July 2004 - Eric Wise

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  • I really enjoyed this article

    an interesting essay on programmers and psychology brought to my attention by Grant Killian . I agreed with the majority of the article, in spite of a bit of anti microsoft sentiment (seems to be saying open source coders ala python are more elite than java/microsoft). I particularily liked the productivity...

  • I now hate reporting services

    What a waste of my time. It's all sorts of messed up just because I don't run my IIS development on port 80. It tells me I don't have permission to build reports when I'm logged in as administrator. There's no apparent way to change the datasource on the fly. I guess it would be a great thing if I was...

  • Set Foo = Nothing Explained

    Much credit to Sjoerd Verweij Setting Objects to Nothing Set X = Nothing does not destroy the object, it destroys the reference to it. This holds true for VB6 and VB.NET. Understanding the difference in how Garbage collection works in VB6 and VB.NET is a good thing to know. VB6 In VB6 it's a variable...

  • Set foo = Nothing?

    It's my understanding that because the .NET Garbage collector looks at the heap, and checks to see if any variables on the heap are in scope that setting an object to nothing at the end of a function in VB .NET really doesn't gain you anything yet I see code like this often: Try 'Do Stuff Catch Finally...

  • Empower ISV Rocks

    $400, I have MSDN Universal, I received the media after a week, had access to subscriber downloads in 3 days, and a free MSDN Magazine subscription to boot. If you have the means, don't pass up the Empower ISV Program, it's been nothing but joy.

  • SQL Server Reporting Services Install Warning

    If you don't run your IIS on the default port 80 you should switch it to port 80 before installing reporting services else the install program gets very confused. (It ended up creating a second default website in XP for me which wouldn't start, I had to copy the two virtual directories from that space...

  • Couple Upgrade Questions

    Can I install visual studio enterprise architect over VS professional or do I have to uninstall VS pro first then install EA? Same question for SQL Server personal edition, I'd like to move to developer edition so I can start playing with SQL Reporting services. If no one knows for sure I'll just try...

  • A tiny ray of joy

    I need to send this link to the programmers I've mentored.

  • Want to raise your blood pressure?

    Check out yesterday's slashdot article about PHP5 vs ASP .NET. The article and the comments are both appalling. If you're going to slam a product, at least have the decency to know facts about it first. Some of my favorites: - The licensing costs for .NET are too high. (Cause you all know the .net framework...

  • Licensing Agreements

    Anyone have any experience with licensing/selling the rights to software they've written? I have two scenarios developing for my business as follows: Company A may be interested in reselling my product to their customers. Not a typical reseller though as they would want to integrate my product into their...

  • VB .NET 306 Exam passed

    Passed it this morning in spite of lack of sleep from stress about my contract position being off-shored. They ask some weird trivial questions on these things for sure! So once again I'll post that if anyone has any .NET developer openings for someone with 2 yrs .NET experience and is *almost* a MCAD...

  • *sigh*

    Lovely, *walks into meeting*. Manager: You contractors have been doing a fine job, yadda yadda yadda. However to cut costs we've decided to offshore contracting positions to russia. If you have any personal belongings at your desks, you will be escorted there and then out of the building. So yeah, I...

  • My First 10 minutes on whidbey

    I'm happy to report that the 2005 beta 1 install went off without a hitch! I started off by creating a new web project to do a sort of "hello world" advanced version which involved me connecting a datagrid... excuse me... dataVIEW control to the authors table of the pubs database. ** Cool thing #1- when...

  • Empower ISV Accepted

    Woo, got my MSDN Universal subscription activated tonight. Downloading VS 2005 beta 1... 3588.1 MB though. =( I guess I'll have to install and play with it tomorrow, it's not going to finish before bed. *sigh*

  • Express Tools Concern II

    Seems that my good friend over at Caustic Tech agrees with me on the Express Tools Concern Take that Jon! (J/K)
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