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What a PITA. If you want to store an object in the viewstate in ASP.net you need to make sure it is marked as Serializable. Not only that, you need to make sure that every class that it uses is marked as serializable. There are some scenarios that you don’t have to thought: if you [...]

I have been working a new project the last week or so, and it is coming along pretty good. Maybe once it gets farther along I will give out more details. Thing is, I find myself getting stuck on the trivial things, and the not-so trival things, they seem to fall right into place. Goofy [...]

Funny how things change. Today I am going to a wedding for my old project manager at SCWH. It is funny how back when I started and met her, she didn’t seem like the person to ever get married, and now she is. Also, a buddy of mine (Spiller) called me today to say he [...]

This is great. A trailer for a show that isn’t out yet. They are trying to get enough names to get this show on the air. You have to watch it to appreciate it. Warning – there is some foul language.. Check this out Beer League

Well, I was at Circuit City on Sunday, and they had an Xbox 360 set up to play with. I played a little bit of “King Kong”. I have to say that the graphics during gameplay are starting to blur the lines of quality with the cut scene movies. I didn’t play much more with [...]

Well, here is a dilemma. Should you use an Enum in code or a Lookup Table in the DB for static lookup data. Or should you use both and make sure they match up? And if you do, should you make the tables have an identity INT column? Depends on the situation. If you have [...]

Wow, Sony just can’t get it right. First, they release cd’s with copy protection. Then, the copy protection is found to install a rootkit. Then, they say it is no big deal. Then recently, they say they will stop using the copy protection and offer and uninstaller. Thing is, the uninstaller leaves security holes open [...]

I purchased a Hauppauge WinTV 1.5 PVR card recently. What a cool device. First off, I can watch tv down in the corner of my desktop while doing other things. I can record shows directly to my computer. I can use MSN remote record to record a show that I might want to see but [...]

There are many ways to detect flash in a browser, but today I came across an elegant solution that I think is the best I have seen so far, and better yet – works with all browsers, and lets you expose minimal code. With around 10 lines of code you can detect flash, and set [...]

Most of my web developing has been for a corporate environment, where every browser was IE (or we could say – install IE!), but now I have to develop for the internet in general. Today I found that more Firefox issues are handled if you set your browserCaps in your web.config so that ASP.NET sees [...]