Development Notes, News and Ramblings
I’ve mentioned how Vista would lock up my entire computer. It froze everything, even the tray clock. Nothing worked. During a recent episode of this malfunction I was presented with one of those “Would you like Windows to check for a solution” dialogs. I swear its the first one I got. So far the machine […]
Every morning on my way to work I pass by a billboard for this album. And since I have nothing better to do I start to wonder how in the world they came up with that name. “Young Jeezy” ? Does that mean there is an “Old Jeezy” somewhere? And maybe Old Jeezy was so […]
As of yesterday, for no appearant reason, my Vista box locks up after 30 min of use. And it locks up really hard - so much so that even the tray clock doesn’t update anymore. The entire machine stops. Not a good sign. I hope I will not have the experience of the fellow who […]
Inspiration struck today while I was wrapping Christmas presents for my wife. No it wasn’t a big “Eureka” moment. It snuck up on me. Have you ever had an instance where several events / experiences fall together and you have one of those little “aha - thats how it works” moments? And no, I’m not […]
Well… not quite. As long as your favorite language is Java or C# there are ways to do this. It strikes me as very interesting that 2 individuals seem to champion this concept. Google offers GWT which is being handled by Scott Blum. In contrast there is no official MS answer – BUT – Nikhil […]
You finish building a great ASP.NET application, have everything tested and working right on your local system, are taking full advantage of the new ASP.NET 2.0 Membership, Role and Profile features, and are ready to publish it to a remote hosting environment and share it with the world.
Copying the .aspx files and compiled assemblies […]
Reading Michael Gunderloy’s “ A fresh cup” with almost as much anticipation as the original Larkware site, I came across a reference to an analysis of Vista by a gentleman named Peter Gutman who seems to have the credentials to know what he is talking about. Below is an excerpt of his analysis. If that […]
Just got back from doing some last minute shopping. Somehow being stuck on an LA Freeway seems easier when listening to Jonesy’s Jukebox . Steve is about my age and consequently he plays a few tunes here and there that I heard on the radio whilst growing up in Europe. He is a completely wacky […]
In the US we lately have had a tendency to start decorating for Christmas much sooner. Many stores break out the Christmas decor in late November almost a full month before the holiday. Oddly enough many households have followed this pattern. I remember growing up in Germany and trekking out through the snowy forest a […]
Zeitgeist. – its actually a German word that freely translates as “The spirit of the times”. Funny how my mother language has a specific word for everything. Sometimes that specific word is concatenated between various other words. For example “Schadenfreude” - there is no such thing in English. And this one specific word means “to […]
Link here – the title of this post pretty much sums it up doesn’t it..
In a former life I obtained a BA in photography. That was a long long time ago. However, one of the things that you get into when doing illustrative photography is design elements and the importance of type faces. Consequently I got excited today when I came across TypeTester, which allows you to play with type faces on […]
As I get older I enjoy more and more classical music. Its something about the complexity of the music that seems more attractive these days. It just so happens that in Los Angeles we now have one of the best acoustic spaces in the world – The Disney Concert Hall. Its really something else. It […]
Powershell scripts allow you to take advantage of .NET libraries and write scripts which are almost as powerful as the .NET code itself. You can do many powerful operations like call external DLLs, use .NET namespaces like System.IO, System.Net, run processes and intercept output, call web services etc. The possibilities are endless. Here, I will […]
Mike Gunderloy, one of the most respected bloggers and authors in the MS centric part of the software universe has started a blog to chronicle his progress in becoming familiar with new technologies and new opportunities. I think many of us in the industry have a sort of instinctual sense of foreboding about MS these […]
The hottest topic these days on venture capital (VC) calendars and developer blogs is Ajax. Major ingredients of Ajax have been around for over a decade, so there really isn’t much new to Ajax. However, the name Ajax,which stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is pretty new; it was introduced in 2005 by Jesse James […]
K. Scott Allan Self-Published a book on WWF. Seems a tad pricey, so I hope its worth it.
A C# developer’s guide to the features and programming interfaces of Windows Workflow Foundation
* Add event-driven workflow capabilities to your .NET applications.* Highlights the libraries, services and internals programmers need to know* Builds a practical “bug reporting” workflow […]
Today’s article shows one approach to bubbling up exceptions and error messages from your business layer to your windows form UI as well as web methods when called via Web Services. It is a great beginner sample to utilizing web services and custom classes in .NET and can also be useful in ASP.NET / AJAX […]
Now, erhh… what is exactly the Html Agility Pack? All right, all right, I will tell you know:
This is an agile HTML parser that builds a read/write DOM and supports plain XPATH or XSLT (you actually don’t HAVE to understand XPATH nor XSLT to use it, don’t worry…). It is a .NET code library that […]
Its getting harder to come up with semi-clever titles for the link collection posts. No wonder everyone else has a specific format they follow….
If you have not seen the Firefox extension for Google Notebook you should check it out. Originally Notebook was designed for researchers. It allows you to cite and copy interesting items […]