Santomania
Addy Santo's occasional braindumps
SharePoint Database Explorer
This tool allows you to connect directly to a SharePoint content database and retrieve files. It is...
Author: Addys Date: 01/30/2004
Second Day at Microsoft
Today is actually my third day here, here is a quick summary of yesterday: 1. The floodgates have...
Author: Addys Date: 01/21/2004
First day at Microsoft
Well, today was my first day as an MS employee :)My email address is addys@microsoft.com if anyone...
Author: Addys Date: 01/19/2004
Anti-Patterns
Know everything there is to know about Design Patterns? Well it is time to move on to Anti-Patterns....
Author: Addys Date: 01/12/2004
there goes the hard disk... there go the blogs... there go the ....
Well, my HD died at work taking with it almost a year of aggregated feeds and most importantly - my...
Author: Addys Date: 01/10/2004
Combatting the spyware blues, MyIE2 to the rescue
I moved from Israel to New York roughly a year ago. Since a year is a pretty long time to be away...
Author: Addys Date: 01/07/2004
[OT] Gollum in da hood
I almost died laughing... if you are a LOTR fan, check this out.
Author: Addys Date: 01/02/2004
To help or not to help [ when Microsoft asks for it]
Frans doesn't like when Microsoft asks for help. First of all, although I disagree with his opinion,...
Author: Addys Date: 12/09/2003
Sharepoint Portals + Integration Technical Airlift this week
I'm flying out to the Portals & Integration Airlift this week in Seattle... Are there any other...
Author: Addys Date: 12/01/2003
Oh no, SelectSingleNode is evil!
I have been reflecting alot lately, however I was actually tipped off to this one via Lamont...
Author: Addys Date: 11/24/2003
"Software is like blood"
In this article, titled “Rise of Linux totally unstoppable” I found the following quote...
Author: Addys Date: 11/18/2003
Random Thoughts
- On the dynamic SQL issue, I vote for Frans. I have architected and developed systems using both...
Author: Addys Date: 11/18/2003
Locality of reference and performance : Things you hope you will never need to use
People who can measure their application data's locality of reference using the CPU'S L2 cache scare...
Author: Addys Date: 11/14/2003
[OT] clueless tech correspondents :)
This guy thinks he is one of the first to review OneNote... Ya gotta love clueless tech...
Author: Addys Date: 11/13/2003
Sharepoint tip of the day
Actually this is more a Web Services tip, but what the heck - When using the WSS Web Services, you...
Author: Addys Date: 11/12/2003
VS 1.2 (Whidbey) start page?
Does anyone know how to reach the VS 1.2 Start page, or even better - how to change the default...
Author: Addys Date: 11/12/2003
SharpReader 0.9.3.1 - AlertNewItems Feature
The 0.9.3.* ver of SharpReader rocks, but when you update you might want to turn the...
Author: Addys Date: 11/10/2003
New SharpReader - 0.9.3
SharpReader 0.9.3 is out. [Luke Hutteman]: My favorite improvement: Memory consumption has been...
Author: Addys Date: 11/07/2003
Unit tests: How much is enough?
Looking back on some of my earlier projects, I noticed that UTs account for roughly 20% of my total...
Author: Addys Date: 11/05/2003
SharePoint 2003 - what would you like to know?
My Sharepoint presentation is running a bit long and I need to cut it down by a few minutes. If you...
Author: Addys Date: 11/03/2003
Hillel Cooperman’s PDC Presentation
With all the very positive buzz surrounding Hillel Cooperman’s PDC Presentation, I hereby add...
Author: Addys Date: 11/03/2003
October 2003 .NET Framework SDK Documentation Update
5000 new code samples... There goes the weekend... The October 2003 .NET Framework SDK Documentation...
Author: Addys Date: 10/28/2003
My 100th weblog post!
Woohoo!
Author: Addys Date: 10/26/2003
Writing a setup package?
...then why don't you go with the flow and name it SETUP.EXE just like everyone else? Seriously, it...
Author: Addys Date: 10/25/2003
my Muse on crack...
As a developer, these are the moments I live for: Yesterday morning my Muse payed me an unusual...
Author: Addys Date: 10/25/2003
SPS development tip of the day
Tip of the day for developing under SPS- If you get “Debugging is not supported under current...
Author: Addys Date: 10/25/2003
SPS presentation to the New Jersey Microsoft .NET Developer Group
Umm this was supposed to be in my previous post but slipped my mind: I'm giving a presentation on...
Author: Addys Date: 10/21/2003
SPS launch enthusiasm
Last night I met up with part of the SPS marketing team who are here in NYC for the launch. Those...
Author: Addys Date: 10/21/2003
[Semi-OT] How the SQL team overcame Feature Bug #17630017882
[Korby Parnell] has details on what must be one of the most amusing bugs in recent memory. It is...
Author: Addys Date: 10/15/2003
Hello MSN, byebye Trillian
My client has miraculously stopped firewalling Messenger, so I am can finally join the rest of the...
Author: Addys Date: 10/13/2003
[OT] What OS are you?
Hmm, bright but insane... I'll ask my wife if she agrees with that assessment. Which OS are You?
Author: Addys Date: 10/09/2003
BindingHelper source code - databind your winforms to arrays, public variables of classes, whatever
I was planning to wrap this in an article, but I'm woefully behind on my to-do list so I'm just...
Author: Addys Date: 10/07/2003
[OT] Matrix Revolutions IMAX premiere locations
Matrix Revolutions will be the first movie ever to premiere both in regular and IMAX theaters. The...
Author: Addys Date: 10/06/2003
Geek Marriages
I can vouch for Roy and his wife and their geekieness. I have a story of my own to add... My wife...
Author: Addys Date: 10/06/2003
SyncRoots virtually useless, may change /w generics?
I never found much use for SyncRoots, especially in data structures. Their usefulness always had a...
Author: Addys Date: 09/29/2003
Avalon hype
Wesner Moise hypes Avalon, the new UI subsystem coming soon to a Longhorn near you:If you go to PDC,...
Author: Addys Date: 09/23/2003
Every time I try to use Reflector to do something useful....
... I find myself sidetracked exploring the incredible wealth of information it exposes about the...
Author: Addys Date: 09/22/2003
[OT] RIAA satire
I saw this somewhere: "Just because someone appears to be 'innocent,' or 'harmless', or 'physically...
Author: Addys Date: 09/19/2003
intro to Code Access Security slides
Neat, the slides from my “Introduction to Code Access Security” presentation are...
Author: Addys Date: 09/18/2003
Hey, who stole the internet?
Err... It seems that every since yesterday all unknown DNS queries have been resolving to an address...
Author: Addys Date: 09/16/2003