November 2004 - Posts

Ultimate List of Add-Ins for VS.NET

Published Fri, Nov 26 2004 18:24 | William

I would have like to have seen .NET Refactor or the Regionizer in there - but oh well. Check them out for yourself

Filed under: .NET General

Interesting Book List

Published Fri, Nov 26 2004 13:33 | William

Just saw this posted on Neopoleon . Pretty interesting list of books indeed. I wish I had that much time for fiction stuff. Then again - I probably do just start feeling guilty if I go more than 6 hours without having my nose in a tech book.

Filed under: Books

Getting Spammed to death

Published Fri, Nov 26 2004 11:46 | William

I think it's time to start the prayer vigil again - the evil b43tards started it up again. So far I had to delete about 15 since last night. I guess there are still people out there that reply to obvious spam posts - wish they wouldn't but I guess the...

Filed under: News

More on the Freestyle Battles

Published Thu, Nov 25 2004 19:21 | William

before I continue - let me please announce that this stuff is definitely 'not appropriate for a techncial blog'. I only mention it b/c I've gotten over 90 replies which is pretty high all things considered. Please, though, if you have a sense of humor...

Filed under: Humor, Me

TEAM System WTF?

Published Thu, Nov 25 2004 19:04 | William

Ok, first, I'm not on dial up - I have the full broadband connection. But last night around 11:30 I started to download the new http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/teamsystem/ . Ummm, it's 6:40 the next day and it's only 70% downloaded. This can't be...

Filed under: Me

Which Villian are you? Which Gangsta are you?

Published Thu, Nov 25 2004 16:24 | William

Thanks to Scott for this one .. There's a lot of other quizzes but if nothing else, the background techno darth vader thing is great. I then took the Gangsta test and got this back - I don't know - the 'good' part is that this is what I got back:

Filed under: Me

Sociopathic Interviewers

Published Thu, Nov 25 2004 13:02 | William

Avonelle just posted Sociopathic Interviewers. I actually can't believe that someone would ask this - just too many good responses. However if I wanted to actually try to get the job - that would severely limit my responses. My first desired response...

Filed under: Humor

Zero Defects Programming.

Published Thu, Nov 25 2004 12:51 | William

I really enjoyed this post. As someone who never makes coding mistakes (and never has), I'm all about zero defect programming. OUCH - those damned lightning bolts sure hurt. Ok, maybe one or two. Ouch. Ok, I'll be honest, I make them every day - and most...

Filed under: .NET General

Another great qoute from Edward.

Published Thu, Nov 25 2004 12:31 | William

Edward always has some great quotes in his post, but I think this may be my all time favorite: <<Declaring As Object is spiritually encouraged by the VB legacy of the Variant which as you know is the original Empty Suit, a sort of Dan Quayle variable...

Filed under: Humor

If this doesn't explain it all...

Published Thu, Nov 25 2004 0:19 | William

<< Can somebody rewrite this VB snippet to C# for me? Sub Profile_MigrateAnonymous(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As ProfileMigrateEventArgs) Dim anonymousProfile As ASP.HttpProfile = Profile.GetProfile(e.AnonymousId) If anonymousProfile.Cart IsNot...

Filed under: .NET General

Can I get some details please?

Published Thu, Nov 25 2004 0:13 | William

WTF is http://www.microsoft.com/resources/practices/comingsoon.mspx . Why is everything I want in the world coming soon?

Filed under: .NET General

Flame bait continued.

Published Thu, Nov 25 2004 0:10 | William

Rule #1: Never get into an argument with Frans. In all 25 of the arguments I've seen him get into - he makes total jackass3s out of the other person and I usually spend about 10 minutes laughing my a33 off afterward. Rule#2: Never get into an argument...

Filed under: Humor, .NET General

Flame Bait

Published Wed, Nov 24 2004 23:45 | William

Someone unnamed in a group also unnamed is taking part in a VB.NET vs. C# Debate at a unnamed user's group. So he was enlisting help in coming up with slogans. This was one of the ideas as a slogan for C#: VB'ers Need not Apply I hate language wars, particularly...

Filed under: Humor, .NET General

Et Tu Paul Vick?

Published Wed, Nov 24 2004 23:31 | William

Please tell me that the Paul Vick isn't the same Paul Vick mentioned here . Unfortunately, it is . This hurts. I got nothing but love for Paul and am somewhat uncomfortable criticizing a far better man then myself. Seriously though - considering the ...

Filed under: .NET General

Stored Procedures vs. Dynamic SQL

Published Wed, Nov 24 2004 20:57 | William

I was just flipping through an old evilness of Stored Procedures on the evilness of Stored Procedures - the post is about a year old but I didn't read his blog back then. The first thing I got pissed off about is that Frans speaks better English than...

Filed under: Data Access

Double Encryption

Published Wed, Nov 24 2004 20:35 | William

Dino just posted this link about cusomters asking for double encryption . Depending on what type of encryption they are talking about, this could be really silly - a classic case of adding overhead without adding value. The key (no pun intended) factor...

Filed under: .NET General

SqlBulkInsert - looks like I'm not the only one that thinks it's cool

Published Wed, Nov 24 2004 20:21 | William

Sahil just posted this link to Julia Lermen's - that's Lermen with an 'e' ;-) benchmarks. I've played with it a bunch and it is really too cool for words - they hype is definitely real.

Filed under: Data Access

N Software's new Internet Protocol Data Adapter -- More

Published Wed, Nov 24 2004 20:11 | William

Had to start tinkering with things and tried to implement a Where clause on the end of the statement. I had N Software's in the block and it blew up - damned dynamic sql ;-). Fixed it though and got an error message saying Where isn't supported but I...

Filed under: Data Access

N Software's new Internet Protocol Data Adapter

Published Wed, Nov 24 2004 20:00 | William

I just got my latest shipment from N Software and everything about it kicks a33. However one thing is particularly cool - ADO.NET Provider for Internet Protocols. Check this out (this is their code not mine but I'll be coming up with my own shortly):...

Filed under: Data Access

Link on Biometrics

Published Wed, Nov 24 2004 16:02 | William

Kim just sent me this link on Biometric devices . Definitely want to dig in when I get home and see if I can figure out how to defeat it with the Gummi Bear method mentioned earlier or similar technique. I know the ripping out the eyeball technique so...

Filed under: Biometric Stuff