04/15/2008

04/15/2008

04/15/2008

04/15/2008

04/15/2008

04/15/2008

04/15/2008

Dave Laribee Video Coverage of Mix08

The Ten Types of Twitter Users

IPod Wooden Orb Amp 013: I found this wooden orb at a thrift...

IPod Wooden Orb Amp 012: I found this wooden orb at a thrift...

Ipod Wooden Orb Amp 011: I found this wooden orb at a thrift...

Ipod Wooden Orb Amp 010: I found this wooden orb at a thrift...

Sugah Daddy Amp 012: This is a mini guitar amp I made based...

Sugah Daddy Amp 011: This is a mini guitar amp I made based...

Sugah Daddy Amp 010: This is a mini guitar amp I made based...

Sugah Daddy Amp 009: This is a mini guitar amp I made based...

My new office 1: New office

My new office 2: Check out the genuine Leatha. Classy!

New Ajax-Enabled CAPTCHA for Community Server...

Getting FireBug to work with FireFox 3 Beta...

btompkins: One of my favorite refactorings of late has been : Move ComponentArt Controls to...

btompkins: Does anyone know of any good data scrubbing software? I haven’t even googled yet.

btompkins: good chance you’ll catch it quickly.

btompkins: FIY, when starting a new blogging site, the best place for a blatant grammar error is on...

btompkins: I love spending time everyday installing windows updates. Install updates. Surf web....

btompkins: @rlewallen: It must… there’s a tear in my eye.

btompkins: The guy that sits next to me just got a twitter account. It will be much easier to...

btompkins: Love getting new twitter followers that don’t have like 10000 other people...

btompkins: Uggh. CloneFields method of the GridView only shallow clones the fields.. Why provide it...

btompkins: Everyday someone spams using CodeBetter.Com as the from email. Wondering why they’d...

btompkins: @rlewallen: @jasona: Yep. It’s like god handed him this incredible gift of...

btompkins: @PhatBoyG: Argh.. didn’t even know your were accepting invites.

btompkins: Oh god… Am I the network that host’s geek reality tv?...

btompkins: That said, I do like the one called Brown Sugar for it’s nod to hipster culture.

btompkins: Could the Auto Format Schemes of the GridView in ASP.NET be any worse? Did they use a...

btompkins: @scottw: mixing metaphors a bit, it seems.. Why not if(“string” is not int)?...

btompkins: Thank you C# for the is operator. Can I also have is not?

btompkins: Stuffed from this year’s Turkeypalooza

btompkins: Loving the R# Unit Test Runner… I guess I do like staying in VS after all.

btompkins: All my C:\ drive space are belong to SQL Servers today

btompkins: @wrox: MVC for web apps & NHibernate

btompkins: @haacked: See that you’re down.. Let me know if you need anything to help you get...

btompkins: @markleonwatson: @rlewallen: I did see some cool stuff over on Facebook, so I’ll...

btompkins: Ok, maybe I’ll just close MySpace.

btompkins: I’m going to close my facebook and myspace accounts.

btompkins: Wondering how many bloggers suffer from Bipolar disorder. I’d be willing to wager a...

btompkins: Not a good day so far.

btompkins: @gooberdlx: Just got a good one recenly… Recommended —...

btompkins: Need an example of winows usability retardedness? C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc is a...

btompkins: Hip Hip hooray this is good: http://tinyurl.com/2dtbld

btompkins: @PhatBoyG: wondering if you would use RSS or, if something new would be needed.

btompkins: @PhatBoyG: Exactly… but we need to federate that tracker database somehow too,...

btompkins: @jasona: @scottw: Build it! :)

btompkins: You should be able to use your twitter client to send a tweet to your content engine of...

btompkins: Anyone wondering why we need twitter? Can’t we do this without twitter.com?

btompkins: @mhinze: Do you have Etymotics? They sound brilliant slient. Near reference quality...

btompkins: I’m slowly building a domain model from my company’s HP MPE Database…...

btompkins: Did I mention that I still don’t understand SQL2K5 security. I just hit the server...

btompkins: Did fill up the livewell with fish though.

btompkins: WORST night ever… Near fight with a group of rednecks.. Dead battery.. TWO criminal...

btompkins: @jasona: Make your own http://craftzine.com

btompkins: @wrox: email me at brendan@codebetter.com

btompkins: “Ugly Thursday” shall this day ever be known on the stock market

btompkins: @wrox: Hey, let me know if you ever want to do any marketing @ CodeBetter.Com

btompkins: Did I say buy GRMN at 99.5, I meant 89.5

btompkins: @averyj: Resharper Ctrl-R E

btompkins: I need to take a class on OLAP cube development.. My linear brain boggles

btompkins: This is where I’m spending christmas this year… Whoohoo!...

btompkins: I don’t know if I’ll ever get the theme to Google Weirdos out of my head....

btompkins: Visual Studio does not “Write” HTML, it “Pukes” it.

btompkins: and Abcess make the farts go hyuundah

btompkins: People who live in grass houses shouldn’t stow thrones

btompkins: Chess Nuts Boasting in an Open Foyer

btompkins: Just heard a with my favorite punchline type, really bad pun. Some examples:

btompkins: @mhinze: Web pages coded in pl/sql.. now that’s cooking with gas!

btompkins: @mhinze: Are you working on the original Comdex.Com that I worked on circa 1996? :)

btompkins: The new Wes Anderson movie is awesome. Especially if you have any of the following...

btompkins: If anyone orders servers from them… Ask for Reuben.

btompkins: Roger at Server Beach was just a total asshole to me in their support chat window.

btompkins: Grr… Finding airfare via the web is aggravating… I remember when I used to...

btompkins: So now the big question… Start a new project with ASP.NET MVC, or MonoRail…...

