Archives
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Picking random guys
Ron just asked me to demo how I thought the Random guy selector would be implemented so, I thought I'd crank out a quickie demo. First, I'll create a Guy type:
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New problems, new algorithms
I couldn't help but blog this. On the [C# lang] list the following question was asked:
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How to build a cool "Windows Media Player"-Like UI
The other day I noticed that Cory Smith blogged somewhere that he was planning to write some articles about how to build "Windows Media Player"-Like UI's.... looks like he's just posted the first article just now.
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More about Regex Blogs
Senkwe Chand left the following comment on my last entry and I thought that I'd answer it here to clear any confusion that might exist:
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Messing around with a HashTable
I was messing around with collections today and decided to try and work out how the HashTable stores/returns it's items so, I ran the following test:
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My hopes for RegexBlogs
[ cross-posted on http://regexblogs.com/DNeimke ]
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Upgrading Your Code to the .NET Framework
I'm hoping to make time to catch Chris Kinsman's talk in Adelaide on Friday:
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Meet the Buffer Cache
I realize that most hard-core backenders will already know most of this but, with all of the posts that have entered my aggregator relating to sprocs and ad-hoc sql, I thought that I'd take this opportunity to add a link to an article I wrote a few years ago which discusses what gets cached (and when):
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Learning the Framework is definitely an incremental process!
I read the new "Beyond (COM) Add Reference: Has Anyone Seen the Bridge?" article yesterday and, was quite impressed by the detailed groundwork that was laid-out to explain the differences between COM and CLR and, how Interop provides a bridge for seamlessly calling in and out of both environments. As the author states in that article the real meat is still to come so, if you are reading this and you haven't already read that article scoot over now and give it a look - you won't be disappointed.
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Better use of the mark-up tool
Duncan, gave my mark-up tool a nice plug today but missed a very important feature. It is emminently better to mark-up code snippets using Css styles (as opposed to Html tags) because you can have global control over how your code samples are rendered. To set the tool to output Css styles do the following:
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My first appearance on the MS Homepage
Just discovered that my mark-up article has made it to the main Microsoft home page at http://www.microsoft.com :-)
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Feature complete - Bug Triage - Golden Release.... ahhhhhh software :-)
I've been so busy lately that my world has just been a complete blur. In the past week I've had a job change, helped to release a new blogging community (http://regexblogs.com) and been involved in numerous out of hours endeavours. Put all of that on top of my family (which includes a newborn), co-ordinating a new swimming pool and a new bridge to cross our creek and you can clearly see that there is the potential for stack overflow.
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New Community - RegexBlogs.com
Just a quick bookmark in my blog to announce 3 things:
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Change the owner of all db objects
It was after running the sql scripts to install a new database that I noticed that the author had not prefixed the objects with "dbo." and so, after running them I noticed that they were owned by the user that I was logged-in as at the time (super_administrator!). Well, it wasn't going to be very useful to have everyone logging in using that account to run the sprocs so, I wrote the following script to enumerate the tables and sprocs and assign a new owner:
DECLARE @currentObject nvarchar(517) DECLARE @qualifiedObject nvarchar(517) DECLARE @currentOwner varchar(50) DECLARE @newOwner varchar(50) SET @currentOwner = 'ASPNET' SET @newOwner = 'dbo' DECLARE alterOwnerCursor CURSOR FOR SELECT [name] FROM dbo.sysobjects WHERE xtype = 'U' or xtype = 'P' AND LEFT([name], 2) <> 'dt' OPEN alterOwnerCursor FETCH NEXT FROM alterOwnerCursor INTO @currentObject WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0 BEGIN SET @qualifiedObject = CAST(@currentOwner as varchar) + '.' + CAST(@currentObject as varchar) EXEC sp_changeobjectowner @qualifiedObject, @newOwner FETCH NEXT FROM alterOwnerCursor INTO @currentObject END CLOSE alterOwnerCursor DEALLOCATE alterOwnerCursor
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XmlComment syntax for VB
Where I am at the moment we use:
'/for XMLCommenting syntax. Originally there was some mention that, when the VB team add support for XmlComment'ing they would adopt'@as the syntax whereas, Paul Vick has just confirmed that it will most likely end as'''. As a friend once said to me: Syntax I care zippo about but semantics, that's different! -
Regulator and RegexLib webservices
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Dim a : VB Is Not a TypeOf Misanthropy
After copping a bit of a bollocking at the hands of the masses the other day, Paul Vick has thrown out some reasonably insightful diatribe regarding proposed code re-writing functionality which is slated for inclusion in an already feature rich IDE.
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Useful Custom Controls for WebForms
I've been lucky enough to have quite a bit of exposure to Custom Controls of late and thought that I'd make a short note about the usefulness of them.
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Will VB have the yield keyword?
It appears that the VB team are deciding whether or not to give the world access to some code re-writing functionality that has become loosely known throughout the programming world as "code refactoring". This is a feature where you can ask the IDE to invoke a macro on a section of code rather than having to perform the arduous 3 or 4 steps manually. The thing is that they've decided that their target user either won't understand or (perhaps) will be scared off by the term "Refactor" so, they would propose to call the Refactor function something other than “Refactor” - similar to when they called Partial classes something other than “Partial” I suppose.