Tivo For Your Registry
Ever prolific Jon
Galloway has
released another tool on our tools
site. When we started the
tools site, I talked some trash to spur some friendly competition
between the two of us. Let’s just say Jon is kicking my arse so hard my
relatives in Korea can’t sit down.
Software Development Is A Religion
Jeff Atwood writes a great rebuttal to Steve Yegge’s rant on Agile methodologies. I won’t expound on it too much except to point out this quote which should be an instant classic, emphasis mine:
Read MoreComment Spam Relief In Subtext Coming Soon
Personal matters (good stuff) and work has been keeping me really busy lately, but every free moment I get I plod along, coding a bit here and there, getting Subtext 1.9.1 “Shields Up” ready for action.
Read MorePower Tools For Disk Defragmenting
Disk Defragmenter
Read MoreTimeZones
Right now, there is no easy way to convert a time from one arbitrary
timezone to another arbitrary timezone in .NET. Certainly you can
convert from UTC to the local system time, or from the local system time
to UTC. But how do you convert from PST to EST?
Rolling Your Own Blog Engine
MySpace Founder Alleges Fraud In Acquisition
A friend of mine sent me an interesting report that Brad Greenspan, the founder of eUniverse (now Intermix Media) that created and owned MySpace.com issued an online report that the sale of MySpace intentionally defrauded shareholders out of multiple billions of dollars because they hid MySpace revenues from shareholders.
Read MoreMIT Animated Physics Sketching
This is a pretty sweet video that demonstrates a system for sketching on a whiteboard using mimio-like projection system. The instructor draws objects, adds a gravity vector, and then animates his drawings to see the result.
Read MoreChange The Display Of A Type In The Debugger
Keyvan Nayyeri has a great
tip
for how to control the display of a type in the various debugger windows
using a DebuggerTypeProxy
attribute. His post includes screenshots
with this in use.
Better Recruiting Through Blogistry
Alex Papadimoulis, the man behind the ever entertaining (and depressing) TheDailyWTF announces a new business venture to help connect employers fielding good jobs with good developers interested in a career change. At least that’s the hope.
Read MoreHow To Pronounce My Last Name
Great show on .NET Rocks today featuring Rob Conery, architect of the Commerce Starter Kit and SubSonic.
Read MoreOptical Character Recognition On The Cheap
Jon Galloway combines Timesnapper (Tivo for geeks) with the OCR abilities of Microsoft Office Document Imaging (OCR you didn’t realize you owned) and never forgets anything ever again.
Read MoreDoes Vista Come With An Implicit License To WinXP?
UPDATE: I could not slip the subtle beg for an MSDN subscription I surreptitiously embedded in this post past my astute readers. Many thanks to James Avery for contributing an MSDN subscription to this grateful developer. Now that I have my MSDN subscription, I say this whole VPC licensing thing is a non-issue and quit whining about it. (I joke, I joke!).
Read MoreBetter CAPTCHA Through Encryption
I recently wrote about a lightweight invisible CAPTCHA validator
control
I built as a defensive measure against comment spam. I wanted the
control to work in as many situations as possible, so it doesn’t rely on
ViewState
nor Session
since some users of the control may want to
turn those things off.
Possible Bug With DateTime.Parse?
Is Backward Compatibility Holding Microsoft Back
I read this article
recently
that describes the mind frying complexity of the Windows development
process. With Vista sporting around 50 million lines of code, it’s no
wonder Vista suffers from delays. Quick, what does line #37,920,117
say?
Tag Your Database - A Data Dictionary Tool
A few days back Jon Galloway and I were discussing a task he was working on to document a database for a client. He had planned to use some code generation to initially populate a spreadsheet and would fill in the details by hand. I suggested he store the data with the schema using SQL extended properties.
Read MoreWhich Version of Version?
As developers, I think we tend to take the definition of Version for granted. What are the components of a version? Well that’s easy, it is:
Read MoreLog4Net Troubleshooting
When Log4Net doesn’t work, it can be a very frustrating experience. Unlike your typical application library, log4net doesn’t throw exceptions when it fails. Well that is to be expected and makes a lot of sense since it is a logging library. I wouldn’t want my application to fail because it had trouble logging a message.
Read MoreCategories vs Tags
Duncan
Mackenzie
writes about the issue of Categories vs
Tags
in blogs and blog editors. I tried to comment there with my thoughts,
but received some weird javascript errors.