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# CyWizz said:

Windows forms rocks!!! web sucks :)

Friday, January 30, 2004 1:28 PM
# Armand said:

hhmmm, pdfs full of lorem ipsums?

Monday, February 02, 2004 4:39 PM
# Colin said:

Cool. Three guesses what I'll be using this for...

Monday, February 02, 2004 4:53 PM
# Colin said:

http://www.nikhilk.net/Entry.aspx?id=20

from here perhaps?

Tuesday, February 03, 2004 4:48 PM
# Corne said:

Bits and bytes: So will this also work for some of the people we work with (i.e. project managers, other developers) :)

Tuesday, February 03, 2004 8:44 PM
# Corne said:

I've signed up.. we just need to get at least 5 people now...

Tuesday, February 03, 2004 8:45 PM
# Corne said:

So why are you telling us this, seeing that you will only be doing windows stuff....<a href="http://dotnet.org.za/armand/archive/2004/01/30/257.aspx">proof</a> :)

Wednesday, February 04, 2004 10:58 AM
# Corne said:

ok... html tags not so lekker on feedbacks.... let me try this:

proof = http://dotnet.org.za/armand/archive/2004/01/30/257.aspx

Wednesday, February 04, 2004 11:01 AM
# TrackBack said:
Wednesday, February 04, 2004 11:01 AM
# Armand said:

might be, it's been sitting in my favourites for a while. please accept my most sincere apologies for not mentioning the origin of the link, i will ensure that in future this situation is not repeated. sorry if this grieved you in any way. bla bla bla

Wednesday, February 04, 2004 4:17 PM
# TrackBack said:
Thursday, February 05, 2004 3:15 PM
# Simon Stewart said:

Nice one on the new job.

Expect to go through a keyboard a month if you're using WinForms in .NET. :-| Can be a tad frustrating.

Friday, February 06, 2004 6:54 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Thanks, I'll start stocking up on keyboards then :-)

Saturday, February 07, 2004 11:42 AM
# Armand said:

Cool, we've made it past the magical 5 mark!

Thursday, February 12, 2004 11:26 PM
# Stefano Demiliani said:

My comment is a joke, but my post no... will be true this notice?

Friday, February 13, 2004 12:42 AM
# Armand said:

I see Stefano, thanks. http://msnbc.msn.com/ID/4253584

Friday, February 13, 2004 7:50 AM
# Matt said:

When I read this at 0:00 this morning I wasn't sure if I was seeing things or of this was true...
From the MSNBC article I would say this is true. Scary stuff.

Friday, February 13, 2004 9:38 AM
# Thea Burger said:

http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=17509

Friday, February 13, 2004 9:42 AM
# Armand said:

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2004/Feb04/02-12windowssource.asp

http://slashdot.org/articles/04/02/12/2114228.shtml?tid=109&tid=187

Source available on p2p : http://dotnet.org.za//images/dotnet_org_za/armand/64/o_windows.jpg

Friday, February 13, 2004 10:53 AM
# Todd Berman said:

The url you have for Getting MonoDevelop is a bit out of date, we had some anonsvn issues, however we are posting regular snapshots at http://devservices.go-mono.com/MonoDevelop/ .

The 0.1 release on the 27th of feb still stands! :)

--Todd

Sunday, February 15, 2004 10:25 AM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Thanks, will update it! Keep up the good work :-)

Sunday, February 15, 2004 1:52 PM
# Thea Burger said:

SA Blogs @ dotnet.org.za?

Monday, February 16, 2004 9:01 PM
# Colin said:

If you reverse the current name, you get "Az grot entod". Say it out loud for the full effect. :-P

Tuesday, February 17, 2004 9:00 AM
# Kevin said:

Heya

Can u point me to a link on how to implement a new skin?

Regards
KevinT

Tuesday, February 17, 2004 8:00 PM
# Ernst Kuschke said:

dot net dot org dot zet ay

Wednesday, February 18, 2004 4:45 PM
# KevinT said:

This is a gr8 link to send around my office - thanks. Posted in on SADev as well - hope u dont mind! ;-P

Regards
KevinT

Thursday, February 26, 2004 12:42 PM
# Thea Burger said:

Sounds good to me...and I think Midrand would be fine for most. David and Ernst may have a problem ;)

Thursday, February 26, 2004 3:29 PM
# Hugo said:

Now that s sounds like a good plan

Thursday, February 26, 2004 3:42 PM
# TrackBack said:
Thursday, February 26, 2004 4:15 PM
# TrackBack said:
Thursday, February 26, 2004 4:16 PM
# Corne said:

cool... but I dont drink....do they serve colddrink? ;) *smirk*

Thursday, February 26, 2004 4:28 PM
# Iwan Taljaard said:

Yeah..Sounds good...

Thursday, February 26, 2004 5:11 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

KevinT suggested we meetup after the Security Seminar on the 16th. Sounds good to me, so if anyone has any suggestions for a venue, shoot.

Friday, February 27, 2004 10:32 AM
# Simon Stewart said:

Sound cool.

Friday, February 27, 2004 10:34 AM
# KevinT said:

I'll be there with bells on. Double bells. With ice.

I have left a msg on SADev inviting everybody to come :-)



Regards
KevinT

Friday, February 27, 2004 10:39 AM
# Brady Kelly said:

I'd like that, but now how about a venue?

Monday, March 01, 2004 12:39 PM
# Matt said:

Cool post! However you could also make use of the Web access feature that most mail servers have these days. I do this quite frequently.

Monday, March 01, 2004 8:14 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

i'm using the pop3 service that comes with server 2003 :-(

Tuesday, March 02, 2004 1:40 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Not too familiar with any nice places in Kyalami. Any place that sells good food and cold beer is A-OK with me.

Tuesday, March 02, 2004 4:55 PM
# KevinT said:

I think sticking to the url, dotnet.org.za, as the name is the best idea from a marketing point of view. What you need is a catchy phrase to go with it...I like Thea's suggestion - depends on your vision for the domain really.




Tuesday, March 02, 2004 10:05 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

I'll let it be for now, just need to do something about the frontpage. I've asked a friend to come up with a creative logo for the site. But I agree, a catchy slogan is also needed. Any suggestions?

Wednesday, March 03, 2004 8:06 AM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Kevin suggested Blue Berry. I'll make a booking if everyone's ok with that. The map to the place is http://www.blueberrygrill.co.za/map.htm.

Wednesday, March 03, 2004 4:37 PM
# KevinT said:

For those of you who don't know where it is, if you look at the street map Armand linked to, The Theatre on the Track is in the top middle of the map. (and thats where the seminar is).

Wednesday, March 03, 2004 6:12 PM
# Simon Stewart said:

Sounds good.

It could also be an unofficial SA bloggers meetup too. :-p

Sunday, March 07, 2004 12:52 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Not 100% sure but I think it might just be the 1st unofficial SA bloggers meetup :-) Another good reason for celebration!

Monday, March 08, 2004 9:50 AM
# Thea Burger said:

Thanks, was able to put this to good use :)

Wednesday, March 10, 2004 10:03 AM
# Hendrik said:

I would have liked to go, but unfortunately I already have other obligations...

Hope you guys enjoy it!!

Monday, March 15, 2004 10:52 AM
# Johann de Swardt said:

I'll be there...

Monday, March 15, 2004 11:06 AM
# Corne said:

Can't make the seminar, but will make a plan for the get together....

Monday, March 15, 2004 11:47 AM
# Corne said:

will bring my 'thing' to the 'thing' :)

Monday, March 15, 2004 12:01 PM
# Johann de Swardt said:

Thanks, now I know how to score many pints of Guinness at the pub next weekend...

Monday, March 15, 2004 4:02 PM
# Johann de Swardt said:

I agree with Simon there... Stock up on anything that can be thrown. Take out insurance on windows... I've thrown a mouse through a window once... Also a programming related incident.

Monday, March 15, 2004 4:15 PM
# Iwan Taljaard said:

Ah man sorry I didn't make it guys & gals...got caught up with work :-( Had to catch up on stuff after the security seminar...

So what did I miss? Except heaps of fun...
Should defintely try and organize another one soon, will block it off in my calendar:-) Promise


Alrighty, cheerio
Iwan

Tuesday, March 16, 2004 8:07 PM
# Iwan Taljaard said:

I also posted this feedback on the reminder for the after event meetup... sorry I didn't make it guys & gals...got caught up with work :-( Had to catch up on stuff after the security seminar...

So what did I miss? Should gimme / send me some of the inside info:-) Except heaps of fun...
Should defintely try and organize another one soon:-)


Cheerio,
Iwan

Tuesday, March 16, 2004 8:13 PM
# Johann de Swardt said:

Ryan used to be a friend of mine, but now that I know he is VB positive I will stay far away from him...

Wednesday, March 17, 2004 11:28 AM
# Armand du Plessis said:

It's bad yes, heard a rumor they might start rolling out free anti-retroVBals at state hospitals soon.

Wednesday, March 17, 2004 11:33 AM
# Armand du Plessis said:

It was seriously worth it. Good food, cold beer and some tequilas. Can't go wrong :-) Was really cool to be able to put faces to names etc and from some other posts i've seen it'll happen again soon.

Wednesday, March 17, 2004 5:12 PM
# Matt said:

Cool! I'm downloading as I type. See ... erm, speak to you online!

Friday, March 19, 2004 12:00 PM
# Hendrik said:

We also started using it last week for comms between our CT and PTA office, the quality is really better than normal landlines.

Any idea on how much bandwidth it consumes?

Tuesday, March 23, 2004 11:52 AM
# Thea Burger said:

I was stunned and is spreading the word... the ideal would be to have no more Telkom problems!!!

Wednesday, March 24, 2004 11:05 AM
# Sig Weber said:

You might also want to check my RSS Feed Viewer Web Part published about a month ago. It's the XML Web Part with custom XSLT but using a more sophisticated XSLT (actually 3 external files you can choose from) supporting RSS 0.91, 0.92, 1.0 and 2.0 (soon to come: ATOM 0.3/0.4).

