📝 Fri Feb 07 2003
WOOT! FIRST POST!This is my first post on the blog...I hope that I'll have something interesting to say. Well, I guess the first post should have a little to do with
📝 Sat Feb 08 2003
HELPING C VETERANS WITH .NETMy boss asked me to come into work today to explain accessing a database in .NET to one of our developers who mainly codes in C. It was pretty interes
📝 Mon Feb 10 2003
Monday morning...What better to do on a Monday morning than find out which type of OS your personality is matched with? Makes you look nice and busy, and from the othe
📝 Tue Feb 11 2003
Generating Ideas...
I've decided to try and make my life a little easier. Controls. I've jumped into them a little in the past, but now I may have a little more time to
📝 Tue Feb 11 2003
Nearing completion...I'm getting to the clean-up phase of porting an asp.old project to .NET. It's about time! I finally tackled a problem I ran into with a vb6 component
📝 Thu Feb 13 2003
ReporT!!Okay, it's not as if anyone is reading this - but for those of you who are (hey, Chris!) - here is why I didn't post yesterday.
I've been working wit
📝 Tue Feb 18 2003
.NET Brain FartsToday Seems like an extended Moday as far as my development goes. I've tried about 3 or 4 different tings on my current project that just don't seem t
📝 Fri Feb 21 2003
Jump into VB.NET - feet furstToday I'm applying OOP changes to a VB.NET dll that was upgraded from VB6 - so that means I'm taking out all of the On Error GoTo fnName_Error and Rep
📝 Sat Feb 22 2003
Getting Started on some Controls IssuesI decided to go ahead and try to start building something in the control arena - something I haven't visited for some months now.
I figured it would
📝 Wed Feb 26 2003
Cool uses for DHTMLMark forwarded me a link today of a site that pushes DHMTL to the max. I've gone on record before about my loathing for web development, but I know a
📝 Fri Feb 28 2003
I am the Framework. I run managed code. I am without flaw.Get a heads up on running multiple versions of the Framework. ShowUsYour-Blog!
I read Darren's post, and subsequently the referenced article by Early
📝 Wed Mar 05 2003
Stupid Cookie.DomainI've spent about 1 1/2 hours trying to figure out why I couldn't get a persistent cookie set from codebehind in ASP.NET...I tried a lot of different t
📝 Mon Mar 10 2003
Added HTTP Request code snippitI'm adding a new category of posts to my blog; code snippits. I was looking for a tool to manage code snippits when it hit me, why not post them to m
📝 Tue Mar 11 2003
Added Editing a custom icon to a web server control storyMan, Don, you've got me going nutz
with your code-postin
shennanigans. I've just added a new story, explaining
how I used Photoshop 7 and Imageready 7
📝 Tue Mar 11 2003
Added 'Extending the MetaBuilder's RollOverLink' StoryI just added a little explanation of how I extended the RollOverLink found on MetaBuilders.com. All I did really was add a statusbar message and
📝 Tue Mar 11 2003
Custom configuration sectionsSomething I've found infinitely useful is custom configuration sections. By using custom configuration sections, you are allowed to store a richer am
📝 Wed Mar 12 2003
Taking Custom Configuration Sections A Step FurtherYup, it's cool, but it gets even cooler when you start writing your own configuration section handler implementations. The beauty of the configuration
📝 Fri Mar 14 2003
Stupid [fill in the blank]I've been working today with farpoint's spread for webforms control, trying
to make it act like you would want a spreadsheet to work. I've been focusi
📝 Sun Mar 16 2003
I've taken the plunge...I finally did it. I 'upgraded' my home pc to XP. It took forever, probably b/c I have a pretty slow processor - 400mhz, but it's up, it's running, and
📝 Sun Mar 16 2003
Remote DesktopJust a quick post - I've been toying w/ the idea of a software KVM - using terminal services. Keith gave me a link for the client which he says works
📝 Mon Mar 17 2003
added custom config section handler story.
I just added a story describing how I've made my ImageLink control jump thru some more hoops for an application-specific purpose. If anyone is intere
📝 Tue Mar 18 2003
Happiness is getting......the first issue of Ingo's Distributed .NET Newsletter. If you are doing anything distributed in
.NET, you need to be subscribed. Heck, you need to
📝 Thu Mar 27 2003
Boo! on ASP.NET Validators!So I'm trying to get a regular expression validator to
work - ya know, validate my data. I'm a reeeeal novice when it comes to regex,
so with a little
📝 Fri Mar 28 2003
A Blessing in disguise? (follow-up to 'Boo! on Validators')This is what I love about blogging here. I not only got to work out the problem in a different way than I would have alone, but I also got some great
📝 Fri Mar 28 2003
Have YOU ever heard of Detroit....TX? No one else has, eitherbut, that's where I'm going tomorrow. My son lives there with his brother, their mom (baby's momma:), and Nana and Papa (the Grandparents). It's going
📝 Mon Mar 31 2003
10 hrs on the road and over 600 miles covered...and worth every second.I got back from seeing Ethan monster late Sunday afternoon...I'm just too proud. My boy is walking like a champ! Talking, too. I was holding him, and
📝 Mon Mar 31 2003
Boy, am I glad to see you!Make that, girl am I glad to see you. ...
Which brings me to my next question, why aren't there more female Bloggers here? If there are of you out th
📝 Mon Mar 31 2003
More! More! More!!
Ya know, the site that's set up for us dotnetwebloggers is real cool. You can do everything there.
I'd like to see similar functionality added to my
📝 Tue Apr 01 2003
More! More! More! - It's Coming - Woohoo!In the coming week(s) the webservice(s) will be much improved. The current webservice is just a quick wrapper around my display objects (hence there i
📝 Thu Apr 03 2003
Starter Kits Rule!If you're looking to get a site up in a hurry, with a minimum of fuss, then you owe it to yourself to check out the ASP.NET Starter Kits, downloadable
📝 Sun Apr 06 2003
In need of direction...(was:Don...you're doing it again :|)<snip/>
P.S. - Chris, if you're reading this...I sent you an e-mail. :)
\[David Stone's Blog\]
I sent over a similar email...I guess I should h
📝 Mon Apr 07 2003
Aggregator integration<snip/>
What do you all think? Is aggregator integration into Outlook a good thing? Is it a "must have" feature for you? Comment or blog and let
📝 Mon Apr 07 2003
Aggrrregator Overload! ---- SharpReader.ok. Harvester is fun. RssBandit is better. SharpReader Owns. Its just really, really slick; the threaded posts functionality is killer; the abil
📝 Mon Apr 07 2003
SharpReader<snip/>
UPDATE: I am having problems add more than one feed to a category (which kind of defeats the purpose). Anyone else notice this behavior?
📝 Tue Apr 08 2003
I love this stuff.As a developer, I consider myself more of a problem solver. One of my least favorite problems: Com Interop. I can't shake it. It seems that no matter
📝 Tue Apr 08 2003
Ok, I'll try one more time...Chris wrote a while back about the source/binaries for his blog engine that his site uses. Count me way in! I'm looking to do something similar to use
📝 Tue Apr 08 2003
devenv.exe /setupThis was a switch I didn't even know existed from the command line. I was having some issues with VS.NET 2002 and custom Add in tools. I couldn't figu
📝 Wed Apr 09 2003
MBSAYes I have heard of it, and yes I do use it - although probably not as often as I should :S. I personally prefer the GUI, but that's just me. I like t
📝 Wed Apr 09 2003
the Scoble says...If the FrontPage team wants some consulting, you know where to find me.
Will you be charging your normal dollar rate?:)
📝 Fri Apr 11 2003
ClippyBy the way, I know some of you folks played around with this a little... any stories?
\[Rachel Reese's Blog\]
I showed it to the bossman...he loved i
📝 Sat Apr 12 2003
More on aggregators...Added Dare's RssBandit 1.0d, 1.1beta to the home machine...couldn't get it to work right away :(
Added Chris's Harvester to the home machine...couldn
📝 Sat Apr 12 2003
Scobleizer vs DvorakWho are most people in the industry going to believe? Dvorak or Scoble?
\[The Scobleizer Weblog
One hardcore .net developer for Scoble, right here!
📝 Sat Apr 12 2003
Where is everybody?<snip/>
Where is everybody? You can't all leave me here alone...it's not fair! So if you are actually sharing my boredom here, tell me what you'
📝 Sat Apr 12 2003
asp.net user control to display scrollable rss2.0 feeds<snip/>
Whad'ya all think?
</snip>
\[Julia Lerman Blog
Sweet! I like the inter face, looks very similar to something I have in mind. I'm
📝 Mon Apr 14 2003
dotnetweblogs integration.I already have this blog on dotnetweblogs.com, but I feel kind of bad using someone else's server to post random crap on the web. Therefore, I was goi
📝 Tue Apr 15 2003
xhtml.xsd?Where the heck do I get my grubby developer hands on
this little beast if I can't browse, save in IE? My other browsers (Opera
6.04/Mozilla 1.0) can't
📝 Thu Apr 17 2003
Added new Story on using Reflection to make dynamic about pages.Check it out here.
📝 Thu Apr 17 2003
BlogThis - Thanks Simon
I forgot to mention that while many people posted their thoughts about BlogThis (XML, Interface, etc), it was Simon Fell who brought it too life. Tha
📝 Fri Apr 18 2003
Need LogoI am getting pretty close to having a downloadable version ready for public consumption.
One thing I am still lacking is a nice "powered by ASPNetWebL
📝 Wed Apr 23 2003
Pingbacks/trackbacksJust 'fixed' the incoming links control over to your right there-->
This is great stuff - I was going to roll my own type of deal here, but decided
📝 Fri Apr 25 2003
A sexy UIThe world must be about to end. Jeffrey Zeldman has an RSS feed and Chris Pirillo has a weblog format without a stupid font. Now if we could only get
📝 Fri Apr 25 2003
GeoBlog.I really, really like various tools that mix blogspace with meatspace. GeoBlog is frickin cool. real time map of blog postings, as they happen. In th
📝 Fri Apr 25 2003
The logic (or lack thereof) behind xhtml:bodyWhen Sam started a small revolution last month by using <xhtml:body> in his rss-feed, <snip/>
On top of that, it seems like every rss fee
📝 Mon Apr 28 2003
More Integration.Also, thanks Scott for the simpleblogservice...I think this will be the way to go, of course using post to put new entries in based on an infiniblog b
📝 Mon Apr 28 2003
The new Look, feel, and function of dotnetweblogs.com
Great job, Scott. I've decided to clean up my dotnetblogspace a little bit, so I've moved my story links here. Mucho cleaner, IMHO.
📝 Wed Apr 30 2003
Almost.
I'm getting close...Trying to figure out what's going wrong here....must ping more.
📝 Wed Apr 30 2003
Success.Why didn't I see these 'ping' posts earlier? Looks to me like I've got some integration to clean up! HA!
So the posts below that say something like '
📝 Thu May 01 2003
Last ping w/o post...Okay, the last one didn't go thru - still trying to sort the logic. sorry again, Scott.
This is great stuff, tho. I've learned more about xml-rpc/web
📝 Thu May 01 2003
Win2k Terminal Services.I'm pretty sure no one was paying attention (even me:), but I made a post a while back about using Terminal Services as a sort of Software KVM.
Well
📝 Fri May 02 2003
Comment StorageThis comment stuff is proving to be harder than I thought.
