Site Archives for February 2003


DateTimePicker and DBNull

Posted on February 28th

You can’t bind a Windows Forms DateTimePicker to a field that might contain DBNull… so I did this;         public class DBDateTimePicker:DateTimePicker       {        &nb […]

Grinding the Gears

Posted on February 28th

Whenever I shut down my laptop, it is a very painful experience... one by one I watch a series of programs die a painful death, as they refuse to shut down gracefully. The error messages about "Windows Stations" that are closing are very useful, but somehow the entire process (which sometim […]

New Coding4Fun column is up...

Posted on February 27th

Background Copying Summary: Duncan Mackenzie describes how to build a tool that uses the Background Intelligent Transfer Service features of Microsoft Windows XP to download large files over slow or intermittent links. http://msdn.mi […]

A Burning Desire

Posted on February 27th

Every time I go to a computer/electronics store I consider buying some mini-CD-Rs, but I have absolutely no reason to get them. But, I still look at them every time. I just want to burn something on them. Something that would fit into 210mb, something "cool" to send to a friend.. I'll admit it, […]

Googlism

Posted on February 26th

This isn't all that new, but I hadn't tried it on myself before; duncan mackenzie is all manduncan mackenzie is one text that would work nicelyduncan mackenzie is not exactly a new character in the realm of romanceduncan mackenzie is the mackenzie of ki […]

Interesting phrase...

Posted on February 26th

Just heard an advertisement on the radio for the Foo Fighters and it contained this quote "The world's best American rock band..." What does that mean? Don't "world's best" and "American" clash a little there? Wouldn't "Best American Rock Band" be a better&nb […]

There goes that column idea....

Posted on February 26th

Doesn't anyone use static web pages anymore? I was playing around with some code, just doing a quick prototype of an app for my Coding4Fun column and (inspired by the cool and useful PAINT tool) I decided to create […]

A Blog? What was I thinking?

Posted on February 26th

I think I have to blame Kent Sharkey for this; he put up his blog and it has been nagging at my mind for days now... "I should have a blog", "hey I think I have something to say"... but I couldn't decide on the implemenation details... should I build my own blog tool, use a site like http://blo […]