Get it from here:
http://www.asaris-matrix.com/sweber/playground/downloads/forms/DispForm.aspx?ID=6

Thursday, March 25, 2004 10:09 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Excellent, thanks!

Friday, March 26, 2004 6:58 AM
# KevinT said:

Nice one Johann - the new look rocks!

Thanks :-)

Friday, March 26, 2004 8:15 AM
# Thea Burger said:

Thanks, it really looks stunning!!!

Friday, March 26, 2004 8:18 AM
# Corne said:

Well done Johan and Armand... it looks cool......

Friday, March 26, 2004 8:31 AM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Should read, well done Johann. I didn't do anything but copy a couple of files across :-)

Friday, March 26, 2004 8:42 AM
# senkwe said:

>>If you're browsing to the home page instead of using a RSS aggregator like all civilized people do<<

Yes, yes, I admit to being one of the "unwashed masses". It looks great, thanks!

Friday, March 26, 2004 11:51 AM
# Armand du Plessis said:

lol, it's just a facade, when no one's looking i secretly go to all the blogs i follow and look at the actual sites. i always read yours in "discreet blog blue". just makes me feel good about myself throwing around terms like "RSS aggregators" etc, just helps me score points with the boss but deep inside i'm still a kid that likes to point my browser of choice to url and look at the nice pictures and colors and thingy's on the sites.

Friday, March 26, 2004 12:23 PM
# Johann de Swardt said:

Aggregators don't waste enough bandwidth... That's what HTML was invented for... HTML über alles! ( I was kidding, before you guys start thinking I'm an HTML evengelist )

Friday, March 26, 2004 2:04 PM
# Ernst Kuschke said:

Cool :)

Friday, March 26, 2004 3:16 PM
# Anil John said:

Thanks! Appreciate the mention.

Friday, March 26, 2004 9:16 PM
# Corne said:

Very cool.... I never thought you could serialize a delegate in this way.....

Friday, April 02, 2004 8:48 AM
# KevinT said:

This is really useful to know, thanks!

You should turn it into a short article for sadev :-)

Regards
KevinT

Thursday, April 08, 2004 9:45 AM
# Iwan Taljaard said:

Ugh u're telling me, and I see ADSL's monthly pricing is now over R1k per month for Telkom & ISP... :-(

Thursday, April 08, 2004 2:45 PM
# Colin said:

Think happy thoughts....nnnnnnggg! X-(

Thursday, April 08, 2004 2:45 PM
# Ernst Kuschke said:

A good thing :) I'm joining a very exciting project from 1st May. Finally, for the first time, I'll be developing on .NET exclusively. No more (well, I suspect much less) COM. Yay!!!!

Friday, April 16, 2004 10:07 AM
# Ernst Kuschke said:

Cool! I didn't know about the [Flags] attribute.

Friday, April 16, 2004 10:18 AM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Very cool! Congrats!

Sunday, April 18, 2004 4:59 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

test <a href="http://www.google.com">google</a>

Sunday, April 18, 2004 5:00 PM
# Hendrik Swanepoel said:

I'm glad to hear that you actually voted.
I was amazed to see how many people didn't vote!
And its probably the same people that complains the most about the state of affairs.

Sunday, April 18, 2004 9:57 PM
# Ernst Kuschke said:

This has been one of the most usefull article series I've read in ages! Well worth a visit!!!

-Ernst

Wednesday, April 21, 2004 8:09 PM
# Paul said:

I probably should have mentioned that bug... its been around for a while. :( But hey, its only beta and it works well enough to get by. (w.Bloggar had proxy issues for me)

Friday, April 23, 2004 2:03 PM
# Thea Burger said:

A R90 Million bash!!! It is crazy!

Monday, April 26, 2004 11:14 AM
# KevinT said:

After the chat yesterday, i was just about to write something like this myself...i am glad you beat me to it :-P

If anyone getting started wants a copy of my OPML (you can import it into sharpReader) to get a listing of some interesting feeds, just contact me. I also have a list of local (SAfrican) bloggers, and other "mentors" on my blog...

Tuesday, April 27, 2004 5:24 AM
# senkwe said:

How are you connected over there? Been a while since I was at JHB Int.

Tuesday, April 27, 2004 7:08 PM
# Simon Stewart said:

Don't worry dude, I'm sure Johann will be taping it.

That's if he isn't there in the front row with his camcorder....

Wednesday, April 28, 2004 9:18 AM
# Johann de Swardt said:

I think it was the biggest waste of money EVER!!! Why the hell was it necessary? They could have used the R90mil for job creation and building a few of the 1 000 000 promised houses.

It makes me sick that the government uses 90mil for a party while millions of people live in poverty. I wonder where the money came from... The political party's bank account or my tax money?

Wednesday, April 28, 2004 9:24 AM
# Iwan Taljaard said:

Hmm..probably GPRS or wireless hotspots?

Thursday, April 29, 2004 12:19 AM
# Armand du Plessis said:

They've got a very very nice smoking lounge, there's laptops and internet terminals available free of charge. So you can sit and relax, have a beer and a cigarette while reading blogs and watching the planes take off :-)

Friday, April 30, 2004 1:54 PM
# Paul said:

SA Blogging dinner? We have blogging dinners?

When? Where? :)

Tuesday, May 04, 2004 1:16 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

http://dotnet.org.za/armand/archive/2004/02/26/520.aspx :-)

Any suggestions, I would vote BlueBerry for the venue again or maybe somewhere else?

Tuesday, May 04, 2004 1:31 PM
# TrackBack said:
Tuesday, May 04, 2004 1:31 PM
# KevinT said:

Eye min, four shore!

Tuesday, May 04, 2004 1:39 PM
# Simon Stewart said:

That sounds like a cool plan.

Tuesday, May 04, 2004 5:55 PM
# KevinT said:

Brilliant! Thanks for the heads-up.

Wednesday, May 05, 2004 10:56 AM
# TrackBack said:
Wednesday, May 05, 2004 12:08 PM
# Thea Burger said:

In a previous discussion (http://dotnet.org.za/thea/archive/2004/03/17/750.aspx) Kevin suggested the last Thursday each month. I am up for that, but maybe this month directly after devdays.
When booking BlueBerry - ask for a table outside :)

Wednesday, May 05, 2004 1:01 PM
# Rudolf said:

Cool, thanks for the tip!

Thursday, May 06, 2004 2:09 PM
# TrackBack said:
Thursday, May 06, 2004 5:36 PM
# Juan said:

necesito el procExp.exe

Saturday, May 08, 2004 1:54 AM
# TrackBack said:
Tuesday, May 11, 2004 8:49 AM
# senkwe said:

That's one of my favorite shortcuts. It also works in MS Word XP and Notepad2 :-)

Tuesday, May 11, 2004 1:23 PM
# Paul said:

In SharpReader v0.9.4.1 (the version I'm running) and in quite a few versions before, you CAN search!

Just do CTRL+SHIFT+F, and you'll see a "filter" bar appear. It works really well.

Friday, May 14, 2004 9:01 AM
# Armand du Plessis said:

doh, you have no idea how stupid i feel now :-) i must've been blind and ignorant. thanks for pointing this out to me!

Friday, May 14, 2004 9:10 AM
# KevinT said:

At least you are not alone Armand :-$

Kinda of sneaky of them to go and hide it under a menu like that... :-P

Friday, May 14, 2004 9:40 AM
# Corne said:

What... you leaving me alone with these guys? ;)
I can't find rss feeds on the mweb blog site either... I don't think they will have, looking at the way they've done the home blog page... (search and stuff on there)
It looks like they want you to visit the home page to read the blogs...

Friday, May 14, 2004 10:28 AM
# Simon Stewart said:

Hell, this is one of the things I've been under an NDA not to talk about ... and I really wanted to at the recent SADev meeting.

I guess it's public domain now. woohoo

The exact syntax is still under debate as far as I know.

Friday, May 14, 2004 8:32 PM
# Ryan Farley said:

I've been going back and forth between readers too. Here's what I ended up with and why (RSS Bandit): http://ryanfarley.com/blog/archive/2004/05/14/629.aspx

-Ryan

Sunday, May 16, 2004 6:27 AM
# Thea Burger said:

I will be there for a while, have to do the family thing later on that evening :(

Monday, May 17, 2004 3:24 PM
# KevinT said:

I will be there, thanks.

Monday, May 17, 2004 3:30 PM
# Corne said:

dido

Monday, May 17, 2004 4:19 PM
# Iwan Taljaard said:

Sounds good, but also just for a little while :(

Monday, May 17, 2004 4:31 PM
# Hendrik Swanepoel said:

Sounds cool

Monday, May 17, 2004 10:40 PM
# Dare Obasanjo said:

RSS Bandit has an 'Unread' items folder that shows all new posts in all your feeds. Look in 'Search Folders'. You can also create a Search Folder that meets whatever criteria you need.

Tuesday, May 18, 2004 12:52 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Thanks Dare, I found that :-) Switched fulltime to RSS Bandit now.

Tuesday, May 18, 2004 1:44 PM
# Epprecht said:

Sounds great....Trans doing the serving?

Tuesday, May 18, 2004 2:08 PM
# Colin said:

After reading this, I thought I'd give RSS Bandit another try. The features are definitely impressive. Initially I imported all my feeds, update all...snap crackle pop..broken. Every time I opened it, I was pointed to a detailed error message in non-existent error log. Not to be deterred, I deleted all the RSS files in App and Local settings and started again. Now we're good friends and I don't have a bunch of default feeds and settings that I don't use either.

Tuesday, May 18, 2004 3:16 PM
# sav912@hotmail.com (Colin) said:

If you're into generating code, have a look at this one http://www.ericjsmith.net/codesmith

Tuesday, May 18, 2004 4:18 PM
# Simon Stewart said:

I'm keen.

Tuesday, May 18, 2004 8:45 PM
# Thea Burger said:

Engaged...engaged...

Wednesday, May 19, 2004 3:10 PM
# StuartGunter said:

Hey! I'm with you on that one!!!

Love the image! ;-)

Wednesday, May 19, 2004 3:51 PM
# Paul said:

I hope to make it - I have to be in Douglasdale by 7pm... But I'll try be there for as long as I can...

