Section: Blogs
Need blogging solution for spouse
May 18, 2003 1 min.
My wife read my blog for the first time yesterday, and she has decided that she wants to try it for herself… but where to blog? dotnetweblogs is great, but this isn’t going to be a tech-focused blog (is there a mommyblogs.com?). I have my own site, it even runs ASP.NET but I doubt I can do much (if anything at all) with the server config as it is running on a shared server.
May 18, 2003 2 min.
That was what my 2-yr old son received last night… ouch. We were at a birthday party for a friend of ours and there were lots of kids running around… oops, Connor fell and slammed his forehead right into the corner of a wall. Cut right to the bone and bleeding like crazy. What a trooper though, he cried for a bit, mostly because of the look on all of the adult’s faces, but he had stopped before I could even get him to the truck for a drive to the hospital.
Interest Trivia about Duncan…
May 16, 2003 1 min.
My wife just did a count, and my upcoming move into a house will be my 15th or 16th move between residences (although some of those were within the same city). Hmm… I’m averaging less than 2 yrs per location… I suspect this next move will be for quite a bit longer!
Words I didn’t know existed…
May 16, 2003 1 min.
After going to the movie this morning (movies in the morning just aren’t natural, by the way) with Kent, I was reading some reviews of Matrix 2 (follow the link at your own risk… they are full of spoilers…) and I came upon a wordthat had me visiting www.dictionary.com moments later. I didn’t realize there were words for this type of thing… though more words along the same theme could make for interesting, if cryptic, conversations.
Releasing binaries for my samples
May 13, 2003 1 min.
Since starting my column, I’ve received quite a few requests for “just the install” from people who read the article, liked the app I built, but don’t have any interest in the code… they just want to run the app! I never really considered that possibility, and in some cases I didn’t even write the code with that in mind, but now I’m wondering if I should at least provide a built install file in with the downloadable code sample for non-programmers… weird thought.
Sure it is about Zip Compression, but it is also about a whole lot more…
May 13, 2003 1 min.
This recent MSDN magazine article is pretty cool. Although the title suggests it is all about Zip Compression, the real power of this article is that it points out that the J# libraries are available from any .NET language, providing your C#/VB.NET apps with a lot more than just zip support (although that is pretty neat too).
Pre-Mother’s Day Sneaking Around
May 11, 2003 1 min.
Ok, so the Oprah tickets didn’t pan out… but I’m hoping some flowers and breakfast will see me through! [Listening to: Flashback [Instrumental] – [Jan Hammer](http://www.windowsmedia.com/mg/search.asp?srch=Jan+Hammer) – Miami Vice (03:20)]
Word Automation from C# vs. VB.NET
May 11, 2003 2 min.
I recently received a question about doing some Word automation using .NET, and I saw an interesting little difference between the C# and VB.NET calling into the Interop Assembly for certain properties/methods… If I take VBA or VB6 code that works, and convert it to the almost identical VB.NET code … (after adding a reference to Word in my VB.NET project); Dim wordApp As New Word.Application() Dim newDoc As Word.Document = wordApp.
Very confusing discussions…
May 11, 2003 2 min.
Some folks have been discussing the idea of paying for technical work… well, they are actually talking about paying for technical work done over email… but what is the difference? I need some work done, whether that is easy or hard for the person I hire isn’t relevant… and if they answer my question too quickly that certainly shouldn’t be a problem either. So why is Jeff Julian upset by this?
Idiocy in the name of love…
May 8, 2003 1 min.
At the end of May, Oprah is coming to Seattle to do an all day workshop… and I really wanted to get my wife (and a friend) tickets. Well, when the day of ordering came I was swamped and it totally slipped my mind until the evening… at which point it was too late. Next stop for the desperate man, eBay… lots of auctions of tickets, but once they reached up into 300 to 400% of face value, I declined to continue… so, no tickets that way.