January 2005 - Posts

Since I'm pissing off everyone anyway

Published 31 January 5 8:40 PM | William

Here's a link to one of the coolest blogs I've read in ages. The American Left is nearly unanimous in their love of Fidel Castro. He's a pig - and one of the most vile pigs that the 20,21st centuries have known. “But at least everyone in Cuba has...

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How not to post in a newsgroup...

Published 31 January 5 7:47 PM | William

I was just watchign CNN and it appears that KC's brilliant CAPTCHA article edged out the Iraqi elections in terms of interest. If I can just put something in perspective: From microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp: << I would like to know how...

Filed under: News, Humor, Life in General

Improving a CAPTCHA - An idea

Published 31 January 5 12:20 AM | William

Ok, so you have probably already heard about all of the controversy my homey KC caused with his Captcha beater. He posted his suggestions on how to make Captcha stronge, which are provided below: render the characters with different colors make some characters...

Filed under: News, Life in General, Me, .NET General, Coding Techniques, Mindless Babbling

More Casey Worship

Published 30 January 5 4:7 PM | William

One of the best things about being the leader of the Casey Chesnut Sycophant Cult is that he makes it increasingly easy to recruit members. Like much of his stuff - the coolness of it doesn't just come from the tech stuff it takes to write it - it comes...

Filed under: Life in General, .NET General, Coding Techniques

http://www.everythingado.net

Published 30 January 5 2:45 AM | William

Well, I finally bit the bullet and purchased my site from Brinkster. I'm going to be hosting blogs for a few of my disaffected DNJ friends - but well, due to the nature of the site - I'm not handing them out to everyone - If I know you, or you can convince...

Filed under: News, Humor, Compact Framework, Data Access, MVP Stuff, Me, .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques, Mindless Babbling

He who laughs last

Published 29 January 5 10:12 PM | William

Ok, so this time I the poor sap on the bad side of weather. 1/2 of snow and EVERYTHING, is closed down. You'd think this was the friggin Day After Tomorrow or something. Just once I want to be able to talk some trash and not get it right back in my face...

Filed under: Mindless Babbling

Help Opennetcf.org

Published 29 January 5 1:41 AM | William

Sorry I didn't post Opennetcf.org .

Filed under: Compact Framework

Enterprise Library is here!

Published 28 January 5 10:13 PM | William

Here's a link but I'm busy digging through it right now. Looks pretty darned cool though.

Filed under: Web Services / WSE, .NET General

"I'm lazy and stupid so it's Microsoft's fault"

Published 28 January 5 1:7 AM | William

I was out indirectly ego surfing tonight working on a spider that i've been playing with and I saw the results. Amongst them were some D1ckw0d bitching about Microsoft. But I really feel like venting about this.... Here's his final response: (If you are...

Filed under: Data Access, Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling

My Homey Moved

Published 27 January 5 10:21 PM | William

My homey Sahil moved his blog - and well, now I can actually read it without a parameter exception!

Filed under: News, Data Access, .NET General

One of those nights...

Published 26 January 5 12:10 AM | William

Have you ever had one of those nights where you just feel like a critical enzyme is missing and your brain just isn't working correctly? I've read a bunch of blogs tonight - and well, none of them made sense. The original blogs did - but the comments...

Filed under: Humor, Me, Mindless Babbling

"Clearly"

Published 25 January 5 8:45 PM | William

Today I got a response to one of my posts bitching about crystal reports where the dude says “as someone who works with the product extensively I can see that people above clearly have not taking any training before using the product so that they...

Filed under: Mindless Babbling

From Scott - So you want to be an architect

Published 25 January 5 8:32 PM | William

Here are the questions : Here are my answers: 1) I'm with Andy - Fred's gone 2) None of the above - Sir, It already is SOA compliant - however if we want to be trendsetters at the tradeshow instead of hanging on the bandwagon - then we need to allocate...

Filed under: Humor, Coding Techniques

LinkDemands, JIT and Exceptions

Published 25 January 5 8:16 PM | William

Ran across another little problem today that I figured I'd mention. To many people security is nothing but a pain in the butt so you just do what you have to do to make your code run. If you're one of those people, you probably should stop reading this...

Filed under: .NET General, Coding Techniques

Cutting and Pasting Rectangles in Visual Stuido .NET

Published 25 January 5 7:54 PM | William

This is one of many gems in Mihn's killer book Visual Studio .NET Tips and Tricks. But today was a prime example of how cool this is. I had a whole slew of variables that were marked as Private but needed to be marked as protected instead. Also, I had...

Filed under: News, .NET General

Spammers for Jesus?

Published 25 January 5 12:30 PM | William

This was just posted in microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp under “*IMPORTANT* Message for Google Group, Usenet and AOL users!“ Good News! Do you know how simple it is to go to Heaven after this life has ended? Some people believe that...

Filed under: Humor

Mwuahahahahahahahahahahahaahahha

Published 24 January 5 7:39 PM | William

To all of my homies up North, please note that I'm feeling your pain. Today, I forgot to wear a jackek and it got COLD - (67). I'm dealing with this: Tonight Clear Lo 65°F Tuesday Sunny Hi 70°F Instead of this: Frozen boogers? Heck, they usually...

Filed under: Humor, Me

Coding Standards

Published 23 January 5 11:6 PM | William

Hopefully I'm not divulging anything I shouldn't, but I got this email recently: <<I know everybody gets tired of me harping on this, but please follow the coding standards. Some places that these were not followed are:>> I could show the...

Filed under: Coding Techniques

Requests for Content

Published 23 January 5 10:40 PM | William

I've finally started to get a little free time these days and I'm going to be doing some quality Travelling in the next few weeks - if you're interested in something in particular, I'm taking requests. Anything ADO.NET, Anything Compact Framework, (Not...

Filed under: Compact Framework, Data Access, Remoting, MVP Stuff, .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques

BinaryFormatter in ADO.NET 2.0

Published 23 January 5 10:26 PM | William

This is hardly hot off of the press, but I had a few questions about it and figured I'd post it. There is a new RemotingFormat property w/ DataSets in ADO.NET 2.0 - and depending on how you are trying to work things, the differences can be profound. Note...

Filed under: Data Access, Remoting, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques