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January 2004 - CraigBlog
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I was going through the FlexWiki code the other day, and I saw this block of code: catch (FormatException ex) { ex.ToString(); // shut up compiler; } I've seen this before: you know an exception is going to be thrown, and you also know that it's safe...
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With a little help from my friends (thanks Tim and Brian ), I got my Yukon problems sorted out. The fundamental issue was that I had forgotten to install the Yukon test certificate before installing Yukon itself. Apparently, one of the pieces is signed...
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The inestimable Tim Tabor posted this on the WinTech Off-Topic Mailing List today: His summary: “Wow”. I concur.
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What have I been working on lately? Well, I plan to explain in a bit more detail later, but this last week I wrote another Direct3D tutorial. It's about how to manually create a Direct3D Mesh, and you can find it here . As a bonus, I also briefly discuss...
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I was listening to Progged Radio today. It's my favorite “radio” station - it's hard to find the obscure branch of music I like (progressive metal). Anyway, a song came on, and I had to laugh. It was the title track from “ Marathon ”...
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While I was out in Seattle last week, I stopped off at MSDN to talk to some people about getting going on the project I'll be working on. One of the exciting pieces is that we're going to be using some really bleeding-edge stuff, like Yukon and Whidbey...
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I'm in Seattle this week, visiting my wife's relatives. As long as I was here, I paid a visit to the Microsoft Campus, specifically to building 5. I needed to sign some paperwork so I can get started working on the MSDN re-architecture again. I've been...
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RNA interference - seems like this has potential to cure everything from cancer to the common cold...literally. (You'll need to register to get onto the site, unfortunately, but it looks like they won't send you anything you don't want if you don...
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I was wondering today: what would a doctor think if he was watching my stats while I was programming? Would my heart rate go way down? Way up? Would an EEG look really strange? I wonder for two reasons: When programming, I often enter a weird state of...
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My friend Rob Engberg and I had a long conversation this morning about privacy and transparency in society. It was pretty interesting: he's sort of a libertarian, and I'm sort of a liberal, so in the end I think we wound up mostly disagreeing over whether...
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I know I’ve posted about Bruce Schneier’s CryptoGram newsletter before…but it’s just so good. Here’s another great article about what’s wrong with the color-coded threat levels (Yellow, Orange, etc.) that the US Government...
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Ted Neward – a fellow DevelopMentor instructor – has taken a new job . He is the new editor in chief of TheServerSide.net (RSS here ), a brand-new website that promises to focus on building enterprise applications in .NET. TheServerSide.net...
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So far, I've been quite happy with Microsoft's Enterprise Instrumentation Framework (EIF). It takes a while to get used to the configuration schema, and there are a fair number of knobs and buttons to twist, but once you get the mental model right the...
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On Wednesday, I got the new 80GB hard drive I ordered (only $60!). First of all, it reinforced the wise decision I had made in listening to Brad when he advised that I buy an Antec case with the new computer I got a while back; I always expect to spend...
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Ian Griffiths has a new blog. Get the (ugly-ass) HTML here , and the RSS here . Ian is one of the smartest people I know, and the fact that he's a DevelopMentor instructor means he knows how to get the contents of that huge brain into other people's brains...
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