Though I'd quickly knock this up - wallpaper from the Mars Probes page. Get it here (1600x1200)
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Thought this interview
was VERY interesting, more for the approach more than anything else. It really does
look like MS is changing the way they approach software - the focus on quality...
Sunday, 07 March 2004 00:00
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Well, the problem I was having with connection pool appears to have gone...all I did
was reinstall (well, repair) my VS.NET 2003 install. Odd these little strange bugs!
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Sunday, 07 March 2004 00:00
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Read this on Cameron Reilly's blog:
This saysa lot about the intelligence of some of the folks on Slashdot. Are they having a joke? Perhaps. But cheering on a virus is kind of like cheering on a...
Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:00
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Code Complete by Steve McConnellis, in my opinion (and many others), the best book ever about the art and discipline of coding. Basically, it's just the bible of how to design and build quality...
Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:00
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This comment to my moan about thisis VERY cool:
I think I've solved your problem! I've successfully developed a Mozilla wrapper for Microsoft's HTC files. It is encapsulated in a single XBL binding,...
Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:00
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Pretty useful if you don't have the ability to use IIS compression (or choose not to) - Jeff Julian has released a 'plugin' for .TEXT which enables you to compress the RSS feeds produced by .TEXT 0.95...
Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:00
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I've been giving some more thought to the ViewState stuff I mentioned earlier. It actually brings up something which I find most annoying about ASP.NET - and this is not a political point! Why exactly...
Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:00
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Nice sample and methodology from Robert Downey (obvious joke omitted), shows some really interesting (to me at least) insights into the workings of ViewState (you may be noticing a pattern here :-))
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Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:00
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Was having a look at this article by Peter A. Bromberg Ph.D. (don't know if that's his given name ;-)) over at Eggheadcafe.com, I always found it a bit annoying that DataSets serialized to XML only....
Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:00
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I wrote in a previous post that I was planning to have a poke around with ViewState, extending the stuff I've done on compression into encryption and signing etc...well there's good and bad news for...
Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:00
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In a previous post, I mentioned I used BZip2 for my compression - mainly because, it's simple, offers the best XML compression for a generic algorithm - IMHO, i.e., not one designed specifically for...
Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:00
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Just a first stab at this, uses some classes I used in another project (I'll attribute the compression code later...I believe I got it from the Sharpziplib stuff - with some modifications - I'll stick...
Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:00
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Had a nice, relaxing holiday, read a few books, I can recommend Charles Petzold's Code and kind of recommend Homer, Sussman and Howard's Introducing ASP.NET 2.0 - I say 'kind of' because I found it...
Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:00
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I've posted a couple of times about using RSS from ASP.NET, so this interested me a fair bit, Jason Salas has posted a nice server control which allows very simple generation of RSS feeds based on a...
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Just noticed this from the Scaled Composites website:
PAUL G. ALLEN CONFIRMED ASLONG-RUMORED SPONSOR OF SPACESHIPONEAllen Sponsors Scaled Composites’ Cutting-Edge X-Prize Entry, Attends...
Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:00
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Hooray...my dreams finally realised :-) Primate
Programming
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This is also pretty nice
:-P
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I'm working...hmm...thought I'd mention a very odd bug I came across yesterday at
work - which had me puzzled for about a day and a half...
I had written an application (the Portal I've mentioned...
Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:00
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I'm currently on holiday - hence no new entries. Be back in a few days - lots of cool
stuff on Pocket PC programming with the Compact Framework coming up :-)
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