4 Feb
2005

Searching .Text with the Google API

As you may notice, I have added search to my Blog.  This is a search implementation that uses Google‘s Web Service API and resides alongside as a simple DLL in the \bin. I have been meaning to do this for a long time and with the emanate release of Community Server, I knew I was running out of time.  I […]

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4 Feb
2005

disable-output-escaping=”yes”

After 2 solid days of total frustration, I can report the following: disable-output-escaping does not work when you are doing a tranform using an XmlReader or XmlWriter.  This makes sense if you think about it.  The attribute introduces the ability to create malformed XML. Use a TextWriter or a simple stream or something. This works: >xslt.Transform( […]

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4 Feb
2005

Zanebug – A Rambling Review

Zanebug by Sean McCormak is Yet Another Unit Test Framework, but provides some very nice features.  Built in event monitoring, test timings, the ability to run tests multiple times, and a better Console report than round out the features. The 1.4.4 Beta version that I am running is nice to use, but does show it’s status as […]

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1 Feb
2005

OpenSource Revolution?

According to Fox News and NPR: The government of Brazil says it will switch 300,000 government computers from Microsoft‘s Windows operating system to open source software like Linux. Microsoft founder Bill Gates wants to meet with Brazil’s president to discuss the change. Brazil is dropping all proprietary software. Does this mean that all software is inherently not […]

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1 Feb
2005

Hacking IConfigurationSectionHandler

Note: This article assumes that you are familiar with and standard usage of a System.Configuration.IConfigurationSectionHandler. Looking to load test a data layer API lead me to Sean McCormack‘s Zanebug.  I am quite impressed so far.  I am using the beta version of 1.4.4 and it seems very capable. There is a feature that Sean says […]

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31 Jan
2005

Jeffrey Lee Parson

Jeffrey Lee Parson was a high school senior in Minnesota when he modified the Blaster Internet Worm script virus in 2003.  Today he was sentenced to 18 months in prison. Now, I am no bleeding heart, but you have got to be kidding me.  It is amazing to me that this geek kid is going to jail to share […]

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31 Jan
2005

HTML Slideshows Etc.

Turns out, these HTML slideshow generators are a dime a dozen.  There is nothing wrong with JAlbum except that it is a bit overkill for what I want to accomplish. I found another tool, Web Album Generator by ORNJ, which is so much easier to use that I uninstalled JAlbum.  It is not as fully […]

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