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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]