May 2004 - Posts

• It is that time of the year... (again)

  Announcement (or advice, whatever way you take it) to all newbies: (but do not take it seriously ) If you have any questions, no matter how dumb they might sound, ask them now at big forums or newsgroups. The helpfulness will only come once every year. Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 25, 2004 6:00 PM by jlovell | 11 Comments Filed under: Rants and Ramblings, Blog Responses

• Server Controls in Custom Collections -- kicking the life into them

  A while ago, I posted a blog post on how to do the server controls into collections . That blog post was not only a problematic one regarding the VS.NET designer but you would have noticed that those server controls are not given the full 'life' in the Read More... Posted Monday, May 24, 2004 4:37 PM by jlovell | 1 Comments Filed under: Tools and Tips, Programming with .NET, Blog Responses

• Who should I be pissed at? Microsoft or Google?

  Here is the situation. I have got Windows XP SP2 (candicate) installed since Saterday (last week, not yesterday). I have also noticed since Wednesday, the links from the Google results did not work. I probably used Google more on Saterday and Sunday than Read More... Posted Sunday, May 23, 2004 12:17 PM by jlovell | 0 Comments Filed under: Rants and Ramblings

• Nomination of Microsoft MVP's

  In the February month, there was a huge onslaught of blog posts at weblogs.asp.net about the under-the-hood advantages that MVP's “get” privately. I am not an MVP myself but I do know a few around the place -- some of them are good friends Read More... Posted Saturday, May 22, 2004 3:41 PM by jlovell | 6 Comments Filed under: Blog Responses

• Technical Drawing Project completed!

  For the past two weeks, I have been rambling on how little time that I have. In an effort for me to complete all the projects, I took out some major chunks of the best hours of the day -- sleep. Last night, I only got about two or three hours sleep. I Read More... Posted Friday, May 21, 2004 11:20 PM by jlovell | 0 Comments Filed under: Personal / Other / Off topic

• Opera 7.5 -- the bomb

  Yesterday, I downloaded the new version of Opera: version 7.5. What I really like about this is that it is a complete overhaul. Yeah, the entire UI has been redesigned so that the toolbars and the side bar occupy as little space as possible. Another thing Read More... Posted Saturday, May 15, 2004 6:23 PM by jlovell | 0 Comments

• South Africa will host the 2010 world cup

  First off, I would like to congradulate the whole of South Africa for winning the FIFA World Cup bid for 2010. The bidding commitee put their hearts and souls into this bid (and maybe sold themselves to the devil :-)) after losing the last bid by one Read More... Posted Saturday, May 15, 2004 6:03 PM by jlovell | 4 Comments Filed under: Personal / Other / Off topic

• The brutal idiot

  I am furious. No, I am not being the usual “grumpy coder” anymore. If the call-sign of “angry coder” was not taken by Jonathen Goodyear, then I would have used it. Lets describe the feelings that I am experienced: Annoyed. Furious. Read More... Posted Thursday, May 06, 2004 7:16 PM by jlovell | 2 Comments Filed under: Rants and Ramblings

• Don't you love maths? Well...

  ... I do! Lets take the common trend that all ISP's try to keep an oath by: 99.8% uptime. Right, let's calculate how many hours that they are allowed to go offline in a year : 24 * 365 = 8 760 hours in a year 8750 * 0.2% = 18 hours are allowed for an Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 05, 2004 11:42 PM by jlovell | 0 Comments Filed under: Programming with .NET

• #Develop 1.0 beta

  Now that I have waded through most of my emails, one of the announcements have to do with an open source IDE called #Develop (pronouced Sharp Develop). Currently, it looks like this IDE for developing .NET applications are really promising: SharpDevelop Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 05, 2004 11:22 PM by jlovell | 1 Comments Filed under: Tools and Tips

• .NET is spreading

  I just saw this article on www.internetnews.com : .NET Seeks Good Reception From Cable Microsoft could extend the reach of .NET if a cable TV standards body adopts the developer specifications that Microsoft submitted. That is a bloody good idea - it Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 04, 2004 9:25 AM by jlovell | 0 Comments Filed under: Programming with .NET