Wednesday, May 19, 2004 4:20 PM
# Matt said:

Still looks like sh*t in Firefox. :(

Wednesday, May 19, 2004 4:23 PM
# senkwe said:

Wow, I'm also about to upgrade from ISDN to ADSL. If Sentech coould get off their asses and improve their coverage, Telkom would be a distant memory :-( Good luck!

Wednesday, May 19, 2004 4:30 PM
# Iwan Taljaard said:

Good luck guys... we had our fair share of crap with Telkom ... should really complain to people higher up than the grunts answering phones

Wednesday, May 19, 2004 4:33 PM
# Iwan Taljaard said:

Mike you wish :-)

Wednesday, May 19, 2004 5:06 PM
# Hendrik Swanepoel said:

When I upgraded to ADSL, I prepared for the worst. My ADSL has been installed for the last 2 months, after something like 10 phone calls. No problemo, I knew I was going to deal with Telkom.
But three months later my emails that were associated to our Telkom dial-up account still hasn't been migrated, although a person from Telkom assured me that they did it.

Wednesday, May 19, 2004 8:16 PM
# Thea Burger said:

Also wish Sentech will speed up their roll-out. I'm "zoned" probably later this year but can't wait that long :-(

Wednesday, May 19, 2004 8:18 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

viva le'sentech :-)

Wednesday, May 19, 2004 8:20 PM
# TrackBack said:
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# TrackBack said:
Friday, May 21, 2004 5:27 PM
# Paul said:

Thanks for organising the dinner. It was good to put a face to the blog. :-)

Friday, May 21, 2004 5:46 PM
# techSage said:

For even more skins, check out the brand new .Text Skin Directory (http://www.sagetechnology.com/Default.aspx?tabid=102) with screenshots of every skin up at sagetechnology.com now. Use the link in header of this post for quick access. Browse the available skins (some just released & others updated for 0.95) or upload your own skins.

Monday, May 24, 2004 7:04 AM
# Rudolf said:

Very nice. Too bad I can't play with source codeat work since they block nntp :(

Monday, May 24, 2004 12:34 PM
# Iwan Taljaard said:

Just one note, there is a reason for the msi not allowing the installation on Longhorn just yet. The .NET framework version differs if you compare the Longhorn version to the VS 2005 alpha/beta version, and this different version could "break" things in Longhorn...the guys working on the project said they'll be bringing out some sync'd versions in the next community drops, etc... Just my 2'c

Tuesday, May 25, 2004 12:13 AM
# senkwe said:

I was just about to post about that Eric Sink response :-) The guy is truly a class act.

Tuesday, May 25, 2004 1:14 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Yeah, he's a legend, or maybe not :-) http://notalegend.com/
brilliant guy!

Tuesday, May 25, 2004 1:28 PM
# KevinT said:

I think this will work well in IT-related companies and other business sectors where the average employee is quite bright. However, I think it would be corporate suicide to let the average joe in the average company loose on a blog...

One of the things i like most about blogging though is that the corporate mofos haven't caught on to the idea yet - blogging is now what the internet was 10 years ago: a vibrant exciting frontier, full of possiblities. I would hate for the suits to turn it into just another marketing strategy.

But then again, maybe that is just the instant esspresso overload talking...

Thursday, May 27, 2004 1:25 PM
# Nathan said:

Glad to hear you are trying Sauce Reader. If you haven't already, please send us your OPML file (nathan@synop.com) so we can debug it. We're working hard to iron out all the bugs, so please drop by our newsgroup if you have any other problems:

http://www.synop.com/Support/

cheers, Nathan

Monday, May 31, 2004 5:52 AM
# kdc@gal.co.za (KevinT) said:

To much time thinking about the new car, methinks... :-P

Tuesday, June 01, 2004 12:15 PM
# Corne said:

Sorry to hear man... as long as you guys are alright... and good luck for the rest of the week ;)

Monday, June 07, 2004 8:14 AM
# Ernst Kuschke said:

Woah! Glad you guys are fine. Hey, your week should be great!!! (After a sunday like that)
:)

Monday, June 07, 2004 9:38 AM
# v-iwanta@microsoft.com (Iwan Taljaard) said:

Sheez... glad you guys are ok... where did this happen?

Monday, June 07, 2004 10:26 AM
# Thea Burger said:

Just phoned them again. They never received my fax so the order was just sitting there. The first woman I spoke to gave me the incorrect fax number.
So the process is just starting over again. Yipee.

Tuesday, June 08, 2004 10:48 AM
# cbuit@hotmail.com (Christiaan) said:

That sux. hope your'e ok

Tuesday, June 08, 2004 4:31 PM
# Rudolf said:

Eish, I know your pain. It happened to me a few years ago - also a sunday afternoon. Some drunk stole his sister's car and went on a high speed trip - straight into me. My car was a writeoff bur at least no one got seriously hurt.

Thursday, June 10, 2004 8:01 AM
# Corne said:

cool.... I also only used double checking, but this is cool.... makes it much simpler.
Q:
So if static makes a reference thread safe, you will never need to use the key word 'volatile' with a static declaration.... am I right?

Friday, June 11, 2004 8:00 AM
# Thea Burger said:

This is real cool!! Used to take lines and lines and lines of code....
I also heard something about the wizards whidbey provides...? That used to take pages and pages and pages ;)

Friday, June 11, 2004 10:16 AM
# Chris Taylor said:

Corne,

Only static initialization is thread safe, after initialization static members have the same locking requirements and loading requirements as any other variable.

There is also much more to this issue, like achieving lazy initialization which is specific to .NET/C#. I think I will make a post on this topic at some point.

Saturday, June 12, 2004 9:56 AM
# Deon said:

Too true. Count your lucky stars. I will only have ADSL in my area by the end of July, according to Telkom...

Almost went for Sentech, but decided NO (after seeing http://sentechsucks.co.za today.

Tuesday, June 15, 2004 10:09 PM
# KevinT said:

Sounds interesting. Could this be useful for Papillion?

Thursday, June 17, 2004 3:11 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

well spotted, definately. i only installed it, haven't looked at the source but it will certainly work from what i've seen.

Thursday, June 17, 2004 3:43 PM
# KevinT said:

You seriously had me worried for a few seconds there...

Saturday, June 19, 2004 5:26 PM
# Wireless2 said:

It is definately horrific. The service is absolutely atrocious. I recommend sticking with telkom for a while.

Monday, June 21, 2004 10:44 AM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Probably will stick with Telkom for now. Saw your site :-)

Monday, June 21, 2004 10:55 AM
# Pieter said:

Still waiting for that bribe! :D

Tuesday, June 22, 2004 1:58 PM
# Hermo Terblanche said:

This is cool stuff. Especially NAnt.

Have been using NAnt for Biztalk 2004 deployments and I have to admit it really rocks!

For those who know, deployment in Biztalk is a real pain....but NAnt simplifies the whole process of undeploying and deploying of assemblies to a point where you can just activate NAnt, and in the meantime get a fresh cup of coffee.

Tuesday, June 22, 2004 5:37 PM
# TrackBack said:

SourceGear Vault Configuration ExampleFor Visual Source Safe you must specify the executable, project, username and password. You may also specify the SSDIR. If SSDIR is not set the default or the SSDIR environment variable will be used....

Sunday, June 27, 2004 8:49 PM
# exortech said:

thhanks for putting this together. i've linked to your blog entry from the CCNet Vault documentation page: http://confluence.public.thoughtworks.org/display/CCNET/Vault
CCNet does support automatically retrieving source from other source control systems -- it just hasn't been implemented yet for Vault, but we're always happy to accept patches. :)

Sunday, June 27, 2004 8:50 PM
# StuartGunter said:

Looks good! I think the webcasts on P&P and SOA are some of the most interesting ones, so it's nice to have a resource like this available on MSDN!

Monday, June 28, 2004 4:28 PM
# senkwe said:

As I'm currently using Subversion from the command line, you have no idea how useful that [tab] trick will be. Thanks!

Monday, June 28, 2004 5:59 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Thanks for the link :-)

Tuesday, June 29, 2004 12:15 PM
# Simon Stewart said:

It does seem like a wierd concept, but I don't think it's anything new.

Sure, as a programmer, I do feel a little threatened by the idea that the art of coding may be defunct sometime in the future, it's not going to happen soon.

If you compare a tool like InfoPath which is built for business-types to make their own "apps", it doesn't threaten the need to have actual programmers on staff.

Sunday, July 04, 2004 12:34 PM
# Matt said:

ooh a new episode!! Cool. Ramzi rocks man!!!

Monday, July 05, 2004 3:30 PM
# TrackBack said:
Wednesday, July 07, 2004 8:55 AM
# TrackBack said:
Wednesday, July 07, 2004 8:56 AM
# David said:

WOW...WOW...i cant believe it is only 96k. The gameplay is awesome...graphics and effects are awesome as well.

Wednesday, July 14, 2004 12:09 AM
# ../Ant said:

Glad you enjoy our blog! Thanks for the link!

Wednesday, July 14, 2004 8:30 AM
# KevinT said:

Crashes fatally on start-up on my machine :-(

Wednesday, July 14, 2004 12:57 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

It did the same thing on my laptop. Works on my desktop though. It is still beta and only 96k so I'm sure there's bound to be some restrictions.

Wednesday, July 14, 2004 1:16 PM
# Ernst Kuschke said:

If we run the world, then why am I at work so early???!!!! :P

Wednesday, July 21, 2004 6:39 AM
# Iwan said:

Interesting....

O and ps, I've also mailed ITWEB to get them to start offering RSS...but nothing yet :-(

Wednesday, July 21, 2004 1:12 PM
# Craig Nicholson said:

And to make the TAB key work under pesky Windows 2000 machines while under CMD.EXE just open REGEDIT and change HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor\CompletionChar to 9. Now open a new CMD.EXE instance and press TAB.. whalla.

