April 2004 - Posts

• XML Schema -- an excellent reference for beginners

  I will admit: I am not a master of XML Schemas. So when I see a beginner's resource, I would know what I am talking about because I am one :-). Just five minutes ago, I dwelled across this article: W3C Schema Made Simple It is short and sweet yet explains Read More... Posted Saturday, April 24, 2004 7:18 PM by jlovell | 0 Comments Filed under: Tools and Tips

• Stretching the workbench

  It is time to go lateral instead of getting a bigger monitor with a higher resolution :-). Right, I am on a search for a solution. I find that I run out of desktop/work space quite often on my screen. I have the following in mind: Buying a new monitor Read More... Posted Thursday, April 22, 2004 7:39 PM by jlovell | 2 Comments Filed under: Personal / Other / Off topic

• Great Tool: Templating your code

  The other day, I was looking for a tool that would stop me from repeating myself over and over again (like declaring properties and methods). And just as I was about to do some research into creating Add-Ins with VS.NET (do not tell me it is simple or Read More... Posted Friday, April 09, 2004 8:59 PM by jlovell | 2 Comments Filed under: Tools and Tips

• w00t!! Another Justin Lovell

  This morning, I got the following email: I was checking out some articles and could not believe it. My name is Justin Lovell, I'm a VB, SQL 2000 and .asp developer myself living in Johannesburg. Wow!! It is not like our surnames are not the everyday-type... Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 07, 2004 12:25 PM by jlovell | 2 Comments Filed under: Personal / Other / Off topic

• Designer Question for Collection Management in Server Controls

  Not long ago, I wrote two blog posts for collection management in server controls: Dealing with object items . Dealing with server controls (being inserted into a ControlCollection class). Both of them have hardly any difference when it comes down to Read More... Posted Monday, April 05, 2004 4:54 PM by jlovell | 1 Comments Filed under: Programming with .NET

• Another stupid web patent

  Jeez, how stupid can this get. In astonished postings to Web hosting discussion forums last week, several hosting providers announced that they had received letters from a party representing Stateline, Nevada-based Ideaflood Inc. (ideaflood.com). The Read More... Posted Friday, April 02, 2004 9:33 PM by jlovell | 0 Comments Filed under: Rants and Ramblings

• Burning with Envy

  Only if my primary profession was programming with .NET. Scratch that -- only if programming was my primary profession. I am still stuck in school and what is the professionals have done and are doing near future: TechEd. MVP Summit ASP.NET Connections. Read More... Posted Friday, April 02, 2004 12:18 PM by jlovell | 3 Comments Filed under: Rants and Ramblings, Personal / Other / Off topic