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2nd Article on Builder.com
My second in a series of attempts to bring some legitimacy to the .NET area of Builder.com is now online. This article discusses the subject of deleting data in an paging DataGrid. This is a fairly common task but one that has not yet been discussed elsewhere.
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Directory Listings
Caught this thread on the ASP.NET Forums. It's pretty sweet for keeping directory browsing off. Of course, it would be really easy to extend the system into a hyperlink-builder. You could even extend it into a server control that enumerates through the files in the directory for you. Something like that might come in useful. Do you guys think I should write about something like this for my Builder.com column?
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Why Microsoft is a good neighbor
Ran across this article a while back, just wanted to bring it up here. I'm preaching to the choir of course, but oh well. Maybe you can use these in your next discussion with an MS-hater.
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Working hard or hardly working...
I have not been doing much .NET blogging lately, and that's because I haven't been doing any .NET work to speak of. To the two people who probably read this thing with any regularity, let me bring you up to speed.
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GAC Mapping
I saw this really awesome article here: http://dotnetweblogs.com/Jkey/posts/3006.aspx on how to access the files in the GAC. Really frickin awesome. Now I can troubleshoot GAC errors without having to deal with GacUtil. I plan to test this extensively.
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Windows Server 2003
Saw an interesting link online today. It's how to configure Windows Server 2003 in a workstation environment.
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Pissed Off Again.....
What follows is the contents of an e-mail that I sent to MIcrosoft Watch regarding their misquote of an MS employee. Crap like this really makes me angry. I doubt that it will ever do any good, but maybe you guys can all send in enough "tips" like this that they post a retraction,
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AZDNUG
I went to the Arizona .NET Users Group meeting for the first time last night. I had been meaning to go for nearly a year now, but have lacked the means and the motivation to get there. Man it was so cool. I realized that I've been holed up in my apartment too long. It was so great to get to socialize with people who know what I'm talking about when I mention "System.DirectoryServices" and "Bitwise Operators".
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Weather-Related Empathy...
I've been reading all your blogs this morning about how bad the weather is back east, and I have only one thing I can say: I'm glad I live in Mesa, AZ. All it ever does here is rain, oh yeah I almost forgot about the heat. The drought out here has been horrible, and we received a welcome 6 inches of rain over the past 3 days. The earth is so parched that for the most part it sucked right into the ground. I know it's probably bad out there, but just remember we've had once of teh worst droughts in decades, and this precipitation will definitely help out the water situation.
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Early Morning
Just woke up, and headed off to work. I wish I could get a .NET-related day job, instead of this $11.50/ht network admin job, but hey at least it's a job. I know too many developers that are unemployed. It's a shame.
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The Growing Scourge of Global Irrelevance
While I have been using this blog to comment more on world events than .NET development, I promise I'll start talking more about coding in the near future.
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Friday's Security Council Debate
Just when you thought the UN Security Council would get a clue....
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Best Cartoon About Columbia
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Continually Amazed...
I've been sitting here for 2 hours now watching todays UN events unfold on TV, and it amazes me how weak our global leaders are. Bush's State of the Union address was a very powerful opener for today's events. Colin Powell, one of the planet's most brilliant and political advisors, gave the best case to date on how the world is being deceived. He brought it down to the most basic level, so that even Gomer Pyle could understand how it effects everyone, and the other countries. Yet the cowards that run the worlds nations sat there, heard teh same information, and are still convinced that inspections are working. It completely amazes me.
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President Bush's Eulogy for the Columbia Seven
HOUSTON, Feb. 4 — Their mission was almost complete, and we lost them so close to home. The men and women of the Columbia had journeyed more than 6 million miles and were minutes away from arrival and reunion. The lost was sudden and terrible, and for their families the grief is heavy.
Our nation shares in your sorrow and in your pride.
We remember not only one moment of tragedy, but seven lives of great purpose and achievement.
To leave behind Earth and air and gravity is an ancient dream of humanity. For these seven it was a dream fulfilled. Each of these astronauts had the daring and discipline required of their calling.
Each of them knew that great endeavors are inseparable from great risks. And each of them accepted those risks willingly, even joyfully, in the cause of discovery.
