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Improving a CAPTCHA - An idea

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 darker than the background, and some lighter...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Mon, Jan 31 2005
Filed under: Filed under: News, Life in General, Me, .NET General, Coding Techniques, Mindless Babbling
More Casey Worship

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 from the idea behind it. This absolutely positively...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Sun, Jan 30 2005
Filed under: Filed under: Life in General, .NET General, Coding Techniques
http://www.everythingado.net

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 me your not a dork, or if you're a dork and...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Sun, Jan 30 2005
Filed under: Filed under: News, Humor, Compact Framework, Data Access, MVP Stuff, Me, .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques, Mindless Babbling
From Scott - So you want to be an architect

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 some resources my direction. For another 100,000k...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Tue, Jan 25 2005
Filed under: Filed under: Humor, Coding Techniques
LinkDemands, JIT and Exceptions

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 now and either polish up your resume' (you'll probably...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Tue, Jan 25 2005
Filed under: Filed under: .NET General, Coding Techniques
Coding Standards

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 exact examples, but I had 5 violations of our coding...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Sun, Jan 23 2005
Filed under: Filed under: Coding Techniques
Requests for Content

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 that I'm qualified on these two - but I'll give...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Sun, Jan 23 2005
Filed under: Filed under: Compact Framework, Data Access, Remoting, MVP Stuff, .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques
BinaryFormatter in ADO.NET 2.0

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 that when I use 10 records, the XML version is...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Sun, Jan 23 2005
Filed under: Filed under: Data Access, Remoting, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques
Help a Student Cheat or Help Someone with a Legitimate Problem

I get emails like this pretty regularly and it kind of bugs me. Let's say that the dude's name was John Smith and his English was perfect. There'd be little doubt that he was trying to get me to help him cheat and I wouldn't. Not that I'm some b4ll buster or anything, but that college degree is supposed...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Sun, Jan 23 2005
Filed under: Filed under: Coding Techniques
Rowstate is EVERYTHING

Well, not really, but if you don't get the concept of Rowstate, you'll have little fun with ADO.NET. I've written about this several times before, but it's a very persistent problem. I had my share of problems with it at first, until one day I 'got' it. I couldn't provide an accurate estimate, but I...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Fri, Jan 21 2005
Filed under: Filed under: Data Access, Coding Techniques
Service-Oriented Architecture & Web Services Best Practices - Atlanta GA

I just got to meet Mark Dunn the other night and really enjoyed talking to him. Looks like he'll be on DNR later this month and he's hosting a Work Shop on SOA in early February

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Fri, Jan 21 2005
Filed under: Filed under: Web Services / WSE, MVP Stuff, .NET General, Coding Techniques
A little clarification the Assert issue.

First off, I want to make it 100% that I wasn't in any way putting down anyone for not knowing about Assert. I'm a blind rapid partisan on this issue - I could probably get a job on Crossfire (which I heard is no longer) because I'm so blindly partisan on this. There are many ways to eliminate bugs ...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Wed, Jan 19 2005
Filed under: Filed under: Coding Techniques
Myths about Debug.Assert!

Earlier tonight, I was giving a presentation on and I interjected a sidebar - “Everyone here uses Debug.Assert, Right? ” because the code I was demonstrating was littered with Debug.Assert Statements . Why did I feel like asking this? Well, because to date,my use of Assertions has either...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Wed, Jan 19 2005
Filed under: Filed under: .NET General, Coding Techniques
What did you do in CS Class?

Beth has and interesting post that will surely get you reminiscing. I started remember back to a C++ program I had to write which would construct a maze, then recursively get you out of it assuming there was an open path and you had to print out the results. What a total pain in the a33 that was. It...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Thu, Jan 13 2005
Filed under: Filed under: Coding Techniques
Alex's Best of 2004

Alex Y posted Best of 2004 list a few days ago - I just rememberd it today. There's some really nice stuff there...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Wed, Jan 12 2005
Filed under: Filed under: Compact Framework, Coding Techniques
Beth is too cool.

She has an Excellent post on disabling tabs on a tab control

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Sat, Jan 8 2005
Filed under: Filed under: .NET General, Coding Techniques
From Bash to Z Shell is taking over my life

From Bash to Z Shell Evil Evil book - it's like the Ring in the Lord of the Rings. All I want to do is type command line prompts. Must stop myself but I think it's too late - it's already taken over.... Must get back to my GUI - must resist. I'm scared to open the thing because every time I do I'm hopping...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Thu, Jan 6 2005
Filed under: Filed under: Books, Coding Techniques
Interfaces

Most of my readers and most .NET Users already know this but I want to throw it out there b/c some Pattern Stuff I'm working on and about to write an article on - is gobblidygook if you don't understand this. Assume that I have this method signature: private void DemoInterfaceBehavior(IGenericInterface...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Sat, Jan 1 2005
Filed under: Filed under: .NET General, Coding Techniques
Newsgroup Cowboys

Originally, I was going to title this Newsgroup a-holes. But I decided to sound a little more European and opt for Cowboy instead. What is a Newsgroup Cowboy you ask? Well, it's someone who runs their mouth first, and then thinks about it later. Here are some great examples: Q: I'm getting connection...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Thu, Dec 30 2004
Filed under: Filed under: News, Life in General, Me, .NET General, Coding Techniques
Rant - Option Strict Off

Today someone posted an innocent enough question in the VB.NET Newsgroup. He was new to VB.NET and had turned on Option Strict - he immediately got over 500 errors. He asked specifically why he should Option Strict. I don't think any readers here don't already know the answer to this so I won't belabor...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Wed, Dec 29 2004
Filed under: Filed under: .NET General, Coding Techniques

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