By Stu on April 12th, 2010
Microsoft’s Dream Spark is a great program for college students. I just happen to be back in school so I qualify. I am sure MS has no problem with an older college student who is interested in business intelligence and using their tools downloading VS2010. 
So if you are a college student go check out DreamSpark.com and check out all the free tools you have at your finger tips.
Should mention that it is a 2.2 gig ISO download. I just up’d the speed of my UVerse line to 12meg down (from 6meg), so it shouldn’t be too long.
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By Stu on April 1st, 2010
One of the most influential men of the last 50 years died Thursday. His name was Dr. Henry Edward Roberts (1941-2010). Dr. Roberts was the man who put together a build-it-yourself computer kit. It was his computer kit that Bill Gates and Robert Allen (Microsoft Co-Founders) bought and made their first software work on.
Not many outside the computer world would know his name and frankly not that many in the industry either. Reading of his death made me think about how we influence others and that we are not really alone in our actions or inactions. This was something the parish priest touched on last week.
By Stu on March 29th, 2010
I have been working on several basic projects in Visual Basic.NET since taking my class. All have a requirement for user information such as Name, Address, State, Phone Number, Zip Code, Email, ect… One of my forms requires a minimum of 3 places to put the State in. Since I want the state information to be a constant format I need combo boxes. I figured there had to be an easier way or .NET function for the lists of US states. Apparently there is not a simple .NET function for this, so I began searching for a way to make it easy to populate a combo box or other control from a premade list of states.
Bought my wife an iPhone for her birthday. 
