I worked on them all day today, and managed to get my Desert Code Camp presentations produced in video format, and uploaded to my Amazon S3 media store. I am initially making available videos in Windows Media Player format. I’m also going to produce the videos in an iPhone/iPod format, just in case anyone wants to use those. Look for those to be available tomorrow morning as I’m going to run the production process over night. More...

Since learning about Source Server and how it works with debuggers such as Microsoft’s Visual Studio or WinDBG from the Debugging Tools for Windows, I’ve become an avid fan of adding version control information to my debug and release-mode PDB symbol files. I’ve learned the value of having this information in my symbol files for debugging programs that I’ve released to users that they have had problems with. Also, having them for debugging minidumps has become an invaluable tool that I simply cannot live without. More...

Desert Code Camp is coming up on Saturday June 13th. I’m pretty excited about this one because I’m going to present for the first time. I’m actually diving in deep because there are quite a few subjects that I want to speak about. The four sessions that I have proposed are below. More...

In my last post, I discussed what my production environment looks like for ImaginaryRealities.com. In this post, I'll discuss my development environment that I'm using to build the ImaginaryRealities.com web site. I won't focus so much on the hardware than on the software and tools that I'm using to build the web site. More...

Before launching my blog, I spent several hours screaming at my computer because my blog just wasn't working. Actually, the blog was fine. Windows Live Writer wouldn't connect to it. I tried and retried and check everything that I could think of to figure out why it wouldn't work.

After going away overnight, I came back fresh to my computer and remembered that I was playing with implementing the MetaWeblog API for a small demo project that I was working on. MetaWeblog is an XML-RPC-based API that most blogs support and that Windows Live Writer will use to publish content to a blog or similar content management system such as SharePoint. Back when I was working on that API, I was using Windows Live Writer for testing and using Fiddler to debug my issues with the XML-RPC protocol. When I was doing this debugging, in my infinite wisdom, I forced the TCP/IP address of the proxy that Windows Live Writer used to communicate with my blog. I unfortunately left this proxy address set when I was done debugging.

I noticed something strange when I fired up Fiddler to help me figure out why Windows Live Writer would not connect to my blog, only to discover that WLW worked when Fiddler was running. So, the moral of this story is to always undo your TCP/IP proxy settings after you're done debugging.