The problem is not the API, which seems pretty straightforward. It's in the way that I wil
📝 Fri May 02 2003
Comments...help?Does anyone have any pointers / links / resources I could look at for supporting comments in a blog system? I think I'm ready to implement this over @
📝 Fri May 02 2003
Hyperlink This!<snip/>
Most developers do not put much thought into hyperlinks. Most of what I've covered today is common sense, but it does pay to look back
📝 Fri May 02 2003
To CommentAPI, or not to CommentAPI?I've decided to take an approach based very loosely on the CommentAPI. I'm not adding the ability to post from outside of the base site yet, but I'm t
📝 Sun May 04 2003
My favorite Exception."Object reference not set to an instance of an object"
I'm not usually one to make my ignorance publicly known.
Okay, if you've seen any amount of m
📝 Mon May 05 2003
Effective Linking<snip>
If I'm referring to a person, I'll link directly to the home page of that persons blog, preferably identifying them however they choose t
📝 Tue May 06 2003
From one of the funniest blog titles department...How ubiquitous...:P
📝 Mon May 12 2003
Functional DecompositionFunctional Decomposition: A method of breaking down a problem into smaller and smaller functions. Each function is subdivided until it is manageable.
📝 Tue May 13 2003
Delimma
Delimma: What the heck am I? I get to the launch event and there are three 'tracks' you can take:
Developer
Architect
IT Pro.
Obviously, IT Pro is
📝 Tue May 13 2003
Lessons learned.Just got back from the windows server 2003 launch event. Got some cool toys to play with, but I learned some interesting things...here's the gist.
Fi
📝 Tue May 13 2003
developerLabsBy far, the most interesting aspect of the windows 2003 launch event came from someone who is NOT employed by m$...Stephen "7 of 9" Fulcher.
Why "7 o
📝 Thu May 15 2003
WYSIWYG 4 OperaJust wondering; has anyone figured out how to do rich text editing in other browsers, i.e. Opera?\[Objective\]
[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l
📝 Tue May 20 2003
The Bridge Whatsis?The Bridge pattern. All I have to say is..."huh?". Is it me or does this pattern seem like more of an abstract idea than the others I've seen so far?
📝 Tue May 20 2003
dmraderWelcome to my pal Devin Rader who has just started a blog on dotnetweblogs.
<snip/>
\[Julia Lerman Blog\]
Subscribed.
\[Listening to: Two Ta
📝 Wed May 21 2003
RegExValidator TesterI just had to do a test for a RegExValidator.
Wow! Interesting, no? Keep reading.
A while back, I had to do a few tests to check if certain regEx's
📝 Fri May 23 2003
HashConfigCsI just made a change to some code I wrote a while back that generates a text file with strong encryption/decryption keys for use in a machine.config o
📝 Wed May 28 2003
Unwittingly giving Google Juice...<snip>
Well, I'm sure that lots of webloggers will fall into that trap.
Not me.
</snip>
\[The Scobleizer Weblog\]
D'oh!
📝 Fri May 30 2003
Cross-posting revisitedOne more thing - ScottW, you're the dude. man. whateva.
All I had to do this morning to enable cross-posting from my non-read space was change the ur
📝 Fri May 30 2003
Pattern Primate......from code monkey:P. Rollin right along, I'm getting more used to using patterns in my regular speech (as a developer, anyway:)
Trouble is, as I've
📝 Fri May 30 2003
You're a nerd.Last night I couldn't go to sleep, so I hopped on my laptop @ 1:00am.
The funny part is, when my modem stopped hand-shaking, one of my favorite 'sof
📝 Sat May 31 2003
VS.NET being difficult...Uh-oh. I did a little finishing touches to my latest application, Risk Analysis and it looks like Visual Studio doesn't like something I've done late
📝 Sun Jun 01 2003
+1 readerHeh, I've got 3 readers now.
Someone pinged me and said the link in my previous post doesn't work. Sorry bout that, it won't be "live" until Monday a
📝 Tue Jun 03 2003
Exception Management BlockOkay, so I dove into the Exception Management Application Block today.
I've been using it on a current application, but I wanted an email to be sent
📝 Tue Jun 03 2003
Srinath saysSrinath says regarding my previous post:
Please check our secure guide, section "Accessing System Resources > Accessing Event Log" at http://msdn.
📝 Wed Jun 04 2003
Log this!What's your poison? Exception Management Application Block or log4net ?
Why?
📝 Wed Jun 04 2003
Must...resist...Must...resist...giving...Dvorak google juuce!
📝 Fri Jun 06 2003
xsd2db and MeI have been looking for xsd2db, a tool for generating a database schema from an XML schema, ever since I read this article. Unfortunately, when it ca
📝 Sat Jun 07 2003
The .NET pledgeI took the pledge. You should, too.
Good stuff, Sam.
📝 Sun Jun 08 2003
That's great. It's a website.Earlier tonight, I showed my girlfriend Tina some of the work I've done, namely www.velocitydatabank.com and my most recent endeavor, Risk Analysis. L
📝 Sun Jun 08 2003
ypXmlTreeI'm still kicking around some ideas for an online aggregator, so I can maybe look over some of the blogs I frequent over my loverly dial-up connextion
📝 Sat Jun 14 2003
Member capEach Workspace has a maximum limit of 500 members.
\[gotdotnet workspaces\]
Wha? I thought it was only 20. Very interesting....
📝 Mon Jun 16 2003
Added a snippet DHTML ImageButton server controlThanks to a recent upgrade(?) to this here blog engine, I was able to recover a story I wrote a while back that I never set to "active". It's called E
📝 Mon Jun 16 2003
Things that make you go...Visual Studio .NET has not been my friend lately.
Last week, ASPNET was having issues - taking up to 4 minutes to compile a (relatively) small projec
📝 Tue Jun 17 2003
WinXP wipeSo, after my wah-wah yesterday about Visual Studio, I was looking thru my hotmail account and realized that they offer mobile services. Hey! I've got
📝 Mon Jun 23 2003
Corporate Blogs Catching onCorporate Blogs Catching on
It's like a plague. I have some unmanned Tripod sites that sent the "webmaster" (yours truly) an email detailing how some
📝 Mon Jun 23 2003
Object ref....Heh - I get more traffic here and there from a post I made a while back that had the words "Object reference not set...." you know, you've seen it.
📝 Thu Jun 26 2003
WORA...log4netLuke Blogs of the dream of WORA.
Slightly more interesting to me at this point, tho, is his experiences with log4net, the popular .NET alternative to
📝 Mon Jun 30 2003
So VB.NET just ain't that bad after all.Hit a new "milestone" in my current project today, at the same time really starting to understand where the term "over-engineering" is founded - of co
📝 Tue Jul 01 2003
Comment ReplyHelena asks:
Helena
Posted @ 7/1/2003 3:39 AM
Hello!
I'm experiencing the same problem!
Have you been able to solve it??
I sure did solve it! Thanks
📝 Sun Jul 06 2003
Robert SindallRobert Sindall has posted a VB.NET Version of my Story on Interactive About Pages using Reflection in ASP.NET.
Thanks, Robert! For the VB.NET version
📝 Tue Jul 08 2003
v1.1.4322 w/o VS.NET 2003I just installed v1.1.4322 of the dotnetfx today, bacause it's looking like the nifty tools that I'm starting to see are all being built with this ver
📝 Wed Jul 09 2003
Comment ReplyFrans Says, in comments:
You can buy the upgrade for vs.net 2003 for 29$ even if you have a vs.net 2002 you got with an MSDN subscription that is no l
📝 Fri Jul 11 2003
Managed Quake II? swell.Nice. ...Must...focus...on work...
From Brad. Interesting…
The thing that sold Windows as a viable gaming platform for most people was the appearance
📝 Fri Jul 11 2003
Yeah, it's swell...Andrew : Ya just had to post that, didn't ya!
Of course I did! First, Quake II is one of my favorite games (right up there with Duke Nukem:)...I have
📝 Fri Jul 11 2003
nyt hackersNYT: Hackers Hijack PC's for Sex Sites
...since the hijacked machines download the pornographic ads from a single Web server. According to the comput
📝 Mon Jul 14 2003
I just made it to Redmond.I just made it to Redmond. Big thanks to Jim Ross, MVP for giving me a ride to my hotel. gotta go!
📝 Wed Jul 23 2003
Finally, my upgrade!I haven't blogged for a while, I'm on an extended Monday <g>...but anyhoo I just ordered by upgrade to VS.NET Ent. Architect 2003. It sucks that
📝 Wed Jul 23 2003
WhoIs, and my first WinForms ProjectYesterday I picked up my first Windows Forms project.
I think it should be pretty lightweight -> it's going to be a data entry app for "API Headers",
📝 Wed Jul 30 2003
AcceptChanges()Okay, I'm about to show a little of my ignorance here, but that's okay - at least I'm blogging again.
I just tracked down a bug in some software I wr
📝 Wed Jul 30 2003
Mission PossibleSo how's about a project I haven't goofed up yet?
I started to make a little headway on the UI of Miny, my first WinForms project. Miny is the name g
📝 Fri Aug 01 2003
From the Trenches...Alex Lowe says:
?My motto: You've got to know someone's pain to make it go away.
Adding to others who have stated it, I'd like to congratulate Alex L
📝 Tue Aug 05 2003
Hits from a survival guide.Too funny. I try to post mainly .net related findings, and enjoy relatively low traffic here other than the occasional google or yahoo search on "obje
📝 Wed Aug 06 2003
MonoWow. This is something I could have sworn Scoble would post. Are ya fallin off, buddy? Anyways, from Microsoft-Watch:
Microsoft Watch: What's the fut
📝 Thu Aug 21 2003
Testing geourljust a lil ping!ping!
📝 Thu Aug 21 2003
moving to .Text
So I decided to move the location of my blog, using dotText. I was going to wait for a while, but the Image gallery feature has me sold. Sorry, Chris
📝 Sat Aug 23 2003
Got an importer.I have a project that requires that I convert a flat FoxPro Database to a 'normalized' Sql Server database. So far, I've gotten the foxpro data into S
📝 Mon Aug 25 2003
flat -> normal shudderStill posting from infiniblog...
I've been sick for the past few days. I hate being sick, it makes me delerious (sp?). Even worse, I'm currently work
📝 Sat Sep 06 2003
Coming real soon...I intend to use this blog engine more and more, but I've run into a snag that has held me back a bit - I don't know what the ParentID is supposed to b
📝 Tue Sep 09 2003
No command-line proxy for you, buddy.Oh boy. Another “Object Reference” exception. I tried to create a proxy to this here webservice and insert an entry from a simple command line program
📝 Tue Sep 09 2003
System.Net.WebProxy.GetDefaultProxy()I couldn't figure out why the remote posting thing wasn't working like I wanted it to. Well, the examples that I looked at last nite failed to outline
📝 Tue Sep 09 2003
thanks.I want to say thanks to those who have given me feedback on a previous post. It's given me a little bit more insight into this beast called SqlServer.
📝 Wed Sep 10 2003
ImageListsLooks like Marc is having trouble with sealed ImageLists.
I've been working on my first Windows Forms project and I'm using the same ImageList through
📝 Wed Sep 10 2003
added emoticons :)I've recently added emoticons 😘 to my .Text blog. If you could see the code, it might look familiar. Heh, that was pretty easy. I did make a change o
📝 Wed Sep 10 2003
geourlI just added geoUrl to my blog. I don't know why I didn't thing to do this before! I just have it pointing to my personal blog that has the correct ta
📝 Wed Sep 10 2003
oops.perhaps I should take a little more time to fix the emoticons
📝 Wed Sep 10 2003
testblah!! 😄
edit more
📝 Thu Sep 11 2003
I remember.9/11. I was at home that day, my son wasn't born yet, and I saw the whole thing televised after my (ex) girlfriend's crazy best friend told us that Am
📝 Thu Sep 11 2003
Wow. It's a website. (part deux)Me: Hey, Tina - you wanna see what I did today?
