I started a website in about 1995, but was never sure what to do with it. At first I called it SpiderBytes Consulting, and was trying to see if I could get some software development contracts. When I eventually got around to seeing about a domain name I discovered that there was someone else was using the name SpiderBytes.
After I started playing around with COM (Component Object Model), ActiveX and ATL (Active Template Library), I changed the name of my website to ATL Components Notebook. Eventually I shortened that to Components Notebook and registered the domain name componentsnotebook.com.
Since the introduction of .NET in 2001, I have been using C# as my main programming language, and started posting tutorials and sample code on my website. Jumping on the C# bandwagon so early in the game, landed me a few technical review jobs for Osborne/McGraw Hill & Wrox. To make a long story short, I never got around to generating much content for my site, and haven’t posted any tutorials or code samples since 2006.
I have now shut down that site. This blog will be where I post hardware and software articles. Non-technical bog posts will be on my other blog at http://billburris.blogspot.com/.
