Rob Chartier ~ Contemplation...

.NET, C#, Work, etc.

  • Local User Group Confusion...

    Tags: Tech Geek

    Im currently hoping to begin contributing to my local community more so I decided to search around and find out more information about the local .NET community... It would appear that my local … more

  • tracert to bell.ca..

    Tags: Tech Geek

    Nothing to do with .NET, but fun either way... Someone pointed me to this... http://www.tera-byte.com/cgi-bin/nph-trace?bell.ca Output: 1  cat6509-vlan2.edm.tera-byte.com (216.234.161.1)  0.217 ms  0. … more

  • Top court hears pitch for tariff on web use...

    Tags: Rants

    CBC Reports: “The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) is in court on Wednesday arguing that internet providers should hand over millions of dollars toward … more

  • Windows ATMs raise security concerns...

    Tags: Security, Tech Geek

    Interesting read on XP being deployed to ATM machines... Two things: “sneaker net“.  I havnt heard that term since my days pulling cable around my old College.  Fun. and... I … more

  • A useful idea, for me anyways...

    Tags: Rants, Tech Geek

    Why does my blog world have to be so seperate from my day-to-day calendar?   Why cant Scott or any other blog provider actually integrate these things? Oh yeah, also make it accessible … more

  • Microsoft Watch...

    Tags: Tech Geek

    Looks like Ziff Davis has created a Microsoft-Watch site, just to keep track of recent stuff coming down from the giant.   Subscribed, lets see if its actually useful.     more

  • Book Review: A First Look at ASP.NET v. 2.0

    Tags: Published

    An in-depth review of "A First Look at ASP.NET v2.0" published by Addison Wesley, authored by Alex Homer, Dave Sussman, and Rob Howard, foreword by Scott Guthrie. I couldn’t wait to get my … more

  • Base64 Encoding with the SOAP Toolkit...

    Tags: Rants

    We recently had a project where I tried to encrypt a bit of data (Rijndael), base64 encode it in a VB6 client, and send it over to a .NET managed Web Service via a byte()/byte[].  What a pain in … more