July 2005 - Posts

I hate watching the News.

Published Sun, Jul 31 2005 1:06 | William

I was sitting here working on some example code and didn't have the XM Radio at the place I'm staying. So I turned on the TV and let it run. Same Natalee Holloway coverage. Same London Bombing Coverage. Same coverage etc. Since all news is 24hrs these...

Filed under: Mindless Babbling

Overriding ToString()

Published Sun, Jul 31 2005 0:28 | William

I had mentioned reading Effective C#, 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C# back a few posts ago . So I decided to show off a few of the techniques there as well as some new C# features and began with this post. . Anyway, when I started writing out the...

Filed under: Humor, .NET General, Coding Techniques

Maybe I like the CAPTCHA After all - The lesser of Two Evils.

Published Sat, Jul 30 2005 18:00 | William

In the two hours I've had the new skin , it's been spammed with 14 posts. 14. And the CAPTCHA has been on for quite a while so i'm guessing that either some spammer read my post about disabling it and decided to let all h3ll break loose (highly unlikely...

Filed under: Life in General, Me

Ego Surfing

Published Sat, Jul 30 2005 16:08 | William

I was doing some Googling (not intentionally ego surfing) and I came across a few of my blog entires on some ADO.NET 2.0 Stuff. So that got me thinking about what else I might come across if I was specifically looking for it.. RowFilter . #1 on Google...

Filed under: Me

Disabling the CAPTCHA for a while.

Published Sat, Jul 30 2005 15:38 | William

Many of my homies and Scott in particular (as well as myself) have been annoyed by the Captcha ( C ompletely A utomated P ublic T uring test to tell C omputers and H umans A part). It definitely does it's job, but it also has a lot of false negatives...

Filed under: News, Life in General, Me

Uggggh

Published Fri, Jul 29 2005 22:15 | William

I remember back in Gulf War 1 when I went to the anti-war rally b/c there were a lot of hot chicks there and I was trying to score. Yes, I was a pretty extreme leftist back then although quite shallow and still full of a lot of Beavis and Butthead. My...

Filed under: Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling

System.Data.FillLoadOption

Published Fri, Jul 29 2005 21:18 | William

System.Data.FillLoadOption is one of the cool new features of the ADO.NET 2.0 SqlDataAdapter. In the new framework, we have a lot more control over the inner workings of the DataAdapter and hopefully it will shed it's stereotype of being a “Black...

Filed under: Data Access, .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005

Charleston Code Camp

Published Wed, Jul 27 2005 23:34 | William

Tobin and Maxim have posted the info for Charlotte code camp. Looks like even my buddy from Bankhead is going to be there too. I'll post links to everyone's blog that will be speaking there but if you're in the area, make sure to attend, it's going to...

Filed under: Code Camps

An interesting post by Ambrose

Published Mon, Jul 25 2005 20:38 | William

Well, I haven't read the The DaVinci Code yet although Ambrose's post makes me think I'm not missing much . Anyone else read it? I've heard mixed reviews but most have been negative. That made me think it was good, but Ambrose usually has pretty cool...

Filed under: Me

OOP, Generics and a little Humor

Published Mon, Jul 25 2005 19:15 | William

Well, I decided to show a few examples with a little humor. I know a few of you thought my “Shocker” post was in poor taste, and I apologize if you did, but obviously many people liked it. Anyway, I'm gonig to show a few examples of how to...

Filed under: Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Published Mon, Jul 25 2005 17:25 | William

Finally , I'm in the club! . OS - you are the MAN!

Filed under: Life in General, Me

Do the right thing and contribute to Jaxass

Published Mon, Jul 25 2005 17:15 | William

If you like making a mockery out of trendy idiocy and having fun in the process... Get Involved with Jaxass . Plus you get the added benefit of hanging out with me and Tobin .

Filed under: Life in General, Me, .NET General

Sql Injection Ad Naseaum

Published Sat, Jul 23 2005 0:24 | William

A while ago Scott had a great post about demo code . So I was reading up on The Bleeding Edge, Never Been Done Before Technology Known As Ajax and started surfing around a little b/c I wanted to get in on the mocumentary action. So I come across Peter...

Filed under: Humor, Me, Coding Techniques

One of Tobin's most brilliant moments

Published Fri, Jul 22 2005 20:05 | William

Tobin's latest idea on creating JAXASS is brilliant. There's some wank action going on trying to get it deleted over here but I'm all for it. Just check this out: ----------------------------------------------- This should soon be followed up by the Farcical...

Filed under: Me, .NET General, Coding Techniques

*Warning* - Juvenile Bill Humor (The Shocker)

Published Fri, Jul 22 2005 19:41 | William

At the end of the day, a few of my co-workers decided to head to Stool Pigeons for drinks at Happy hour. My buddy Sameer and I went although neither of us did any drinking. The guy in charge of Technical Writing (Ben) brought a friend of his (Adam) with...

Filed under: Humor, Life in General, Me

My blog has been PWNED

Published Thu, Jul 21 2005 7:25 | William

So looks like the lower kced one [lco] .. Yep, I just got NAILED with BLOG SPAM last night, and it wasn't from the API either. It's a great spam too.. encouraging people to spam the sh1t out of public newsgroups a minimum of 200 times each so that they...

Filed under: Life in General, Me, Misc Technology

I hope this isn't the beginning of a trend...

Published Wed, Jul 20 2005 23:29 | William

Whenever the far left and the far right agree on anything, it's always bad for the rest of the world. When Hillary Clinton and Ralph Reed both agree on something, watch out. So I see this crap and wanted to puke . Ok, do I think 6 year old kids should...

Filed under: Life in General

Not sure what I think of this...

Published Tue, Jul 19 2005 20:06 | William

Notice the elipsis dots at the end of my text... I'm hoping that OptionsScalper will give me a cool name like lower cased one ... something like the ElipsisDottedOne. Ok, so this is one of those times I think Microsoft is wrong. Here's the story . Microsoft...

Filed under: News

Oracle 10g Lite ADO.NET Adapter

Published Mon, Jul 18 2005 22:36 | William

Ok, so I read about it on Mike's as well as the Compact Framework Team but I sure can't find it anywhere. I'm probably just having a case of idiocy flare up, but I've been trying to find it for 30 minutes now. If you know where I can grab it, please let...

Filed under: Compact Framework, Data Access, Visual Studio .NET 2005

Some really great books...

Published Mon, Jul 18 2005 20:27 | William

Well, the good folks at Addison-Wesley and APress were kind enough to send me a few books. Two of them are nothing short of phenomenal. I've been reading up a storm lately, but I've almost become obsessed with two of them: 1 - Effective C#: 50 Specific...

Filed under: Books