May 2004 - Posts

Windows .NET Security

Published Sat, May 29 2004 3:29 | William

A few days ago, a friend of mine and I were working on some alternate ways to access/manipulate .config files and he had done a cool write up of it over at www.kjmsolutions . Anyway, as he was doing some more reasearch, he came across the IsolatedStorageClass...

Club IMate

Published Fri, May 28 2004 7:50 | William

I got an iMATE PocketPC Phone edition phone about a month ago. At the time I didn't even know what it was. Now I don't know how I could have lived without it. Visual Studio Magazine has earned 200 cool points in my book by featuring a Special Report in...

Configuration Settings with XML

Published Wed, May 26 2004 13:10 | William

Kelly Mertins of KJM Solutions just posted a pretty cool article http://www.kjmsolutions.com/xmlsettings.htm . Hopefully everyone won't steal his work and claim credit for it this time.

The French aren't all bad

Published Sun, May 23 2004 8:20 | William

As much as I usually get mad every time I hear a French politician speak, I have to admit something, I've met quite a few French people in my life, and I can't think of one of them that I didn't like (well, there was one, but French people didn't seem...

Tweaking Bayes and how Chance favors the prepared

Published Sun, May 23 2004 8:08 | William

It was a few years ago in grad school that I was first introduced to many advanced statistical concepts. Back then there was a good amount of software that could perform high level statistical analysis like Multi-Linear Regression, Monte Carlo simulations...

Refactoring, VB.NET and C#

Published Thu, May 20 2004 8:13 | William

My boss just posted a pretty entertaining piece about how Microsoft is addressing Refactoring with both with both VB.NET and C# . I remember the article he's talking about but someone was complaining that MS isn't keeping it real w/ Refactoring b/c the...

The Wonders of the Georgia Lottery - 'Play your Change'

Published Wed, May 19 2004 16:42 | William

I'm actually seriously thinking about letting my new iMATE run in video mode on a Friday afternoon at my friend's store. If I don't get it on tape no one would believe me. Geogia has this thing called "Play your change" which allows you to purchase $0...

Stealing people's code, and doing a terrible job of it

Published Tue, May 18 2004 21:26 | William

Check out this link http://www.kjmsolutions.com/datasetarray.htm which was posted at KJM Solutions about a year ago. Now, check out this code posted by “Vinod” claiming to be his. You'll notice that he didn't even change the frigging comments - just stone...

FMS TotalSource... a pretty cool idea

Published Tue, May 18 2004 14:20 | William

Not too long ago I got a www.xtras.net subscription and all I can say is I wish I'd have known about it earlier. Since things are greatly discounted there (and not the OEM spam crap but legit discounts) I'm willing to try stuff I might hestitate to otherwise...

A few other reflections on Immigration...

Published Tue, May 18 2004 8:58 | William

I love the US and wouldn't want to live anywhere else, but every time I get to thinking about the way we behave when it comes to international trade, I get a little embarassed. How long ago was it that we were hearing about how Japan was going to take...

An interesting solution to the Outsourcing 'Problem'

Published Tue, May 18 2004 8:43 | William

As a radical free market type of guy, I tend to get embarassed when I hear people whining about outsourcing. We aren't owed jobs and we don't own them. If you can't find a job you need to learn a few new tricks, plain and simple. Few of the anti-outsourcing...

OpenNetCF.org releases the 1.1 Smart Device Framework

Published Tue, May 18 2004 6:25 | William

Click here for more details

Linux - If it's so good, why won't people take it even when it's free

Published Sun, May 16 2004 20:30 | William

Hardly a day goes by without me hearing about 'open source' in one way or another and open source is often used Synonomously with Linux. People constantly want to start citing technological reason why the Penguins are going to march the whole way to the...

Andres Aguiar posted a few real gems..

Published Fri, May 14 2004 10:52 | William

The first one on In Search of Stupidity is really great. The one on Linux being Unmaintainable is equally great. Something tells me this article will have the dudes on COLA foaming at the mouth worth than a Top Posted NG post done with Outlook Express...

KnowDotNet Releases .NET Refactor Update

Published Fri, May 14 2004 5:26 | William

Don't want to wait for Visual Studio 2005? .NET Refactor provides much of the standard functionality plus a few new goodies. For more details and trial download, click here .

"Welcome to Reality" --- A Buttmunch's Perspective on Casey

Published Fri, May 14 2004 0:54 | William

I really should be in bed right now, but I just had to start playing with System.XML 2.0. As I flipped through my feedback section, it looked like just about everyone was on Casey's side on this one but there was too much clear thinking going on I guess...

ADO.NET 2.0 - Cool uses of MARS

Published Thu, May 13 2004 21:27 | William

Basically there are like 5 big things in ADO.NET 2.0 that are supposed to make life great, Bulk Insert, Batch Updates, Multiple Active ResultSets (MARS), Notification Services and Object Spaces. There's also a ResultSet object that's pretty cool too....

ANd yet another one

Published Thu, May 13 2004 8:26 | William

http://www.lazycoder.com/weblog/index.php?p=82

Couldn't have said it better myself

Published Thu, May 13 2004 8:19 | William

... http://www.cadencoding.net/blogs/users/cornbread/comments.aspx?id=19

Just got back..

Published Thu, May 13 2004 8:16 | William

Was at the parent's yesterday and they live in the booneys where broadband is but a figment of imagination. 1) I totally retract all of my criticism about ADO.NET 2.0 . I spent about 6 hours digging through it ,and I've pretty much concluded that however...