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A small place on the web for me to write about the adventures of my self education in coding

using SpriteFont's in XNA

So the quesiton of the day is when creating a SpriteFont to use for displaying text in an XNA app,...

Date: 10/24/2007

random posting...

WOW...it's been a while since I've posted. Luckily I my self eductions of coding hasn't been as slow...

Date: 10/18/2007

multi-select drill-through reports...

Today I'm trying to work on improving my Sql 2005 Reporting Services report based on all the...

Date: 03/28/2006

displaying an entire table on one page with SQL RS2005

Today I'm trying to figure this one out. I've got this report I put together for my team that has a...

Date: 03/17/2006

question of the evening...

I've seen something in a couple of different databases that kind of confuses me. I've been looking...

Date: 03/17/2006

setting up a Sql Stored Procedure to accept an array as a parameter...

Ok, I'm not sure the title is exactly right, so let me explain better what it is I'm trying to do...

Date: 03/15/2006

using the T-SQL OPENXML command

Hello once again. :) I've been getting great feedback from everyone that stumbles across my blog...

Date: 03/08/2006

calling SqlConnection.Close() from class destructor causes exception

Well, today I'm designing a class that's basically function is to talk to a database. I'm having a...

Date: 03/07/2006

Sql 2005 and managed code...

Today I proposed an idea to my boss which included using Sql 2005 in a manor that I "think" is...

Date: 03/02/2006

Using a ProgressBar control

Hiya all. I recenlty made a cheezy test program to just roll dice. I put a ProgressBar control to...

Date: 01/28/2006

net use failing in RunOnce section of registry

Ugh...horribly frusterating problem today. I have a WinXP machine that's been sysprep'd. I'm trying...

Date: 12/10/2005

making a service...

Oooofda...long time no post. Lots of work done though. hehehe. My question of the day...how do you...

Date: 09/29/2005

solution to getting the parent process

In case anyone was interested, I did end up figuring out how to get the parent process of a given...

Date: 07/21/2005

how to get the parent of a Process

Well, today's challange is to find a way to obtain a process' parent...if it has one. We have a...

Date: 07/20/2005

to hack or not to hack...

Well I got some answers to using .Net Framework 2.0 on VS2003. Aside from the great suggestions...

Date: 07/18/2005

using .net framework 2.0 from VS.Net 2003

Ah yes...everyone once in a while (usually after I start feeling like I know what I'm doing) a...

Date: 07/15/2005

coding standards...

Oooooofda. The last few days I've been reading through some code that I found on SourceForge...and...

Date: 07/14/2005

graphics are a horse of a different color...

sigh again I have been faced with how little I really know about the coding world. I'm starting to...

Date: 07/07/2005

I don't get it...

https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8379873/ I've been a HUGE AMD fan for years because they have always...

Date: 06/30/2005

how to find out if an exception's message will be localized...

Something a little different to figure out today. I have a piece of code in a try catch block that...

Date: 06/22/2005

Sometimes I'm a blockhead...

big sigh of relief Yeah, I'm done with another big project. Although it was updating the previous...

Date: 06/21/2005

code review standards...

Recently I had a bunch of code to check into our source depot, but I'm told that before checking...

Date: 06/03/2005

yeah, movement on Mp3Taginator

Ok, right now I have a blocking issue of not knowing where to get genre information from...I'm...

Date: 05/27/2005

the most un-fun part of coding...

Ahhhhhhh, eyes going buggy...that's it...I'm taking a break. I have come to realize that the most...

Date: 05/03/2005

XmlNode question...

Ok, tonights question of the evening is this... I have a method which takes an XmlNode as a...

Date: 04/08/2005

up late working on code...

My wifey-to-be see's that I'm working from home late tonight and makes a fresh batch of chocolate...

Date: 04/07/2005

IList Interface...

I've read what MSDN has to say about this, but I'm still not sure why this is useful. I've found it...

Date: 04/06/2005

TextBox's in .Net

I'm trying to figure something out about this, and having a little trouble, so I figured I'm make an...

Date: 04/06/2005

programatically editing mp3 tags

Ah, it's been to long since a real good post. hehehe. Lately, I've been pretty busy working so I...

Date: 03/30/2005

SQL Question...to sproc or not to sproc???

So how does a person know when the best time is to use a stored procedure vs a normal sql statment?...

Date: 03/07/2005

back from vacation...

Well, it wasn't much of a vacation really. It was my Grandfather's funeral...and my family was...

Date: 03/03/2005

An assembly must have a 'dll' extension in order to be referenced???

And how did I get such a useful error you might ask? By trying to add a reference to a project that...

Date: 02/25/2005

Movinator Progress...

Well, the database stuff is completely done. I've been testing it the last couple days, and I'm very...

Date: 02/25/2005

More Movinator

pushed through the night to get a little more work done on Movinator. I really need to set up...

Date: 02/22/2005

Blog Traffic

You know, I've noticed that since I've opened this blog, I get a lot of traffic from people I don't...

Date: 02/18/2005

flags enum in Sql

I've been looking for the answer to this most of the day...Books Online doesn't say anything about...

Date: 02/17/2005

rss feeds

Hmmm, I tried to add a RSS feed last night and it didn't seem to work like I thought it would. Can...

Date: 02/17/2005

More work done on Movinator

Woot...lots of progress made last night. Movinator is now adding actors to the database with movies...

Date: 02/17/2005

laptops in the bathroom?

Am I the only one who thinks this is a really strange thing to do? It seems to be a growing trend at...

Date: 02/16/2005

yeah...time to learn assembly

Well, I've been asked to learn more about debugging at work. So I've gone to a couple training...

Date: 02/16/2005

connection string pains and stuff...

I just hate going to bed when I've got a problem I'm trying to work through. I was up until early...

Date: 02/08/2005

Sql Express 2005

Well, I tried out Sql Express as the database backend and it's a lot better than anything else I've...

Date: 02/06/2005

a little more progress tonight...

Yup, another night away from EQ2...well, kinda. I left my guy logged in to sell stuff, hehehe....

Date: 02/04/2005

Improving String Handling Performance in .NET Framework Applications

https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/vbnstrcatn.asp

Date: 02/03/2005

An Evaluation of Stored Procedures for the .NET Developer

https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/storedprocsnetdev2.as...

Date: 02/03/2005

ugh, that's it for tonight...er, this morning...

Made lots of good progress on Movinator tonight. I got the object handling connection to the...

Date: 02/03/2005

IMDb idea for Movinator...'n other stuff...

You know, I was thinking there's probably got to be some way to hook Movinator into IMDb.org, so I...

Date: 02/02/2005

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