HalfLife2 Installation Failure (because of an .ico file) Man, am I a happy customer right about now lemme tell ya! I’m trying to install Half-Life 2 and am on the fourth installation CD (of five, since for some reason they only sell the DVD as a special edition for $20 dollars more) and it’s trying to copy the HL2 icon for the game. […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
ParseChildren(true, “Content”) Fails When Child is a Form Element? I’ve looked around and haven’t seen this described anywhere. It’s a tough bug to come up with a succint search query for though, so maybe I just missed someone else reporting it. In any case here are the details in case anyone else ever runs into this. Basically, if you create a UserControl, decorate it’s code-behind […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Considerations for Nested Classes Shawn Van Ness posted a list called “101 Uses for Nested Classes”. I found it informative so maybe you will too. Utilty classes is my personal main usage for them, but one use that Shawn didn’t list was to provide concrete implementations of interfaces that don’t require any exposing any public members of their own. The […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Mimeo Ranked #186 of Top 500 Fastest Growing Companies I don’t blog about my company very often, but I’m pretty pshyced about this. We made Inc. Magazine’s Top 500 Fastest Growing Companies List and we’re up there at #186! We’ve had some really amazing growth this year that seems to be snowballing more and more. I’m proud to see this company go from the nothing it […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
String: The XML World’s Equivalent of void* So I jumped into a discussion on microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.webservices where the author asked the best way to send DataSets over web services. One of the initial responses was basically (to paraphrase) “…just pass it as strings and use GetXml, ReadXml to dehydrate/rehydrate the DataSet…”. The author of said post has, IMHO, been trying to tap dance […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Spec#? Microsoft Research is at it again. They’re working on an experimental language called Spec#. Generics used to be an MSR project, now they’re one of the staples of .NET 2.0, so ya never know just which features of Spec# might be showing up in C# 3.0. Then again the famed data centric language features (X#/Xen/C-Omega) still haven’t […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
CSS Design Patterns For Server Side Controls I came across this post today and thought I’d talk about the approach that I use. I tend to lean more towards the third example Betrand has listed in his post, but I get even more specific than that. Let’s take a look at a custom “pill” button control implementation as example… Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
A Request for the IE Team: Embrace the Community After reading this post on IEBlog, particularily this part: “I’d love to say more about what we’re working on right now on this front. I can’t.” … I just felt I needed to vent a little frustration and make a request to the team. I don’t understand why you guys can’t talk about what you’re doing with […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Amazon Message Queuing Web Service…? I just noticed Amazon is beta testing a Message Queuing Web Service (via TSS.NET). What has me scratching my head here is, what exactly is Amazon doing here? Are they getting into the software business now? Previously everything they’ve released has been to enable them to sell more goods, but this service seems like it’s a pure software product […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Why is WSE2’s SoapClient class abstract? Ok, so the question in the title a little misleading… I actually know why it’s abstract, but what I don’t understand why it was designed that way. It forces me to always subclass it and add my own methods, decorated with SoapMethodAttribute, just so I can send a SoapEnvelope from client to server. What’s lame […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
