Scott Elkin

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  • Christmas With The Parents

    A friend that told me the worst christmas story. He didn’t want to blog it himself for fear of pissing people off. He went over to his wife’s family for Christmas. What he was subjected to were: Three people in wheelchairs, a felon and his skanky girlfriend, two vomitings, one catheter, one wanker, no internet…

  • Count Lines Of Code Written

    Scott Mitchell blogged about the amount of code he had written, and I didn’t know of a way to actually count them. There is probably another way, but I don’t care to spend more time then this figuring it out. I found a cool program that will do it nicely. It is called WinCount. Select…

  • December Moviefest

    I got tired of writing movie reviews, and since we saw so many I thought I would share quickies. How I rate movies is would I tell someone to spend $10 on it, vs. Matinee vs. Strong Rental vs. Rental, vs. Rental Crap The Aviator Good movie – Matinee / Strong Rental Spanglish VERY upset…

  • Select Item in ASP.NET DropDownList

    This is by no means revolutionary, but I tell you, I just never took the time to centralize this code. Each time I had to write it out for each DropDownList made me sicker and sicker. What I can say in my defense, and I bet many developers will agree, is that I have way…

  • Eat some Eggs

    My favorite part of the eggs are the yolk. Heck, I thought everyone’s were. But Sam only eats the whites. She does this because the whites have 4 grams of protein, but very little calories and very little fat. The yolk’s on the other hand are very fatty. The other day I found out she…

  • ‘Could not write to output file’ error

    I get this damn error at least once a day when trying to compile. It is sporatic — it happens whenever it wants. I restart VS.NET and it goes away. To be clear, all I am doing is compiling my code. I don’t have multiple instances open, or anything tricky. All the solutions I have…

  • Generate Inserts from a Stored Procedure

    I have said it before, but I use this website as a storage facility for my brain. Trying to find that one useful script I used 2 years ago is always harder than it needs to. Well, here is the latest cool script I couldn't find. It was written by Narayana Vyas Kondreddi and is…

  • Vertical Select in Visual Studio .NET to get rid of System.Web.UI.WebControls

    Don’t know where I got this, but a cool shortcut in Visual Studio to vertically select text is to hold down the Alt Key while selecting a region. I especially use this to get rid of the System.Web.UI.WebControls in the declaration of a page: protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox FirstName; protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox MiddleInitial; protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox LastName; protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox…

  • Prevent Multiple Button Clicks in ASP.NET – How to Implement the Netflix "Please Wait…" Button

    Netflix has a nice submit button so that when you click it, it changes to “Please Wait…” and disables itself to prevent you from clicking it again. before submit after submit I have problems all the time with my users doing this, and I never spent time trying to solve it. You would think all…

  • IFP Members Get Free Netflix

    I thought it would be interesting to many that Netflix has a deal with the Independant Feature Project to give its members free access to Netflix in order to watch the the films nominated for the Independant Spirit Awards. I found this article here. My wife is an IFP member. When she signed up, Netflix…