December 2007 - Posts
Happy New Year Everyone! Have a great celebration! Enjoy whatever you're doing tonight, and I'll rejoin you all again in 2008! w00t! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Sponsor
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I've recently written a beginner's article explaining what partial classes are and how to use them. My Partial Classes Tutorial walks you through how how partial classes work, how to create partial classes, when one would use partial classes, and a few
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So I am finally sitting down to play with the ASP.NET MVC Framework. I've installed Visual Studio 2008 on my machine. You can obtain a 90 day free trial of Visual Studio 2008 from Microsoft if you don't own a copy. There are also Express Editions of Visual
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So obviously anyone wanting to write technical blog posts will eventually require code snippets on the posts. Posting code is not very difficult. The basic part is just that you want the browser to know that your text is code and it should not apply standard
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One of my favorite recent movies was Batman Begins. I thought it was very well done. The next movie in this new series of Batman, The Dark Knight , is coming out next year. The Dark Knight trailer has been released. We're back to my favorite villain,
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So I have been ignoring these messages I've been receiving for a while about Silverlight. Now I might not have ignored it, but it said my version of Silverlight expired. Ok so big deal. You might say, "Why not just go get a new version?" Well it says
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So I've dropped the ball on XNA. I've been meaning to read and learn about XNA for a while now. Microsoft has done something truly revolutionary here. They're taking efforts to encourage the little guy to write games for their console. As far as I know,
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Someone just commented on my C# interfaces article on ASP Alliance asking an interesting question, and I figure I will respond to it here since I can give a better response here. I don't want to clutter the article comments. Also I can add nifty cool
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Yes, you read that correctly, because Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year is w00t. Most of you have probably heard this interjection often exclaimed by geeks winning some sort of competition usually a multiplayer game. I know not where the word originated.
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It is amazing some of the relics that can be found while code reviewing old code. Sometimes developers do things without thinking and make some great code. I am of course referring to some really funny code such as what I found a few minutes ago. I am
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One web comic I commonly read is xkcd . It is a great comic that has a lot of good computer as well as just nerdy jokes. It has a great comic about SQL injection attacks and why you need to sanitize your database inputs. This is a lesson in what to not
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With some recent efforts from an excellent designer named Craig Palenshus , everyone's favorite regular expression library has received a nice visual upgrade. You'll notice the site is much cleaner and more presentable now. The overall design is excellent
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There are plenty of reasons why I like the Python language. Yes, I know it is an interpreted language and it is very dynamic. While looking at some JavaScript mere moments ago, I saw someone pass back two values from a function. This is one thing that
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I recently authored an article for ASP Alliance in which I describe the basics of how interfaces work and how to use and create them in C# . I tried not to describe in great detail exactly how everything works, because that will prevent beginners from
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Over the weekend I received some awesome birthday presents from people. I received Halo 3 and Gears of War. I consequently spent the weekend playing Halo 3 on Xbox Live. They seem to have 2 different sets of level in the online play. They have experience
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It has started snowing for the season. I enjoy looking out my windows at the beautiful view I have. I am relaxed by the serenity of nature. I would hardly give up snow for anything. My favorite season is autumn. It has beautiful colors where I live. Leaves
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It is common to obtain variables with a type which is not the desired one. Considering that plenty of times there will be variables passed using the object data type, it is important to be able to cast your variables into more usable types. Say for example
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