OK, maybe I’m being a snob, but I think that the global.asax file is for kids who don’t know anything about HttpModules. Any web app developer worth their salt would prefer to code up an HttpModule than waste time in a file that, IMHO, is just weird. Anyway, this is what I pimped out the… Continue reading Am I a Snob?
Can I get a SIP?
Ok, so I spent probably a week and half banging my head against the keyboard trying to figure out why my Polycom 601 wasn’t receiving audio from an FXO voice-port connected to the PSTN on my Cisco 2620XM router/gateway. I can’t tell you how many times I typed show run, scratched my head, ran trace… Continue reading Can I get a SIP?
HOWTO Get SCO Compress To Play Nice With Gzip
At work we are in the process of migrating from a legacy accounting system to Microsoft’s Navision Attain. The legacy app is running on a SCO OpenServer 3.2v2 box. The guy supporting the app wrote a dump utility that creates ASCII files of the data. The trick to get the data from the box. The… Continue reading HOWTO Get SCO Compress To Play Nice With Gzip
My Nerd Score
A Word From a Sage
In the never ending quest for the ultimate RSS feed reader, I just installed Sage for Firefox. This Firefox extension resides inside the browser and integrates directly with Firefox’s live bookmarks. RSS feeds are displayed in a browser tab. The formatting is based on either an embedded CSS stylesheet, and or an external sheet. Once… Continue reading A Word From a Sage
Compare datetime Fields By Year Month and Day
datetime comparisons in T-SQL aren’t always a walk in the park. One of the most annoying things that someone would need to overcoming is filtering solely on the year, month, and day component of a datetime field. This is further complicated by how .NET initializes a DateTime object. When a DateTime object is instantiated without… Continue reading Compare datetime Fields By Year Month and Day
Return a Subset of Data From a Table
The ability to page in SQL Server is one of those things that everyone wants, but can’t quite seem to get from Microsoft. Many ideas have been posted, each claiming to be _the_ way to do it. In the spirit of mine is better than yours, I’ve implemented my own paging scheme. A feature that… Continue reading Return a Subset of Data From a Table
MT-Do
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Pet Peeves
This notation: if ( null != route) really pisses me off.
Regenerate Deleted Forms Designer .resx File
My friend Andy asked me a few minutes ago how to recover from inadvertantly deleting a Forms Designer generated .resx file. In order to recover from this unfortunate happenstance, I had him do the following: Open the .csproj file in his editor of choice. Locate the <File> element that references the .resx file. Delete the… Continue reading Regenerate Deleted Forms Designer .resx File