Many thanks to Jim over at www.stlrecruiting.com, yesterday he called me up for a quick interview and today he posts an article about me!
If you're looking for my Technical posts, check out my blog at http://weblogs.asp.net/christoc/. Just heads up though, for any posts you find that may seem odd ;), I use my blogs to do a lot of SEO work, so some posts may not seem to fit, but they all have a...
Just archiving a link for me to read...
Just a quick post to aid in a little bit of search indexing for...
Google even tells me so!
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=excellent+programmer <--currently 5th on the search results for excellent programmer.
I will be number one, I will be the most excellent programmer of them...
It looks like I (Chris Hammond) am back with the Cincinnati Reds again!
I still have some of the Chris Hammond rookie cards from when he started with the league, with the Reds. For more information on Chris Hammond the pitcher, check out...
Are you looking for an Excellent Programmer? You've found him! If you're looking for mad programming skills from an excellent person, you've come to the right place!
(inside...
I've been here in Lexington, Kentucky for the past 4 days. I was fortunate enough to meet two of the brightest minds in the industry! Also, I can't forget Chad Hobson (checkout that killer site, what mad skillz).
Anyways, back to the brightest minds. I got to meet Shaun Walker, founder of DotNetNuke, and Scott Willhite, one of the Board members for DotNetNuke. I of course got them to sign my DotNetNuke book while they were...
Sometimes, it's great to get to work with the best minds in the business and see how they work! I do lead a very good...
Lost is back! Thank goodness for the Tivo! I didn't realize it was starting back up tonight, but Tivo saved the day. I was at our DotNetNuke meeting tonight during the time Lost was...
Bill Gates' webcast is still on for his Keynote at CES in Las Vegas today.
So far they're just discussing Windows Vista, which I expected. I read a rumor online that they may announce an HD-DVD upgrade for 360s, it looks like that was just a rumor.
Sure I'm excited about Vista, but who really cares until it's available? I try a beta on a test machine sometime in the next few weeks, but honestly, I'm a what can you give me now kind of tech guy.
Hmmm, they made some sort of preview of MS Flight Sim, but of course my SBC DSL dropped the connection during that outage.
update: looks like Bill just announced the new Treo Smartphone is selling tomorrow. I don't know if that was announced previously.
update2: Awesome news! Directv and MS partnership! Media center is going to rock once you have Directv access as well!
update3: Xbox360 update coming shortly!
update4: third manufacturering partner announced for the 360.
update 5: external HD DVD announced for xbox...
The first St. louis DotNetNuke User's Group Meeting will be held on December 8th, 2005.
Be sure to check out DnNUG.com for more...
I successfully upgraded Solo2.org last night/this morning to run on Community Server
Now to skin the site so it's "original" and get some of the little kinks worked...
I decided today was the day to Upgrade Solo2.org.
I'm upgrading the software to run on CommunityServer 2.0 Beta 1. Here's to hoping the beta is at least semi stable! I've got all of the posts up through 9am downloaded and imported into a DB, now I'm working on converting them into a good CS format so I can get the site up and running tonight. I'm converting from a DNN/Ubb.Classic website to run Solo2.org fully out of...
I've upgraded SoloPerformance.com.com to dotnetnuke 3.1.1 and put a new version of the DnnCart sofware up there as well.
The latest version of DnnCart has more friendly url changes, and is building links with friendly URLs using Category Names and Product names, which would help to increase our search...
http://weblogs.asp.net/christoc/archive/2005/08/24/423620.aspx
So here's how the story goes. Back in May I signed up to take the exam 70-315 (Developing and Implementing Web Applications with Microsoft Visual C# .NET and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET), I signed up for a test date in July. I had never taken an MS exam, or even looked at a sample question, so I posted the following thread.
http://weblogs.asp.net/christoc/archive/2005/06/28/416289.aspx
While there were some good sugggestions, I ended up postponing my test date to 8/23 because work was extremely busy (still is) and I hadn't prepared for the test at all. Fast forward to 8/22 at 9pm. I leave the St. Louis Indigo Road show, and look down at my phone, I get a notification that I have an appt the following day, my C# test at 1pm. Oh crap, that's right, I completely forgot about it. I had intended to reschedule again because of the major projects at work, but it was now too late.
I emailed my boss, told him I'd f'd up, was going to fail this test if I even went to take it, not knowing if I'd be able to even go due to the work load right now. I called the proctor for the test, he said I could come in anytime before 5pm, so I could make it to the 1:30pm meeting at a client site that had been scheduled at 11am that morning. I went from the client site, still, having not prepared, with no clue what I was about to get into.
I got there at 3pm, and had 2 hours to take the test. 59 minutes later I was done. I thought, oh well, good practice at least, and I'd get to use the free retake of the test that MS had been offering when I signed up.
I pressed done, and boom, "Congratulations you've passed!" Needless to say, I was a bit suprised, but stoked none the less.
So, 1 test down, 2-4 more to go. Now, I think I'll definitely study for the test of...
Well, the project I helped work on for 3 months earlier this year, finally goes live! It's good to finally see the project has made it to the outside world! Check it out at...
I've got another blog to add to my list. My work blog. Nothing interesting there yet, but soon...
I'm using this thread to keep track of materials I'll use for preparing to take my certification test for MS test #70-315 “Developing and Implementing Web Applications with Microsoft Visual C# .NET and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET“
http://www.whizlabs.com/articles/mcsd-70-315-article.html
more...
I've posted the presentation I gave at the STL DNUG last night, nothing major, actually just a trimmed down PPT of the presentation back in March at the VB UG.
You can download it...
I'm making another brief appearance at the St. Louis .Net User's Group meeting on Monday the 27th. I'll be giving a brief overview of dotnetnuke 3.1.
Though, their web site appears to be down right...
I've released the first version of the CjhControls for CommunityServer 1.1.
You can download the Zip file from here.
This first release just has the Cjh:RssWriter writer control included. I'll have another release next week with a few more options on board.
Check out the readme file for instructions on how to use the control.
Cjh:RssWriter allows you to place a control on a page that will read an RSS feed and an XML Transformation file and then display the RSS feed on the page based on the transformation...
Microsoft has just released a beta for their pixel/vector based graphics software package called Acrylic. I'll have to download it and try it out this...
Since my MPX200 is about to die, the sound cuts out quite frequently, I picked up Dave's old phone this weekend. I just unlocked it today so that I can use it with my current t-mobile service.
If you're looking to unlock an MPX200 check out http://www.imei-check.co.uk they provided great/quick/cheap service and the phone is unlocked!
I have now done a hard reset to reflash the phone and get rid of all Dave's old info on there, time to get it up and running. How do you do a hard (master) reset? Remove the battery, hold the blue button down, put the battery back in and press the power button. You'll be prompted from...
If you're looking for a dotnetnuke book check out this one written by some of the dotnetnuke Core Team Members.
I believe there is a brief bio about all the DNN core team members, which means that I'm mentioned in the book! I've been in a few magazines, this will be my first book besides credits in some The Sporting News publications while I worked there.
Found a blog by WROX, looks like the book won't be in my hands for another week...
So far this weekend has been a good one. Last night we setup the SoloPerformance.com store at the Midnight Madness drag races out at Gateway. I shot some video of the StreetFighterz out there having a blast on their bikes. You can download it here, but be warned, it's 25megs and in Windows Media format.
Today Rabid and I headed to Kansas City to watch the Cards game. It was amazing seeing so many Cardinals fans there, I think it was easily split 50/50 between red and blue in the stadium. The ride back was wet. Somehow a big storm front totally missed KC but covered 70 the whole way back. ...