February 2005 Entries
I hate this soooo much, I can't even describe...
Thanks to This Is Broken for understanding my pain.
Brendan Tompkins has written up some instructions on how to modify your .Text 0.95 to use FreeTextBox 3.0.
I'll have to check it out and see how it differs from my implementation (which probably isn't the greatest).
Brad Abrams has given us a taste of Microsoft by showing us their
internal coding guidelines. There are some interesting things, and
overall it answers a lot of questions that new developers my face. For
the record here are my personal coding habits, which by default are my
companies coding standards.
namespace Company.Product.Component {
public class Test {
private int _myInt;
private string _myString;
public int MyInt {
get { return _myInt; }
set {
_myInt = value; }
}
public string MyString {
get { return _myString; }
set {
_myString = value; }
}
public
Test() {
}
public void...
Karl Wagenfuehr points out the laughably disproportionate penalties for downloading movies versus actually stealing them:
For stealing the DVD you could face no more than up to 1 year
imprisonment and up to a $100,000 fine; for downloading the same
material you could face statutory damages of up to $3,300,000, costs
and attorney's fees (ie: the other guy's attorneys), as well as up to 1
year imprisonment, and up to a $100,000 fine...Am I alone in thinking there is something really, really wrong here?
No, no you're not.
This year's SuperBowl HalfTime show was easily the least memorable in
history. When you remove the absolute possibility of anything exciting
happening you get dry, boring, entertainment free television. Nothing,
absolutely nothing unexpected happened, no Ringo, no special guest
stars. Hell I wouldn't have minded Britney Spears butchering some Wings, at least it would have been interesting. It's like they didn't even try.
Nothing against Paul McCartney mind you, he's a great musician and seems like a great guy,
but a 12 minute excerpt of a P.M. concert with 20 years old songs is
not SuperBowl worthy TV, it's not even PrimeTime TV. It's something I would...
I had the pleasure of spending the weekend trying to get Bugzilla
installed on a Windows 2000/XP box. I would say it took me over 8 hours to get
it set up correctly. You would think that an application built with
Perl, an established cross-platform language, wouldn't be too hard to get
running on Windows, a popular computing platform. You would be
wrong.
It didn't help that the platform specific documentation that comes with
Bugzilla is outdated and wrong. It also didn't help that there are some compatibility issues with the latest
version(s) of MySQL (which wasn't mentioned in said documentation).
Fortunately, I did find current documentation during a...
Since I switched over to Firefox a couple of months ago, it's been more
and more painful to switch back to IE just to get the nice FreeTextBox
controls to update my blog. FreeTextBox (irononically not entirely free
anymore) has supported non-IE browsers for a while now, but .Text was
built against an early version. So I grabbed the source code for .Text 0.95 from gotdotnet, which is the last version publically released from Scott Watermasysk, since he rolled .Text into Telligent Systems' Community Server
(which has a lot more features, but may or may not have a more restrictive liscense, which is
perhaps why so...