Wyatt Lyon Preul

So over the holiday season I created a boggle solver for a 5x5 board. I noticed some of my family members playing weboggle and decided it would be fun to create a tool to be able to win every time. I looked online at different boggle algorithms and other attempts at solving boggle puzzles. What I couldn't...

I have been tracking eReaders for several years now, and have been delighted by all of the eInk readers that are now available. The problem for me is that I do not want to spend $300 dollars for a reader, I would be willing to pay $100 but nothing for that price exists. Instead, I have been reading books...

Did you know that you can add custom buttons to Picasa that cause custom actions to occur when clicked. Its true, you can, and I will show you how to do it. What will happen when a button is clicked is that any photos that are selected will be sent as an rss feed to the url you specify in your button...

I have been meaning to format my Vista laptop and install XP on it. Vista was just not working out for me as a developer on this particular laptop. The laptop is a Toshiba M105-S3004, and is a decent model as far as laptops are concerned. I have been running Vista on it since the RTM version was available...

Technology Review has a great article about Charles Simonyi that can be found here . While it is a long read, it is well worth it. The article itself is a good history lesson on where we are as programmers and what work we have left to do. Currently Simonyi is working on a project that deals with his...

I have a prediction, a very simple and logical one. IAM____.com is the next big thing to hit the web. With the saturation of myspace and myface, myplace, mycase and what have you, almost everything beginning with my in the domain is taken. This is a good thing, though, because with the increasing popularity...

So I have a CTP of SQL 2005, SQL 2000, and CTP of SQL Express on one of my boxes and wanted to remove it. Using the add/remove programs (appwiz.cpl) did not display the CTP and would spit out errors when I tried to remove sql 2000… sigh Therefore, I tried to just install the dev copy of SQL 2005...