Archive for 2007
November 25th, 2007
I came from a pretty poor family. Sometimes we only had enough money to eat, sometimes not even that. However, through education (the great equalizer), I managed to work my way up the economic ladder to a very comfortable middle class career. Unfortunately, because of my background I had developed some pretty nasty speech habits. [...]
Posted in Personal | 551 Comments »
November 24th, 2007
If you are a Visual Studio developer or hobbyist (like myself) you probably have heard of CodeProject. For those that haven’t: The Code Project was formed to provide developers with a place to meet and exchange ideas. We hope to provide developers with all the resources they need to help them in their day to [...]
Posted in Programming | 370 Comments »
November 12th, 2007
Introduction Recently I needed a very simple meter embedded into a StatusStrip like the one shown to the right. The ToolStripProgressBar included in Visual Studio 2005 can almost cut it but it does not have the capability to overlay text onto the bar. In this tutorial I walk you through creating a simple progress bar [...]
Posted in Programming | 2,951 Comments »
November 11th, 2007
Checkout this advertisement from the Sunday paper. Data transfers or data backup services for $99! This is a giant rip-off. Look at the caveats. “Cannot transfer programs”. That means they are not copying your whole hard drive but simply some files from one computer to another. But wait… “Transfer up to 4.7GB of information”. Why [...]
Posted in Blogging | 1,230 Comments »
November 10th, 2007
Many of us have alter egos online. I personally hide behind an image of a giant floating three dimensional wireframe projection of a four dimensional cube. I’m glad to see that shy little Shakira can now come out from behind her alter ego, Gerturude, and show me her real self. I don’t blame her; I [...]
Posted in Just for Fun | 237 Comments »
