August 2007 - Posts

ConfigurationFileWather?
Just something I thought was a bit funny/interesting. I was debugging someone's code earlier today and I happened to glance down at my threads in VS and noticed this: Any idea of what caught my eye?Yup - the text that says: "_ConfigurationFileWatherThread". Read More...
Posted 30 August 07 08:40 by Greg | 0 Comments   
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Scott Hanselman's Ultimate Tool List
Scott has posted his wonderful Ultimate Tool list for 2007. A lot of the great tools that I use on a daily basis were introduced to me via his previous lists. With a lot of the apps, you don't know what you were missing until you fire up one of them. Read More...
Posted 27 August 07 07:53 by Greg | 0 Comments   
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Outlook and Lotus Notes
About a year ago, my company (a large holding company) decided to standardize all of their sub-companies on a single e-mail platform. Since we are a holding company, each sub-company essentially used their own messaging software. In the US, that meant Read More...
Posted 26 August 07 09:59 by Greg | 0 Comments   
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GridView Grouping and Checkbox Lists
I was helping a co-worker today with one of his screens and realized that it may makea useful little tutorial for all those other folks out there. This was somewhat interesting because it follows up pretty well on my previous postas I talk about saving Read More...
Posted 21 August 07 10:47 by Greg | 1 Comments   
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One-to-Many: What is the best way to store the values?
If you've been a developer for any period of time, you have probably come across this question. If you're given a one-to-many relationship in a table, what is the best way to insert those values into a database. For example, let's say that you had a Person Read More...
Posted 19 August 07 10:43 by Greg | 1 Comments   
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Input Validation
It seems that I always appear to run into this issue when performing code reviews. As has been well documented in various locations on the web - all input is evil, until proven otherwise. Some people attempt to mitigate this risk by providing dropdowns Read More...
Posted 15 August 07 10:40 by Greg | 0 Comments   
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Does Code Recruiting Work?
I was catching up on some of my blog reading this weekend and actually journeyed over to David Hayden'sexcellent blog (more on that later) in a browser window - as opposed to my normal reading in the excellent Windows Live Mail Beta. In any case, I noticed Read More...
Posted 12 August 07 08:50 by Greg | 0 Comments   
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ASP.NET 2.0: OnClientClick
I've known about this for a while, but I just helped a co-worker that did not know about this nifty new property on buttons - so here's a quick blog entry that I hope will help someone else out in the future. In .NET 1.1 days - when you had processing Read More...
Posted 09 August 07 05:04 by Greg | 0 Comments   
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