But if you are lazy and you wanna change directories, simple use asterisk and CMD will do the rest. So the following "CD C:\P*Files\C*Files\Micr*" will result in "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared"

Thursday, July 22, 2004 2:42 PM
# Corne said:

I share your pain..... especially when you've got dial up ;)

Friday, July 23, 2004 1:52 PM
# Colin said:

You do know that with Telkom ADSL, local bandwidth counts towards the monthly cap? up and down traffic.

Monday, July 26, 2004 8:49 AM
# Armand du Plessis said:

I saw that it included all traffic but after reaching the monthly cap they only restrict international browsing and surfing through a local south african proxy sidesteps the restriction ;-)

Monday, July 26, 2004 11:09 AM
# Colin said:

Armand, you are THE MAN! This is just what I'm looking for.

Thursday, July 29, 2004 10:22 AM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Glad it could be of use to someone :-)

Thursday, July 29, 2004 9:09 PM
# TrackBack said:
Friday, July 30, 2004 12:07 PM
# TrackBack said:
Friday, July 30, 2004 3:25 PM
# TrackBack said:
Friday, July 30, 2004 3:54 PM
# Thea Burger said:

I second that - this tool rules!!!

Wednesday, August 04, 2004 11:41 PM
# Eduard Penzhorn said:

Good one !
Our build manager on my current project is gonna love this!

Thursday, August 05, 2004 7:35 AM
# a said:

a

Monday, August 09, 2004 7:41 PM
# w said:

w

Monday, August 09, 2004 7:42 PM
# ww said:

envio

Monday, August 09, 2004 7:43 PM
# Tomas said:

cool!

Wednesday, August 11, 2004 11:40 PM
# Zeo said:

Armor2net Personal Firewall has an easy-to-use interface and is very intuitive. Unlike most of its competitors, Armor2net is truly “intelligent” firewall software that allows many of its functions to be automatically processed. The application is perfectly suited for home and office and for new users.
For more information, please visit: <a href=“http://www.armor2net.com”>http://www.armor2net.com</a>

Thursday, August 12, 2004 9:09 AM
# Jochen Kalmbach said:

I trie now RSSBandit (1.2.0.114) for several days; and after using it for 1 to 10 Minutes it always says "Sorry we encountered an error" (or somthing like this).
Summary: Good idea but bad implemntation! => Not usable.

Monday, August 16, 2004 11:33 AM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Can't say I agree. I've been using RSSBandit now without problems for the last couple of months. Have you looked at the RSSBandit issues list?

Monday, August 16, 2004 3:42 PM
# TrackBack said:
Wednesday, August 18, 2004 7:34 AM
# Mark Nilsen said:

Thats gotta annoy you intensely! :-)

Wednesday, August 18, 2004 4:27 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

It's things like that that make me appreciate the .net framework more. Didn't bother me too much, I won't go down the same route again if it's not required :-)

Thursday, August 19, 2004 9:21 AM
# Colin said:

I listened to that one twice. Good show. I really started to feel like a "user" when they talked about hotspots in a table, as it is something I have never even thought about.

Thursday, August 19, 2004 10:00 AM
# iran said:

i wont SkypeOut for free

Friday, August 20, 2004 7:42 PM
# Brian Desmond said:

You rock! Thanks!

Tuesday, August 24, 2004 5:35 AM
# Senkwe said:

Sounds very interesting, I'm an MTN subscriber though, wonder if I made the wrong choice.

Tuesday, August 24, 2004 9:36 PM
# KevinT said:

Sounds like a great idea to me. Do they have wireless at Blue Berry?? :-P

Wednesday, August 25, 2004 5:12 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

nope, maybe we should look for a place with wireless. or i can show you my party trick #554 with a laptop, server 2003, sentech and a wireless card, hotspot-on-the-go ;-)

Wednesday, August 25, 2004 5:18 PM
# KevinT said:

Cool - kinda like Survivor, but without the annoying mozzies (or the annoying yanks).

Wednesday, August 25, 2004 7:54 PM
# Thea Burger said:

Blogging dinner sounds cool!

Wednesday, August 25, 2004 8:02 PM
# pieter@psh.co.za (Pieter Jansen van Vuuren) said:

Stop this wireless talk you are making me green with envy, and I don't look so cool in green!

Aand ete klink lekker, count me in!

Wednesday, August 25, 2004 10:07 PM
# Colin said:

blogDinnerCount += 1;

Thursday, August 26, 2004 9:50 AM
# Andre Odendaal said:

Shotgun blogging rights to report on the dinner!

Thursday, August 26, 2004 10:54 AM
# Derek said:

Will confirm with management. aka: Wife.

Thursday, August 26, 2004 4:08 PM
# ../Ant said:

15th sounds great, someone gonna create something online of who is coming and who's not?

Thursday, August 26, 2004 5:56 PM
# Rich...! said:

Woohoo, the Jo'bloggers are in.
(BTW I attended one of these when I was in NY- everyone was really boring and no-one spoke, tables were set up stupidly, we should plan it that everyone gets to interact.

Why not make it official and set it up at:
http://www.geekdinner.com/

Booyah...!

Thursday, August 26, 2004 7:27 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Great stuff! I see geekdinner.com is not 100% ready yet. Looks like a good idea though. I'll set something up online later today or over the weekend.

Couple of tequilas and everyone's talking, no problem ;-)









Friday, August 27, 2004 10:06 AM
# Derek said:

Add 2 to the list. Non-smoking though. Pregnancy and smoke don't go too well together. Besides, I've been trying to convince Thea to stop anyways. :p (Thea's not pregnant. My wife is.) Man, this is one confusing comment. I need a headache tablet just to read it properly.

Friday, August 27, 2004 12:20 PM
# MaLio said:

dinner += MaLio

Friday, August 27, 2004 3:25 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

dinner.WillBeNiceToSeeAgain += new WillBeNiceToSeeAgainHandler(MaLio); :-)

Friday, August 27, 2004 3:47 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Map : http://forums.dotnet.org.za/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=5

Friday, August 27, 2004 3:50 PM
# KevinT said:

Excellent stuff - the new forum engine is magnifico. Thanks for setting this up!

Saturday, August 28, 2004 7:17 AM
# Matt said:

cool! Thanks!

Saturday, August 28, 2004 9:42 AM
# Lucas said:

I am new to the whole Linux scene and want to make a partition for Fedora on my hard drive. How exactly do I do this, and how big should the partition be?
Please respond to dark_dragon14@hotmail.com

Saturday, August 28, 2004 7:28 PM
# Paul said:

Hrm... bad night (although pretty much any night in the week is bad for me :() I'd love to be there, so I'll try make a plan

Tuesday, August 31, 2004 9:47 AM
# KevinT said:

Cool - i didn't even know that was in the pipeline, did you?


Tuesday, August 31, 2004 10:32 AM
# Colin said:

I'm trying to get the release notes of what the changes are without installing it first.

The link to the kb article on the download page is broken, and search.microsoft.com has no idea of kb867460 which shows up at the start of the install.

Tuesday, August 31, 2004 10:33 AM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Try this link : http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/downloads/updates/sptechpreview/content11sp1.aspx

It's from the Tech Preview but will give you good indication of what KB articles are associated with the Service Pack.

Tuesday, August 31, 2004 10:46 AM
# Armand du Plessis said:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/downloads/updates/sptechpreview/default.aspx

Tuesday, August 31, 2004 10:48 AM
# Colin said:

Thanks for the link.

Tuesday, August 31, 2004 10:53 AM
# cesarquintero said:

what you meant "couples of bucks"?

Tuesday, August 31, 2004 5:57 PM
# osama_sms said:

sssssss

Wednesday, September 01, 2004 4:24 AM
# osamasms said:

fff

Wednesday, September 01, 2004 4:25 AM
# armandd said:

ye yey eyey

Wednesday, September 01, 2004 8:02 PM
# Andre said:

Any other persons experiencing continuous dropped line problems dialling your ISP? Up to 2 - 3 times before establishing a connection. Is this another Telkom ploy to generate income, level playing fields as per the VPN’s??? Who can advise in this matter?

Wednesday, September 01, 2004 8:39 PM
# Eduard Penzhorn said:

The process explorer from sysInternals is also quite good at killing processes.

Thursday, September 02, 2004 8:25 AM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Yes, see a previous post I've made.

Thursday, September 02, 2004 8:43 AM
# David said:

I also use OneNote, probably the most useful tool on my notebook.

Thursday, September 02, 2004 10:43 PM
# Thom Allen said:

I just basically just discovered OneNote and started transferring my Developer Notes to this. I also had all these notes in books that may not always be reachable, but my laptop is.

Web clippings, ideas, notes, blog entries and creating Outlook Tasks (for use with the GTD System) is really making me reconsider upgrading the PDA.

Friday, September 03, 2004 2:46 AM
# Andre Odendaal said:

I'm up for Trumps

Friday, September 03, 2004 7:15 AM
# Senkwe said:

Hmm, I wonder how Tivoli got in there ;-) I vote Tivoli :-)

Friday, September 03, 2004 8:55 AM
# KevinT said:

Whilst using OneNote with a tablet is awesome (na nana na naaa), it is far from perfect and a number of times i have found myself quite frustrated. There are basically two things i miss, one is a save button. I know it saves everything automatically and everything, but sometimes i like to prototype my thoughts and then roll back if necissary. The other thing i miss is a propert 'rubber band' type tool that i can use to select a portion of a note and more it around - you can do this with text obviously, but there is no way of doing it with a hand written note...

Friday, September 03, 2004 9:36 AM
# KevinT said:

EadD)(#DQLD:L.

(spoilt ballot, cause i don't have a preference).

Friday, September 03, 2004 9:40 AM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Trumps += 1; // Outdoor & open tables with enough space and people won't frown if we consume too much draught ;-)

Friday, September 03, 2004 9:59 AM
# Senkwe said:

Hmm, good point Armand. I'll do some floor crossing and vote Trumps as well.

Friday, September 03, 2004 10:41 AM
# Armand du Plessis said:

:D floor crossing allowed, well within the 2 weeks limit. glad you can make it senkwe!

Friday, September 03, 2004 11:24 AM
# Derek said:

Trumps. :)

Friday, September 03, 2004 2:07 PM
# Simon Stewart said:

Trumps is cool.

