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March 2009 - Posts

Saturday, March 28, 2009 1:11 PM

Ads WTF!

There is just so much wrong with these ads that were served by AdBrite to my site: Why does AdBrite keep advertising hair loss solutions on my site. As far as I can tell I have never mentioned a balding issue online much less my site. Should I be insulted?
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Thursday, March 19, 2009 1:49 PM

Non-Truth in Advertising 2

What I thought I was getting: What I actually got: I think the cardboard will taste better…
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Sunday, March 15, 2009 9:41 AM

Cool Stuff for Week of 3/9/2009

Development  http://www.red-gate.com/products/ants_profiler/boost_app_performance_ebook3.htm?utm_source=infozerk&utm_medium=button&utm_term=1328&utm_content=boostappperf-ebook&utm_campaign=antsprofiler – Download a trial of the ANTS
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009 6:43 PM

Non-Truth in Advertising

What I thought I was getting:   What I actually got:   What a deal!!!
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 10:52 AM

Rotated Font on Windows Mobile Device

Here is how to draw a rotated font on a Windows Mobile device: Add a reference to the Microsoft.Windowsce.Forms assembly to your project to access the LogFont object. 1: int angle = (int) ((360.0 - 45.0)*10.0); 2: LogFont logfont = 3: new
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Saturday, March 07, 2009 1:10 PM

My Sites

Here is a list of the sites that I am currently managing. DetlefGrohs.com – This site. My main blog and projects site. DamnYouVodka.com – A site I built around my love/hate affair with Vodka. I really couldn’t resist creating this site, especially
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Friday, March 06, 2009 5:50 PM

Cool Stuff for the Week of 3/2/2009

Development http://www.quirksmode.org/js/detect.html – Great browser and operating system version detecting JavaScript code. http://stackoverflow.com – Question and Answer site for development questions. http://www.switchonthecode.com/tutorials/javascript-snippet-tutorial-dynamically-modifying-tables
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Thursday, March 05, 2009 7:30 AM

Testing Windows Live Writer 2009

Just installed the latest version of Windows Live Writer. Testing to make sure everything is still working. Windows Live Writer is my favorite blog post editor and I wish they would create a version for Windows Mobile so that I could use it on my HTC
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Wednesday, March 04, 2009 11:54 AM

Web Service Proxy Using and Exception Handling Pattern

Here is the pattern that I currently use for Web Service proxy requests that handles the cleaning up of server and client resources properly. 1: using (WSProxyClient proxy = new WSProxyClient()) 2: { 3: try 4: { // Call the service
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Wednesday, March 04, 2009 11:06 AM

Using Explorations

I noted some odd behavior with the use of the ‘using’ keyword in C#. Using the following class that implements IDisposable: 1: namespace UsingExplorations 2: { 3: using System; 4: public class DisposableClass : IDisposable 5: { 6:
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Wednesday, March 04, 2009 9:19 AM

Null Coalescing Operator

I really like the Null Coalescing Operator (??) especially when coupled with the ‘as’ keyword that allows for statements such as: 1: string string_value = (data_row["StringColumn"] as string) ?? string.Empty; 2: double double_value = (data_row["DoubleColumn"]
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Monday, March 02, 2009 12:59 PM

You Gotta Be Kidding Me!!!

8 inches of snow last night and I had to get to the airport this morning to go to New Orleans! Made it driving to the airport okay, went about 40 miles per hour on the highway, but forgot that the airport itself would be a mess because of all of the cancelled
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