Everything Else Vs Vb.net

Posted on November 30, 2006

Today I stumbled across a bit of VB.NET code that used the andalso keyword. If you're anything like me (unlikely, but possibly likely), you'll probably take a second glance. [Read More]

Cvs Sourcesafe Or Subversion

Posted on September 14, 2006

I think that CVS is becoming a little bit too ragged around the edges. There's no support, there's no way of renaming files and keeping history, renaming a directory will make your life hell, there's no list of bugs, and there's no searchable forum for help. [Read More]

Ascended Nethack

Posted on September 6, 2006

</a>Wohooo! I have finally managed to “Ascend” (finish) nethack! You can read all about it on my newsgroup post titled First Ascension. It’s taken me about 3 years of on-again off-again playing to finish it. I was playing a Barbarian - I can see that I’ll now have to try... [Read More]

Metaltheater.com Stats

Posted on July 20, 2006

Yesterday metaltheater.com reached over 200 sessions in a day, which is the highest yet! Since the start of the year the site has steadily grown in readers - the graph on the right shows unique sessions per day. [Read More]

Downloading Entire Blog Site

Posted on July 12, 2006

A couple of weeks ago I discovered Waiter Rant, an amusing blog written by a waiter who works in an expensive Italian restaurant. It’s a great great, and the guy has done over 300 posts! So, do I want to sit there and download them all? Not really.Plus the worst... [Read More]

Connecting To A Mysql 5 Db Oracle 10g Db In Java

Posted on May 14, 2006

Connecting to a database in Java It should be pretty easy right? Well it is, but difficult to troubleshoot. It will either work or won't, and you won't have a clue why not. So here's a skeleton program that you can use: import java.sql.*;import import oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleDataSource;public class DoDatabaseStuff{ public static... [Read More]

Programming Ajax Code In Vb.net

Posted on May 4, 2006

Ajax in VB.NET without Visual Studio! A couple of weeks back I wanted to try doing a bit of Ajax. ASP.NET (using VB) is my language of choice, which I thought would be widely supported. Not quite. Microsoft have a new Ajax library, which I haven't checked out yet, so... [Read More]

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