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Krugle makes it easy for developers to find source code and
technical information - fast!
This could be pretty useful as long as the script kiddies stay away.
Monday, July 31, 2006
Krugle, The Google for Source Code
Quickly find that Code Snippet you're looking for
This could be pretty useful as long as the script kiddies stay away.
This could be pretty useful as long as the script kiddies stay away.
Thursday, July 27, 2006
Temporary File Name
The Path.GetTempFileName() It's an easy way to reserve a temporary file name without having to reinvent the wheel, Pretty neat.
Once GetTempFileName() is called a temporary zero-length file is created for you, therefore guaranteeing it's availability.
The only gripe I have is that I cannot change the file extension without doing more I/O work on the file. It would have been nice if there was an overload to change the extension. For Instance, generating temporary HTML files etc... Files generated are currently with the *.tmp extension.
Once GetTempFileName() is called a temporary zero-length file is created for you, therefore guaranteeing it's availability.
The only gripe I have is that I cannot change the file extension without doing more I/O work on the file. It would have been nice if there was an overload to change the extension. For Instance, generating temporary HTML files etc... Files generated are currently with the *.tmp extension.
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Infection and 7th Son Podcasts
Two of my favourite podcast novels came to an end recently:
Infection by Scott Sigler (with lots and lots of violence) and 7th Son by J.C. Hutchins (the master of cliff hangers)
Both final episodes were awesome. And no, I'm not going to spoil it for you, check them out for yourself.
I've been a fan of Scott Sigler since the days of Ancestor and discoverd J.C Hutchins' work through his promos.
So hurry up and download them while they're still avilable for free.
Infection by Scott Sigler (with lots and lots of violence) and 7th Son by J.C. Hutchins (the master of cliff hangers)
Both final episodes were awesome. And no, I'm not going to spoil it for you, check them out for yourself.
I've been a fan of Scott Sigler since the days of Ancestor and discoverd J.C Hutchins' work through his promos.
So hurry up and download them while they're still avilable for free.
Monday, July 24, 2006
Virtual PC Free
I know this is old news, but this application deserves a mention. Virtual PC has saved me more times than I can count.
Especially working with my legacy printer driver software.
Taken from the site:
This is great news indeed.
Especially working with my legacy printer driver software.
Taken from the site:
Microsoft will also offer the free download of Virtual PC 2007, with support for Windows Vista, available in 2007
This is great news indeed.
Sharing information between User Controls
I recently helped a friend clean up some code he inherited.
This web application had many user controls which needed to maintain some common information between each other. So each user control loads up the state from the business logic for each of it's instances.
As this was too repetitive and a performance hit, I decided to use per request caching. So only the first instance loads the information, and subsequent request are thought the cache.
More information here:
http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/060904-1.aspx
This web application had many user controls which needed to maintain some common information between each other. So each user control loads up the state from the business logic for each of it's instances.
As this was too repetitive and a performance hit, I decided to use per request caching. So only the first instance loads the information, and subsequent request are thought the cache.
More information here:
http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/060904-1.aspx
Friday, July 21, 2006
First Post, Yet again
Well this is my second blog. Used to have one a while back I got rid of it. Mostly due to neglect really.
So why start all over again?
I realised that by having a blog I was able to keep track of my thoughts over the years. Well at least on a technical level, which gives a lot of perspective on my progress. So this is my second attempt at this, hopefully I would keep it up-to-date this time round.
Please be advised that I'm not a professional writer (if that's not Obvious by now). I'll try keep this blog clean, cohesive and technical as possible, but please do forgive the occasional digressions.
So why start all over again?
I realised that by having a blog I was able to keep track of my thoughts over the years. Well at least on a technical level, which gives a lot of perspective on my progress. So this is my second attempt at this, hopefully I would keep it up-to-date this time round.
Please be advised that I'm not a professional writer (if that's not Obvious by now). I'll try keep this blog clean, cohesive and technical as possible, but please do forgive the occasional digressions.
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