July 2005 - Posts
Last year I built a couple of computers for my sister and her partner. It was an easy job, but along the way I discovered something that was really annoying (understandable given when XP first came out, but annoying nonetheless). If you have a computer
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As well having installed Windows Vista on a VPC image , I decided today I really want to play with IE7 a lot, so I've installed the IE7 beta on my real machine under XP SP2. If I use it in anger, I might get a better feel for it - and then I'll actually
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So everyone's seen the news now that Windows Vista Beta 1 is available for those in the Longhorn Beta program and to MSDN Universal subscribers. Being one of the latter, the first thing I did yesterday when I found out was to kick off the download and
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Wow. Been a pretty day. Two cool things. First, I won a book. Yay me! Chuck had a question about some strange behaviour in ASP.net 2.0, and strangely enough I found the answer. He asked the aus-dotnet mailing list if anyone could figure it out, and threw
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Over the weekend I started playing with Blogshares . It's an interesting idea - a virtual share market with pretend money where you invest in different blogs. I'm not sure what I think of it -sure, so far I'm making a killing, but really, what's it do
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Wy wife has been pregnant (strangely enough) for about 9 months now. In fact, she's now (technically - it's ten past midnoght now at the time of writing) 3 days overdue. With our first child, she came our exactly spot on the due date. I was thinking that
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From James Newkirk - Italicize the ones you've seen and Bold the ones you actually liked. 1. Titanic (1997) - $600,779,824 2. Star Wars (1977) - $460,935,665 3. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) - $434,949,459 4. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
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Another set of quizzes has made the rounds. Let's get it over with all at once, and then I can forget about it for a while. Please...no more...! :) Your Career Type: Investigative You are precise, scientific, and intellectual. Your talents lie in understanding
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Last night I started what ended up being a pretty long discussion on a pretty small piece of code . I talked a bit about things you could do to clean it up a bit, and get it perhaps a little stabler. As a refresher, let's pretend those changes I talked
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A question came up on the aus-dotnet mailing list last night that got my juices going. William Bartholomew was looking at getting a call to a web method to try again a few times if it had trouble making the call. All he (innocently) asked for was if his
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Last week an interesting discussion came up. During a code review with a co-worker, we couldn't agree on a code change. He wanted to change some code to do a certain thing, and my instant reaction was HELL NO! In the course of trying to explain to him
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As I wrote yesterday , I've decided to sit and down and teach myself enough IL to make myself understand the inner workings of .net a little better. I sat down tonight wondering what 3 lines of IL I was going to be able to figure out and write. First
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Over the last few weeks my interest in figuring out the inner workings of code has seemed to come to the fore. Most specifically, I've been looking at a lot of IL lately. So I've decided to do something about it. So far, I've played a little, dabbled
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With all my playing with and learning about IL lately, I've been thinking it'd be pretty cool if I could inline some IL in my code. Back in my C days this was very easy, inling assembler. There were times when I'd do it simply because calling it directly
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I just proved to myself something. It's interesting, sure, but mostly I'm just pleased that I'm right :) On Friday, a co-worker asked me if he needed to wrap the VB TypeOf keyword around a null check. While I try to appear godlike at work and seem to
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Yet again. Thanks (I think :) for the links Frank . Your Slanguage Profile Aussie Slang : 100% Victorian Slang : 75% British Slang : 25% Canadian Slang : 25% Prison Slang : 25% New England Slang : 0% Southern Slang : 0% What Slanguage Do You Speak? Your
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Dammit dammit dammit dammit dammit. Yet again, I've been reduced to this. Mitch did it , because Frank did it . Now I've done it, because Mitch did. Well, really I did it because I have no will power. These results are stupid too. While I don't have a
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