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Recent Blog Entries
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Visual Studio.NET allows you to set a property that makes your application a single-instance application, where double-clicking the icon while the app is running simply brings the already-running app to the foreground. But what if you wanted the...
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No, this post isn’t a rant on consumerism and lack of true holiday spirit. I have another blog for that. This is my programming blog. I was thinking hard about what I could post to close out the year. It doesn’t seem much has been...
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I recently got myself a Zune HD. I do like it a lot. But now my video files just don’t have the quality to impress anyone when I want to show it off. So I decided to re-rip some of my videos in a higher definition. I soon remembered...
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Remember that little idea that Office had a while ago that would hide infrequently-used menu items? Wasn’t that a great idea? For me, it was the very first thing I turned off after installing Office. But I do understand what they were...
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A recent event that made some blog headlines got me thinking about security and stuff. I’ve been thinking about it for a couple nights and every time I remember it, I am too tired to actually write anything. The event was some hacking and...
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The other day I was writing some code and I got an error message. It happened to be one of those cases where it should have worked. You know when good code it written it just happens to work like you expect it to. The general idea was...
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No, I certainly can’t help you get dates or have successful dates. But I can offer a couple of functions that might help you work with dates in your code. I suck at dates (all types). Every time I want to calculate dates, I need to print...
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So many great adventures start with this line. I am just wrapping up my own. The task was simple: Upgrade the hard drive in my laptop. I was going from 80GB to 320GB. What’s so hard about that? You use Ghost, you have...
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The team I have been working on for the past year and half just posted an opening out on microsoft.com/careers. In my opinion, it is a great way to start your career with Microsoft. You get a chance to work with lots of different customers in the field...
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I had something that I thought was a simple task and got the solution for it, but when I researched it, I didn’t see a whole lot of other people talking about it. Actually, in my brief searches, I didn’t see anyone talking about it. So here...
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You know, when you think of a popular website, run by a pretty big company, you would expect that they would have a pretty good software development team. If you think of the popularity of a website and how much impact poor code would have to their...
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Reports of my professional demise have been, at various times, highly exaggerated, slightly understated, totally false and entirely likely. But I'm back. My quest for the Perfect Computer Programming Language has in the last several months taken me...
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Ok, I haven't posted anything since July of 2008 but I think I have some reasonable excuses. The first problem was a real lack of content to contribute. My last 10 months has been a lot more about internal solution assessments (more to come on what...
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I suppose, like many companies, we’re trying to stay under the radar from the roving hammers of economic suckdom. I also think we’re doing pretty well at it. Possibly like other companies, we are taking the opportunity to completely rethink...
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I am in the middle of Joe Duffy 's Concurrent Programming on Windows , but already I know I'm going to be blogging a lot about this book and its sublime subject matter here for some time. First impression: It's the best book about the internals...
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