Tina: No, I looked at a computer screen for too long today. It was 4 hours.
📝 Fri Sep 12 2003
Paying it forwardIn response to a post I made about VS.NET 2002 failing to open connections with Sql Server, Roman says:
I have just found solvation. Installing MDA
📝 Fri Sep 19 2003
technology is like
So I'm doing some work with typed datasets right now that is really souring my experience with VS.NET 2003.
I'm using the same technique that I used
📝 Tue Sep 23 2003
Intellisense problem solved.For anyone else who might have run into Intellisense weirdness, I found that just 'touching' the file that was generated by vs.net for the dataset and
📝 Wed Sep 24 2003
Note to the Windows Forms teamWorking with windows forms sucks.
Especially if you're coming from the much more approachable asp.net side. I have state, but simple things like pre-
📝 Fri Sep 26 2003
Archiveshere September, 2003(16)
there September, 2003(14)
and the internal one, September, 2003(34)
hehe, you can't see how big of a dope I am on the interna
📝 Wed Oct 01 2003
More cross-posting shennanigans.I think I'm going to play with .Text a little bit to allow cross-posting from here to there using w.Bloggar and the MetaBlog API.
Perhaps there are s
📝 Wed Oct 01 2003
Thanks Darren...Show us your-Regex!The place that I work uses what we call index numbers (they're not really numbers per se...) that are based on API numbers (which are usually numbers)
📝 Mon Oct 06 2003
ATM - GalagaI had a dream last nite that I was going to an ATM to get some cash. When I was at the terminal, on the opposite side of the English/Espanol options t
📝 Thu Oct 09 2003
A different OS this time...This time I'm like the PalmOS. I hope that's not bad :)
At any rate, I love my Palm Handheld.
Which OS are You?
📝 Fri Oct 10 2003
New Skin, new Gallery!Thanks to Donny Mac for pointing me to a new skin for here. Also thanks to Julien Cheyssial for creating the initial one.
I changed the colors from o
📝 Sat Oct 11 2003
Hannah HensonMy girlfriend Tina just pointed me to a site that a friend of hers has put up - Hannah Henson is a young lady who was diagnosed with osteosarcoma earl
📝 Tue Oct 14 2003
Simple Scrolling added to my blogI added a scroller over here - just some custom javascript. I wanted to get it working - it looks great on IE, I can't say the exact same for mozilla
📝 Thu Oct 16 2003
Test from MetaBlog/w.bloggarThis is just a little test ping.
-= Currently Jammin: Chop Suey - System Of A Down - (03:17) :=-
📝 Mon Oct 20 2003
sigh of reliefThanks, Scott. :)
📝 Tue Oct 21 2003
For anyone who wants the Lighty skin to look a little better in Mozilla...Go to the Admin section of your blog, and in the “Custom CSS Selectors” textbox add:
main {
margin-left:200px;
padding:0px 20px 0px 0px;
width: 580px;
📝 Tue Oct 21 2003
Somebody likes the blue Lighty.Jeff Julian pinged me this morning and asked if he could use the version of Lighty that I hacked up after Julien Cheyssial (that's weird :)released hi
📝 Thu Oct 23 2003
For anybody who's running .Text...Jeff Julian has put up a couple of skins at http://www.geekswithblogs.com/TextSkins .
📝 Fri Oct 24 2003
My Thursday Night
Papa John's pepperoni and ham (with the special garlic sauce)
cold beer
working software
now if only the Yankees can pull off 3 more points...this is
📝 Mon Oct 27 2003
This *is* a cross-post from .Text.It seems that cross-posting has become a cool feature since other, more respected developers have released new versions of their prospective blogging
📝 Tue Oct 28 2003
I don't speak German, but...
This post reinforces that a picture is worth 10,000 words.
📝 Fri Oct 31 2003
Singing the praises of the ASP.NET Version Switcher.I'm putting some of the finishing touches on my first winforms project, so I decided to try out some code on an app that I wrote over a year ago today
📝 Sat Nov 01 2003
May be changing servers soon...I may have to change servers...it looks like another app that lives here is timing out a lot and I want to be able to make sure it's not my blog's fau
📝 Tue Nov 04 2003
Seeing the Matrix MananaI just got my tickets to see The Matrix : Revolutions online...I'm one of the fortunate few that get to see this on the BIG screen: IMAX baby! :P
📝 Fri Nov 14 2003
Exception ManagementI've been using the Exception Management Application Block for quite some time now, and for general purpose it's great. Especially when I need some de
📝 Fri Nov 14 2003
Tomorrow's my birthday.I'll be 23. :)
📝 Tue Nov 18 2003
Ever heard of role-based security?I'm sorry, Frans - this did make me chuckle a little bit, tho:
Well... ever heard of role-based security? Rob Howard hasn't obviously.
Rob Howard – Me
📝 Wed Nov 19 2003
Hannah HensonOur friend Hannah passed away yesterday.
Vanessa: thank you for your comment, indeed Hannah was an inspiration to us all. She had courage and faith un
📝 Tue Nov 25 2003
I want a new......way to post to my weblogs. Maybe you can help me out.
Objective: Create a desktop application that will enable posting entries to a weblog.
Technol
📝 Wed Nov 26 2003
BlogertThanks to comments from my previous post, I did snag a copy of Blogert.
Just like I thought, it's almost everything that I wanted, but I want a
couple
📝 Wed Dec 03 2003
What's in a name?In my comments here, Michael Slater says I should try out zempt for my blog-editing pleasure...well, I went to the site and thanks for the suggestion,
📝 Thu Dec 04 2003
Posting code snippets from the desktop...Scott Mitchell told me:
Feature request: you will be my hero if your blog software can display code snippets in a color coding like in VS.NET. And if
📝 Thu Dec 04 2003
posting from the desktop...See? I'm not the only one.
📝 Wed Dec 10 2003
It has begun or Does size really matter?I finally decided on a name for my project - PostModern. I had already gotten
syntax highlighting worked out, but I ended up using a different compone
📝 Wed Dec 10 2003
\[deactivatedstyle\]ugh. looks like the best way to do this is with \[font\] tags. eeww.
📝 Fri Dec 12 2003
Local DasBlogWow. I realized that I needed some guidance on how to implement the MetaWeblog API and thought, hmm, doesn't that dasBlog jobby do cross-posting with
📝 Wed Dec 17 2003
sorry to my 2 readersBut I need to test out how my new syntax highlighting code is going to look in an aggregator. No offense, I hope.
1using System;
2
3namespace Highligh
📝 Wed Dec 24 2003
PostModern CrossroadsOkay, I'm pretty solid on the HtmlEditor that I'm going to use for my little side
project. It's a sweet editor. Honestly, it has more features than I
📝 Wed Dec 31 2003
-2004Happy New Year everybody. :)
📝 Sat Jan 03 2004
Blatant "Me Too" PostJason Alexander posted recently about moving nGallery to VaultPub.
I'm hosting my little slow-going side project there too (hence the title:) It's goi
📝 Tue Jan 06 2004
HtmlComponent.Document.SelectionI finally figured out how to use the Document.Selection of Nikhil's HTML Component. I was looking for Document.InsertHtml which eluded me until today.
📝 Thu Jan 15 2004
Come back to ASP.NET for the first time.Today I had to bring up a previous project that I had done in asp.net and
make sure that it would work well if installed to an end-user's machine for
📝 Wed Jan 21 2004
Guess who's also an MVP?Yours truly! (that would be me) :)
Congratulations to everyone else who earned this honor.
📝 Fri Jan 23 2004
It's coming...
BTW, this is yet another code-when-I-have-a-free-time program :P
📝 Fri Jan 23 2004
The internet is shit."4 of 11....Fiction
is self-perpetuating."
📝 Thu Mar 11 2004
Public ApologyI'm sorry, reader.
I haven't posted to this thing in almost 2 months, and I'm sure that both of you are quite upset at me. So what's been going on wit
📝 Sun Mar 14 2004
Movin on up...Tina and I just finished moving the last of our stuff from the old apartment
to the new one.
We've almost got everything unpacked - I like it here. Th
📝 Tue Mar 16 2004
I had to blog this.I've been using Mozilla FireFox as my default browser for a couple of weeks. I love it - for the most part. A lot of people don't design for standards
📝 Wed Mar 17 2004
That's what I'm talkin bout!Julien
Ellie, you rock. In response to all the WinForms hubub yesterday, I asked
for a higher limit on the file selection dialog (you can only select
📝 Wed Mar 17 2004
What do you want from WinForms?Like to hear my feedback? I'd like a file dialog that lets me
select more than 200 files at a time. With the people and companies I work with,
it is a
📝 Fri Mar 19 2004
I feel ya.Big
Time. I've even talked about it before.
I'm really thankful that Tina listens to the boring .NET stuff I talk about -
she even listens to me talk
📝 Sat Mar 20 2004
last try I promise.Sorry ScottW.
Let's hope the third time is the charm.
📝 Sat Mar 20 2004
my first desktop cross-postthat's a little upsetting :(
📝 Mon Mar 22 2004
This sucks.My
cousin finally got a weblog but I can't subsribe to it!
I sent these people an email asking them to at least include permalinks and a
public rss fe
📝 Wed Mar 24 2004
Drag and Drop Urls in Windows FormsSo I wanted to allow for this, right? What if I find something on the net
that just begs me to post it, and I want to use the url as the source for my
📝 Wed Mar 24 2004
How did I format that code?Nick Berardi asks:
How did you format this code, I really like that.
It was pretty easy, I used some code that I modified from the original
Squishy
📝 Mon Mar 29 2004
MadridMy High School friend Aleida has been living in Spain for a while now. She
sends emails every now and then just to say how things are going - I hope s
📝 Sat Apr 03 2004
Hell freezes overI thought this may be useful in the future... :)
📝 Thu Apr 08 2004
Imitation vs. InnovationI'm ashamed of myself.
I finished my first windows forms project a few months ago - it's an internal
project that will never be released to the public
📝 Fri Apr 09 2004
Freakin a(tof)!I had some very humble console app beginnings in C++. Ya know, "cash
register" dos-like programs, completely keyboard driven.
However, my beginnings h
📝 Wed Apr 21 2004
HtmlComponentI've needed this link ( http://www.nikhilk.net/Entry.aspx?id=11
) a few times, so I thought I'd give it a little google juice so I could find it
easie
📝 Tue Apr 27 2004
holla!📝 Fri Apr 30 2004
Achooo! <mumble>viral
marketing...</mumble> :)
FREE XDN
Professional for .NET Bloggers during May 2004Mike Schinkel, president of Xtras.Net,
📝 Fri Apr 30 2004
Links for Monte Carlo Simulations http://polymer.bu.edu/java/java/montepi/MontePi.html
Introduction to Monte
Carlo Methods (online textbook)
Molecular Monte
Carlo HomePage
📝 Sat May 01 2004
I can ping everything now.Okay, not everything, but at least www.weblogs.com and blo.gs.
I already had some of the code in place, but then I came across an example by
Charles C
📝 Sat May 01 2004
er...maybe I DO need to get out more often.Am I the last one to notice a certain Microsoft Blogger's mug at
the top of www.weblogs.com
?
📝 Tue May 11 2004
Okay, That was pretty cool.
.NET
Reflector 4.0.1.0
Click: Help | Check for Updates | Yes.
