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...and successful, though response is a bit pokey. Only running the virtual machine with 256mb ram. will have to increase to at least 512mb...
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The wonderful article by Marc Clifton on the introduction to XNA has sparked some interest from me to look at fiddling around with XNA. My desktop machine doesn't work with it due to the graphic card not supporting PixelShading 1.1. I will have to look into fixing this or just doing an upgrade
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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This is a list of websites that I find of interesting and helpful in my daily development tasks.
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Code Project[^], I know it is redundant putting this one here, but come on it's the best
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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http://www.connectionstrings.com[^] for connection strings to many of the databases that are out there. The site saves me from loads of grief when trying to recall connection strings from the many different databases I work with.
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Op Code Fields from MSDN[^] is a really useful site since I have taken up interest in analyzing the IL code that the .NET compilers generate.
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Reportviewer - How To: Set Page Breaks[^] is really helpful since I've always wondered how to get page breaks to work in Report Viewer...
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Bacula[^] looks to be a very interesting and useful tool suggested by John M. Drescher [^]...
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Not much, other than being at a workshop all week, hence not really been around CP much since Monday...
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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When I first started out in computer programming, it began with a Timex Sinclair machine. I really took off with programming when I got a Commodore 64. One of my favorite authors of Commodore related work was a fellow, Jim Butterfield. I just googled around this morning to see what Jim has been upto, and found out sadly that he passed with cancer this past June.
All I have to say is: thanks, Jim, for getting me into computing
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Finally bought Guitar Hero II on Friday. The game/controller bundle from Target. Still at the Easy level, but have got a little ambitious with Medium .
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Guitar Hero III stinks (not!)
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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We have been evacuated since Monday with another round of wildfires all over southern California. The <a href="http://www.inciweb.org/incident/1005/" rel="nofollow">Slide Fire</a>[<a href="http://www.inciweb.org/incident/1005/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">^</a>] incident is the one that was threatening my home. From reports I have heard that it came less than 1/4 mile from my house. My town has been spared so far due to the outstanding efforts of our local firefighters.
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Back up on the hill
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Now that the school terms are winding down with teaching, going to get caught up on many computer related stuff.
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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First snow of the winter today. Finally!
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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It is now Christmas Break for the next two and 1/2 weeks Reading ( The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose), relaxation, family time, codeproject time, etc.
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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The laptop was getting pretty trashed up. Backed up all my stuff and put Vista on the machine. Seems to perform okay considering it is a 3ghz P4 with 512 mb ram. Will see what happens after installing Visual Studio
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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...and then the Realtek driver took a dump with Vista and the flash drives froze it left-and-right. Hence, I reverted back to XP
"I guess it's what separates the professionals from the drag and drop, girly wirly, namby pamby, wishy washy, can't code for crap types." - Pete O'Hanlon
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This particular thread is for programming snafus I've done, whether it was caused by hindsight, mind wandering elsewhere, or just one too many whilst writing code. It is for my leisure
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Thread for interesting bits and pieces of stuff...
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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From the Microsoft Forum by Paul Clement:
The following will create the table in Access during the import:
SELECT * INTO [Data] FROM
[Excel 8.0;DATABASE=E:\My Documents\Test.xls;HDR=No;IMEX=1].[Sheet1$]
The below statement operates on an existing table in Access:
INSERT INTO [Data] (Col1, Col2, Col3, Col4) SELECT F1, F2, F3, F4 FROM
[Excel 8.0;DATABASE=E:\My Documents\Test.xls;HDR=No;IMEX=1].[Sheet1$]
In each example above the connection should be made to the Access database in order to perform the import.
Found this be potentially helpful when having to deal with any Access projects that require bulk insertion of data. Did a test on the first SQl statement with an Excel spreadsheet containing 72 columns and 65535 rows of test data. Took no more than about 3 seconds on the Toshiba Laptop.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Smart Client Composite UI Application Block[^], suggested by Pete O'Hanlon, looks to be very useful on some upcoming projects
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Windows Vista 32 Bit and 4GB Ram[^]
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Blue Moon Authentication[^] sounds like an interesting approach at verifying if a user is really him/herself.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
"Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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