Fable Ok, normally I don’t like RPGs very much, but I picked up Fable when it came out and am probably like 1/4 of the way into the storyline and I’m really liking it so far. The story is great so far and the level of character customization is amazing. I’m playing the game as a […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Shaun of the Dead Never in my life have I laughed so hard in a movie theater. Never in my life have I seen an entire audience laugh so hard in a movie theater. Instant classic. You gotta go see it. Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
When’s the next drop then…? Hopefully things have cooled enough since the cut-back announcement to ask this question without everyone getting all upset or starting yet another thread of FUD, so here goes: It’s been quite some time since the general development community has seen a refreshed drop of Longhorn… I believe WinHec was the last? Obviously things are a […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Another Suggestion Made For Whidbey I just entered a suggestion for the Whidbey .NET Framework. It has to do with adding a Disposed event to the SqlDataReader. Every other major class (SqlConnection, SqlCommand, SqlDataAdapter, etc.) in the System.Data.SqlClient namespace has a this event, so why not SqlDataReader. My personal reason for having it is that I have a data access […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Hacking the BaseURI onto a ConfigXmlDocument Ok, so if you read this previous post, you’d know that I ran into a problem with ConfigXmlDocument not setting the BaseURI property making resolution of relative URIs within the document completely unpredictable and utterly useless. I really wanted it to work and knew there had to be a way, so I fgured out the […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Losing MVP Status I’ve been an MVP since the early J++ days (1997’ish?). Then when .NET came along I was transitioned to the generic .NET Group and most recently pigeon holed into the C# Group. Unfortunately with all the “real” work I’ve been doing these past six months or so I just haven’t had as much time to commit to the […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
ConfigXmlDocument does not set BaseURI Here’s a missing piece of functionality that’s frustrating me right now: Basically, XmlDocument has a virtual property called BaseURI that subclasses can override to provide the base URI (go figure) from where the XmlDocument instance was loaded. In a normal XmlDocment, if you call the Load override specifying the “filename” parameter, it will set it’s BaseURI […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Toshiba Satellite P25-S676 Laptop For Sale I’m selling my Toshiba Satellite P25-S607 over on eBay. It’s a great machine and less than a year old. In fact, it’s still under the original warranty! I loved that thing… actually I loved it so much that the reason I’m selling it is because I picked up the newer P25-S676 model. It’s basically the exactly same thing […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
How Ferrari Leverages Technology To Rule F1 This has got to be the best article/interview News.com has ever posted. I’m a huge MotoGP fan since motorcycle road racing is my biggest hobby, but I also watch F1 from time to time. MotoGP uses the same kind of technology to track every twitch the bike/rider ever makes. What’s amazing is, when there’s a […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
When would SqlConnection.Open blow away a COM+ context? Ok, this is pretty crazy. I’m on XPSP2 and I’ve entered a ServiceDomain with a ServiceConfig that requires transactions with an IsolationLevel of Serializable. Now, I’ve done this a million times before and it works no problem. In the specific scenario I’m dealing with now, I’m seeing something completely insane. I’ve constructed a SqlConnection and […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
