February 2004 - Grant Killian's Blog

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  • Some .Net Book Reviews (finally)

    I finally got around to posting a bunch of book reviews for WeProgram.Net ; I put them on the back burner for weeks, but finally got to them as I declared tonight my “catch up and stop billing” night. If you haven't checked out the book review section at WeProgram.Net, you should; there are...
  • Dinner.Net in Hampton Roads

    Jim Meeker has suggested a Hampton Roads Geek Dinner on Thursday; I plan to make it (assuming we get enough committments, Jim!). Let Jim or me know if you're interested -- I imagine we would meet at the Hilltop Brewery anytime after 5 PM. I know dozens of developer types in the area, some very close...
  • Conference Cruising

    MySQL cruise , anyone? I came across this courtesy of Jeremy Zawodny at http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/001194.html . My friend Scott Lerberg will surely get a kick out of it! I'd be more interested in the .Net Nirvana cruise instead. I'm sure MySQL has plenty of stuff to fill a week of sessions...
  • DataReader to DataTable Happy Ending

    I'm doing some .Net and MySQL work and I've got a data access layer that does all the heavy SQL lifting. One of the needs that came up was to convert a DataReader (IDataReader, really) to a DataTable. In good XP style , I wrote “the quickest implementation that solves the business need” for...
  • Metabase is NOT such a Meta Headache

    I may be late to the party (and not for the first time!), but I just came across the Edit-While-Running feature for the IIS 6 Metabase -- no reboots or service stops-and-starts required. I'm not in our Network Admin team, but even they weren't aware so I thought I'd share this way to modify the IIS Metabase...
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