If you've been following my coding tonight, you can probably tell what I'm up to. If you call me regularly, you probably are already familiar with this little project, aka the CuckooBot. He's up to Version 4.0 and about to be released into the wild. Yes, this one is more functional and useful than the...
I know this probably seems pretty obvious, but believe it or not, it's a very common area of confusion. Take a look at the following declaration: String ConnectionString = String .Format( @"Data Source=\BlueCuckoo.sdf;password={0}" , "SomeValue" ); SqlCeEngine engine.CreateDatabase(); If I asked, "Will...
A while ago, I was playing around creating a bot, a Snarkier version of the Mobile Secretary Application . Well, it was late and I got sloppy. So basically, my little app sent out a text message to everyone on one of my company's Outlook distribution lists. I learned a lot that night. So you've always...
A while ago, I posted this about how much a55 I think Crystal Reports sucks. A long time ago, back at like v.7, I thought Crystal was a decent product. And to be honest, it still is a decent product. But it comes with a lot of baggage and has a lot that just makes it lame. So I had almost total consenus...
Frans blogged about Jon Skeet's which was inspired by Eric's post. Since Eric is asking others to contribute, I'm throwing in my two cents. #1 Not understanding the problem that you're trying to solve Personal guilt rating: historically 7, currently 3 I've seen (and commited) this sin more than just...
I spent the good part of this week debugging and redoing a bunch of ASP.NET code that featured the no code behind approach prominently. It was excrutiating to say the least. I know Boiling Springs' Greatest Unemployed Guru is a big advocate of this approach, but is there really any possible benefit to...
A little while ago, I was at my favorite local restaurant minding my own business reading the Updated version of Ingo's Killer remoting book . I eat there regularly and use it as a time to catch up on my reading - then I usually go home and try out a few of the things I read about. Anyway, when I got...
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...
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...
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