📝 Thu May 13 2004
Office 2003 FacesI thought I linked to this before, but I guess I was wrong.
Here's some google juice for those Office 2003
Faces.
📝 Sat May 22 2004
What's the point of comment spam? Especially when the links don't point anywhere?
I'm finding this mildly annoying, and I'm sure there's some of you out there who
are getting bombarde
📝 Thu May 27 2004
The Tao of Programming
1.2
The Tao gave birth to machine language. Machine language gave birth to the
assembler.
The assembler gave birth to the compiler. Now there
📝 Thu Jun 03 2004
Starting a conversation - I want to hear your opinion.I wanted to ask for your opinion. I've been building this little wysiwyg
blog-posting tool for a little bit. I call it PostXING, and I'm using it righ
📝 Fri Jun 04 2004
Searching for Adam SillsHey, Adam, if you're reading this, drop me a line. I can't
find a way to contact you, so I guess this is the next best thing.
📝 Fri Jun 11 2004
All quiet...So I haven't posted in a while. See, on Monday, my life changes. Exactly
how, I'm not sure yet.
I'm going to family court to get joint custody of my s
📝 Tue Jun 22 2004
Another personal postSo I had the first weekend alone with my son, Ethan, this past weekend. It
was awesome! What a perfect father's day gift - being able to actually spen
📝 Thu Jun 24 2004
The road to enlightenmentEarlier this year I started using NUnit to see what all the fuss was about. I
started on a subset of an application that I'm working on, using it for
📝 Thu Jul 01 2004
THINGS YOU WISH YOU COULD SAY AT WORKAnother one of those funny emails that should be shared....1. Ahhh...I see the fuck-up fairy has visited us again... 2. I don't know what your problem
📝 Tue Jul 27 2004
Where in the hell have you been?Short answer: working.
Longer answer: I've been learning so much lately that my brain hasn't had the
rest period required to post faithfully to this h
📝 Tue Aug 10 2004
In case you didn't know,CodeSmith r00l3z.
I recently did my semi-annual "house cleaning", where instead of just getting
rid of all the accumulated crap I've got on my dev box
📝 Tue Aug 17 2004
url123.comOkay, so I haven't posted for a while and you don't care. Established.
But you've gotta check this out, for real. Francesco Sanfilippo has been puttin
📝 Wed Sep 01 2004
Added New ArticlesYou can find them here or there.
One of them was really just a VB.NET version of another article that I wrote
a while back that was left in the commen
📝 Sat Sep 11 2004
Embrace and Extend: MikeDub's IUI articleI've been doing a lot of that lately (embracing and
extending). So I'm reading thru Mike's latest article, thinking how can I apply this
to an applica
📝 Thu Sep 23 2004
CodeSnip: Getting Currently Playing info from Windows Media Player using the blogging power toy.I don't know whom this would benefit but someone building a blog posting tool
for the desktop, but anyway here's the code that I converted from the js
📝 Tue Sep 28 2004
Happy Birthday, G!Well, it looks like Gino's enjoying his day...
Glad to hear that - you deserve it you old bastard ;) Oh, and btw, I found
this out b/c bloglines has a
📝 Wed Oct 06 2004
How Jedi Are you?:: how jedi are you? ::
📝 Tue Oct 12 2004
I see ya...
whut?
📝 Fri Oct 22 2004
PostXING Released.I finally released my little
home-hacked tool to the wild, Thanks to Darren and his awesome Project Distributor.
PostXING was originally
just somethin
📝 Thu Oct 28 2004
How I use the new "preview template" in PostXINGIt starts off (defaults) using something like the following (newlines added
for readability):
<html><head><link rel='stylesheet'
href='
📝 Thu Nov 04 2004
ProjectDistributor rox your sox.I just can't pimp Darren's new
ProjectDistributor enough.
Look at the ideas
this guy comes up with. Every time I chat with him, something new is comin
📝 Thu Nov 04 2004
Stupid error messages.I could have sworn I saw this on someone else's blog recently, but I just
encountered a pretty dumb error from a hiccup on this very server.
I've rece
📝 Thu Nov 11 2004
testSorry - sometimes it's necessary, tho :)
📝 Mon Nov 15 2004
Happy Birthday to meI'm 24 today :)
📝 Fri Nov 19 2004
Bring Back KLOL! http://bringbackklol.com/index.php
http://www.rock101.info/speakout/
Did you wake up to Spanish music? Clear Channel has
decided to make a for
📝 Fri Nov 19 2004
CODESNIP - Creating C# like indexers in VB.NETWell, kind of :) I have a collection that I want to access in C# with an
indexer, the only problem is that the collection is written in VB.NET as part
📝 Fri Nov 19 2004
Free Icons at EggHeadCafeI was doing my early morning googling and came across this - a set of free icons in the WinXP
custom format. Really nice if you want to add that touch
📝 Wed Nov 24 2004
I've got a little pirate.My son, Ethan, has started pretending to be a pirate sometimes on the
weekends that he visits me.
This past weekend, he got a sticker from Kroger's an
📝 Wed Nov 24 2004
We've come a long way, baby.From 1954 Popular Mechanics:
[ Currently Playing : Low - Foo Fighters - One by One (04:28)
]
📝 Thu Nov 25 2004
Fact check first, ChristopherOuch. Looks like I should find out if a picture I post to my blog is
authentic or not before posting :$
Robert Scoble
This is a well-known hoax. I
📝 Fri Nov 26 2004
Hey ScobleBy the way, Scoble, I
do read your blog...I just can't remember everything that gets
posted there! Don't you remember posting 60 - 70 items in one nig
📝 Tue Nov 30 2004
IBlogExtensionBob wants
to see some integration of RssBandit and PostXING.
This was an idea I had really early on simply because a lot of the features
in PostXING w
📝 Tue Nov 30 2004
LoreSoft.comI feel like I've hit .net developer's gold.
I was searching for a spell checking component and came across this site (with the help of Don Smith). Not
📝 Tue Nov 30 2004
Posted too soon?It looks like I created (or rather raised an awareness to) a little
snafu on ProjectDistributor :/
The latest release of PostXING didn't upload prope
📝 Wed Dec 01 2004
Does this mean I've made it?It took nearly two years, but it looks like I've posted something interesting
enough to show up on the Daily Grind.
It's linked over there as
opposed
📝 Thu Dec 02 2004
Prince of Persia 2: the Warrior WithinDamn.
That's right, I said Damn.
It looks and feels so much like the first one (which I beat about 6 or 7
times without getting tired of it) but Ubi
📝 Fri Dec 03 2004
Wes, you Rock.Forreal.
I had been using a different, "static" library to do syntax highlighting
before...Now, if you don't like how a certain language is configured
📝 Fri Dec 03 2004
Wooohooo!Darren went and fixed my Project Distributor blunder...now you
can get the latest version of PostXING from the place
it was originally released.
Thank
📝 Tue Dec 07 2004
Project Distributor: the chicken AND the egg!Well, it looks like Darren decided to confuse the
hell out of me and make his Project
Distributor available for download at guess where? Project Distr
📝 Mon Dec 13 2004
Southpark Me.South Park
Me:
(which is not too far away from) Real Me:
No, I don't work for Microsoft, but I am wearing this shirt today. I need a
shave, don't I?
📝 Thu Dec 16 2004
Paul D. Murphy's Google Juice researchPaul is trying to find out what effect blogs have on google juice. He's
decided to coin the term 'consummate asshole' "because it has very little
comp
📝 Mon Dec 20 2004
RE: Cross-posting - A new trend?I started to make this a reply in Shawn's
comments, but decided it was getting too long-winded to be a comment. You
get a post, Shawn. In his comments
📝 Wed Dec 22 2004
RE: IBlogExtension
Bob wants to
see some integration of RssBandit and PostXING.
This was an idea I had really early on
simply because a lot of the features in P
📝 Thu Dec 30 2004
A couple of releasesSo I released a new version
of PostXING , adding support for the new IBlogExtension plugin I was
talking about the other day. Oh, I released the
BlogT
📝 Fri Dec 31 2004
IPlugin implemented.So I ended up working out a method to load plugins - it's a hybrid of Royo's
Extensibility
Application Block and the method used by RssBandit. Now, I
📝 Tue Jan 04 2005
New customizable version of BlogThisUsingPostXINGPlugin availableThis new version of the
BlogThisUsingPostXINGPlugin handles customizing the transform used to output
into a new Post in PostXING. For
example, say I w
📝 Tue Jan 04 2005
RE: new domain name for Aceh Aid
www.AcehAid.org
What do they need? MONEY of course to pay for the supplies going
into Aceh. Macs,
lots of macs and digital cameras and more.
📝 Tue Jan 04 2005
Set your FileAccess!When I was working on the latest release of the BlogThisUsingPostXINGPlugin,
I kept running into file access issues.
The whole thing was an excersize
📝 Wed Jan 05 2005
How bad do you want spellchecking?Well, I've implemented it. I figured out a way to have a user-defined
dictionary location (very simple implementation), but now I'm still facing the
d
📝 Wed Jan 05 2005
RE - MVP Again OR Here Come the "MeToo's"
I just found out that I got the nod for Microsoft MVP again for 2005.
I was hoping that would be the case, because I really enjoyed going to the
📝 Thu Jan 06 2005
Extensibility Application Block - a review of an implementation.Royo asks:
I'm interested to know whether you found my Extensibility application block
useful, or if you had to make many changes to it to make
📝 Thu Jan 06 2005
RE: I am Nerdier than PaulI am:
Not nerdy, but definitely not hip.
📝 Thu Jan 06 2005
Using the NetSpell plugin for PostXING.With the latest release
of PostXING, a plugin architecture
has been added to allow for external extensions such as the new NetSpellPlugin that
adds sp
📝 Fri Jan 07 2005
RE: Couple of feature requests
Couple of feature requests posted by Bob
Yexley on 1/7/2005 12:02:04 PM : Hey nice work on the latest
version. Spell checking works very nicel
📝 Tue Jan 11 2005
A new feature......for PostXING that I should
have added a long time ago. It only took roughly 40 lines of code (including
gratuitous whitespace). I'll give you a hin
📝 Wed Jan 12 2005
New PostXING release.I've uploaded a new release
of PostXING to ProjectDistributor. This release adds
the ability to Load or Save a post as a .htm file, as well as managin
📝 Wed Jan 12 2005
RE: New PostXING release.
I've uploaded a new release of
PostXING to ProjectDistributor.
This release adds the ability to Load or Save a post as a .htm file, as well
a
📝 Thu Jan 13 2005
IBlogExtension, from the other sideI can now use the great IBlogExtension plugins for NewsGator
to post with PostXING. (with my
built about 10 minutes ago dogfood version, that is :) Th
📝 Mon Jan 17 2005
New PostXING release
I've gone ahead and uploaded a new build of PostXING. I
extended the plugin architecture a little bit to allow for posting to non-.Text
blog engines
📝 Fri Jan 21 2005
Halo (both of 'em)I've been playing Halo 2 recently, and I got to a part that reminded me why I
lost interest in the first one.
Once you get to a certain part of the ga
📝 Fri Jan 21 2005
Score for CS BlogsI feel like a kid in one of those old milk commercials - you may
try to com...ment $p4|\/| me, on....line pok...er, but my blog is running CS::Blogs,
📝 Mon Jan 24 2005
Sun's Open letter to IBM.I am not an expert in this area. Not even close. Wouldn't even call myself an
amateur. But I had to stop reading the
letter when he says "It's the
mos
📝 Sat Jan 29 2005
New PostXING coming soonWith the help of Laurent Kempé,
I've traced down a bug in the PostXING FTP library (or rather my handling of it)
and ended up changing the underlying
📝 Sat Jan 29 2005
RE: This is gonna piss some people off...
