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If any of you are working on an installer package. Please give your exe or or installer a meaningful name so I don't end up with a folder with the file setup(27).exe
Tetris shaped ice cubes - behold!
The site has been down again. This time it was getting the domain records straightened out at the ISP. I signed up with the same ISP under a different account and they had to manually move brummerfamily over to the new account for me to get site usage...
I used to have a few people out there following my blog before it went dead for a few years. If anyone is reading and you are half as into working out as I am right now. Could you think about what you would want in a web site for tracking your workouts...
The wet: 1 cup buttermilk (bulgarian style is my fav.) 2 tablespoons melted butter 1 large egg The Dry: 1 cup (5 oz.) unbleached AP flour 2 teaspoons sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract...
The new design didn’t last very long. I’ve gone back to a very simple layout and I have to say I like it better. There are still a few formatting kinks to work out, but overall I like it a lot better. It just emphasises the point, don’t...
The other day I answered a question in a programming forum about how to tell that an operation on a worker thread completed. I answered that you need to create an event to signal that the operation was complete. Others suggested that you can just wait...
I was doing some warm up stretches before Kung Fu class when some of the students started talking about which Math class killed all their interest in Mathematics. It was either Geometry or Algebra depending on the student. I stayed way out of this conversation...
I’ve been bitten by all eight of these at one time or the other. The most stable release we ever did when I was working at Dell was just before Christmas and I reduced the average number of database lookups from 5 per page to one per 5 pages. After...
It’s been a while since I’ve made a post. I’ve been busy with work, they’ve been paying me to take Microsoft certification exams so a lot of my spare time has been spent studying. The other sliver of my time has been taken up with...
Cindy’s documentary is now on the front page of WindowsMedia . It’s titled In Vivid Color and is listed under the Editor’s picks section. I couldn’t be prouder. It’s a great video. I can’t believe it is her first production...
I’ve tried to resist the dark side of the blog world. Just posting links to other blogs, but this compells it http://darthside.blogspot.com/
Edited after Cyrus' comment on the using statement. My point was that dealing with these cases correctly is difficult to a degree that the language and platform developers can get tripped up by this stuff. I’m a fan of Joel Spolsky and he just posted...
When I worked in tech support, there were many cases where people reported impossible symptoms. The good technicians were the ones that were able to systematically go back an question the assumptions that they made, which forced them to believe the impossible...
I wasn't able to view source using IE. Turns out my browser cache was too full. Solution provided by Windows Tips . Hopefully this helps others find this solution.
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