Rick Husband was a boy of 4 when he first thought of being an astronaut. As a man and having become an astronaut, he found it was even more important to love his family and serve his Lord.
One of Rick’s favorite hymns was “How Great Thou Art,” which offers these words of praise: “I see the stars. I hear the mighty thunder. Thy power throughout the universe displayed.”
David Brown was first drawn to the stars as a little boy with a telescope in his backyard. He admired astronauts, but as he said, “I thought they were movie stars. I thought I was kind of a normal kid.”
David grew up to be a physician, an aviator who could land on the deck of a carrier in the middle of the night and a shuttle astronaut.
His brother asked him several weeks ago what would happen if something went wrong on their mission? David replied, “This program will go on.”
Michael Anderson always wanted to fly planes and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Air Force. Along the way, he became a role model, especially for his two daughters and for the many children he spoke to in schools.
He said to them, “Whatever you want to be in life, you’re training for it now.” He also told his minister, “If this think doesn’t come out right, don’t worry about me, I’m just going on higher.”
Laurel Salton Clark was a physician and a flight surgeon who loved adventure, loved her work, loved her husband and her son. A friend who heard Laurel speaking to mission control said, “There was a smile in her voice.”
Laurel conducted some of the experiments as Columbia orbited the Earth and described seeing new life emerge from a tiny cocoon.
“Life,” she said, “continues in a lot of places, and life is a magical thing.”
None of our astronauts traveled a longer path to space than Kalpana Chawla. She left India as a student, but she would see the nation of her birth, all of it, from hundreds of miles above.
When the sad news reached her hometown, an administrator at her high school recalled, “She always said she wanted to reach the stars.” She went there and beyond.
Kalpana’s native country mourns her today, and so does her adopted land.
Ilan Ramon also flew above his home, the land of Israel. He said, “The quiet that envelops space makes the beauty even more powerful, and I only hope that the quiet can one day spread to my country.”
Ilan was a patriot, the devoted son of a Holocaust survivor, served his country in two wars.
“Ilan,” said his wife, Rona, “left us at his peak moment, in his favorite place, with people he loved.”
The Columbia’s pilot was Commander Willy McCool, whom friends knew as the most steady and dependable of men. In Lubbock today, they’re thinking back to the Eagle Scout who became a distinguished naval officer and a fearless test pilot.
One friend remembers Willy this way: “He was blessed, and we were blessed to know him.”
Our whole nation was blessed to have such men and women serving in our space program. Their loss is deeply felt, especially in this place where so many of you called them friends.
The people in NASA are being tested once again. In your grief, you are responding as your friends would have wished, with focus, professionalism and unbroken faith in the mission of this agency.
Captain Brown was correct: America’s space program will go on.
This cause of exploration and discovery is not an option we choose; it is a desire written in the human heart. We are that part of creation which seeks to understand all creation. We find the best among us, send them forth into unmapped darkness and pray they will return.
They go in peace for all mankind, and all mankind is in their debt.
Yet, some explorers do not return, and the law settles unfairly on a few.
The families here today shared in the courage of those they loved, but now they must face life and grief without them. The sorrow is lonely, but you are not alone.
In time, you will find comfort and the grace to see you through. And in God’s own time, we can pray that the day of your reunion will come.
And to the children who miss your mom or dad so much today, you need to know, they love you, and that love will always be with you.
They were proud of you, and you can be proud of them for the rest of your life.
The final days of their own lives were spent looking down upon this Earth, and now, on every continent, in every land they can see, the names of these astronauts is known and remembered.
They will always have an honored place in the memory of this country, and today, I offer the respect and gratitude of the people of the United States.
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My First Entry
It's kind of a sad day to start a weblog. Today was the memorial for the brave astronauts of the Columbia. Below is the full text of Bush's eulogy. I will only say one thing: On the morning they were coming home, Cmndr. Rick Husband, while completing the preflight checklist, asked Mission Control if they could stay longer. Unfortunately, they got their wish, and now they get to spend eternity in the place they so greately loved. Thank you, Michael Anderson, David Brown, Kalpana Chawla, Laurel Clark, Rick Husband, William McCool, and Ilan Ramon; for your service to this and your respective countries, for daring to look up towards the heavens, and riding to the stars on the hopes of a grateful nation.