Falcon 006: Falcon eating a dead pigeon outside my office...

Falcon 005: Falcon eating a dead pigeon outside my office...

Falcon 004: Falcon eating a dead pigeon outside my office...

ATHF 2007 Pumpkin: Not a great picture, but this was my...

btompkins: Good songs by bad artists redone by good artists :...

btompkins: @sillyevar: Nice Talk! (via Twitter / btompkins)

btompkins: Pumpkin planning (via Twitter / btompkins)

btompkins: Commenting on some local stupidness. http://tinyurl.com/ypvmrv (via Twitter / btompkins)

btompkins: @averyj: Buy orders at 99.5! (via Twitter / btompkins)

btompkins: @codinghorror: sweet, sweet poison (via Twitter / btompkins)

btompkins: Someone needs to do a flexible dates international airfare search. (via Twitter /...

btompkins: Trying to plan a trip to Costa RIca (via Twitter / btompkins)

btompkins: Made some pumpkin LED flasing eyes with a 555 chip last night. Wish I knew how to...

OTG: Oscar the Grouch Costume (via Photos from CodeBrendan)

btompkins: OTG - The original Gangsta. My costume made over the weekend: http://tinyurl.com/2gjd7g...

btompkins: Refactoring away from some crap ajax stuff. Feels good! (via Twitter / btompkins)

btompkins: Cycling tights, but still… (via Twitter / btompkins)

btompkins: I did something I never thought I’d do today. Went out in public in a pair of...

btompkins: Breakfast: apple pancakes with creme fraiche and brown sugar. Wait, this is one of those...

btompkins: Don’t taze me, eh? I cannot believe they killed a man.. Police State...

LOLCat Compiler for the CLR...

How come I didn’t know about this until today? I can’t believe we got scooped by...

btompkins: http://tinyurl.com/yvvrkr (via Twitter / btompkins)

btompkins: OMG I want a LOLCode complier for the CLR http://tinyurl.com/2zbgus (via Twitter /...

btompkins: @markleonwatson: HAHAHA! Didn’t know what he was on about… that’s...

btompkins: @averyj: Funny was going to ask you for your list, but realized that’s sort of like...

btompkins: … and legislatehumanity.org (via Twitter / btompkins)

btompkins: @averyj: 25 and counting.. I’ve let some of the stupider ones go. WS-CART.Com for...

btompkins: I have a bad domain name habit.. (via Twitter / btompkins)

btompkins: @scottw: Sign me up. (via Twitter / btompkins)

btompkins: Need an easy way to create a ICANHASCHEEZBURGER type site. (via Twitter / btompkins)

btompkins: @jasona: unfuddle has hemmorrhoids? (via Twitter / btompkins)

btompkins: TMBG last night.. They were awesome! http://www.flickr.com/photos/codebetter/1758596979/...

PIC-0040[1] (via Photos from CodeBrendan)

btompkins: Noticing that may companies copyright thier emails.. What’s the point of that? (via...

btompkins: Added feedburner flair to both codebetter and devlicio.us Need to get a cross site...

btompkins: @markleonwatson: No, I’m serious… Its a new hobby of mine. (via Twitter /...

btompkins: If anyone has any bricked electronics, i may be able to fix them for you. (via Twitter /...

btompkins: Is bullish on EMC (via Twitter / btompkins)

btompkins: They Might Be Giants concert tonight with my 10 year old. Embracing his inner geek. (via...

btompkins: Please Business Objects.. Just stop. It would be best for all of us. (via Twitter /...

btompkins: I actually wrote a technical blog post… Can you believe it?...

btompkins: This seems useful: Getting embedded resources with WebResource.axd :...

Using Embedded Resources for HTML Email...

Most web applications need to send out email for a variety of purposes, right?   I like to use email...

btompkins: Ahh.. Another good night fishin… http://tinyurl.com/2xv87p (via Twitter /...

btompkins: Dental Floss Substitions : Paperclip? - NO… Rubberband? - NO… Wire from...

btompkins: @codinghorror: Splain (via Twitter / btompkins)

btompkins: If you have cats, you’ll understand: http://tinyurl.com/3b3snd (via Twitter /...

btompkins: @averyj: What part of “Don’t Be Evil” don’t they understand? :)...

btompkins: @averyj: no, unfortunately. (via Twitter / btompkins)

btompkins: Carl is really quite amazing.. The only thing bad I can say is that he can’t...

btompkins: Man. I love GRMN.. Someday I’ll have to buy one of their products. :) (via Twitter...

btompkins: Loved how he dismissed the idea that some countries aren’t ready for democracy.. ...

btompkins: Anyone else see Gary Kasparov on Bill Maher? Man. I wish he could run for president...

btompkins: @jasona: I still think you spend too much time in traffic. Think of all the work you...

btompkins: Oops! Bush’s striper ban was an entirely political move. Fishing for stripers in...

btompkins: @codinghorror: If only JetBrains would make us an IDE… :( (via Twitter /...

btompkins: OH MY GOD!!! Bush did something good! http://tinyurl.com/2oprle (via Twitter /...

btompkins: Nitinol actuator “muscle” wire + plastic bait = more fish? I aim to find...

btompkins: My OLAP cube here at work is starting to resemble a Katamari Damacy Clump…...

btompkins: Looks like I’ll be fixing two a week! (via Twitter / btompkins)

btompkins: Dell’s use of shitty capacitors has spawned a new business op for me: ...

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Legislate Humanity: Bumper Sticker I made (via Photos from...