Robert McLaws: FunWithCoding.NET

I saw this outstanding article on adding a control to the toolbox programmatically. I'm DEFINITELY going to have to take advantage of this.

Other Axis of Evil Wannabees, by John Cleese

and had to post about the Anti-War Babe. Now, I'm all for the war that will be starting tomorrow, but let me just say this: For her I'd give piece a chance (as in break me off a piece of that!).

Finally, after 2 weeks of very long, hard work, my employers new website is finally online. I'm thoroughly excited, because now I can talk about what they do. The company is myKB.com Inc., and they build knowledge base software. The system is really slick, and the architecture is top-notch. We've been working really heavily with RSS over the past two weeks, and I will be working on a series of RSS-related items over the next several days, including a detailed white paper on everything I'm working on. It may very well be the coolest thing I've ever done.

I haven't had a good rant in a few days, and I just dealt with something that really burns me up, so I'm gonna talk about it.

Does anyone know of a really good TreeView control? Preferrably one with examples I can look at? I need to see if I can find a better one for my boss, because the one they are using is less than desirable. Thanks guys!

Roy pointed to this article about OO SQL Injection avoidance. Unfortunately, I'm going to have to disagree with him entirely about his excitement for this method. It still uses direct query strings, which is the biggest security risk imaginable. There is a real simple way to stop SQL Injection attacks, and it will be the focus of my next article on Builder.com (still open for business unlike Wrox): use Stored Procedures (SPROCS), and explicitly deny SELECT, INSERT, and DELETE privleges on your tables. Think what happens if someone gets your connection string and gets access to your database... they could have a field day.

I wiped my computer today to make way for the 15 disk monster of the Office 2003 Beta that came in the mail yesterday. Unfortunately I can't talk about it due to the "shut up or die" clause in the NDA, however I will say this: My blog now has a new front-end a la Don Box. I used InfoPath to generate a set of really nifty forms in about 5 minutes for all the different web services that ScottW has exposed. I'm feeling a little giddy :). Maybe at some point I'll use the PIAs that come with Office 2003 to run an installation checker routine, and make the InfoPath forms I just created available to anyone who has it installed.