So earlier I said "This is
gonna piss some people off..." about the EntLib, right? Well, straight from
the developer's mouth:
Scott
Densmore
📝 Sat Jan 29 2005
This is gonna piss some people off...
Going to download the spankin new Enterprise
Library, and before you can download you're presented with this:
Enterprise Library
Your registration i
📝 Tue Feb 01 2005
RE: /aiCAPTCHA article FAQ <snip>Q: You mean you didnt kill 200K people or change the tilt of the Earth's axis?
a: not yet </snip>
\[Via rains-N-brawn.com \]
Class
📝 Wed Feb 02 2005
-Added-TabbingI recently added Tabbing functionality for
indenting/outdenting (hey, it's a trident term :) in my dogfood version of
PostXING.
Quoting has just becom
📝 Mon Feb 07 2005
They're pretty useless but...They're fun anyways.
Which File Extension are You?
📝 Wed Feb 09 2005
Asian "Just Lose It"euiyun's
Xanga Site - 2/8/2005 9:41:55 PM
Always good to see a bunch of Asians "go crazy". (ahahahahah!)
Bonus: It looks like it was filmed in good o
📝 Tue Feb 15 2005
Updated my engine.Well, thanks to Steven's
post .Text's
MetaWeblog API - Edit Post Error... I am now just a couple of revisions
behind the latest incarnation of .Text o
📝 Thu Feb 17 2005
BradA at the Houston .NET UGAlthough he only talked about high-level stuff (Exception Handling and Memory
Management), I think Brad did a pretty good job. I stopped going to the
📝 Thu Feb 17 2005
Channel 9 guy...|}34|2 M|2. Scoble,
**1 H4v3 K1|}n4pp3|} y0U|2 p|23C10U5 "CH4nn3L 9 6Uy". 1f j00 3v4|2 w4n7 70
533 H1M 4L1v3 4641n, My |}3M4n|}5 MU57 83 M37 1n fULL.
📝 Tue Mar 01 2005
Using OpenSSH tunneling for RealVNC on WindowsI totally geeked out tonight.
I was searching for something else and happened upon a
tutorial for tunneling VNC on windows, which led me to another a
📝 Tue Mar 15 2005
PostXING feature requestsTeirnan
asked for a few features for PostXING. I started to write a comment, but it
got too long-winded for a comment. You get a post Sir:
Can I help
📝 Wed Mar 16 2005
My comments are broken......at a time when people are actually leaving comments. Balls. Josh - I'm
checking the vaultpub repository on a clean directory right now, I probably
📝 Wed Mar 16 2005
PostXING's vaultpub works.This shouldn't have gotten this out of whack, but it did, sorry. I've made
sure that all of the folders are inherited now, and tested the get latest
v
📝 Thu Mar 17 2005
A little down time...I'm going to be installing community server here today. There's going to
be a little downtime because of that. As if you cared.
📝 Tue Mar 22 2005
Customer Service MessageThis is a message that my boss recently sent to a customer that had an issue
with one of our software packages (I don't own it :)
Brian, in the fin
📝 Thu Mar 24 2005
A little CS hack for the metablog APIKeith told me that
CSBlogs was returning relative urls for its Metablog API implementation. After I
installed it, I noticed the same thing - so I deci
📝 Thu Mar 24 2005
Enabling styles in CSStraight from ScottW, I added
<MarkUp>
<globalAttributes>
<class enable = "true" />
<align enable = "true" />
<styl
📝 Sat Mar 26 2005
Running WebMatrix with a Whidbey Beta installedI took a chance and installed a CTP of Whidbey on my laptop. Thing is, I
still use WebMatrix from time to time for POC stuff for v1.x of asp.net.
Pro
📝 Fri Apr 01 2005
Re: Here we go!Congrats, James! Always good to see someone you know catch a deal like
this. Too bad there are no comments for me to tell him in his blog :P
See for y
📝 Sat Apr 02 2005
RE: We're back!
Well, I woke up this morning and found myself back in Roswell, GA. It seems
that the Google trip must have been a
dream.
Don't you just love
📝 Wed Apr 06 2005
Little TonyI went to go visit with my little (2 1/2 mos) nephew Tony tonight. Here's a
couple of pics I snapped on my phone:
📝 Fri Apr 08 2005
New PostXING releaseI've added a small usability feature based on some recent
feedback.
Now, from the Tools -> Options dialog, you can optionally set whether you
would
📝 Sat Apr 09 2005
Goodbye, LynnOne of my coworkers, Lynn Coyle, was found dead in his house this morning.
Lynn had diabetes. He was kind of an odd character, but he was a good pers
📝 Fri Apr 15 2005
RE: ObjectDock
Who else out there likes a dock better than the standard windows taskbar? I
have been using StarDock's ObjectDock for a
few weeks now and I thi
📝 Tue Apr 19 2005
CS::Blogs: allowing anonymous commentsI don't know if this will post with the source, but I've got this link that
may save someone the trouble of searching CS forums for an answer: http://
📝 Thu Apr 21 2005
RE: Digital Pontification - Podcast Show Notes (4/21)I want to second Jason's nomination (below in bold). This morning I was trying to figure out how to port Sql Express data to Sql Server 2000, and Wall
📝 Mon Apr 25 2005
ObjectDataSource goodness.Since there are probably going to be a lot of posts about all things
Whidbey soon, as people get more and more chance to play with things, I've
decide
📝 Fri Apr 29 2005
PSKit - FormView initial thoughtsI've been playing with the Personal Website
Starter Kit a little bit lately. One thing that I didn't like about it from
the start was that the content
📝 Thu May 05 2005
RE: Announcing Subtext, A Fork Of .TEXT For Your Blogging Pleasure
Awesome. I had a
feeling I was going to see something like this sooner or
later.
📝 Thu May 12 2005
On Community Support give and you shall recieve
I use Azureus as my bittorrent client. It has this nifty feature that is
similar to the Updater Application Block that will automatically check for a
📝 Wed May 18 2005
PSKit: Replacing that pesky Lorem Ipsum text with dynamic content
The Personal Website Starter Kit is a great resource for getting up and
running with asp.net 2.0 beta. I've been using it to check out some features
📝 Mon May 23 2005
A couple of PostXING ideas
Thanks to Sir Wally for the first
one...it's simple really, Wally just asked if I would cache a list of the
categories for each configured blog to ai
📝 Mon May 23 2005
Ever looked back in time?
I've been doing just that on my blogs - way back to when this one was hosted on
dotnetweblogs.com.
Geez, I was such a dork...okay, maybe I'm still a
📝 Tue May 24 2005
To those that care...
I.e. Both of you...I've changed the repository structure of PostXING on vaultpub to better facilitate
branching.
These crazy new ideas I've been havi
📝 Wed May 25 2005
We're back online!
It seems that there was a major power failure yesterday: at least a few city
blocks. For those that don't know, a city block in Houston is a pretty b
📝 Fri May 27 2005
Converting a Base64 String to an image
Do you ever get an email that has some base64 gobbledegook in it? A lot of
times, based on MIME information directly preceding this junk, it's actua
📝 Fri May 27 2005
If I only knew then...
Not what I know now, but what I'm learning
now. I recently picked up a copy of the src to FlexWikiPad.
I just wanted to see how things were wired tog
📝 Fri Jun 10 2005
A new face for PostXING
I didn't go too too far, I think. It's definitely a step in the right
direction, tho:
I don't know why I've opted to start at the top and go down..
📝 Fri Jun 10 2005
PostXING development
I've been working a little on my plugin/provider idea on PostXING. Currently, I have it
building, but I've had to disable some of the post-build com
📝 Wed Jun 15 2005
Greasmonkey goodies; embrace and extend
Thanks to Alex, I
checked out a great application of Greasemonkey - the Gmail
Delete Button.
Of course, I had to look at the
script since it's just
📝 Wed Jun 15 2005
PostXING Answers for Yex
Yex sez:
Nice. So where's the Categories, Post, Post and Publish and Crosspost
buttons at? Where's the post editing toolbar? When can we get o
📝 Wed Jun 15 2005
RE: This is just a test
Nice! Lookin good, Don! I personally have had firewall issues with FTP (what
a beast!) and have yet to find an opensource SFTP (ftp as a subset of s
📝 Thu Jun 16 2005
ReverseDOS in Community Server
After another slew of referrer/comment spam that showed up in my blog this
morning, I went ahead and downloaded Mike's ReverseDOS.
I followed the st
📝 Fri Jun 17 2005
Blogging API commonalities
Here is some of the common ground I can see between the metaweblog api and
CS::Blogs BlogService asmx.
Blog/Authentication:
UserName
Password
📝 Sun Jun 19 2005
Maybe I'm AmazedTina asked me to learn this Paul McCartney song...so I
cheated :)
That's it. This was purely so I didn't forget the url. Nothing technical to
see here
📝 Mon Jun 20 2005
PostXING and interfacesI feel like I'm going nuts with interfaces in the next version of PostXING. Interfaces are a language
feature that is really powerful - you don't real
📝 Thu Jun 23 2005
CS::Blogs : beware the permission setSo I got some feedback about PostXING saying that someone who
had setup multiple blogs with CS::Blogs was getting the wrong blog
back while trying to
📝 Thu Jun 23 2005
ReverseDOS: 8 days laterIf you are running your own asp.net blogging engine and you support
comments/trackbacks/pingbacks, go get
ReverseDOS. Right now. I'll wait.
Back alrea
📝 Sat Jun 25 2005
What's this? PostXING can post to dasBlog?I saw that Jeff
got things up and running with PostXING (sorry again about the whole
BlogInfo[0] thing) when I looked at the url. What's this? dasBlog
📝 Mon Jun 27 2005
ReverseDOS attracting ire...I'm seeing a little trend - I delete comment spam as soon as it gets to any
of my weblogs, so I don't have any hard numbers - posts that I have writte
📝 Fri Jul 01 2005
Dangerously close...
...to having something that actually works :) Do you think I'm going a
little nuts with the logo?
📝 Sat Jul 02 2005
ReverseDOS Configuration for CS::Blogs revisitedI just set up CS::Blogs 1.1 on my server over here and I wanted to keep
ReverseDOS going for it. So I just copied over the settings from my web.config
📝 Tue Jul 05 2005
Free at last...
...free at last, thank God Almighty: I am free at last.
📝 Thu Jul 07 2005
Object cannot be stored in an array of this type.This was the error that was biting me on PostXING v2 for almost a week (I
usually only get insomnia hours to debug. That can be frustrating.)
The fir
📝 Wed Jul 13 2005
Divelements SandDock 2.0Was just released. In
the newsletter, it said that you can use a DocumentContainer (tabs) outside of a
SandDockManager - simple tabbing with the same
📝 Wed Jul 13 2005
I feel like a commercialbut I did switch to geico
and I'm going to save a rediculous amount from my current insurance provider. To
the tune of nearly $2,000 a year. Plus, the
📝 Wed Jul 13 2005
My favorite Top 11 Country Songs
GET-R-DONE! My favorite Top 11 Country Songs
11. If The Phone Don't Ring, You'll Know It's Me.
10. How Can I Miss You If You Won't Go Away
9. I Liked
📝 Thu Jul 14 2005
Set the passive port range for IIS ftp
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=555022
I've needed this a couple of times, what better way to find it?
