November 2008 Entries
Technorati Tags: Coffee For all those who think in order to get really great coffee brewed, that you need to: a) Go out and buy a Cuisinart coffee maker b) Go out and buy a Keurig coffee maker c) Go out and buy an espresso machine Well, you are missing something very simple and cheap. The simple french press (see Bodum Chambord 3-cup Coffee Press) is what I’m talking about. It’s often way overlooked and a good reason is people just are not familiar with them as much and they look complex when it’s precisely...
I have had for a while a problem with my upload speed with my AT&T DSL. I have been a happy customer with SBC for 5 years now and wasn’t about to just change. I also have DirectTV instead of cable and I’m very content with DirectTV. My upload speeds for the last 4 months have been shaky and very frustrating. I was testing it often with speakeasy.com and I knew that the upload was slow and that reported it around 50-70 kpbs on average. Sometimes it got up to 200 kbps upload speed but I knew that something was...
Technorati Tags: Rants SharePoint SharePoint how sad are we Your marketing promise me everything under the sun & as far as my eyes can see A hidden cost, a nasty toss, a huge 5 year loss Go hire a whole team, 3rd party pugs-ins, SharePoint consultants with nothing BUT cost SharePoint SharePoint, I hate you so You’re a clown with a funky smile, but do you fool me? hell no You are a big smelly beast running sweaty into the night Because your API is so bad, developers constantly put up a fight SharePoint SharePoint what horrible code...
Technorati Tags: Coffee Too much of anything is obviously not good. But too much coffee? How can this not be all good right? I can tell you first hand, that I was a hard core coffee drinker. I still am a bit, but not nearly as much daily. While I coded coffee was a must, almost a ritual just like everyone else every day. That is, until I got heartburn that happened frequently over the course of a year which eventually turned into major heartburn problems and health issues. While I still drink a fair amount of coffee these days,...
Technorati Tags: FireFox Well, I moved on from hotmail and made Gmail my primary email a while back. I guess something I should have just done when Gmail came out x years ago, but I liked some of the features of hotmail such as the calendar, etc. initially and just stuck with it because I was lazy and didn’t feel like I had to follow the bandwagon. But due to the frustrations of hotmail not working worth a sh** in FireFox, my primary browser and the fact that you can’t use it on IPhone finally just ticked me off to...
Technorati Tags: C# Today I needed to compare some IDs contained in two generic lists (both lists held a different type). I wanted to check to see if both lists had the same set of IDs. Since both lists contained different types, I couldn’t just compare them as easily as I wanted to. So, I created a method to just take in those types and add those IDs to 2 arrays and just compare the arrays instead. Always a pain in the ass doing comparisons of course unless you’re using Linq. Unfortunately at my new job, we are not using...
Technorati Tags: ASP.NET,C#,Web Controls Today I needed to create a nested grid using repeaters. Pretty common but always a pain in the ass with all Microsoft controls. I needed to nest my repeaters just like you’d nest any other control like the DataGrid or GridView. The issue came up for me when I wanted to create a delegate for my nested repeater (repeater inside my parent). Since a nested control within a control (the nested repeater in this case) is not available at the page level, Intellisense or the compiler will not know that it exists. Because it’s nested...
