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  • ‘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 […]

    December 23, 2004
  • 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 […]

    December 23, 2004
  • 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 […]

    December 22, 2004
  • 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 […]

    December 22, 2004
  • 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 […]

    December 21, 2004
  • Momentous Netflix Achievment

    I am quite proud of this accomplishment. I have been a member now for almost two years and feel like I have rated the majority of the movies I have seen. I am sure there are many out there that can trump this easily, but I’m happy nonetheless. I’d like to see someone with 10,000 […]

    December 21, 2004
  • iTunes Albums Purchased For Today

    Coheed and Cambria – In Keeping of Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 Green Day – American Idiot

    December 13, 2004
  • My Netflix Stats

    From July through the end of this year, I have netflix’d 95 movies. 24 of which were Star Trek related. (Up from 22 for the prior 6 months The worst movie is a tie between Bubba Ho-Tep and The Wood. The best was Mean Girls. To date, I have completed the following TV Series using […]

    December 11, 2004
  • My Favorite Blogs

    I thought I would list my favorite programmer blogs that I look forward to reading every day. I use Newsgator for Outlook, so it is very easy for me to group them and read them as a part of my daily business. To be a favorite I look for several things. One, it can’t be […]

    December 9, 2004
  • Lemony Snicket’s – My Thoughts

    I also saw “Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events” last night.

    December 7, 2004
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