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Weblogs.asp.net / .Text screensaver!
Ok, it's finished! :) Yesterday I blogged about my Christmas coding session resulting in an OpenGL 3D effect I named 'Bands' and today I've transfered it into a screensaver, complete with .Text / Weblogs.asp.net textures, to say 'Thank you' to Scott and the other people who keep this blogging site running, in a more 'geeky' fashion.
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3 hour coding result: OpenGL bands
On a day like today, 1st Christmas Day (we here in Holland have 2 Christmas days), and a day with no work (some people call it a 'day off' ;) ), the geek inside you gets a chance to eat away some hours with an obviously useless, but fun coding session.
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Happy holidays!
To all the people who celebrate the holidays: happy holidays! :) To all the people who don't celebrate anything in this period of the year: also to you: happy holidays :)
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Signing your assembly, newbie guide
Follow these easy steps. The first 4 steps you only have to do ONCE in your life. Step 5-7 you only have to do ONCE per project.
- Open a command prompt
- Type vsvars32.bat (enter) or navigate to the .NET bin dir
- Type: sn -k mykey.key (enter)
- Move mykey.key to a folder where it gets backupped daily, for example: c:\myfiles\keys\
- Open your code's solution in Visual Studio.NET
- Open the AssemblyInfo class in the editor
- For the attribute AssemblyKeyFile(), specify instead of the default "", the full path of your key, in our example this is "c:\myfiles\keys\mykey.key", so the attribute in full will be:
C#: [assembly: AssemblyKeyFile("c:\\myfiles\\keys\\mykey.key")]
VB.NET: <Assembly: AssemblyKeyFile("c:\myfiles\keys\mykey.key")> - Compile your solution. After compilation, your assembly is signed with your strong key.
- To congratulate yourself with this big achievement, walk to the fridge and pop open a fresh Heineken.
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ORM and O/R mapping
All of a sudden, people start blogging about O/R mapping, thanks to Steve Eichert. Thanks Steve! :) There is however a funny thing going on in some of those blogs: they use the term ORM.
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Children...
It seems some people think they're funny by posting comments under my name in other blogs, or flooding my blogs with crapcomments.
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Summary of reactions on my blog yesterday
I blogged yesterday about my concerns related to weblogs.asp.net, Microsoft, its employees moving to this site and my blog on that same site. A lot of reactions were posted and some good arguments were given. I have to agree that when you have something to say about company X and its products, the best place to do that is where company X communicates to the world, and this site is one of those places. I have decided to stay for now, however Fabrice had some very good points: the image of this site is wrong; which was proven by a reaction of Andrew in the same thread. Brilliant :).
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Is it still allowed to have criticism on Microsoft here?
With the invasion of MS employees and with the amount of solely pro-Microsoft blogs very recently, I more and more feel less at home here, since I have the feeling it is not that appropriate to say something less pro-Microsoft, with all the Microsoft employees now moving to weblogs.asp.net. I'm considering moving my blog elsewhere because of this.