January 2005 - Posts

Since I'm pissing off everyone anyway

Published Mon, Jan 31 2005 20:40 | 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...

Filed under: Me

How not to post in a newsgroup...

Published Mon, Jan 31 2005 19:47 | 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 Mon, Jan 31 2005 0:20 | 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 Sun, Jan 30 2005 16:07 | 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 Sun, Jan 30 2005 2:45 | 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 Sat, Jan 29 2005 22:12 | 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 Sat, Jan 29 2005 1:41 | William

Sorry I didn't post Opennetcf.org .

Filed under: Compact Framework

Enterprise Library is here!

Published Fri, Jan 28 2005 22:13 | 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 Fri, Jan 28 2005 1:07 | 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 Thu, Jan 27 2005 22:21 | 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 Wed, Jan 26 2005 0:10 | 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 Tue, Jan 25 2005 20:45 | 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 Tue, Jan 25 2005 20:32 | 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 Tue, Jan 25 2005 20:16 | 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 Tue, Jan 25 2005 19:54 | 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 Tue, Jan 25 2005 12:30 | 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 Mon, Jan 24 2005 19:39 | 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 Sun, Jan 23 2005 23:06 | 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 Sun, Jan 23 2005 22:40 | 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 Sun, Jan 23 2005 22:26 | 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