Scott Hanselman

It came out and I ran to Fred Meyer to pick one up for myself.  I'm talking about the new Blood Glucose Meter from Lifescan, the OneTouch UltraSmart.  (Diabetics who are also geeks MUST have all the new toys)

If you wanted a review, here it is: The UltraSmart is the BEST meter I've ever used.  Full Stop.  I love it.

If you want more, read on.  It combines everything that is good about the original One Touch Ultra with a very complete logbook.  Also, thank goodness, it finally includes a backlight.  I can't tell you how many times I've needed to check my blood sugar in the movies and have struggled with the non-backlit Ultra.

Here's all you need to know:

• Uses the same Ultra test strips you use now
• Results in 5 seconds
• Huge temperature range
• Blue "Indiglo" Backlight
• Graphs and trending data
• Logging of Exercise, Carbos, Hypos, etc
• Connects to OneTouch Software

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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In a rit of fealous jage and the inspiration of XML and CSS I updated my Diabetes Superstore http://www.diabeticbooks.com.  It's got a sexy new look and is dynamically updated by XML and XSLT taking the latest Amazon.com data and adding my review and comments of the latest books and information on Diabetes.  I've added new categories, I'm adding new books all the time.  If there's any desire for an RSS feed, let me know.  Enjoy!

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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Chris Brooks, my CTO, and I finally sat down to spend what we thought would be some serious time with Microsoft Office 2003's InfoPath and Chris Anderson's BlogX (Chris and some managers run BlogX internal blogs). 

We started up InfoPath, selected "New from Data Source" and pointed it at Chris's Internal Blog's WSDL.  We hooked up the CreateEntry Document to the CreateEntry Operation, and were presented with the Design View.  Rather than dragging one simple element at a time, we guessed and drug the whole CreateEntry and *poof* the form was sitting there.  We stared...exchanged "Oh, that was sweet" and continued.  We added name and password, a submit button and saved. 

We started up the Data Entry view, filled out the form, and nothing bad happened.  Suspicious thoughts filled the air, but we supressed them and visited Chris's blog...and dammit if the thing wasn't updated with our new entry.

As we sat and stared, I thought about the stacks of protocol layers and specificiations that we sat atop.  The false starts, the iterations, the consortiums, the presentations.  I thought of the day I first installed Trumpet Winsock on my Windows 3.1 machine and telneted to cdconnection.com, content to send my credit card number screaming in plaintext across the open Internet. 

The view from here is lovely.  I look forward to the things I can build with the things that have been built for me.

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/pdc/

Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2003

October 27-31, 2003
Los Angeles, CA

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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In Visual Studio 2003/Windows .NET Framework 1.1 (Codename: Everett) when using ASP.NET XML Web services, note that HTTP GET is turned off by default, presumably for security reasons.

Here's how to turn it back on...add this to your web.config:

<webServices>
   <protocols>
      <add name="HttpGet" />
   </protocols>
</webServices>

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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