

In my previous posts, I talked about improving performance of your XslCompiledTransform code, and working to compile XSL which might be cached. These threads started because of some confusion around one of our MSDN docs – specifically this one on migrating code to XslCompiledTransform. Specifically it says: The XslCompiledTransform class includes many performance improvements. The…

I don’t think anyone can top the email that came across one of our internal mailing lists: Please tell me how to install “agile software” in my machine

Michael Eakes has a great article up about the new iPod pea. Touting it as a major accomplishment to get the music player to just larger than the headphone jack, there isn’t much that I couldn’t see Apple really doing with that device. Great article!

So tonight I was switching around some windows, and accidently managed to delete (shift-delete nonetheless) all the emails from my inbox in one of my accounts. This is a lot of email, and while I had some older backups, I hoped that maybe I could restore them (even from a shift-delete). The first thing that…

After seeing Ron’s post, and really having nothing better to do on New Year’s Eve, I discovered that I agree there must be a bug in this test: If only I had used Lynx to take the test!