;)
📝 Mon Jul 18 2005
Saving an embedded resource xml file at runtime in C#
I couldn't find a cut & dry solution to this (probably b/c it's too
simple for anyone to think they would need an example) so here's how I got an
xml
📝 Tue Jul 19 2005
Ethan and Mama reWelcome to the poor man's vblog...a link with text :) I took this video on my digital camera the other day. It's 2:41. I thought I'd post it up here s
📝 Fri Jul 22 2005
Clearly a windows user...
[ Currently Playing : Night Bird Flying - Jimi Hendrix -
Experience Hendrix (3:50) ]
📝 Fri Jul 22 2005
Richard...You're
Welcome! :D
[ Currently Playing : Suite-Pee - System of a Down - System of a
Down (2:32) ]
📝 Sat Jul 23 2005
Applesauce tastes gooood.Indeed.
Applesause tastes
goood.
[ Currently Playing : Audioslave / Number 1 Zero - Audioslave -
Out Of Exile (05:01) ]
📝 Sat Jul 23 2005
Ethan's got some money...
Ethan went to go play with his friend Emma today. Emma's older sister gave
Ethan 11¢.
That's right, the older sister. That boy Ethan...:D
[ Current
📝 Wed Jul 27 2005
RE - Blog APIs
Darren's looking
for ideas on how to migrate data from one blog engine to the next. This has
been discussed before a lot, I'm sure, but it's not a ba
📝 Thu Jul 28 2005
Thanks!
Earlier I said:
call them "labels" or "tags" but give me a way to categorize my thoughts.
Please.
Thanks, Atom
1.0
[ Currently Playing : A Mess
📝 Fri Aug 05 2005
A week alreadyWell, it's been a week now since I handed over my pip-squeak back to his mom.
I gotta say, I miss him a lot. Having him around every day and then all
📝 Wed Aug 10 2005
Insanely simple GradientPanel for WinForms
This has probably been done a hundred times already, but I couldn't find one
in the first few pages of google results, so I wrote my own in ~40 lines
📝 Fri Aug 26 2005
Dual booting Linux Redhat 9 and Windows XP using a CD
We have a couple of legacy applications here, written in C++, that have
always run on windows and *nix. In order to support the *nix versions, we alw
📝 Mon Sep 05 2005
Darren and BlogML
A few weeks ago I wanted to release an update to my own blogging engine
and, because there was a minor data change I thought that it would be
📝 Tue Sep 06 2005
RE - Google maps .NET control
Check out this code project article with code for a Google Maps
.NET control. very cool and handy stuff. and there are some demos here.
[Via Ti
📝 Wed Sep 07 2005
Hazaa! 0 unread feeds in my subscriptions
I took a week off from reading blogs last week (as is evidenced by my
responding to week-old posts). I ended up having about 600-700 unread posts in
📝 Wed Sep 07 2005
RE - RSS Bandit [Nightcrawler Edition] Alpha Progress ReportBy the way Torsten has started an RSS
Bandit new logo design contest and we'd appreciate your comments. It seems
a lot of our users who use RSS Bandit
📝 Wed Sep 07 2005
RE - www.windowsforms.net is dead
Anybody else find that MS has so much
crap going on that it's hard keep tabs on a single, solid,
resources to use to keep up to speed on thing
📝 Thu Sep 08 2005
It's fixed.
Yesterday I realized that I was having issues with anonymous users posting
comments to my CS site. After going
over the code a little bit, what I did
📝 Thu Sep 08 2005
This is getting fixed. Today.
I noticed that I haven't gotten any comments on my
blog in a while. Granted, I haven't posted in a while, either, but come on!
There's gotta be at l
📝 Fri Sep 09 2005
PostXING v2? Where's the goods?Ah, the joys of writing open source software :/
I had been working hard on v2 of PostXING, but somehow development has
stagnated on my end quite a bi
📝 Fri Sep 09 2005
Virtual Earth for commercial apps
Ha! Look at
that! I totally called
it.
[ Currently Playing : All You Need - Sublime - Stand By Your Van
Live (2:44) ]
📝 Mon Sep 12 2005
Eric is a stand-up guy.
Eric is my friend Peyman's roommate in Austin. He's a stand-up guy. Trust me
on this.
📝 Wed Sep 14 2005
My WeekendThis is definitely filed under "As if you cared". My friend Peyman had a
little gathering at his new house in Austin this past weekend. I've been to
q
📝 Sun Sep 18 2005
Ethan and Cody at the beachI took Ethan and my cousin Cody to the beach today. I got them some du-rags
and ninja swords, so they could play pirates. They had a sword fight on th
📝 Wed Sep 21 2005
Expected downtime
Just to let both of you know - I'm expecting some downtime this weekend for
www.chrisfrazier.net . See, I live in
Houston and we've got a little stor
📝 Wed Sep 21 2005
Houstonians are starting to panic.I just got back from the gas station to get some sodas before everything runs
out, and this is what I saw:
[[photo lost :(
My little phone wasn't ab
📝 Fri Sep 30 2005
Starting to dogfood PostXING v2.I figured that 27 test posts were enough to actually publish one.
This thing hasn't even reached feature parity with v1, but
if you both see this pos
📝 Mon Oct 03 2005
RE - Microsoft Codename "Spang"
Just been shown something Microsoft are working
on called "Spang" it's UNREAL.
When "Spang" comes out you'll all be so much
happier, wish I
📝 Tue Oct 11 2005
Creating a Google Maps .NET Control
Choice Quote:
Now that I have actually used XSL in a project
I've come to this conclusion: XSL is the Devil.
Go Check it
Out. It's an interesti
📝 Wed Oct 12 2005
Visual Studio Editor, how you mock me.
I've been chasing down this odd Visual
Studio bug where the Enter, Backspace, and Arrow keys stop working.
It happened to me in Redmond at Microsoft
📝 Wed Oct 19 2005
How not to use the PictureBox control.
I was having this problem in an application that I've been working on where I
was drawing data points onto a PictureBox control - kind of like a canv
📝 Thu Oct 20 2005
Guess who's going to the World Series?
Fan-freakin-tastic. w00t!
📝 Thu Oct 27 2005
VistaDB Viral Marketing:
VistaDB 2.1 database for .NET has been releasedThis 2.1
update includes over 60 improvements, including new support for .NET 2.0 and
📝 Thu Oct 27 2005
Zeppelin - Babe I'm gonna leave you
I know I've figured out a fun song when my left hand hurts after
playing. That hasn't happened for a loong time.
I was playing my guitar, trying to s
📝 Fri Nov 04 2005
Ctrl+K, XIs the insert snippet chord in VS 2005.
📝 Mon Nov 07 2005
ToolStripColorButton - a WinForms 2.0 ControlDisclaimer: the code for showing the color menu is totally ripped off of a CodeProject
article. I just took the ColorPanel part and parented it with a
📝 Wed Nov 09 2005
xml-rpc.net and BOM
I'm using xml-rpc.net as the library
that supports xml-rpc for the MetaWeblog api in PostXING.
I recently ran into a service endpoint that included a
📝 Thu Nov 10 2005
Woe unto the COM-referencing VS2005 Winforms DesignerOne or more errors encountered
while loading the designer. The errors are listed below. Some errors can be
fixed by rebuilding your project, while oth
📝 Tue Nov 15 2005
RE - PostXING Review - Yet Another Blog Posting Client
Ah! It's been a while since I've gotten some good PostXING feedback. Guess
the current version isn't very keyboard-friendly. I'm probably not going t
📝 Wed Nov 16 2005
PostXING Sux.
And I know it. I haven't updated the binaries on ProjectDistributor for a long time
because I've been taking my time writing v2. Thing is, it's start
📝 Wed Nov 16 2005
RE - MetaWeblog API beta for MSN Spaces chugs along
Since announcing that we've started
the beta of our implementation of the MetaWeblog API for MSN Spaces, I've received a bunch of
positive res
📝 Thu Nov 17 2005
PostXING - Recent Fixes
NEW: "PostXING" in about page now links to postxing.net.
NEW: FTP Settings page now is labeled as such. This was confusing in the new
user wizard.
FI
📝 Thu Nov 17 2005
RE - 8 Steps to Better Windows Applications
In an attempt to work on steps 7 and 8
in Grant
Holliday's Blog, I've started a community server site for PostXING.
It's lite on content at the momen
📝 Fri Nov 18 2005
Jim Ross DiesOur prayers are with you, Jim. I only
met Jim in real life one time, and he gave me a ride to my hotel on my first
visit to Washington. He lived 5 hou
📝 Thu Nov 24 2005
Two years ago.....the idea for PostXING began.
Wow. I still hack it every now and then, but I don't devote nearly as
much time as I used to. I'm hoping that the new
📝 Wed Dec 07 2005
Forcing the DataGridView to do my bidding - a tale of ComboBox hackery
sigh Winforms team, winforms team, when will you start
making my life easier? As others have said (and I
completely
agree ) windowsforms.net is prett
📝 Wed Dec 07 2005
PostXING conversation with Peter Provost continues...
Peter gives me some awesome
feedback:
Hey man. Glad to know you're listening. I really think that PostXING could
rock with a little more TLC. Yo
📝 Wed Dec 07 2005
PostXING - Offline CategoriesPeter, bro, you must be inspirin'
or something. I hope I didn't miss anything (it was one of those "it can't be
that easy©" deals), but I'll just let
📝 Sat Dec 10 2005
System.Net.NetworkInformationThis is pretty cool:
System.Net.NetworkInformation.NetworkChange.NetworkAddressChanged +=
new System.Net.NetworkInformation.NetworkAddressChangedEvent
📝 Mon Dec 12 2005
NetVibe - listen for network changes and execute a script.A few people asked for the source code/a download for the little widget I whipped up on Friday, so I spent this morning adding a little bit of persist
📝 Tue Dec 13 2005
MSN Spaces opens up MetaWeblog API support
And now I can post there with PostXING (v2).
Dare has put up a couple
of tutorials
on how to setup Metablog support for w.bloggar and BlogJet. Since
📝 Wed Dec 21 2005
Yahoo! Widgets (Konfabulator) 3.0.2
I wanted to install the newest version of Konfabulator to one of my
computers, so I went to www.konfabulator.com and tried to install
the latest vers
📝 Fri Dec 23 2005
PostXING v2 alpha and proxies
I'd like to apologize if any users of PostXING have to go thru proxies...I've been
bugchasing this evening and it occurred to me that specifying a pr
📝 Wed Jan 11 2006
MVP Again
So I got selected for the MVP
award again this year. Many thanks to BenMi, who has been an awesome lead
this whole time. You rock, dude.
I was also a
📝 Fri Jan 13 2006
Got my new glasses
Strictly filed under "As if you cared".
[ Currently Playing : Audioslave / Out Of Exile - Audioslave -
Out Of Exile (4:53) ]
📝 Tue Jan 17 2006
MonoDevelop to get a Design-Enabled
It's for glade3, but having a
designer will definitely get me looking at Mono again.
[ Currently Playing : Motel of the white locust - Glassjaw -
Eve
📝 Thu Jan 19 2006
RE - PostXING - Better Keyboard Support
Heh, oops. This is what happens when the tool that you are building is the
same tool you are using to make tech notes to yourself.* Really, there sho
📝 Fri Jan 20 2006
Gmail Delete Button
Broseph.
This was the first thing that I requested from gmail, and
they've taken it up a notch - instead of only deleting messages, it notifies you
i
📝 Tue Jan 24 2006
Thanks, RssBandit.
