You've reached the internet home of Chris Sells, who has a long history as a contributing member of the Windows developer community. He enjoys long walks on the beach and various computer technologies.
Saturday, Oct 25, 2003, 10:14 AM
Generating Dummy Text
Here. Don points at the Lipsum generator, which generates Lorem Ipsum text in any quantity you like. In addition, Word has an Autotext feature that does similiar thing with "the quick brown fox...": http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,803395,00.asp
Saturday, Oct 25, 2003, 10:04 AM in Tools
Another .NET Regular Expression Tool
Here. Regular Expressions seems a popular thing to build a tool around. The Regular looks cool. They all look cool. Why weren't any of these tools around when I started building RegexD?!?
Friday, Oct 24, 2003, 3:03 PM in .NET
Case Study: Porting SourceOffsite from Java to C#
Here. "When SourceGear needed to move its SourceOffSite product away from the Microsoft® Java Virtual Machine (MSJVM), which Microsoft is no longer able to fully support as a result of a legal agreement with Sun Microsystems, SourceGear turned to C# and the Microsoft .NET Framework."
Friday, Oct 24, 2003, 1:50 PM in .NET
The .NET Show: Managed DirectX
Here. I love the idea that I can marry fast performing graphics with managed code. Don't know if it actually works well enough to build Doom, but I imagine I'll know after watching this episode of The .NET Show.
Thursday, Oct 23, 2003, 4:22 PM
Rico Mariani on Managed Code Performance
Here. Very nice talk about .NET and performance. [blogs.gotdotnet.com/BradA]
Thursday, Oct 23, 2003, 1:26 PM
Search Full Text of 120,000 Books on Amazon
Here. Wahoo!!!
Thursday, Oct 23, 2003, 1:23 PM in The Spout
MSDN Wants You
Here. Want to write for MSDN online? Here's how.
Thursday, Oct 23, 2003, 9:14 AM in .NET
Why Showing Longhorn at the PDC Isn't Too Early
Here. Robert lays out why it's important that MS show off our current Longhorn thinking ASAP: so that we can incorporate as much of your feedback as humanly possible. Unfortunately, Robert frames his post in terms of hatred for MS, which is a bit more negative then necessary, I think. Still, given his current status as the I-hate-MS-lightning-rod, I'm not surprised that he covers his head on his way outdoors... : )
Wednesday, Oct 22, 2003, 12:03 PM in .NET
Chris Anderson Sets Up Longhorn-ish Wiki
Here. "This Wiki is hosted by ChrisAnderson. The topics for this Wiki will be anything that we all want - mostly Longhorn, Windows, Microsoft, .NET, and other technology.."
Wednesday, Oct 22, 2003, 11:43 AM
Windows Source Code for Eligible MVPs
Here. Whoa: "Microsoft Corp. today announced the latest addition to its Shared Source Initiative source licensing program, the Most Valuable Professional Source Licensing Program (MVPSLP). The program recognizes individuals with expertise in one or more Microsoft® products and technologies for their active participation and efforts to help other Microsoft customers. Recognizing the importance of supporting MVPs and the online and offline technical communities they assist, Microsoft is delivering one of its most valuable assets, Windows® source code, to eligible MVPs through the MVPSLP."
Wednesday, Oct 22, 2003, 11:21 AM in Fun
The Cow Puncher Punchline
Here. I did remember the rest of the cow branding story from last night's Portland Nerd Dinner: -I'm embarrassed to admit that it was I who paid the cowboy $2 to eat the newly harvested cow testicle -A few months later, Cal sent me a copy of the Klamath Falls Herald and News featuring a visit from "Visiting Windows Expert Chris Sells" (or some such) shaking Cal's hand. I don't think it was the cow testicle incident that got me in the paper, but I try not too think about it too much BTW, if you're on the fence about the Portland Nerd Dinners and you have trouble with conversations involving cow testicles, mafia hits or how to defraud the phone company, you might want to stay home for the next one...
Monday, Oct 20, 2003, 8:51 AM in The Spout
ASP Alliance reviews WinForms Programming in C#
Here. I don't know why an ASP site is reviewing a WinForms book, but they do a thorough job and, of course, I like their conclusion: "If you are looking for a Windows Forms book, don’t let this one slip out of your hands. The book has such insight and experience included that every reader, beginner and professional, will get benefit from reading it."
Monday, Oct 20, 2003, 12:44 AM in The Spout
Every Vain Author's Best Friend
Here. Rory built me an RSS feed to track book reviews on Amazon.com. And then he thanked me for letting him do it. You're welcome, Rory... BTW, to complete your Vain Author's Toolkit, you'll need junglescan.com to track a portfolio of books' sales rank. If those ain't web services, I don't know what are!
Sunday, Oct 19, 2003, 9:50 PM in Fun
Black Cube for "Chris Sells (Likeness)"
Here. This caused me to laugh 'til I snorted. : )
Friday, Oct 17, 2003, 7:30 AM in Conference
Aaron at the Applied XML Dev.Conf. part 2
Here. "Some XML applications don't require validation to function properly but others absolutely require it in one form or another to avoid disasters. Aaron Skonnard discusses when validation is a MUST, then presents different implementation techniques for tackling the problem."