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Dates are fun. See, by default most dates come out like 5/6/2008. But computers, and programs like them formatted as 05/06/2008. That way, all the dates, no matter what month or day, are all the same length, cool huh?
Well, in Reporting Services, if you have a date field coming back in a dataset, and you [...]

The other day, Microsoft came out with “Microsoft Pro Photo Tools” which allows you to geocode your photos. It is a pretty cool app, but there are some things that I wonder, like why didn’t they just build this functionality into Windows Live Photo Gallery?
Anyway’s, with any new thing I download and play around with, [...]

Not sure if this is the best way to do this, but this is what I do. Say you want to auto submit a form on an aspx page. You can call document.formname.submit(); from the body onLoad event and it will submit, but ASP.net will automatically post it back to itself.
I tried added buttons [...]

So, this evening I got the urge to get Ruby on Rails working on Vista, with MySql. I haven’t done much with RoR, but figured I would give it a go. I have this test hosting account that has RoR hosting, so that is what got me somewhat motivated…anyway’s, on with the show.
 
Install Ruby
Installing [...]

I have been playing around with Pownce and their API. They offer HTTP Basic Authentication and OAuth authentication. I decided to give a go with OAuth since BASIC auth just seems, dirty insecure to me. I started digging around, and http://oauth.net/ has some good info. Under code there is a C# (CSharp) version - http://oauth.googlecode.com/svn/code/csharp/  [...]

I was reading through some blogs this morning, and ran across this one, from my MSDN Feed.
Here is my answer (I wanted to leave a comment, but it wasn’t working, and I figured it would be a good blog post anyways)
Right now you can make an MFC app and it can run on win98,2k,xp,vista, [...]

So, I am sitting here scratching my head again. I use Windows Live Writer (WLW) to post to my blog. I like it, it rocks. There is a plugin architecture, which is cool, and some other API’s for doing things.

I have been doing some coding with VS2008, and have been playing with the .NET Membership, Role, and Profile providers. I don’t use "Web Sites" when I create projects, instead I use "Web Applications" - what is the difference? Web Sites don’t really act like a first class application, there are some weird things with [...]

I have been pretty busy lately. I have some posts that I want to write up, but it seems they are getting bigger and bigger, longer. More stuff :)
Just a highlight, this weekend I decided to do a full drive backup and create a restore cd, I followed this process. http://www.darkchip.com/DriveImageXML/Complete%20System%20Recovery%20Process.html [...]

C# 3.0 and .NET 3.5 are out and ready for consumption, and I have been using some of the new features. One of the new features, Extension Methods, is really cool and can help you consolidate and reuse your code in a logical manner. Take for example, System.Data.DataSet - there is always something I do [...]