So annoying...many nights at around midnight, my connection just seems to freeze. Helpfully, my provider says 'well just restart your router'...hmm...so, I apologise if you're having problems...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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I'm getting increasingly involved in the world of Asynchrony and have been doing a bit of digging about into some of the pitfalls of multi-threading.
I came across an interesting one today involving...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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OK, can anyone explain why I can't check explicitly if I can lock a file before reading from it (i.e., check that no-one else is locking the file before trying to read from it). I'm using the...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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The saga continues, I can recieve mail OK, but I can't send it from my server; now, it works from the smtp local server on my main machine so I don't think it's a Firewall thing - I'm very confused!...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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Free XML editor...http://www.xmlcooktop.com/
UPDATE: Sorry, forgot to mention where I found it...via John Mandia's blog
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Saturday, 31 January 2004 00:00
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On Dave Winer's Test Site...fantastic picture of Hurricane Isabel- now my new wallpaper :)
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Saturday, 31 January 2004 00:00
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I was asked if I was going to the PDC this year...I would love nothing more than to go...but with a $2000 registration fee, and close to 3500 for travel and accommodation...let's just say I won't be...
Saturday, 31 January 2004 00:00
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Further to my earlier bit on Threading, this site has some brilliant (fairly advanced) examples on various things...including a custom Thread Pool
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Saturday, 31 January 2004 00:00
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Now this is very cool...why VS.NET doesn't have this built in is beyond me...Visual XSLT pretty much all you need for XSLT development within Visual Studio .NET...costs $295 for commercial users but...
Saturday, 31 January 2004 00:00
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I have recently been having a look at threading in ASP.NET, found this excellent article from June 2003 which is a pretty good introduction to the whole thorny issue. Also found a useful example from...
Saturday, 31 January 2004 00:00
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Found this on the Furrygoat site, this is a truly excellent site on the GoF design patterns (you'll see this alot, it refers to this book - the original book on design patterns). If you're creating...
Saturday, 31 January 2004 00:00
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Have a read at this article on implementing the SIngleton pattern in C#. No idea what I'm on about? Well, the Singleton Pattern isn't a knitting method for the lonely, it's one of the most important...
Saturday, 31 January 2004 00:00
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Reproduced here for your delictation...from here
Scott Hanselman's Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tools List
Roy Osherove suggested that I post a list of the contents of my C:/UTILS folder. ...
Saturday, 31 January 2004 00:00
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I wrote on Brian Desmond's blog about how good a C# (open source of course!) statistics system would be...this got me thinking - it wouldn't be that hard to write one based on an HttpHandler. I don't...
Saturday, 31 January 2004 00:00
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I love the articles which Joel Spolsky writes, I already linked in an earlier post to an interview he did about social software and forums in particular (I'll dig out the link tomorrow - and the...
Saturday, 31 January 2004 00:00
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I should be asleep...well that was the plan.
I have a project to complete tomorrow - well, I'll be doing QA all weekend and bug-hunting
etc...but the development will finish tomorrow.
We're trying to...
Friday, 30 January 2004 00:00
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Just read an entry over on Sara
Williams blog regarding CS degrees and developers. I read an essay a few
weeks ago by Paul Graham called Hackers
& Painters, which basically puts forward the view that...
Friday, 30 January 2004 00:00
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Everybody has been writing about it...this is the best Matrix screensaver I've ever
seen (and I've seen a LOT...sad obsessive, perhaps :-)) link
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Friday, 30 January 2004 00:00
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I really have to start writing in this thing every day....
I wrote the previous entry about the Matrix and
it got me thinking - I am waiting to see the Matrix
Reloaded until I can go with my Dad....
Friday, 30 January 2004 00:00
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Now my main computer has gone odd...connecting up a telephone line has caused Windows XP to require reactivation. Microsofts' product activation doesn't let me get straight through to a human, so I...
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