O dear Mr. Google, why does it take you so long to find this site? I made it for my mom’s collegue and even though you did spot the link on another site you haven’t followed it yet…
Author Archives: basp
Break
March 2005, we went on a company skiing trip. I had never skied before but a took some lessons togheter with a colleague and was reasonably confident about my skills. Well, after about 5 minutes on the mountain I broke my fibula near my ankle when I accidently launched myself over a small bump in …
Could
Today we encountered ASP.Net’s “Could not load type” error. This error is described in http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q306155 but unfortunately the given solution (rebuilt your solution/project) does not work… Duh… We’re professionals here, don’t you think we’ve tried that Microsoft? Luckely, there’s still google and after a quick search we found the solution. Here’s the situation: our company …
ID3
Check jid3.blinkenlights.org for a ID3 class library implementation in Java. This might give me some additional inspiration to conclude my own C# ID3 class library.
Commenting
Following up on my earlier post, here’s a funny post on Code Mansion about commenting Microsoft style.
Spam
It seems the spammers really like the new spam counter at the bottom as it seems to increase at a faster rate since the graphics are up.
Code
Comments are most likely the spawn of Satan and code monkeys because looking at it like this it’s not so surprising that they are almost always distracting or stating the obvious. A few years ago, at school, my teachers used to tell me: “Use comments in abundance” and alas, how blissfully ignorant I heeded their …
Static
Until not so long ago, still an ignorant geek, I was a forthright proponent of strong or static typing. How often have I scoffed at JavaScript, VBScript, PHP and other dynamic languages and their apparent lack of typing. And how glad was I to switch from a classical ASP project to a C# .Net project; …
The
Some interresting facts and thoughts about Microsoft’s CLR Garbage Collector appearing on James Robertson’s blog. I think that we, who are not responsible for maintaining that (apparent) monstrum, should stop for a moment and think about how lucky we are. And how amazingly wonderful it is that the thing actually works! Who would’ve guessed that …
Strayhorn
Well I’m running Strayhorn now. My old (home baked) theme was pretty screwed up in the new WordPress so I’m running Manji for a while. I’m thinking about creating a more original theme for my blog but due to a severe lack of inspiration I only managed to create some funky header text.