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I haven't been feeling well this weekend and mostly just resting. But yesterday I decided that I might need a new cordless phone system so I used my Consumer Reports online subscription± and Amazon reviews to narrow my choice down to the Panasonic KX-TG1033S. This is one of the new DECT 6.0 phones on the market. What is DECT 6.0 you ask?
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I own a lot of .NET books, including about 10 C# texts. What sets Illustrated C# 2005 apart is that it reads as if I were watching a professor draw on the chalkboard in class. That is the best analogy I can think of. It is hard to find a page without some type of flow chart, code snippet or diagram on it. This is a very visual book. It is a fantastic text for anyone new to the C# language. If you like to learn by seeing then Illustrated C# 2005 is probably the book for you.
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My opinions on how to name files and directories that will be part of a URL or accessible via the web.
First off, for anyone new to web publishing the most important rule to remember is do not use spaces in your file name. You can run your words together or separate them with underscores, periods or dashes, etc. Dashes, IMO, is best practices nowadays.
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My friend Eric turned me onto this video. It is an amazing comparison of demographics from the United States, China, India, and more!
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Hands down my favorite C# book this year. This book is not an introduction to C#. It is not a “bible” nor is it a “cookbook of C# recopies. Accelerated C# 2005 by Trey Nash is a concise map that navigated this reader safely (and enjoyably) through C#
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Windows Media Player 11 is a clunky piece of crap. To use it is a frustrating and completely unejoyable experience. It sucks. If you have a choice between Windows Media Player 10 vs Media Player 11, do not upgrade.
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Thanks to P2P (peer-to-peer) networks±, these bootlegs from the 70's, 80's and 90's are now just a click away -- and free. When I was a teenager I spent hundreds of dollars on VHS copies of Mötley Crüe concerts. Now fans have transferred these old videos to digital and they are online for anyone to share.
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In the world of SQL Server coding (T-SQL) there are two forms of syntax used when writing a join: Explicit (good) and Implicit (evil). Please, I implore you, do yourself (and those who read your code) a favor and use Explicit joins. OK I can hear everyone in the Implicit camp starting to cry. What's the big deal you ask?
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There seems to be a lot of “talk” regarding the new browsers: Firefox 2.0 and Internet Explorer 7.0. Here's some of what I've learned from sifting through the chatter over the past couple weeks... Firefox 2.0 employs the same rendering engine as Firefox
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Nice collection of Windows Vista resources that was circulating through campus email last week. Just thought I'd share with my 3.5 readers... Windows Vista Home page Get Ready site Get Ready for Windows Vista, Windows Vista Capable and Premium Ready PCs,
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Saw some interesting trivia about Windows Vista . I can't take credit for these, they were sent around in an email here at ASU and I think they might have first appeared on the Vista blog . Anyhoo just thought I'd format and post for your Monday morning
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How do you pinpoint a memory leak in ASP on IIS 5.0? Other than create virtual directories and such, it's been years since I did any real admin work with IIS. But yesterday I researched a reported memory leak on one of our Windows 2000 servers. Some of
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Thanks to DHTML and, more recently AJAX, JavaScript is finally kewl amongst most web developers I know. Now that the web has grown up a bit so has it's relationship with JS. Frameworks like ASP.NET AJAX make it easy...
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So you may have read that my TiVo was not doing well. He had performed dangerous surgery on himself and, for a while, he seemed to be feeling better. But he was never the same after that. Sadly, my TiVo passed away last weekend. I had been preparing myself as best I could. Seriously though -- how does one prepare for the loss of TiVo. It's tough!
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Recently (unfortunately) I came across a rare (for me anyhoo) instance where I was calling a SQL Server stored procedure from ASP (no ASP.NET available). This particular stored procedure returned RecordSets and one OUTPUT parameter of type decimal. That was the rare part, the decimal output. In ASP.NET this would be more intuitive. However, handling decimal or numeric outputs in ASP isn't documented all that well so I thought I'd review it here.
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