March 2005 - Posts
Note: This is a repost from about 15 minutes ago. There's funny things going on with posts and thier timestamps. I think it has something to do with timezones, but whether it's the server, CS settings, my blog settings, or my account, I haven't figured
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Well, we've been CommunityServerized for less than 12 hours, and I've made my first 'contribution' to the site. I quoted that because some people might not consider it much of a contribution :) But I like simple looking pages. So the GnoWare skin that
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I know this is hard to believe - and especially when it's me saying it. But some things are. But really, there is. I can think of many things actually.Well, a few. Would you believe one or two? Here's one, anyway. Shave For A Cure. I don't know about
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A post of mine recently was hit fairly hard - thanks to a link from both Scoble's Link Blog and from larkware. Sahil asked me how heavy I got hit. Well, .Text's stats are a little off I think, and I can't be bothered to check the real logs. But it's been
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I have a series of posts that I sometimes write. People who are reading me at CodeBetter might not know about them, because the last time I wrote one in this series it was back at dotnetjunkies. So this one time only, I'm posting it to the mainfeed -
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A comment was left on my last post about the whole VB6 thing . I sat and wrote a response, and was just about to hit send, when I realised how damn long it was. This thing was no response to a comment! This thing is worthy of a complete new post! Well,
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Last night I did a post about BlogJet , how I liked using it and a couple of feature requests on the off chance that the devs are listening :) One of the things I mentioned (that I knew wasn't BlogJet's fault, but .Text's) was that we can't edit posts
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I thought it was finally time I posted my tribute to BlogJet . Brendan managed to get all us bloggers at CodeBetter a BlogJet license, with many thanks whoever it was that gave it to us :) I'd never used it before, and gave it a good workout to see what
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I warn you now. This is a pretty long one for me, and I'm ranting. If you don't want to hear it, move on :) So, VB6s mainstream support is ending soon. I first read about it on Sahil's blog here . I didn't think anything of it - the product is getting
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Last night, while playing with a new version of a .Text->CommunityServer converter that had come out, I had some time to kill while it ran, so I had a read of some recent posts on the aus-dotnet mailing list . There was some discussion about the XmlSerializer,
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For the last year or so I've had two big holes in my teeth, one a molar halfway up my bottom jaw, the other in the same spot on the other side. I've done nothing about them for a few reasons - dentists cost too damn much, and they weren't hurting anyway.
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I thought I'd describe a problem (and the solution we tracked it down to be) that came up this week at work. The last few months at work my team has been building an ASP.net application that has a lot of client side code as well as server side. It was
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Today I asked myself a question that I've asked myself many times. Today, however, I actually bothered to find out the answer. Before you jump ahead, let me assure you that no, the question was not 'why do cows look so damn attractive?'. Nor was it 'when
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For my net connection at home I get 10 gig a month bandwidth. I think it would have been pretty hard to get much closer to the line last month (I probably could have, but the usage meter runs about an hour behind). I tried pretty hard in December, but
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Recently both David Hayden and Brendan Tompkins discussed some XML Serialization stuff. David talked a bit about what XML Serialization is and gave some examples. Brendan then showed a helper class that he'd written a while ago. Rather than leave comments
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Ever wanted to write an application that had plugins, but had no idea how to get the plugins to run? Mention of this type of thing came up today on the Aus-DotNet list today, so I thought I'd blog about a simple way I've done it before. The problem with
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One of the things that's fascinated me with .Net is the way objects are queried, and the way in which a description of an object is obtained. For example, when you want the list of properties that an object has, you ask the the TypeDescriptor for a list
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