Friday, September 03, 2004 4:11 PM
# Thea Burger said:

Trumps up!!!!

Friday, September 03, 2004 4:42 PM
# matt@dotnet.org.za (matt) said:

Kevin, I've noticed that SP1 seems to make OneNote look and feel a whole lot more "finished" than pre-sp1. If you aren't already running it I suggest you give it a try.

Friday, September 03, 2004 6:29 PM
# Moreno Borsalino said:

I made a porting of FotoVision from VisualBasic.Net to C#. I ported only the web application. I used the C# ASP.NET application to realize a web site with my digital photos that are designed to be used as full-screen computer desktop backgrounds. The images are available for free download in 1600x1200 resolution.
I made available the FotoVision C# source code in this website at : http://www.mybackgrounds.tk">http://www.mybackgrounds.tk

Moreno Borsalino

Visit my desktop photos collection at http://www.mybackgrounds.tk">http://www.mybackgrounds.tk (made with FotoVision)

Friday, September 03, 2004 6:32 PM
# matt said:

No pref; but I'll be there.

Friday, September 03, 2004 7:21 PM
# Colin said:

Trumps++;

Tuesday, September 07, 2004 9:42 AM
# Rudolf said:

This is one cool app!!

Thanks Armand!

Tuesday, September 07, 2004 4:05 PM
# matt said:

If this promises to do what Notepad2 has done to my life; then its gonna be a killer! Thanks Armand!

Tuesday, September 07, 2004 6:08 PM
# MaLio said:

dinner.NoPreferenceList.Add(MaLio);
// just let me know where to be an' I'll show up

Wednesday, September 08, 2004 8:55 PM
# TrackBack said:
Sunday, September 12, 2004 9:05 PM
# TrackBack said:
Sunday, September 12, 2004 9:13 PM
# may said:

helloooooooo

Thursday, September 16, 2004 2:36 AM
# John Hilts said:

Question: How do you setup a dropdownlist element so that it doesn't lose its "selected" attribute?

Symptoms: I have a dropdownlist. When I change the selection, everything works fine, but the toolkit in the page's preRender event translates the item list, but DROPS the selected attribute from the selected item, so that the list box always shows the same item.

Please help.

Thursday, September 16, 2004 8:11 PM
# Rich...! said:

Oh...shit!

*blush*

Friday, September 17, 2004 8:09 AM
# TrackBack said:
Friday, September 17, 2004 4:30 PM
# TrackBack said:
Friday, September 17, 2004 4:31 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

:-) Next time...

Friday, September 17, 2004 6:54 PM
# Rudolf said:

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Monday, September 20, 2004 6:19 AM
# matt said:

01011001011001010110000101101000001011000010000001100001011011100110010000100000010010010010011101101101001000000011000000110001001000000110111101100110001000000111010001101000011001010110110100100001

Monday, September 20, 2004 10:20 AM
# KevinT said:

001101101000101010011100010110101110001110101100010011110011101011101010110111010110

Monday, September 20, 2004 1:12 PM
# Senkwe said:

127150171040141162145040171157165040147165171163040142145151156147040163157040166145162142157163145077040127150141164040141162145040171157165054040126102040160162157147162141155155145162163077040072055051

Monday, September 20, 2004 1:38 PM
# Derek said:

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Monday, September 20, 2004 1:46 PM
# Derek said:

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Monday, September 20, 2004 1:48 PM
# Corne said:

Unbelievable... that is exactly what I've been sitting with today, right down to the error you got (XML attributes may not be specified for the type....)
Thanks Armand!!

Tuesday, September 21, 2004 5:21 PM
# pieter@psh.co.za (Pieter Jansen van Vuuren) said:

Code format for web - http://www.manoli.net/csharpformat/

Tuesday, September 21, 2004 7:56 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Sorry for the formatting, was in a hurry. Will use the formatter next time.

Wednesday, September 22, 2004 8:21 PM
# Thea Burger said:

Yup, using Oracle 9i and got exactly the same errors:
'unable to load dll (oci.dll)' AND 'Could not create an environment: OCIEnvCreate returned -1'

Wednesday, September 22, 2004 9:23 PM
# jbmeeh@earthlink.net said:

I tried to download your code sample, but the zip file was corrupted. Do you have another link to the code sample?

Thursday, September 23, 2004 1:42 AM
# maos said:

I try instaled mono but when i make yum install-complete i have this error :

.......Unable to satisfy dependencies
Package mono-complete needs mono-preview = 1.0.1-1.ximian.8.1, this is not available.

What can i do?

Thursday, September 23, 2004 2:31 AM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Which code sample are you referring to?

-
Armand

Thursday, September 23, 2004 7:17 AM
# KevinT said:

Congrats on your 200th post!

Thursday, September 23, 2004 9:01 AM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Thanks! Will have to post something of substance for 300 :-)

Thursday, September 23, 2004 10:52 AM
# bcblog said:

Very good, thanks,

And there maybe is a small bugs in the code

XmlSerializerNamespaces ns = new XmlSerializerNamespaces();

ns.Add("","");

never get used in the CreateXmlCollectionBaseSerializer().

To get ride of namespace attribute, put the 2 lines just before you call serializer.Serialize(mystream, myobject, ns);




Friday, September 24, 2004 2:03 AM
# Armand du Plessis said:

oops, i see thanks :-) problem snuck in when changing the code from test code into my solution. in the actual solution i can specify the serializer but don't have control over where the actual serialization happens. so for the moment i'm stuck with attributes. thanks for pointing out the redundant code.

Friday, September 24, 2004 9:42 AM
# stavros said:

ewtrhhfghfdh

Monday, September 27, 2004 6:08 PM
# Jon B said:

A simple workaround for this problem is creating a wrapper object for the collection. For example, I have a simple Product object with a matching ProductCollection object that derives from CollectionBase. Instead of serializing the ProductCollection, I created a ProductResults object that contains the ProductCollection object as a property as well as some paging properties. This way I can use the XmlAttribute metadata on the collection and control the xml output of the XmlSerializer.

Tuesday, September 28, 2004 12:35 AM
# Dan O said:

Jon B:

I have a wrapper object that exposes my CollectionBase derived object through a property. Unfortunately, the node corresponding to the collection is named using the ArrayOf syntax.

How did you overcome this problem in your situation???

I would appreciate your feedback.

Wednesday, September 29, 2004 12:01 AM
# Anon said:

nice article, thanks.

Thursday, September 30, 2004 5:55 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Thanks!

Thursday, September 30, 2004 6:18 PM
# Jase said:

Hey Armand, do which of the Oracle data providers do you prefer? I'm entertaining a shift from System.Data.OracleClient to ODP.Net due to a memory leak. That said, we are running Ora 9i and I remember reading somewhere that the ODP.Net works from 9 release 2 and upwards.

Friday, October 01, 2004 7:03 AM
# ash said:

download mono-preview 1.0.1-1.ximian.8.1 :)

Friday, October 01, 2004 7:17 PM
# pedro/knowledge seeker said:

the answer to life is merely a combination of two things!! firstly, no-one knows wot is real and wot is not as they av not seen anything outside of their reality. this leads u to realise that nothing outside urself can be taken as fact, hence wot u see and feel inside is as good a source as any to the answer you seek as u cannot vouch for anything/anyone else! secondly, nothing is for sure, not even as you read this!! anything you learn comes from a source, this source creates wot we are 2day. produce!!! if you could truly unlearn, then wot would you see??

Monday, October 04, 2004 7:09 PM
# Wajed said:

assd

Tuesday, October 05, 2004 7:21 AM
# Dustyn said:

Armand is quite right. Another interesting source of info on ObjectSpaces is the dotnetrocks episode held with Kevin McNeish - see, http://www.franklins.net/fnetdotnetrocks/dotnetrocks.aspx?showid=55

Tuesday, October 05, 2004 12:11 PM
# danieb said:

This looks really cool, i have worked on developing something very similar. There's just endless posibilities.

Tuesday, October 05, 2004 1:12 PM
# Chris Taylor said:

Now it is just a question of when we will get to see WinFS, since it is no longer shipping in the Longhorn time frame.

Tuesday, October 05, 2004 7:10 PM
# Sharad said:

Good One

Thursday, October 07, 2004 8:07 AM
# mohsen said:

salam

Friday, October 08, 2004 8:06 PM
# fff said:

it should be free :)

Sunday, October 10, 2004 11:24 PM
# TrackBack said:
Monday, October 11, 2004 12:00 AM
# radu said:

I'm Rambo

Tuesday, October 12, 2004 4:25 PM
# honeyangel said:

i want to try something new like to make a call to my parents free

Thursday, October 14, 2004 3:26 AM
# Craig said:

Holy shit, that is some serious Excel dev... :o

Thursday, October 14, 2004 10:13 AM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Yep, my thoughts exactly

Thursday, October 14, 2004 11:11 AM
# vaidas said:

la

Thursday, October 14, 2004 1:29 PM
# ilo said:

Way cool. Forward it to our Project office, and the response so far was bril.

Thursday, October 14, 2004 4:04 PM
# pieter@psh.co.za (Pieter Jansen van Vuuren) said:

mmmm Armand,
I mentioned this in http://blog.pieter.co.za/archive/2004/07/05/197.aspx and http://blog.pieter.co.za/archive/2004/06/24/189.aspx!
Now let this be a lesson to you that you should read all the blogs in the world, all of the time or you might miss something! :P

Thursday, October 14, 2004 10:40 PM
# David said:

Damn, you beat me to it... ;-)
I am very impressed with it, seems to work very well.

Friday, October 15, 2004 8:49 AM
# Corne said:

have you notice any file locking issues, that are usually associated with windows indexing service?

Friday, October 15, 2004 1:46 PM
# peter said:

dhrfh

Saturday, October 16, 2004 11:20 AM
# Armand du Plessis said:

No I haven't. It's just really... good.

Saturday, October 16, 2004 11:39 AM
# Cobus Lombard said:

The thing I'm interested in is using their API to generate images from a URL, like the Google Desktop shows you when displaying Web History results...

