What a Shitty Day
Today has been an awful day, starting just past midnight, I lose the database for my site. Later, I played in the most dreadful soccer game ever. We only fielded ten players, but the other team only had seven showup to start! Yet, they managed to put three in the back of the net by half-time.
Read MoreThe Trouble With Choice
As a developer, I like choice. For example, WiX doesn’t currently support managed custom actions. You can hack it together, but they won’t support your endeavor. Personally, I want the choice to shoot myself in the foot with a managed custom action. Hand over that gun!
Read MoreOh the Irony! Hilary Rosen Complains About DRM
Yes, THAT Hilary Rosen. The RIAA’s former top attack dog Hilary Rosen is complaining about DRM on music. This is an interesting topic for her first post on Arianna Huffington’s new blog. Does she not realize the inherent irony of her complaint?
Read MoreHaacked.com Is Back Online
If there’s one thing I’ve learned as a professional developer, it is that “TIP” is bad. Never Test In Production! Unfortunately in my case, it was past midnight, I was tired, and I had two query analyzer windows open, one to my local host, and one to my website’s database, both with the same database name
Read MoreASP.NET 1.1 database cache dependency (without triggers)
Jon Galloway delights with a meaty post outlining a method for creating a SQL Server database cache dependency without the use of triggers. It’s an interesting read and worth looking into.
Read MoreMicrosoft reverses its position on anti-discrimination bill
From Scoble’s blog we hear that…
Read MoreMicrosoft Gives Me the Warm and Fuzzies
Scoble has posted Steve Ballmer’s email on public policy engagement and outlines the thought process behind the reversal.
Read MoreGoogle Web Accelerator Can Mess With Your Web App
Greaaat. Another thing to worry about as a developer. You’ve deployed your slick new Wiki or some other web app and Google comes along and starts deleting content. ;)
Read MoreCorrecting Inaccuracies. Getting Involved in Subtext.
Ken Robertson points out some minor inaccuracies (none intentional) in my announcement about Subtext concerning Community Server.
Read MoreAnybody Know of a Control for Building .NET SqlConnection Strings?
I’m looking for a Windows Forms control or dialog used to both parse and build connection strings by walking the user though selecting a server, database, etc…
Read MoreYou Have To Love Irony
This quote from Sharp as a Marble just cracks me up.
Read MoreWhat To Do When CVS Fails to Create Lock Directory
I’m posting this in the hopes that it helps someone out there with the same problem because I just KNOW how often you’re adding files using CVS. It’s the little spark that gets your juices flowing while sitting at work daydreaming about how much you can’t wait to use CVS again.
Read MoreSubtext Roadmap
This document describes the goals for future versions of Subtext as well as a plan for achieving them. The goals for this roadmap are the following:
Read MoreAnnouncing Subtext, A Fork Of .TEXT For Your Blogging Pleasure
Read Moresub text
Function: noun\
- The implicit or metaphorical meaning (as of a literary text)\
- A story within the story.
Google Web Accelerator - Let Google Watch You Do Everything...
UPDATE Wow, check out the privacy policy for Google Web Accelerator… On second thought maybe I’ll hold off on installing that.
Read MoreTalk About Getting Sidetracked
How to Have the Benefits of Tables and Eat Your CSS Cake Too
You’ve heard CSS purists beat it into you over and over again that “Tables are bad, umkaaay?”. But man, what a pain when you’re trying to do something as simple as a web form and you want the labels to align to the right and the controls to align to the left.
Read MoreHappy Birthday to Dave
I once said he missed the point with Farhenheit 9/11 and he linked to my criticism (bringing with it a lot of traffic). I appreciated and respected that he could see my post as an attack on his position and not a personal attack.
Read MoreWatch "The Corporation"
I know I’m late to the game, but since I rely on Netflix, I’m always watching movies long after the general population has seen them. However, we just finished watching the documentary “The Corporation” and I couldn’t recommend it more if you haven’t seen it already.
Read MoreUsing Embedded Resources for Client Script Blocks in ASP.NET
A while ago Patrick Cauldwell highlighted a wonderful technique of using embedded resources for unit testing with external files.
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