Archive for December, 2006

It Was a Good Year for Business…

Posted December 31st @ 5:01 pm by aaron

… well, “our” business anyway. The Indianapolis Star published an article today talking about the performance of Indiana-related stocks over the course of 2006. ININ topped the list by a long-shot:

Interactive Intelligence - 340%
Kimball International - 137%
American Commercial Lines - 116%
Steel Dynamics - 85%
General Motors Corp. - 64%(source: indystar.com)

We had a great year, […]

Windows Van Winkle

Posted December 21st @ 1:46 pm by aaron

Windows Vista’s shutdown/sleep/hibernate models have changed quite a bit from previous Windows versions. Do a quick search to get more information. Here’s a good description of some of the potential problems, and here’s a good walkthrough on how to configure the settings.
Out of the box Vista’s power management is configured with what’s called […]

Control.Trifecta: InvokeRequired, IsHandleCreated, and IsDisposed

Posted December 15th @ 1:10 am by aaron

Talking about Control.InvokeRequired seems like something so old, yet as I do a Google blog search for InvokeRequired I see only partial explanations and haphazard examples. I guess that’s what happens in “sample code world”, but the problem is that too many developers live in that world. (I know I’ve lived there before, and […]

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