My thoughts on software development, technology and design.

VB6 to C# - Removing unprintable characters

October 26, 2007
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I have doing a little too much work with legacy code (Visual Basic 6) recently, I was actually a better than good VB6 ...

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Drop a Stored Procedure

October 11, 2007
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My brain seems to be freezing on DB related situations, any way I forgot how to check for the existence of a stored ...

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Lutz Roeders's .NET Reflector

October 08, 2007
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I had been saving this blog for a while gathering information on additional plug-ins, however, with the release of the ...

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Zune update is almost here

October 03, 2007
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I am anticipating the new Zune firmware update will be here round about the same time that Zune 2 hardware begins to ...

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iPhone the Brick

October 01, 2007
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John Lech Johansen is a genius, as one of the more infamous hardware hackers in Europe (he may be State side now) he ...

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Certification and errors with Binary Streams

September 30, 2007
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Classic ASP is still one of those old realities I have to deal with, and I found myself struggling with this snippet of ...

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PC Performance Issues - FileMon to the rescue!

September 21, 2007
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I have a dedicated PC for music recording and production and I recently, out of the blue, started seeing serious ...

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How Do I? ASP.NET Videos

September 20, 2007
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Up until now I have turned my metaphoric back on AJAX for 2 reasons. Firstly we use Peter Blum controls at work which ...

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Body Battery

September 18, 2007
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Found this interesting body battery calculator. I guess now we know what the machines were after in the Matrix ... ...

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