"Don't you think it's kind of funny, don't you think its kind of sad, the dreams in which i'm dying are the best I've ever had..."
Been a bit quiet of late, well basically I've been starting a new project at work - so I've been pretty much 24/7 in planning and building that app. It's a pretty cool little Bulk Email app (don't worry, for strictly opt-in mails :-)). A couple of the bits…
As I've posted many times, I'm a relative novice when it comes to all things WinForms, this post on Slashdot got me thinking, isn't 'Updating an Application over the Internet' exactly what the Updater Application Block and Windows Update do, not to mention…
Kent Sharkey posted an RSS View User control, which is pretty nice...I wanted to use XSLT for mine (I'm akward that way :-)) Anyway, I wrote this little one (which may appear on this blog in the future...)- not perfect but it works after a fashion :-)…
Just rediscovered this album after many years away from it, my opinion this is one of the greatest albums of all time (not something I say flippantly). The Longpigs - The Sun Is Often Out (us link), absolutely amazing, doesn't sound a single bit dated. "Lost…
I've previously used Xml Serialization for loading and saving config files into and out of apps - nice use...What I've done recently though has been very useful - for me at least. Essentially, I have an application which has a little Poll control, now in…
How does this guyfind the time, anyway, found on Roy Osherove's blog, Chris Brumme(CLR God) has posted and article on the Exception model in the CLR. Not exactly light reading...but worthwhile to gain a bit more precious insight into the deep and murky inner…
I really like Dino Esposito's writing style...anyway, he's come up with a brilliant article on the most efficient ways to use Session state from ASP.NET- this is just about the best examination of the subject that I've seen and is now one of my 'must reads'…
I wrote here complaining about the (in my opinion) pretty poor treatment of Architecture (especially) for ASP.NET. Well, here's a suggestion of a solution - I've just read the whitepapers for ALL of the starter kits - some people have mailed me to say that…
I fully admit I am a moody sod...I don't know how / why it happens but occasionally I have real difficulty getting motivated to actually get working. So, what do you do to motivate yourself to get coding (especially making syntactic / other 'cosmetic' changes…