Hardcode
Making it happen
Internet Explorer cannot display this feed
Nov 28th
Internet Explorer seems to perform a strict XML validation – the bad news is that MSXML does this and as a conclusion it’s not a good idea to use MSXML or XmlDocument from .NET to process feeds. I will update this post with a more usable XML parser for .NET.
ProxyCast
Nov 27th
Bluetooth marketing starts to appear in Romania also – these guys offer a system. I’m not very confident about the market here, however they seem to already have OgilvyOne as a first big client.
Office 2007 UI License
Nov 22nd
What’s the big issue about this ? The UI is already implemented and waiting for you to buy it and use it freely in your application.
"Dir" command-line wildcard for extensions
Nov 21st
Here’s a weird difference between Windows 2003 SP1 and Windows XP SP2: Suppose you have two files in the same folder, a.txt and b.txt_ , the effect of dir *.txt is as follows:
- Windows XP SP2:
a.txt
b.txt_ - Windows 2003 SP1:
a.txt
It’s scary how it performs on SP2 – it can lead to dangerous stuff when you are using DEL to erase files …
Remove rows from DataTable
Nov 17th
ADO.NET is so highly intuitive, guess from the following which is the correct method for erasing a row from the datatable / database:
- dataTable.Rows.RemoveAt(0)
- dataTable.Rows[0].Delete()
The first variant removes the row from the collection but does not mark it as “deleted” (to be deleted on the next update on the tableadapter), while the second one works fine.
Update: of course you also need tableAdapter.Update( dataTable) so the adapter actually deletes the marked rows.
.NET Compact Framework running on Symbian
Nov 12th
I was just thinking at starting a port to Symbian of .NET CF however this paper [pdf] has completely discouraged me – in the way that Symbian is artificially kept alive by Nokia thus hurting Windows Mobile in the market. Symbian seems so developer-unfriendly that I can’t imagine the amount of WTFs encountered when coding for it.
Microsoft RIA
Nov 11th
Microsoft has launched two interesting Rich Internet Applications these days, unfortunately not based on a standard framework. While Photosynth uses the proprietary Seadragon (aquired in February) libraries, Virtual Earth 3D is also an ActiveX but built with .NET 2.0.
I was expecting an early implementation of WPF/E ( a subset of WPF XAML using JavaScript and being cross-platform), coupled with an easy deployment system – seems that it’s a bit too far away.
nVidia’s Geforce 8800GTX
Nov 4th
Has a 384-bit (!) memory bus (coupled with 768Mb RAM). These numbers are very unusual, I guess that a 512-bit bus was really not feasible – maybe R600 will have it (there are rumours to be even bigger than G80) ?
Amazon’s Human-Driven Web Service
Nov 2nd
I’ve read of this long time ago – go check it out if you didn’t.
read (photo);
photoContainsHuman = callMechanicalTurk(photo);
if (photoContainsHuman == TRUE){
