Rod Paddock

Blog Moving to www.codebetter.com/blogs/rodpaddock

rod — Sat, 06 May 2006 19:11:00 GMT

I have moved my blog to www.codebetter.com/blogs/rodpaddock. I'm more of a code head and want to be on a blog read by more coders.

Thanks to Chris and the folks at officezealot. This was my 1st blog and the experience has been great!

Rodman

Isaiah Paddock Arrives

rod — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 17:44:00 GMT

Well yesterday was a very busy day.

Our son Isaiah was born at 7:40am. Isaiah is a beautiful 7lbs 5ounce child. Jessica went into labor early on the 13th around 2pm, we left for the hospital around 9:30pm..... Jess got an epideral (sp) around 1:30am.... We all slept for 3+ hours and got to work around 6am.

Life is Great!

Cool VB.NET Debugging Feature (The Red Button)

rod — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 07:18:00 GMT

One of the cool features in VB.NET is its Error Helper dialog.

When you have an error or warning in your code VB.NET attempts to figure out what a potential solution to your problem is.

To use this feature you do the following....

Run your mouse over the underline section of the error in the VS.SHELL

Press the red button that shows up...

From the dialog click the solution link....

Boom... Your bug is fixed...

Goodbye Slashdot.Org Hello Digg.com

rod — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 22:53:00 GMT

My browser start page has been www.slashdot.org for many years. I changed over to www.digg.com today. Digg has a ton more interesting links and doesn't seem to be a MSFT hater site.

Check it out and let me know whatcha think.

Last Trip of 2005 is Done

rod — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:55:00 GMT

I made my last trip for 2005 yesterday. I'm gone every month to locations like Los Angeles, CA, Sacramento, CA and Sioux Falls, SD.

Yesterday's trip was great fun. I took a trip to South Dakota Monday night with my friend Ken Levy http://blogs.msdn.com/klevy/

I asked Ken to visit a client of mine in Sioux Falls, SD to show off the new stuff in Visual FoxPro 9 and give them an idea of what's coming in Visual FoxPro 9. He did a great job presenting to my cilent and we had some real fun. A cool story is that when ken and I were flying to SD he mentioned another developer name Craig Boyd. Craig is a Visual FoxPro MVP and lived around 1 hour outside of Sioux Falls. I told ken “Hey I think he lives near Sioux Falls”. So on our layover Ken calls Craig and says wanna have breakfast tomorrow. Craig paused and said sure. But what the heck are you doing in Sioux Falls. Ken told him and we met at 6:30 am the next day.

I was impressed with Craig. We had some engaging conversation about VFP, .NET and other geep topix. I look forward to a longer meal with him on my next trip. Craig's blog is here... http://www.sweetpotatosoftware.com/SPSBlog/

PS... I think ken has the wrong job. Ken is a gadget hound and we geeked hard about headphones, IPODs, Bose Speakers and other hardward topics. Ken and my friend Dan have convinced me that IPODs are the way to go. Mr Jobs. You can send Ken and Dan a check now!