Section: Blogs

How Long Now? … on the web…

Sep 7, 2004 1 min.

Olav Gausaker, a programmer who reads my Coding 4 Fun columns just emailed me with something cool… he wrote (before reading my column on the topic) a web based version of my “Halo2 Countdown” application from July… very nice… in fact, with the large images (refresh to see a variety of different pictures), I kinda like his better… except for being in Spanish, and on the web… 🙂

14 part “Soup-to-Nuts” webcasts on Windows Forms…

Sep 7, 2004 1 min.

I can’t find any other landing page for this, so check out the blog entry from Georgeo Pulikkathara for all the details… Soup to Nuts – A Webcast Series for Windows Forms Development Tune in and learn how to build Windows Forms applications and smart clients in .NET. We’ll take you through all the steps to building an application, from start to finish, as we cover object oriented concepts and delve deep into .

is it just me, or does “View Source” sometimes seem wrong?

Sep 7, 2004 1 min.

I noticed the cool ads rotating on the side of the developer centers (VB and C#) so I “Viewed Source” and grabbed the relevant HTML… voila, I’m now showing MSN Ads on my site… totally inappropriate? Perhaps, but very easy… <div class="mnpAds" style="width: 181px; height: 100%; padding-bottom: 20px; background: #F1F1F1; border-style: solid; border-color: #999999; border-width: 0px 1px 0px 0px"> <center> <div style="height: 20px; background: inherit"></div> <iframe frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0px" marginwidth="0px" allowtransparency="true" style="background:#F1F1F1" width="120" height="240" id="rad_CMSVB1F3" src="http://rad.

Seeing Data by Rebecca Riordan&#8230;

Sep 7, 2004 1 min.

Shawn, my boss, recommends this AW book by Rebecca Riordan, which is one of the few .NET books I’ve found time to read lately, and I have to agree… I have doubts on whether or not it will sell as many copies as it should, as people seem to cluster around very focused books even when this book is exactly what they need, but it certainly deserves to be successful.

Interesting quote from a GotDotNet discussion on .NET Shareware&#8230;

Sep 7, 2004 1 min.

Anytime people talk about developing shareware with .NET, the discussion centers around the download/install of the Framework, because that is the issue that seems like the biggest hurdle to non-corporate developers… I could go on and on about the various methods of getting the Framework installed in 1.1 and in 2.0, but I like what Nick posted to the forum; …your audience will judge your app based only on the advantages it offers, its price, ease of use and generally things that are used as criteria for every other app, .

Time to revist &#8220;laziness.net&#8221;

Sep 6, 2004 1 min.

I created a Pocket PC remote for Windows Media Player, but I only had speakers right next to the music system… so the remote wasn’t all that useful… but I just picked up this wireless speaker; and suddenly it is time to install that software again … my wife now puts the speaker wherever she is during the day, but having to go into my office and login to change the music is a small annoyance, so I hope the visual remote helps make it easier.

Upcoming C# Chat&#8230; September 23, 2004

Sep 3, 2004 1 min.

Hey folks, this chat is coming up and it would be great if you could make it… if you have a lot of opinions, good or bad, around C#… please show up and let the team know…. [C# Chat] What’s on your mind regarding C#? The C# Team wants to know what’s on your mind. Here’s your chance to ask that burning question, tell us your thoughts, or just chat with team members.

Deleting database tables, a great web host and a reactive software vendor&#8230;

Sep 2, 2004 1 min.

In a previous post, I mentioned that a flaw in the installation routines for telligent’s forum system resulted in the deletion of a fairly important set of data… well, after posting that, a few things happened that impressed me… My web host, easerve, contacted me and let me know they had daily backups of my data available… and once I told them the date/time at which I blew away my data, they’d provide the appropriate backup file… (which they did, and I’m rocking along now with my old data back…) … yet another great bit of customer service from easerve… Rob Howard and Jason Alexander, both from telligent responded with both ‘sorry’ and ‘we’ll fix our scripts’… a very quick response considering I didn’t even email them about it… Overall, my annoying little incident resulted in a great response from two different groups… very nice.