RssBandit has been a big inspiration for
some of the specific features of PostXING. As
a matter of fact, where possible I've used code from RssBandit
📝 Thu Jan 26 2006
MSBuild - Date-based build number blues
According to this thread, Microsoft may run into visioning problems if they stick with their
new build number scheme (major.minor.yMMdd.revision) nex
📝 Sat Jan 28 2006
CIDR Notation Cheat Sheet
CIDR Total number Network
Description:Notation:
of addresses:
Mask:--------------------------------------------------
📝 Mon Jan 30 2006
All In Your Head - DJ Fred Castillo
This is in the year 2004BB (Before Beard)
[ Currently Playing : Just A Memory Featuring The C - The
Notorious B.I.G - (4:30) ]
📝 Sat Feb 11 2006
BackgroundWorker.isRunning
This is a private boolean member of the new BackgroundWorker class in .NET 2.0. If it were public, perhaps there would be less questions
like this on
📝 Tue Feb 14 2006
Subversion on Windows
I've been wanting to setup subversion for PostXING for a while so I can have more
control over who has commit access and various adminy tasks that ar
📝 Wed Feb 15 2006
Got My ASP.NET Podcast ShirtI got my ASP.NET Podcast shirt, and
there's a lot of Wally to be had it seems...
You can't really tell from this pic, but the image of Wally takes
📝 Mon Feb 20 2006
FIX - Design View error in VS 2005
Here's a link to the
hotfix for the winforms designer error that looks like this:
One or more errors encountered
while loading the designer. The
📝 Wed Mar 01 2006
PostXING plugin - MetaPinger
Well, it turns out that PostXING's mystery plugin author is none other than
Taras Naumtsev, and Taras is on fire! Check out the new MetaPinger plugin
📝 Wed Mar 01 2006
PostXING plugin - TechnoratiTagger
Holy Schnikeys!
Someone has actually built a plugin for PostXING! Ladies and gentlemen, Allow me to
introduce the TechnoratiTagger
plugin for PostXIN
📝 Tue Mar 07 2006
Source, are you useful again?
testing source
update: nope.
update2: almost: I get a reference to the source,
but it's based with the skin's control directory.
update3: BAM! gotta
📝 Tue Mar 07 2006
SubText, BlogML, and PostXING
This is the end result after setting up SubText and importing my old blog (now moved to here). I had created a blogML
exporter for cs11 and ran into
📝 Thu Mar 09 2006
PostXING - It's Beta Time!
For the adventurous among you, we've decided to release beta 1 of PostXING available for download
at ProjectDistributor!
There are a few known issu
📝 Fri Mar 10 2006
RE - What is with Blogger.com?I had tried to reply to this post on WinExtra, but it errored out on me. So,
here's what the comment said:
Blogger uses Atom feeds located at http://b
📝 Sun Mar 12 2006
BackgroundWorker.isRunning - take two
I can't believe nobody called me on this: BackgroundWorker.IsBusy
Property
Reflector says it does exactly what I was looking for in a previous
post.
📝 Mon Mar 13 2006
Quick shoutout to RegexLib.com
I've got weak regex skillz. I'll admit it.
I don't use them very much, so when I do need to, it's nice to know that
regexlib is sitting there, waitin
📝 Mon Mar 13 2006
tësting ûnïcodeSorry I keep putting out these tests, but I'm trying to see what different
regexes will do to a friendly url in subtext. Nothing more to see here.
[ C
📝 Tue Mar 14 2006
RE - SecurePasswordTextBox update
This looks interesting. I thought Mr. "Just
finished my last chapter of Beginning AJAX" would have for sure created this
as an asp.net control...gues
📝 Mon Mar 20 2006
NetVibe - Listen for SSID change
I've updated the NetVibe source with a mildly useful update: listening for
changes in SSID as well as IP Addresses. The source is hosted at http://ch
📝 Fri Mar 31 2006
Visual Studio 2005 Designer - Touchy, Thouchy!
If you do anything "out of the ordinary" in your UserControl or Form derived
classes in Visual Studio 2005, let me introduce you to a little snippet
📝 Fri Apr 14 2006
the yield statement - not so mysterious after all?
Using Yield in PracticeThe moral of the story is STOP thinking so
hard about it, just use "yield return" the next piece of data in
the list.
📝 Thu May 04 2006
Getting a temporary filename the easy way
If you need to generate temporary / semi-unique filenames, here is a little
snippet that uses the framework:
using System.IO;
string GetTempFileNam
📝 Thu May 04 2006
Getting a temporary filename the easy way - feedback
Jerry Pisk
Path.GetTempFileName() guarantees that you will get
an available name, it does actually go ahead and create the file so it is
gua
📝 Thu May 04 2006
I Flipped a Coin Heads: Shave
the beard off entirely. Tails: just trim it down a little.
The coin flips...
and...
Heads it is.
[ Currently Playing : imagine - Joh
📝 Wed May 10 2006
PostXING - Shameless request for feedback
http://postxing.net/gemini/issue/ViewIssue.aspx?id=32
I'm about to start cracking on this issue, but I'd love to get a little
feedback on it before I
📝 Fri May 12 2006
RE - Bad news gets worse
How do you say goodbye? One hand squeeze at a time.
[Via Scobleizer
Microsoft Geek Blogger]
So what do you do when a blogger you read comes up on
📝 Tue Jun 06 2006
Community Server 2.0 BlogML Converter Beta - success!
I'm a little bit behind on my CS releases, as I just got around to installing
a fresh copy of Community Server 2.0 to test things out for one of my s
📝 Wed Jun 07 2006
RE - Using DLINQ with ASP.NET (Part 2 of my LINQ series)Wow.
📝 Tue Jun 13 2006
We'll miss you, Mr. Holmquist.
My
high school principal died on Monday.
This is surreal. It feels like it was just last week that I was skipping
class and getting a pep talk from
📝 Thu Jun 29 2006
Step your game up, Microsoft.
Unfortunately, the rants about WGA causing a bluescreen are true. It happened
a little while ago on my home PC. Thankfully, F8 booting into safemode
📝 Sat Jul 08 2006
Gaffling that ribbon style
Close enough. This
should be fun.
📝 Fri Jul 14 2006
What's this? My Application won't Exit?There are a few things that have to happen for this "regression" to show up. First, you have to be working in .net 2.0 WinForms. Second, you must be u
📝 Thu Jul 20 2006
Whip it Real Hard
Last night I got
an impromtu text message saying that Ghostface
Killah was playing at Warehouse live downtown. As a Wu-Tang fan, I
decided to go out
📝 Fri Aug 11 2006
RE Finding calling method using reflection
Exactly
what I was looking for...I don't know a lot about reflection, so I wonder if
there is a more elegant way to get this info.
📝 Thu Aug 17 2006
Windows Live Writer
It looks pretty neat. I really dig the
"type inside the preview" Web Layout. That's just sweet. The plugin support
looks promising...I've already s
📝 Tue Aug 22 2006
RE - What about PostXING?
I love the PostXING tool and the
ability to integrate the playing music. Feature wise they are all about the
same though. So it will interesti
📝 Mon Sep 11 2006
..||..
http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/09/091106.html
📝 Thu Mar 08 2007
SubSonic Scaffold control - a GridView with Class
So I've been able to dig my teeth into some asp.net hacking recently, and
I've been wrestling with learning to use SubSonic in the process.
In deali
📝 Thu Mar 15 2007
ASP.NET - UrlRewriting with PathInfo and base urls
I read this
excellent post from ScottGu and decided to use it with a page that
implemented a masterpage. I didn't have to use postbacks in my scenari
📝 Thu Mar 22 2007
skmMenu code change to work with xhtml doctypes
This is just a re-statement of a forum
thread that discusses the fix, but since gotdotnet is not going to be
around very much longer I thought I'd po
📝 Thu Mar 22 2007
Windows Updates Make Me Nervous hehe...
Rather surprised by the new 'updates are ready' message from Microsoft.
Hmmm.
Perhaps they know just how much frustration we had on t
📝 Wed Apr 25 2007
Exposing Hidden Events
I recently ran into a neat little nugget of functionality in C# with events.
Normally in C# when we define events we stop at something like this:
pu
📝 Fri May 25 2007
Sql Server Management Studio Express - you suck.
I would like to know who thought it was a good idea to remove "import
data..." and "export data..." from this particular flavor of the worst front en
📝 Thu Jun 07 2007
So quiet...
...and so dark in here.
📝 Fri Jun 29 2007
Christopher is ...
posted up watchin Shrek 2 with Ethan.:)
📝 Wed Jul 25 2007
Paul Stovell has lost his marbles.[note: this started as a comment but started getting a little long-winded. what follows is a little gentle ribbing of Paul for a recent post he wrote
📝 Fri Jul 27 2007
Setting up a new External to Internal IP mapping on OpenBSDThis is correct for version 3.9 of OpenBSD, but the rules are simple enough that the idea will upgrade if necessary later. In order to complete this,
📝 Wed Nov 14 2007
Blog Moving
I noticed that a handful of people are still subscribed to this little ol'
weblog. Well, I've decided to start fresh at a new url http://bluefenix.ne
📝 Wed Nov 14 2007
HappyMappyAs a thanx you to Sir Wally for kicking me in the butt to start blogging again, I'm linking to a site he told me about called HappyMappy.com that he
📝 Wed Nov 14 2007
O Hai.
and welcome to my new blog. :)
📝 Sun Nov 25 2007
Darren Neimke on building ajax applications in asp.netDarren Neimke talks about building ajax applications, both with and without a button to intercept...Darren has this way of explaining things in a way
📝 Wed Nov 28 2007
Guitar Hero - Prospros indeed. Unfortunately, there are no Jimi Hendrix tracks on any of the Guitar Hero/Rock Band games. I really hope that changes some day. There is
📝 Thu Dec 13 2007
DataGridView ColorPicker using a DataGridViewButtonColumnIt's not often that I get the opportunity to blog about something neat that I learned to do in winforms so you know I gotta, even tho it's not totally
📝 Wed Jan 02 2008
Cheap Thrillz - TortoiseSVN overlay icons in Windows Vista
Step1: install tortoisesvn.
Step2: open file dialog in vs.net (2008 at least)
Step3: XD
update: looks like the tortoisesvn team brought back thos
📝 Thu Jan 24 2008
Oh, she amazed me!Effing brilliant.
📝 Tue Feb 05 2008
Bring it on!31
📝 Wed Feb 20 2008
Error - Could not open the requested SVN filesystemWhen trying to connect to a new subversion repository over apache 2.0 using subversion 1.4.5. Error number:165005
Looked at the error log for apache,
📝 Wed May 14 2008
Professional Ribbon control for Windows FormsOpen source (MSPL) Ribbon that actually has some potential, despite the currently incomplete coverage of ribbon features. It's a winforms control, and
📝 Wed May 21 2008
Welcome Back, Dare...and thank goodness that hiatus is over. XD
📝 Mon Jun 23 2008
jQuery - There is no spoonI've been working with javascript almost since its inception. It was the first language that I ever really hacked in. I remember having to code around
📝 Thu Jul 03 2008
Good Luck, Yex Godspeed buddy. XD
📝 Tue Sep 30 2008
Houston ALT.NET Geek Dinner - Thursday Oct 2nd
I'll be there.
📝 Thu Nov 13 2008
SubSonic 3.0 preview 2
me
likey.
📝 Sat Nov 22 2008
Andre 3 stacks in NY
Andre 3 stacks in NY
Originally uploaded by blue_fenix I ran into Andre 3000 last time I went to NYC. Really down to earth
dude.
