February 2005 - CraigBlog

  • Help Beatallica

    You owe it to yourself to check out Beatallica , a band that mixes Metallica and the Beatles in a highly amusing way. I've mentioned them here before . Well, now they need your help. They're being sued by the a-holes at Sony for copyright infringement...
  • Wikiphilia

    Hacknot has a new article titled Wikiphilia - The New Illness . Given my work on FlexWiki , you might think that I would violently disagree with his take on wikis. Well, I don't. In fact, I largely agree with him: people tend to apply wikis to way too...
  • Defaulted Pluggable Configuration Providers

    I still get comments and questions about my XmlSerializerSectionHandler , even though I wrote it two years ago (hey, two years ago this week, in fact!). People seem to love it. What's funny is that I never use it any more. I realized a long time ago that...
  • SHA-1 Broken

    Schneier reports that SHA-1 has been broken . If true, this is an enormous deal - it could have very real security implications on tons of applications. Of course, you have to wonder if the NSA knew about this years ago.
  • Smart Client Dev Chat with Mark Levinson

    Mark Levinson asked if I'd mention his upcoming Dev Chat on Smart Clients . So I just did. :)
  • XSLTO

    One of the best things about working on MSDN2 was getting to work with my longtime friends Kim and Tim . Well, I see via Chris they've teamed up to release XSLTO (XSL Transform Objects, if I have the abbreviation correct). It's a deceptively simple little...
  • How to Save a DirectX Image to a File

    It's been a really long time since I've done any DirectX writing. So as I was going through my email this weekend, trying to get caught up (sorry to those who've been waiting for answers - I'm getting there!), it was fun to sit down and answer a Direct3D...
  • FlexWiki Logo Contest

    FlexWiki needs a logo, so we're having a contest. Check out the contest page over on the wiki. Right now there are only a couple of submissions, so your chances of winning are pretty good. :) What do you get if you win? Well, we haven't decided yet. But...