Wednesday, October 20, 2004 1:38 PM
# Green Dragon said:

Thanks, that's exactly what i was looking for.

Tuesday, October 26, 2004 5:04 PM
# lavio said:

I like a skype..

Wednesday, October 27, 2004 12:21 AM
# lavio said:

I like a skype..

Wednesday, October 27, 2004 12:25 AM
# Kevin Goff said:

I recommend always using the client written by the database provider. When using oracle, use ODP (provided by Oracle). Microsoft's implementation of the System.Data.OracleClient provides only basic functionality and doesn't support all the features of ODP.

When solving complex issues and discussing with both MS and Oracle support, both recommended ODP. We've switched and couldn't be happier. ODP is faster and is completely supported.

Wednesday, October 27, 2004 3:10 AM
# Stuart Gunter said:

Thanks Armand! I've been really frustrated with this too! I can't believe these assholes don't have anything better to do!

The scary thing is that I'm sure if all us devs got together we could do them more damage than they could do us! They're F*CKING lucky we're at least ethical and honest!

Friday, October 29, 2004 7:28 AM
# Stuart Gunter said:

One more thing...

Why not use the random image generator that contains a word that the user must confirm before being able to post a comment? Or allowing each blogger to choose whether he wants his blog moderated. In that case we could filter out a lot of this stuff before it even gets posted!

Shout if you need help with that

Friday, October 29, 2004 7:30 AM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Yeah, but from what I've read last night it seems there's ways to get around the image generator as well :S
It'll have to be a combination of things, I'll try and spend more time on it over the weekend though and see what we can do to stop this sh*t.

Friday, October 29, 2004 7:46 AM
# Craig said:

I had two yesterday, and another three this morning as well. Very annoying.

Friday, October 29, 2004 8:48 AM
# John Rusk said:

Bayesian filtering is getting a lot of good press. I'm not sure if there's much support for it within blogging tools tho.

See

http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html

http://mt-plugins.org/archives/entry/bayesian.php

Friday, October 29, 2004 9:07 AM
# John Rusk said:

I found this post interesting: http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/seichert/archive/2003/08/10/1003.aspx

I've written generation by creating C# source - on the fly - and then compiling it with CompileAssemblyFromSource. I found it to be a fairly productive approach. I think it's appropriate when all you want is the compiled assembly. If you want to generate source code, that humans will read, then I think the style you've used above has a big advantage - the same code can generate output in VB or C#.

PS In case you're wondering why I'm replying to such an old post, I just discovered your blog today!

Friday, October 29, 2004 9:22 AM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Bayesian filtering seems to be the way to go...

Friday, October 29, 2004 12:17 PM
# David Brabant said:

I had close to 20 comment spams on my blog this morning. I don't think using Baysian filtering will work for comment spams, for several reasons (I remember reading something about that on Erik Gunnerson's blog a long time ago). But if you have access to the SQL Server machine hosting your blog, one temporary solution for dealing with comment spams would be to add a trigger on the blog_content table. That trigger would check if the comment (Type = 3, if my memory serves me) contains a URL or not. If it does, you can check that URL agains a list of spammers that previously poluted your blog and delete the corresponding comment if there is a match. Not very sophisticated, but that's better than nothing until the .Text community finds the appropriate solution. If I weren't so busy, I would start to implement something myself right now.

Friday, October 29, 2004 12:49 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Hi David, thanks for the suggestion.

That is basically exactly what I started with last night. I've added and uploaded the admin sections where people can post the suspect urls and started on the comment filter last night.
It is type 3 for comments yes :D
So we've got quite a long list of reported spam url's already, so I'll start blocking them out this weekend.
The other tricky part is to remove the existing comment spam without affecting post counts etc, I haven't looked at that in too much detail yet but that is something else to keep in mind.

The next version of .Text (Community Server :: Blogs) will ship with a comment spam filter afaik.

Thanks for the comments and suggestions.

Friday, October 29, 2004 2:30 PM
# ahmed said:

please in dotnet framwork any method about get caller id using telephone line

Sunday, October 31, 2004 9:20 PM
# David said:

Hi Armand, have a look here: http://meandering-blog.com/archive/2004/10/29/504.aspx; thought it might help!

Monday, November 01, 2004 10:41 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Thanks for the link, I have been looking at some human interface controls. Will definately have a look at that one as well :-)








Monday, November 01, 2004 11:07 PM
# TrackBack said:
Tuesday, November 02, 2004 9:10 AM
# george said:

I am using VB.Net(windows appliaction) to connect to ORACLE database . I am also getting the same error as
"'Could not create an environment: OCIEnvCreate returned -1' "

Could someone give a solution

Tuesday, November 02, 2004 9:21 AM
# KevinT said:

Thanks for the effort Armand - we all appreciate the personal overtime you put in to do this.

Tuesday, November 02, 2004 1:41 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Thanks Kevin

Tuesday, November 02, 2004 2:32 PM
# Stuart Gunter said:

Check this idea out:

http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/demiliani/archive/2004/11/02/30684.aspx

Wednesday, November 03, 2004 10:52 AM
# Abdi Hassan said:

I like this

Wednesday, November 03, 2004 11:16 PM
# free said:

i am chinese,i like skype ,skype is free but skypeout is not free.i want skypeout is free!!!!

Thursday, November 04, 2004 9:01 AM
# TrackBack said:
Monday, November 08, 2004 7:39 AM
# Senkwe said:

I'm thinking about using CC.Net. Are you using these set of tools? Whats your verdict?

Monday, November 08, 2004 9:59 AM
# Armand du Plessis said:

We're using it to automate our builds, run all our unit tests, generate FxCop reports and do our build distributions.
Would really highly highly recommend it.

It supports a wide variety of source control providers including Subversion so setting it up shouldn't be an issue for you :-)


Monday, November 08, 2004 10:38 AM
# pieter@psh.co.za (Pieter Jansen van Vuuren) said:

Senkwe, It is awesome, it has really been worth the effort to get it working!

Monday, November 08, 2004 2:46 PM
# Senkwe said:

Yeah I've been using it for the past few weeks and I feel stupid for having relied on the NUnit GUI all this time. It rocks.

One strange thing though, apparently it supports the express IDE's as well (it does install cleanly) however I don't believe any of those test frameworks, including NUnit, support C# 2.0 yet.

Tuesday, November 09, 2004 11:17 AM
# Roger Weiss said:

If it wasn't the many sites (like http://www.sony.co.za) that simply don't load in FireFox, I would permantly use FireFox. Maybe its a plugin problem or something.

However, the day IE comes out with Tabbed Browsing, I'll switch back to IE. I'm sure the next version of IE should address the issues causing it to lose market share to browsers like FireFox and Opera.

Good things in FireFox that IE should implement:

1) Tabbed Browsing
2) Themes
3) Good plugin architecture. There are hundreds of plugins for firefox that are very cool.
4) Any others?

Tuesday, November 09, 2004 1:12 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Have you checked this [1] out? It's a whole lot of plugins etc available for IE :-)
http://windowsmarketplace.com/content.aspx?ctId=63

Tuesday, November 09, 2004 3:27 PM
# Scott Dukes said:

Ditto. I have been using it since it was still NUnitAddin. It rocks.

Wednesday, November 10, 2004 8:25 AM
# Justin Lovell said:

Additional reference:

http://aspalliance.com/472

-- yeah, I wrote that!

Thursday, November 11, 2004 9:21 PM
# pieter@psh.co.za (Pieter Jansen van Vuuren) said:

Armand, I save my viewstate to a DB table that get's cleaned up by a job. And then I just store a GUID in a hidden field on the page. Yours is much shorter and sweeter, but since the viewstates for my application is huge and we share the server with several other applications we decided to go the DB route. The best is we can now persist a lot more than we could have in the past without using up all the bandwidth and the pages also load a lot faster.

Friday, November 12, 2004 8:17 AM
# Senkwe said:

Scorpion :-)

Friday, November 12, 2004 3:25 PM
# Archeey said:

plz

Friday, November 12, 2004 11:20 PM
# Archeey said:

oo

Friday, November 12, 2004 11:22 PM
# Hiltong said:

I just spent a few days playing around with a bunch of different options including OOP, InProc, session, cache, etc. I played with quite a bit of this stuff and learnt a lot of interesting things regarding some of the advantages / drawbacks to each approach. I'm gonna be posting some of it to my blog within the next few days and I'll keep you posted.

Sunday, November 14, 2004 9:14 AM
# Matt said:

I loaded Konfabulator up and I'm impressed at the eye-candy; however I'm still to find a widget that is REALLY useful.

Sunday, November 14, 2004 8:14 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

i agree with you, i find the weather widget really useful :p but i guess the whole purpose is writing you own little widgets.

Monday, November 15, 2004 6:19 AM
# Arno Nel (Sharepoint Guy) said:

Nookie :)

Monday, November 15, 2004 6:55 AM
# Ernst Kuschke said:

Cool, I also installed Konfabulator last week (& liked the weather widget!) How about a widget that extracts latest dotnet.org.za posts? I'll see if it's possible & let you know ;o)

Monday, November 15, 2004 8:29 AM
# PiersM said:

Started using the spell checker a while ago, works nicely still one or two bugs tho' but i don’t thinks i could do without now... finally others can understand my comments.

Monday, November 15, 2004 8:33 AM
# Corne said:

Well, looking at the summary: 'WEB' based frontend to 'T'elecomms 'O'perator's 'F'raud,'I'nvestigation and 'E'vent detection systems

WEBTOFIE

as in web toffie...

;)

Monday, November 15, 2004 8:39 AM
# Ernst Kuschke said:

What does tho' mean?
:P

Monday, November 15, 2004 9:04 AM
# Andre Odendaal said:

I saw the burning car! Thankfully I was on my way home early because I would hate to imagine what it must have been like with a traffic jam from the fire and hail!

*Private Note* I don't know if it was a Ferrari, it was red, but I think the Ferrari part is urban legend. (Has anyone checked the papers?)

Monday, November 15, 2004 11:55 AM
# Steve Pack said:

Be aware, though, this does not work for Web Projects.