--
-Christopher
📝 Sat Nov 22 2008
RAWR!
RAWR!
Originally uploaded by blue_fenix RAWR! I eats teh turkee, you no has tanksgiving nao.
Halp!
--
-Christopher | bluefenix.net
📝 Sat Dec 20 2008
Ethan's got holiday spirit!
Ethan's got holiday spirit!, originally uploaded by blue_fenix.
Hehe jingle this! Ethan just turned 7, and he's missing a bottom tooth!
--
-Chr
📝 Sun Jan 25 2009
The Don Juan Especiál
The Don Juan Especiál, originally uploaded by blue_fenix.
Breakfast taco Nirvana from Juan in a million, Austin, TX
--
-Christopher | bluefenix
📝 Fri Jan 30 2009
Ethan's a little snagglepuss!
Ethan's a little snagglepuss!, originally uploaded by blue_fenix.
--
-Christopher | bluefenix.net
📝 Tue Feb 03 2009
February ALT.NET Geek DinnerI'll be there.
📝 Fri Feb 20 2009
Ethan & Ricky pup!
Ethan & Ricky pup!, originally uploaded by blue_fenix.
--
-Christopher | bluefenix.net
📝 Thu Feb 26 2009
at the Rockets game vs Cleveland
@ the Rockets game vs Cleveland, originally uploaded by blue_fenix.
--
-Christopher | bluefenix.net
📝 Tue Mar 03 2009
New ink - Hook ups girl
New ink: Hook ups girl, originally uploaded by blue_fenix.
She's a hottie, ain't she? XD
--
-Christopher | bluefenix.net
📝 Wed Mar 18 2009
Kevin Devine @ Mohawk's
Kevin Devine @ Mohawk's #sxsw, originally uploaded by blue_fenix.
From Brooklyn.
--
-Christopher | bluefenix.net
📝 Thu Apr 09 2009
New ink - hacker emblem
New ink: hacker emblem, originally uploaded by blue_fenix.
--
-Christopher | bluefenix.net
📝 Fri Apr 17 2009
New ink - killer octopus!
New ink: killer octopus!, originally uploaded by blue_fenix.
Ink by Rob of Nice Guyz.
--
-Christopher | bluefenix.net
📝 Thu Apr 23 2009
New ink - Japanese devil mask!
New ink: Japanese devil mask!, originally uploaded by blue_fenix.
Ink by Rob of Nice Guyz.
Arigato gozai mashta! XD
--
-Christopher | bluefenix
📝 Mon Jul 27 2009
Homemade Don Juan Especial!
Homemade Don Juan Especial!, originally uploaded by blue_fenix.
I haven't been to Austin, tx in a while and was craving my favorite
brakfast taco fr
📝 Sat Aug 29 2009
Bankai! New ink - Kurosaki Ichigo hollow mask
Bankai! New ink - Kurosaki Ichigo hollow mask, originally uploaded by blue_fenix.
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-Christopher | bluefenix.net
📝 Sat Oct 03 2009
Ethan and Lord Nobleton!
Ethan and Lord Nobleton!, originally uploaded by blue_fenix.
📝 Tue Dec 29 2009
Deran Schilling, Learner
Check this: "AutoMapper
ASP.NET MVC" on Deran Schilling,
Learner.
I've been catching up on Deran's posts about his wife's portfolio site. I'm
quite e
📝 Tue Dec 29 2009
What to do if your Windows 2008 install won't activate complaining about no KMS server
Basically this is what happened:The MSDN subscriptions version of
Windows Server 2008 installs by default using KMS (Key Management
Service).The key
📝 Thu Feb 18 2010
Scanning for Test implementation classes using StructureMap with xunit
I have an xunit test project that is using hand-rolled stubs as concrete implementations of interfaces.
StructureMap is
the DI container I'm using. I
📝 Fri Mar 05 2010
How to resolve a binary file conflict with Githttp://www.lostechies.com/blogs/joshuaflanagan/archive/2010/01/28/how-to-resolve-a-binary-file-conflict-with-git.aspx
Thank you for that!
Although the
📝 Tue Apr 06 2010
Unable to find the requested .Net Framework Data Provider. It may not be installed.
this happened to me using subsonic on an x64 machine. adding the x64 binary
to /bin and adding the above to my web.config got me sorted.
📝 Tue Apr 20 2010
Sunburst Font & Color scheme for Visual Studio 2010
Here is a clone of the TextMate theme "Sunburst" for Visual Studio 2010: http://bluefenix.net/etc/blue_fenix_sunburst_lite.zip
I just guessed on the
📝 Tue Jun 22 2010
ASP.NET MVC - Faking ControllerContext to test HttpContext.Current.User and IPrincipal
This was pretty straightforward but I didn't find it written up anywhere on
the web so here goes. What follows is how I addressed testing IPrincipal
📝 Thu Sep 30 2010
GIT flow on windows 7 with msysgitthis is outlined on github by psampaio: I managed to get git flow working with msysGit, but needed some hacks on my setup. First, I copied all the
📝 Fri Mar 09 2012
Underbelly project in my living roomIt started when I saw a piece from the underbelly project NYC by :01.
It inspired me. I think it's beautiful. So I made a transparency of it to cut m
📝 Sat Mar 31 2012
SameSame.
📝 Mon Jul 02 2012
Using git flow with github for windowsI like github for windows. Seriously, they did a great job with it - kudos, Phil. I like that it has an updateable bash shell ala msysgit. I also like
📝 Sun Jul 07 2013
-git-flow-and-github-for-windows
what, no getopt?
Every time github for windows updates, I lose git-flow. The portable git that is extracted with the install doesn't include getopt.
Here's the most recent way I've kept git-flow on my windows 8 machines and up in my life.
📝 Tue Jul 16 2013
github flow
What is github flow?
I will let them explain that. I guess the basic idea is to simplify the way git flow encourages you to organize branches.
I'm g
instead of fighting with hidden directories to keep git flow functional with github for windows, I've decided to just simplify.
📝 Sun Jul 28 2013
Wheelers for a causeWent to Texas Off Road Ranch in Huntsville with tx4wd to have a little fun run. The for a cause part was for 5th ward dogs so we brought dog food for
📝 Mon May 12 2014
Hi.Hello. How ya durrin?
📝 Wed Aug 06 2014
Opening Visual Studio with RakeThere are probably several ways to do this, here’s how I did.
rakefile.rb:
DIR = File.dirname(FILE)
desc "Starts Visual Studio with the project solu
📝 Mon Aug 25 2014
Did I lose that post?Looks like I did. Oh well. You'll never see the glory of that shitty post. Fuck it.
📝 Mon Aug 25 2014
I forgot.About 6 years ago I joined twitter. I found an outlet for random ideas with a small constraint: 140 characters or less. And I abused the fuck out of i
📝 Wed Oct 07 2015
Debian Linuxhow I got up and running with a dual-boot configuration in a day.
📝 Wed Oct 07 2015
switched engines againextended babbling about changing blog enginges for maybe the dozenth time.
📝 Tue Apr 05 2016
Running 1Password on Debian LinuxHow I got 1Password for Windows running on Debian Linux
📝 Wed Apr 20 2016
recodethe only constant...
📝 Sun Apr 24 2016
#ripprinceElectric word life.
it means forever and that's a mighty long time.
📝 Sat Apr 30 2016
San Juan
going to Puerto Rico rn XD
📝 Tue May 17 2016
angle between three points
This was a task I had to complete to attempt to find a right angle from 3 cartesian coordinates, +/- 5 degrees.
Of course the first place I looked w
📝 Wed May 18 2016
Por seguro…
fuck yeah bro.
📝 Tue Jun 07 2016
Unable to activate albacore-2.5.13
Unable to activate albacore-2.5.13, because rake-11.1.2 conflicts with rake (~> 10)
I had recently updated Ruby to version 2.3, which updated rake t
📝 Thu Dec 15 2016
Making Windows the default operating system in grub 2
tl;dr: change GRUB_DEFAULT=0 to the zero-based index of the Windows entry in the grub config file.
Windows updates seem to be happening at least onc
📝 Sun Aug 20 2017
Liquid Exception: no implicit conversion of Array into String in _layouts"Liquid Exception: no implicit conversion of Array into String in /\_layouts/post.html"
I was attempting to finally add an archive page to my jekyll
📝 Tue May 22 2018
github for windows and babunIf you are on windows 10, you can simply use a linux subsystem. That ain’t what we’re talmbout here.
babun is a cygwin based shell with a bunch of de
📝 Tue Feb 12 2019
bee vs hive
"That which injures the hive injures the bee."
- Marcus Aurelius
📝 Thu Aug 22 2019
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension
I ran into this problem on a fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS. I had not installed development tools yet, so I found this which prompted me to add
📝 Thu Sep 19 2019
2019-09-19 15:45:33
I changed the post and draft tasks in the Rakefile for this site to use the current date as the title if the user doesn't add one. Makes more sense..
📝 Sun Apr 05 2020
bluefenix.net a new hope
I'm still working on copy, but I've relaunched bluefenix.net. It will be linked to this blog right here...I'm putting the finishing touch
📝 Thu Feb 04 2021
RE: bluefenix.net
I've upgraded bluefenix.net and changed it up a little bit. The copy that was there previously turned out to be custom lorem ipsum content. I still h
📝 Wed Sep 28 2022
Starting a new journey
I started a new job yesterday.
It's great to start a new journey and I'm so excited for what this new job has in store for me. They trusted me from
📝 Sat Oct 01 2022
PostXING.MetaWeblogProxy - a C# proxy for calling the MetaWeblog API via xml-rpcI am happy to announce the release of PostXING.MetaWeblogProxy, a C# proxy for calling the MetaWeblog API via xml-rpc. The project is hosted on GitHub
📝 Wed Jan 18 2023
An error occurred while installing racc
An error occurred while installing racc (1.6.2), and Bundler cannot continue.
I'm trying to get jekyll to build on my MacBook, with macOS Monterey v
📝 Thu Jan 19 2023
GitHub CoPilot
I was using GitHub CoPilot and ran into a perfect example of keystrokes saved when writing boilerplate code.
First, I created a list here with jekyl
📝 Wed Feb 08 2023
SOLVED: Ruby on MontereyI was able to get ruby installed on my MacBook thanks to this guide. I already had GitHub setup, but I didn't have rbenv installed.
Following this gu
📝 Wed Mar 08 2023
My Journey to Setting up a Local Development Mastodon Instance
Mastodon Development Instance
I've been looking for a way to update my skills in web development recently while searching for a new job. I've been w
📝 Thu Feb 08 2024
Mangekyo
mangekyo
📝 Sun Feb 18 2024
The Declaration of Snugland
🏴☠️ The Declaration of Snugland 🏴☠️
Be it known to all ye hearty souls, scallywags, and pillow-fort enthusiasts!
Whereas the sun doth rise and s
📝 Sat Mar 02 2024
Discourse Fresh Install on Mac OS
Introduction
So, most of the install instructions are correct, but there are a few extra steps I had to figure out. I will go through the steps to in
📝 Sat Sep 28 2024
Handling 404 in a SPA deployed to GitHub Pages
Credit where it's due, I found this via this blog post
I recently deployed a Single Page Application (SPA) to GitHub Pages. Everything was working g
📝 Fri Oct 04 2024
Why do programmers prefer dark mode? Because light attracts bugs
Why do programmers prefer dark mode? Because light attracts bugs! 😂
I mean really, everything is light and possibility before it's observed. That'
I mean really, everything is light and possibility before it's observed. That's why you should have written your tests first. But I digress.