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Public Class GeoffAppleby

Inherits Microsoft.VisualBasic.MVP : Implements IBrainFart

November 2005 - Posts

My Night Out at the Launch Party
Tonight was the VS Ready Launch Community Party in Canberra. Twas a good night indeed :) For the party, they asked people to dress up as a Geek Rocker . Now, I've been watching the trends of the party reports as they've travelled round the country, and Read More...
Taking Control of My VB2005 Application
I was doing some tinkering tonight. I created a new WinForms app, but instead of just having a start up form, like usual, I wanted to take control of it and do it old school. Now, in the Old Days(TM) 1 , all you did was somewhere in your code add yourself Read More...
Like Warm Apple Pie...
You Are Apple Pie You're the perfect combo of comforting and traditional Those who like you crave security What Kind of Pie Are You? Read More...
More Quizzes
Your Star Wars Pickup Line "In time, you will call me.....Master." What's Your Star Wars Pickup Line? Your Amazing Yoda Sex Line "Who's your Jedi master? WHO'S your Jedi Master?" The Amazing Yoda Sex Line Generator Read More...
All Booked Up
Today was booking day. I signed up for three different events, and rejected a fourth. So I've officially filled in the forms or sent mail for: The evening meeting of the Canberra .net User Group for November (web application security with Ben Sudbury) Read More...
Now I'm a scientist.
Well, I passed maths before , now I've passed science too. Now I'm double smart :) You Passed 8th Grade Science Congratulations, you got 8/8 correct! Could You Pass 8th Grade Science? Read More...
Private Geek Dinner in Canberra
...to arrange the public geek dinner. No really! That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it. ... OK, so I got a phone call from Darren Neimke last night, letting me know that some of the Readify guys were meeting up for dinner tonight and asking if I wanted Read More...
Another Good Bug Bites Us in VS2003 - Classic ADO
One of the services that my team had to write here at work included the necessity to be able to send an email with an attachment. While clunky in .net 1.1, it was doable. But when we noticed that to send an attachment you could only specify a file location Read More...
I'm A Sell Out
On Average, You Would Sell Out For $1,052,275 At What Price Would You Sell Out? Read More...
I was a geek in high school. I had really short hair. I played Dungeons & Dragons.
OK, actually I stopped playing D&D in primary school - I could never really get into it. My was short though. But it's still a cool quote from a cool movie . Anyway, I've got more proof. Brainy Kid In high school, you were acing AP classes or hanging Read More...
Anyone know about VB Refactor! for RTM?
Several months ago a very big deal was made about the existence of the VB Refactor! addin for VB2005. But as you can see by following that link, the page there is still talking about it it being a Beta 2 build. I went to the devexpress website to see Read More...