April 2006 - Posts
You fit in with: Atheism Your ideals mostly resemble those of an Atheist. You have very little faith and you are very focused on intellectual endeavors. You value objective proof over intuition or subjective thoughts. You enjoy talking about ideas and
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After Grant yesterday blogged about search providers in IE7 , I thought I might look into what it would take to implementing one here at CrankyGoblin. It ends up that it's a lot easier than I would have thought - there's no need to edit a single file
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When I was catching up on my unread blog posts in BlogLines this morning, I saw a post from Jeffrey Palermo entitled ' Does anyone still use the "goto" statement? Microsoft does - level 100 '. Update: Once I posted this I did a check on the end result
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For 6 months now I've been waiting for the opportunity to start deploying some of our internal applications via ClickOnce . For those who don't know, ClickOnce is a new feature added to the 2.0 framework and VS2005. If you publish your application via
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Scott Bellware made a post recently entitled 'Mort or Elvis? A Question for a Bygone Era' . So far in response, I've seen a few people raving about what he had to say, and how right on the money he is. And yes, if you distill his post down to things that
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Darren has written a thought provoking piece recently. In a nutshell, he's trying to work what in the geek community is available (or should be) for those have achieved big geek status. Yes, I'm paraphrasing heavily, and you should start by reading his
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Your Power Level is: 66% You're a very powerful person, and you know that all of your power comes from within. Keep on doing what you're doing, and you'll reach your goals. How Powerful Are You?
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Well, Code Camp Oz 2, unofficially subtitled 'Return of the I Know What You Did Last Revenge Strikes Back Harder' happened over the weekend. Just like last year, it was a fantastic time. It well put together, a heap of great content, a whole lot of cool
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You Are Midnight You are more than a little eccentric, and you're apt to keep very unusual habits. Whether you're a nightowl, living in a commune, or taking a vow of silence - you like to experiment with your lifestyle. Expressing your individuality is
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About 4 weeks ago I blogged about a purchase I made for my youngest daughter . Well, with non-priority shipping, it arrived today :) The photos have been taken, there's room in them for her to grow, so I'm pleased at the purchase and it's money well spent
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I'm not going to go into a long story this time. Coming soon will be a new movie , thanks to Bryan Baker who heard my plea for a SQL Server Gal and a Visual Studio Guy. They haven't arrived yet, but hopefully they will soon :) But meanwhile the family
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I noticed a strange behaviour on Dave Burke's blog the other day. He's running Community Server 2.0 like we are here, so anything that happens on his blog I take note of :) I realised that no matter how often I left a comment on his blog, the comment
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If there's one main thing that annoys me with the out-of-the-box experience with Community Server, it's that the main blog page ( here , for example) doesn't list the bloggers in the sidebar. You can see all posts by group, and a list of blogs by group
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I ran into this error today, and found the description of the problem interesting enough to document. In almost all cases, I use DataReaders to process results from stored procedures. Generally the code goes something like: 'do the code that sets up the
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Your Superhero Profile Your Superhero Name is The Dream Hulk Your Superpower is Mathematics Your Weakness is Frogs Your Weapon is Your Nuclear Catapult Your Mode of Transportation is Scooter What's your Superhero Name?
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There's two main purposes to CrankyGoblin.Com at the moment. The first is to have somewhere myself and Noonie can use for whatever the hell we like. The second is somewhere to blog for us and our families. We've slowly been trying to work out what we
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Update 2: So, it seems I was close, but not quite there. Instead of extending the timeout of the <roleManager> node (and therefore the roles cookie), I think I need to extend the timeout value in the <forms> node under the authentication section.
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Your Famous Last Words Will Be: "Nice doggy." What Will Your Famous Last Words Be?
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Reflection is one of my favourite areas in the entire .net framework. Reflection certainly has it's down points, most particularly in the speed area, but at times it's a cost that's acceptable given the power you get. And to be honest, while 'reflection
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Cast your mind right back to the deep dark ages when I was still on CodeBetter. OK, so it was only yesterday, but that's beside the point. Back then, there was a policy in place that only tech related posted when on the main codebetter feed, while personal
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Bill McCarthy found a very weird bug today . It seems that if you craft some code just right and do a release build, then you can get your code to throw a NullReferenceException when it clearly shouldn't have. He first found the bug in VB and presumed
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Welcome to the new site! I'm a bit sad to leaving all those guys at CodeBetter , but I've been feeling for a while now that it's time to get out on my own and do my own thing. It should be an interesting time :) So what exactly to we have here? Well,
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