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  • Why I hate Radio Userland

    Radio Userland is one of the larger weblogs on the net. Why do they suck? One simple reason. If you forget (or don’t want) to fill in one of the comment form sections, such as your email address, when you submit the form it erases all of your work , and then tells you that it requires an email...

  • .NET Weblogs Archive, your one-stop .NET weblogs shop

    If you haven’t checked out the .NET Weblogs Archive site, maintained by Jesse Ezell , you really ought to do so. I had not visited it in a while, and Jesse has done a lot of work since then! The entire site got a face lift. The look is very crisp and clean. It’s easy to browse through blog...

  • How to troubleshoot bad RAM

    My laptop was suffering from intermittent crashes, leading me to suspect some of my laptop’s memory was bad. So I went Googling for answers. Windows has a Windows Memory Diagnostic tool that scans your memory for you. To use it, you need to create either a floppy or CD that contains the bootable...

  • Tool: IPLookup

    After getting aggravated with some comment spam, I needed a tool to lookup who owned a block of IP addresses. Enter IPLookup . It does whois lookups on IP addresses or converts host names to IP addresses. And it’s free and easy-to-use . What more could you ask for? Here’s a screenshot:
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  • Firefox keyboard shortcuts

    Here is an excellent list of Firefox keyboard shortcuts . It also shows how the keyboard shortcuts for specific actions map across Firefox, IE, and Opera. The most important shortcut to know, the Google search box, is Ctrl+K.

  • ASP.NET postback error?

    I've encountered a very strange error in ASP.NET. I've been able to reproduce it successfully and consistently in a test project. Normally if you hit the back button, the page you go back to does not postback. However, if on the second page you click a link that opens a new browser window (a hyperlink...

  • Passed the UML certification exam (IBM exam 486)

    I passed the IBM 000-486 test Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with UML test today with a 91%. My employer is big on UML and wants pretty much everyone to take this exam. What’s nice with the IBM test is it shows you how you fared on each section of the test objectives. For example, I got 100...

  • My Worst Database Experience Ever

    Roy is talking about database sins . I worked on porting one database that had to be the worst I’ve ever seen in my entire career. First off, it was an Access database. It starts off well doesn’t it? J Well, it was an Access database split into two parts (the front file and the back file...

  • Teach Yourself Programming in 10 Years

    Peter Norvig , Director of Search Quality at Google, has an excellent essay titled Teach Yourself Programming in 10 Years . It's a commentary on the state of books titled “Teach youself x-technology in y days/hours/minutes.” Although written in 2001, it's still relevant if not more so than...

  • Why do developers still use SourceSafe?

    Scott Nonnenberg asks why anyone still uses Visual SourceSafe (VSS), especially versus CVS, after some recent bad experiences with it . Here’s my take on the situation. The nice part is that VSS actually integrates with VS.NET while CVS does not. For CVS, you have to install CVS or CVSNT, then...

  • Fixing bugs is 80% learning, 15% patience, and 5% coding

    I’ve been trying to help a client tackle a rather large list of issues (some might call them underappreciated program features), so I’ve been doing a grab-bag of various coding issues. Some JavaScript, some VB.NET, some web services, some database work, yikes! The possibilities on where the...

  • Don't shake it like a Polaroid picture!

    Say it ain't so! From Yahoo! news: Outkast fans like to "shake it like a Polaroid picture," but the instant camera maker is warning consumers that taking the advice of the hip-hop stars could ruin your snapshots. Outkast's number one hit "Hey Ya" includes the "shake it" line as a reference to the motion...

  • How do you setup NUnit tests in Visual Studio.NET projects?

    I received this in an email a while ago, but have been too busy to blog about it until now. The email: I've recently started TDD, mostly after reading your blog. I downloaded NUnit and have begun running a few simple tests. My question is, do you normally include test classes and more importantly, the...

  • SourceJunkies.com ??

    Donny Mack has something brewing! An excerpt: Who is Donny Mack? That is a question that not only he asks himself, but his girlfriend, parents, sister, and friends. The fact is, no one knows exactly who Donny Mack really is. We know he is a programmer for sure (a good one at that), but rumors are he...

  • Dodgeit (spam)

    Dodgeit offers a service similar to Mailinator . The only difference I can tell is that Dodgeit offers an RSS feed to a certain mailbox. (via Jason Alexander ) I don’t know what value that adds. I’m only using either one to avoid spam, so I don’t want to be notified of every time I...
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