Tuesday, November 16, 2004 2:27 PM
# Stuart Gunter said:

Thanks for the tip! Those are some very useful tricks to know!

Wednesday, November 17, 2004 7:14 AM
# Kevin said:

I had this problem a while ago, but it only happened in a try-catch block(obviously). Thanks for these tips :)

Wednesday, November 17, 2004 7:31 AM
# Danie Sharpe said:

How about Project Pitchfork?

Wednesday, November 17, 2004 10:59 AM
# Danie said:

Thanx.

Wednesday, November 17, 2004 11:36 AM
# pieter@psh.co.za (Pieter Jansen van Vuuren) said:

Hey, good to see you are actually working.... :P

Thursday, November 18, 2004 12:33 PM
# mohammed said:

hi
i would like to get free skypeout

Thursday, November 18, 2004 1:02 PM
# Thea Burger said:

Project PI

Thursday, November 18, 2004 1:45 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

sick joke pieter :p

Thursday, November 18, 2004 1:45 PM
# Craig said:

Looks quite cool..

Friday, November 19, 2004 10:15 AM
# nicn said:

Kewl, Do you think we can start a Sql reporting Services Knowledge base on this community server?

There doesnt seem to be an existing knowledge base on this subject, I think it would help many poor developers who are searching for help on this poorly documented but powerful and versitile technology.

Friday, November 19, 2004 10:31 AM
# sda said:

asdAD

Saturday, November 20, 2004 5:55 PM
# fFSdfs said:

i wanna free skypeout

Sunday, November 21, 2004 10:32 PM
# lol said:

mother fuckers, skype out for 5$. u would not get it for free. lol. n00bs

Sunday, November 21, 2004 10:34 PM
# Ernst Kuschke said:

Damn that is cool - I've got 233Mb to go... (downloading)

Monday, November 22, 2004 9:49 AM
# Arno Nel (Sharepoint Guy) said:

OMG, absolutely Awesome !!!

Tuesday, November 23, 2004 9:23 AM
# Ernst Kuschke said:

Note to self: note this Note to Armand's self.

Tuesday, November 23, 2004 11:29 AM
# Hiltong said:

I also had this problem, also only in try-catch blocks but it was because I had some cleanup code in a finally. I assumed it was crashing because the finally code had not executed, so I moved the redirect outside of it.

Tuesday, November 23, 2004 3:00 PM
# Vimitar said:

:):):):):)

Wednesday, November 24, 2004 2:38 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

:p

Wednesday, November 24, 2004 7:22 PM
# Fraser Tustian said:

Thanks for this - was just getting the same problem and your solution worked for me.

Mmmmm... undocument feature....

Thursday, November 25, 2004 5:38 AM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Glad it helped :-)

Thursday, November 25, 2004 7:05 AM
# ISMA said:

ALL

Thursday, November 25, 2004 7:18 PM
# Thea Burger said:

IMHO rules!!! Formats code perfectly!

Thursday, November 25, 2004 7:52 PM
# Roaan Vos said:

Congrats !!
Thanks for the great site and all the effort you put in.
Keep it going ;)

Friday, November 26, 2004 9:39 PM
# Justin Lovell said:

I think it is about time that South African ISV development came out of the nutshell and displayed itself to the rest of the world. But whilst the rest of the world is easy to advertise to, it is certainly harder to attain any attention with a product that was designed for local usage only. But I ask: can the guys advertise on the local forums where the target audience are? Not yet... that is why they are asking ;-).

Too bad I only discovered this blog site about six months ago... I definitely missed out on a lot of good posts. Happy birthday blogs! May we have many more great blog posts.

Friday, November 26, 2004 9:50 PM
# Colin said:

Big thanks for all the hard work you have put in to make this site great!

Saturday, November 27, 2004 8:23 AM
# MaLio said:

Happy bithday ... ;-)

Saturday, November 27, 2004 11:44 AM
# para said:

how to get free skypeout calls?

Saturday, November 27, 2004 6:24 PM
# Arno Nel (Sharepoint Guy) said:

Well done dude

Monday, November 29, 2004 7:08 AM
# Ernst Kuschke (C# MVP) said:

Congrats!!!
That goes for dotnet.org.za *and* all its bloggers!!! And thanks Armand, for all your effort in getting this up and going - respect dude ;o)

Monday, November 29, 2004 9:11 AM
# Johann de Swardt said:

Hey Armand,

Happy B-Day to Dotnet.Org.Za!!! I'll chat to you about a new skin.

Cheers,

J

Tuesday, November 30, 2004 1:07 PM
# Johann de Swardt said:

I should probably say "New skin for the site" since just saying "New Skin" sounds a tad well... you know... icky.

Tuesday, November 30, 2004 1:08 PM
# Jamie Cansdale said:

Thanks for the links. I didn't realize so many people had blogged it! I haven't even got my post out yet (been too busy doing admin!).

BTW, a few of the links in your post are relative. They should be pointing back to http://www.testdriven.net/Default.aspx?...

Thanks!

Tuesday, November 30, 2004 3:18 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Have fixed the links, happens when you copy & paste :p
Thanks for an awesome tool!

Tuesday, November 30, 2004 3:58 PM
# Josep Maria Vidal (Catalonia, Spain) said:

Es lo mismo que yo probé y no funcionó.
Me faltaba poner "..., YourAssembly" en el atributo type en la declaración section.

MUCHAS GRACIAS

Tuesday, November 30, 2004 6:47 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Estoy alegre él le ayudé:-)

Tuesday, November 30, 2004 7:04 PM
# TrackBack said:
Tuesday, November 30, 2004 8:22 PM
# TrackBack said:
Tuesday, November 30, 2004 8:23 PM
# Tonight said:

Hey, is urgent to get skypeout for free!!! all the world is wqaiting for!

Tuesday, November 30, 2004 10:03 PM
# Roger Fraser said:

I tried that but somehow missed the window of oppurtunity and ended up on next month so I had to borrow some time from the office adsl account! Learnt the best bet is to load up on the 27-29 and by the time the 24 hour period comes up (delayed accounting)even if you go over you are already in the next month so you still have a new 3gb . Also you may notice that the download speed gets very very slow and certain port numbers keep timing out arround the end of the month,not sure if this is a telkom restriction or due to large amount oftraffic.Still with all the bad I could never go back to dialup again just wish telkom would drop the limit and introduce 8mb adsl ;).

Wednesday, December 01, 2004 8:04 AM
# Senkwe said:

So how do you guys use up 3GB of bandwidth? Is it all the MSDN stuff?

Wednesday, December 01, 2004 3:46 PM
# Matt said:

I just submitted my application for ADSL and I'm getting Prolog Plus through Telkom Internet with a 4GB cap for R269/month.

Ofcourse I'll have to wait until January before it is installed. (they're busy, you see)

Wednesday, December 01, 2004 4:03 PM
# Matt said:

Wow, time flies! ...and boy, how much has changed since we first started (i.e.: Blog Spam!)

Thanks Armand for giving us this forum; it's been 'almost' life changing ;)

(..and thanks for the compliment; MUCH appreciated ;))

Wednesday, December 01, 2004 4:24 PM
# Pieter Jansen van Vuuren said:

Roger, 8MB? or did you mean 8GB?
I'm on the DATAPRO Business ADSL, no cap, but it costs me R1345pm excl telkom charges which is an additional R700 odd, so in total just over R2000 for unlimited cap.
Senkwe, I use about 20-30GB a month, no porn, no mp3, no pirate software, some msdn, lot's of sourceforge downloads and a hell of a lot of email, as well as terminal services, I also do a lot of remote development, which also chows up bandwidth, especially data transfers, I also keep offsite backups, and just my dev backups are over 40GB of data. granted 80% of it is SQL databases, but still, 40GB is 40GB. :D

Thursday, December 02, 2004 5:29 AM
# Andre said:

I have the 384 home account, and don't get anywhere near my cap. In the past if I needed to download something I would do it at work and take it home. Now I check what I want to download at work and wait till I get home to do it.

Thursday, December 02, 2004 7:10 AM
# fagmeda said:

Hi there could you please send me a manual on how to set it up on the modem

Friday, December 03, 2004 1:21 PM
# SipSip said:

SkypeOut can not be free, beacuse Skype Company have to pay each SkypeOut call, to the normal phone company. Skype can not give free SkypeOut calls.

Friday, December 03, 2004 9:35 PM
# Iwan said:

How's this for a getting them back :-)
9.5502 GB used in one month

Saturday, December 04, 2004 11:20 AM
# Sanjar Niyazi said:

Cool Tip. Thanks a Ton.

Monday, December 06, 2004 8:24 AM
# Scott Dukes said:

Thought you might find this interesting:

[From <a href="http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/darrell.norton/archive/2004/12/07/35424.aspx">Darrell Norton's</a> Blog].
<a href="http://www.mike-levin.com/iframes/">ASP.NET iframes</a> by Mike Levin – this massive effort has 30 pages devoted to using iframes with ASP.NET. Each page builds on the previous in a logical progression, ending up with pretty advanced iframes usage in ASP.NET.

Thursday, December 09, 2004 12:40 PM
# dieJaxmeister said:

Oh where, oh where could Armand be? Are you on holiday or already capped?

Friday, December 10, 2004 12:17 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

holiday.

Tuesday, December 14, 2004 1:33 PM
# Boris Blade said:

I just installed TestDriven three times and it has no effect in Visual C# Express 2005 Beta - no Run Test(s), nothing.

Do I have to somehow configure it or something?

Wednesday, December 15, 2004 10:30 AM
# Boris Blade said:

OK, it turns out TestDriven works with the regular Visual C# Express 2005 Beta, but not with the Community edition. Installed the regular version, and now everything is fine... great add-in!!

Thursday, December 16, 2004 6:00 AM
# SuperIndio said:

I

Thursday, December 16, 2004 3:55 PM
# Celso said:

Gostaria de fazer ligações via internet

Friday, December 17, 2004 4:43 AM
# Emtia said:

Total lack of ‘service’ received from Telkom SA on 15 December 2004

To whom it may concern:

On December 15, 2004 I had the horrible experience of trying to business with Telkom. I will stick to the facts and let you be the judge of what happened here.

