Google AdSense in RSS Ineffective?
As you’ve probably heard, Google is testing AdSense within RSS on a single site.
Read MoreShould Corporations Act Purely on Self Interest?
Matching HTML With Regular Expressions Redux
Trillian Wikipedia Integration
I’m chatting with my buddy Micah who will ask me a question and then annoyingly answer it himself immediately after. For example, he asked me how FireFox picks up an icon from web pages. I replied that there’s a favicon protocol but that I didn’t know the details. He then proceeded to explain how to format the link tag properly.
Read MoreSo There Was a Real Hattori Hanzo
A while ago I wrote about
Seppuku, Katanas, and
Samurai and made a
joking reference to Hattori Hanzo.
It's the Little Touches - Trillian and MSN Messenger.
Yesterday I wrote about a neat Trillianfeature that highlights words with their Wikipedia definition.
Read MorePensamiento de Cancun (Thinking About Cancun)
DataGrid With a Title Row
One thing I’ve found annoying at times with the DataGrid control is there’s no way to specify a title to be displayed above the headers. Being lazy, I often resorted to adding a label above the data grid followed by a br tag.
Read More4/20. Where'd Your Coworker Go Around 4 PM?
In some circles, today’s a very special day. And 4:20 today is a special time for this special day. If your coworker has a serious need to take a smoke break around 4 o’clock today and comes back with a lot of munchies, you know what’s up.
Read MoreWhere Do These Bruises Come From?
Yesterday Akumi pointed at my elbow in shock
and asked me what happened.
Google Ads as Blog Decoration
Since I mentioned that the Family Guy was no longer cancelled on my blog, I’ve noticed that Google Ad Sense has been displaying a Family Guy banner ad on my homepage.
Read MoreCommunity Server Licensing vs .TEXT
Before you upgrade to Community Server, be aware that they’ve turned it into a commercial product. Yes, there is a non-commercial license available, but it requires you to display the following image at the bottom of every page.
Read MoreCommunity Server Fix for Posting Comments from Feed Readers and a Rant for Good Measure
Jayson Knight has been cutting his teeth on the latest version of .TEXT now called Community Server trying to get it’s RSS and CommentAPI support to work.
Read MoreThe Collapse of Boolean Logic
What will this code write to the console?
Read MoreWhen Drinking Flaming Shots
…be sure not to spill…(animated gif)
Read MoreMisspelling Might Be Your Friend
Threading Tips: Never Lock a Value Type. Never Lock "This"
UPDATE: As a commenter pointed out, the original code example did not properly demonstrate the problem with locking on the this
keyword within a normal method. I have corrected this example and wrote a better example that demonstrates that this problem still exists even in a “normal”
method.
RSS Bandit v1.3.0.29 Released
This is a bug fix release. Check out Dare’s list of fixes to find out more.
Read MoreBeware of @@Identity Theft in SQL Server
In T-SQL, you can use the @@IDENTITY
keyword to obtain the value of the
identity column when you insert a new record. For example, the following
query inserts a record into an imaginary table and returns a result set
containing the ID of the inserted column.
Family Guy Uncancelled. Long Live Stewie!
This is old news, but I am so glad that
the Family Guy is “uncancelled”. It
truly is of “The Simpsons” caliber of humor.