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I live right across the street from the River City Grill. It by far is the best bar in Richmond. They have good food and allow you even create a tab :)
I try to get over there at least once a week for the Twins game, couple beers and burger. They are having Scott Hansen [...]

New with SQL Server 2005, is the ability to set up triggers on DDL statements. This has got to be a DBA’s dream come true. You can set up audit logs on creates/alters, etc. Here is how you do it (this is just a trigger, you will need to create the table, you should be [...]

If you ever need to run static code analysis on C/C++ files, you can use Vs2005, but if you are in Vs2003, here is what you can do:
c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC>cl /analyze “C:\MyCodeFile.c” > c:\MyCodeFileAnalysis.txt
Found this on MSDN

I have been dabbling with BHO’s for some time, way back with VB6, then tried in .NET, and with C++ as well. There are so many cool things you can do with them. Anyways, most of the documentation out there is sparse and old. I told myself the next time I have to make one, [...]

New Grill II

Originally uploaded by ScaleOvenStove.

Yes thats right folks, even I can do more than geek :)
Check out the new grill I got from my dad for my housewarming party. I just put it together today. Fun stuff. Thing is, I have a LP tank, just don’t [...]

wow, busy lately. Went and saw Nickelback at the Xcel Center on the 14th, that was pretty sweet. Had a house warming on the 16th, that was even sweeter. Now I just need to put my grill together :) I put up some pictures I took right before the party here so check it out. [...]

When you set up payflow pro on a system, you usually are going to use it through the web, you usually dump the certs folder into the inetsrv folder and it works fine. Thing is, when you are using VS2005 Unit Testing, you arent on the web, you can even try setting an HttpContext, but [...]

If you are using caching in ASP.net, and when your cache invalidates, you see some really bad performance or race conditions, you probably need to implement object locks.

Object myObjectLock = new object();
//Use the lock statement to ensure that only one request
lock (myObjectLock)
{
//check again if the cache is not populated by another request
if (HttpRuntime.Cache["myCacheKey"] == null)
{
DataTable [...]

I love weather like I am having now, 50-60’s - nice to open the windows and let some fresh air in, feels like good “cross country” weather :)

Seemed that wherever I went this weekend ,the bad weather just couldnt keep up. Milacs Lake - the rain was back home. Then went up to the Iron Range, rain was still south of me. Was a pretty fun weekend, I have a few pictures posted here