[Rant On] I’m very much pro standards. I’m pro rail standards, I’m pro road standards, I dig web standards and browser standards, and I enjoy security standards and all sorts of standards. Now, when there are standards and some entity ignores the standards it really pisses me off. Recently I’m trying to download various WCF... Continue reading →

While working through some client application services samples recently I was going through and doing a code review, of myself, to see how or were I might be causing myself duplication, have isolation issues, or am not testing something correctly. As I went through I found this little nugget of curiosity. The code started out... Continue reading →

ARRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrGHGHGHGG! I realized after doing a full push to my host again, that my blog roll is decimated! Obviously BlogEngine.NET, even when setup to run against a database, doesn’t run the blog roll against the database. So you’ve been warned BlogEngine.NET users! Meanwhile, I’m going to work on getting that list re-created again. Ugh. …and... Continue reading →

UPDATED 10/25/2008 Code Sections Formatting Fixed With CSS What I’m using is available Plugin Collection for Windows Live Writer on Codeplex. This comes in real useful when getting code into a blog entry. Because straight pasting really doesn’t do so well for readability. So here are my test code pastes. A basic view in C#.... Continue reading →

Ben Strackany has been putting on Open Beer and Open Coffee days over the last half dozen or so months. I often try to attend because these events have great tech talk and other topics of discussion. I suppose that always happens when you get smart people together for caffeine or beers. I’m aiming to... Continue reading →