Archive for October, 2007

Writing web apps for the iPhone

Posted October 27th @ 12:01 am by aaron

I’ve been working on a web app for the iPhone the last few days. It’s been a little while since I’ve done ASP.NET (I miss it!) so it’s fun to jump back in. I came across iUI - a very well done, lightweight and visually beautiful “mini-framework” for creating web sites that behave just like […]

Physics Books Next To Things

Posted October 25th @ 3:41 pm by aaron

This is a guest post brought to you by Physics Books Next to Things.
Some Books and Stuff to be Donated

How to easily redirect an email thread in Outlook

Posted October 24th @ 4:25 pm by aaron

Scott Hanselman posted a quick-and-dirty way to disable “Reply To All” and “Forward” (within Outlook, internal users only) for those cases where you just want a reply to yourself.
With the amount of email we get at my company, that’s a pretty useful (and simple!) trick. I used it internally, which of course started a big […]

Having Fun Writing Software

Posted October 23rd @ 10:22 pm by aaron

I was exploring symstore.exe with Depends just now and came across a function in dbghelp that’s clearly not in the documentation. I got a nice chuckle out of it.

What sort of “fun” (not nasty!) function names do you tend to create? Or do you keep them all boring plain Jane? (Boooo!!) The way […]

DotNetKicks "Kick It" Counter Plugin for Windows Live Writer

Posted October 21st @ 7:53 pm by aaron

Some people write pretty quality .NET-related blog posts every time. You know, stuff worth posting and kicking on DotNetKicks. Then there’s people, like me, who obscure the occasional “good” post with a mountain of crap. If you don’t know what DotNetKicks is, I encourage you to check it out. It’s a great community-edited feed of […]

Contact Me

Posted October 18th @ 12:53 pm by aaron

So far I’ve had one call from my blog via Grand Central, but I accidentally sent them to voicemail instead of answering–I was talking with some folk at work, so I was a little distracted–sorry “Robert”, whoever you are! I also got a Skype call today, that ended up being a mis-click. A subconscious comment […]

Proceed with Caution: Strongly Typed Resources Ahead

Posted October 14th @ 4:23 pm by aaron

Visual Studio 2005 made using embedded resources a much more integrated experience than it was in Visual Studio 2003. But what I didn’t know is that there are some important things to be aware of when referencing these resources. A leaky abstraction strikes again!
The Problem
Even though it “seems” like a static resource, accessed via a […]

Indy TechFest Session Schedule

Posted October 7th @ 4:19 pm by aaron

If you’re attending the Indy TechFest this year, you may have noticed that the schedule of sessions, as listed on the website, is hard to visualize (at best).

To help myself (and you) I copied the data into a spreadsheet that I can print off and bring with me. Just highlight the sessions you want to […]

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