I had applied and paid for a prepaid line more than a month before and was informed that the phone would be installed on the December 15, 2004. When I asked at what time, I was assured that the technician would call a day before to confirm the time.

December 14, 2004 passed without a word from the technician, so I called the ‘prepaid phone call centre’ on December 15, 2004 just after 8:00. I was once again assured that the technician would go out on the same day and would call before he does.

At 9:40 I received a call from the technician who told me that he has been out, but nobody was home. He wanted to come later in the morning as all the technicians were supposedly attending a meeting from 11:30. I explained that I worked until 12:00 and could be home by 12:30. He suggested that he could come on December 16, 2004 and I explained that I would not be home and that I really needed the line on December 15, 2004 – as it was agreed more than a month before. He told me he would check with his supervisor and call me back. I am still waiting for his call.

In the meantime I made arrangements to leave work early and called the technician on the number he used (011 – 4757079) and spoke to a different technician who did not want to give me his name. He promised to indicate on the system that I was available. At the same time I called the ‘prepaid phone call centre’ with the same message. The operator told me that there was a note on the system that a technician would be at my property at 13:00 on December 15, 2004.

At 14:03 I got concerned and decided to confirm that the technician was indeed on his way. This matter was really important to me. I once again called the ‘prepaid phone call centre’, now speaking to Scott. I explained to Scott what the situation was and that I was calling from my cell phone. Scott promised to speak to the technicians and call me back. When he called at 14:26 he basically told me that nothing could be done. He also commented that Telkom’s appointments are ‘all day appointments’ and that I should have waited in the morning. I realized that I had to escalate the matter if I wanted to get anything done as time was running out.

Scott provided me with the number for the ‘Complaints department’. I called them at 14:38 and spoke to Joel. Joel did not even want to give me the opportunity to explain my problem; he said I should have spoken to the supervisors or managers in the ‘prepaid phone call centre’ as they made the promises. He could only send an email to try to assist on Friday, December 17, 2004. When I asked for the name and number of such a person, he put me on hold (knowing that I was calling from a cell phone) and then transferred me to Lungi. Lungi was back in the ‘prepaid phone call centre’. She was not a manager or supervisor, but insisted on helping. She mentioned that there was a confirmed appointment with me on the system for December 17, 2004 – I still don’t know who made that appointment nor who confirmed it as I will not be available? At 15:00 (after keeping me on hold for 18:59) she promised to call me at 15:15. I am still waiting for her call.

At 15:50 I called the ‘prepaid phone call centre’ again, requesting to speak to Lungi (whose call I was expecting), Irma told that she there was no Lungi. She also said that she could only send a ‘missed appointment email’ to the technicians on Thursday, December 16, 2004.

At 15:54 I called the ‘Complaints department’, now speaking to Mariana. Mariana listened and then offered to transfer me to Lungi (at the ‘prepaid phone call centre’). Instead, Simtembile answered. When I explained that I was looking for Lungi and was calling from a cell phone, he launched into an explanation that I should not be calling from a cell phone, but from a public phone. If I thought I could leave home without risking missing the technician, I could go out to look for a public phone. He continued that Lungi was not available, her supervisor was not available (I asked), the manager, Ingrid, was on leave and Ingrid’s manager, Thulani was on the 14th floor while Simtembile was on the 8th and he could therefore not transfer me. I as ked for Thulani’s surname and was disconnected.

At 16:01 I called the ‘prepaid phone call centre’ again, looking for Thulani’s surname or Lungi. Ntombi told me that she did not know Lungi. She told me she would llok for Lungi and did not listen to what I said; instead I could hear her talking and laughing with someone else. When she eventually came back, telling me that she ‘could not find’ Lungi, Ntombi’s supervisor was not available. Ntombi did not know who her manager was. When I said I had enough and I would complain in writing, she spotted her supervisor, John.

Eventually I spoke to John who promised me at 16:17 that he would phone me back. He even gave me his last name, Jansen. I believed him, he was my last hope.

Today I made and received (literally) ten (10) calls to and from Telkom. I spoke to thirteen (13) of Telkom’s employees. Four (4) of them promised to phone me back shortly...and none of these four (4) did. I spent more than an hour holding (from a cell phone) for help. I still do not have the Telkom phone I paid for more than a month ago.

In summary:

- Telkom did not confirm the first appointment
- The technician blatantly lied about a meeting that all the technicians would attend from 11:30.
- After I arranged to leave work early, I was blatantly lied to when I was told someone would be at my property at 13:00 (3 different Telkom employees told me afterwards that the call centre could never give times like that).
- Four Telkom employees never did what they promised and called me.
- Trying to reach a person in the call centre is virtually impossible and I would rather be running into brick walls than trying to call that call centre and explaining the situation yet another time.

I was supposed to go away for a few days with my brother and his girlfriend visiting from London (we do not see them often), but cannot go. I arranged for someone to stay in my property – his only condition was a Telkom line, which I still do not have (due to no fault on my side, I tried everything).I told at least seven of the people I spoke to about this, but they have a real ‘can’t do attitude’.

I lack the words to express my disappointment and disgust with the lack of ownership and service displayed by Telkom. Telkom today wasted my time and energy and money and I do not understand why. I still do not know what I could do to avoid this. Telkom’s employees obviously lack integrity and knowledge of their own systems.

I seriously considered using Telkom as my Internet Service Provider. After this horror, never! As soon as Telkom’s competition arrives, I will leave Telkom. I will also be telling as much family, friends and colleagues as possible about this ordeal. I hope they will follow when I leave Telkom.

I realize that I might be just another individual to Telkom, but obtaining this phone was crucial to me on December 15, 2004. All I got was lies, more lies and empty promises. Telkom’s employees all wanted to explain to me (calling in peak time from a cell phone) what went wrong, but nobody bothered to resolve it.

I do not believe Telkom has the vaguest idea of client service or integrity.

Friday, December 17, 2004 9:21 AM
# julemanden said:

freeee

Sunday, December 19, 2004 10:56 PM
# wei shi said:

I want to make a free internet call to worldwide.

Monday, December 20, 2004 11:56 AM
# frag said:

prueba 1 o algo

Monday, December 20, 2004 1:12 PM
# Pieter Jansen van Vuuren said:

Welkom terug!

Ons moet bietjie bymekaar kom!

Tuesday, December 21, 2004 2:46 PM
# KevinT said:

I'm going to Zanzibar????

Dammit, nobody ever tells me anything - WHOOOOT!

Tuesday, December 21, 2004 4:52 PM
# Kunam Ngalam said:

i would like to get free skypeout

Wednesday, December 22, 2004 10:08 AM
# Craig said:

Hmmm. Maybe I should stop throwing mine away too...

Wednesday, December 22, 2004 5:14 PM
# Saffron said:

Surely there may be some instalment plan. What a time of the year to get someone to pay 10 fines at once!

Cool blog... just stumbled upon it today

Thursday, December 23, 2004 12:56 AM
# Pieter Jansen van Vuuren said:

mmmmm makes me worried as well! :D

I'm of to NZ in three weeks, let's hope they don't get to me before then!

Thursday, December 23, 2004 11:08 AM
# phyreg0d said:

yeah, they do let you pay it off, but I think they determine how much a month you pay... happened to a mate of mine.

Haven't had any of those little slips for a while <touch wood>

Thursday, December 23, 2004 12:30 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Yeah well, I did my best this morning to pay but after waiting for about a hour for their systems to come back online I gave up...

Why they can't just give an account number where we can pay the fines and then we don't need to go them. I'm sure if they make it easier they'll get plenty more peeps to pay.

Thursday, December 23, 2004 1:53 PM
# Thea Burger said:

True, but then you won't get discount :)

Friday, December 24, 2004 8:21 AM
# pierre said:

Un site sompteux comme on aimerait en voir plus souvent.. c'est tout ce que j'ai à dire :-) Ah si ! Bravo ! Merci, et bonne année ;-) A+

Wednesday, December 29, 2004 7:00 PM
# ilo said:

Ugh... that would be extreme programming nightmares in C# for me...

Thanks for the links! Great books. Now only to convince father christams to come down my chimney one more time!

Thursday, December 30, 2004 10:46 AM
# Pieter said:

Hey Armand, Nice job and thanks for the Win 2003 tip!

Thursday, December 30, 2004 12:20 PM
# TrackBack said:
Saturday, January 01, 2005 8:35 PM
# Don said:

Speeding fines bastards! I know I've got a Pretoria and a little dorpie one lying aroung the house somewhere. Need to get my postal orders ready before the cops get their bakkie ready for my ass!

Tuesday, January 04, 2005 9:24 AM
# Ernst Kuschke (C# MVP) said:

Armand, gonna check this out tomorrow ;o)

Tuesday, January 04, 2005 5:19 PM
# Tina said:

I will be around both the 13th and the 14th - in JHB! I will make definite plan to attend.
9i!e=6

Wednesday, January 05, 2005 4:38 PM
# Simon Stewart said:

I'm keen.

Wednesday, January 05, 2005 4:56 PM
# Andre Odendaal said:

I'm there. Blueberry Grill sounds awesome!

Wednesday, January 05, 2005 7:43 PM
# MaLio said:

I'm there ...

// what an excellent idea
dinner.People += MaLio

Thursday, January 06, 2005 1:18 AM
# Rich...! said:

Rad, 13th is cool for me...!

Thursday, January 06, 2005 10:13 AM
# D'ave said:

Sounds like a hoot. I'm in for the 13th.

Thursday, January 06, 2005 10:53 AM
# Don said:

Count me in too. Splattermail's paying right?

Thursday, January 06, 2005 11:20 AM
# Thea Burger said:

Yeah, lets celebrate the new year!! :)

Thursday, January 06, 2005 11:20 AM
# Craig said:

If I don't find anyone cooler to hang out with I'll be there..

Thursday, January 06, 2005 11:22 AM
# Don said:

There's no chance!

Thursday, January 06, 2005 1:54 PM
# Ryan CrawCour said:

i aint square; so i'll be there

Thursday, January 06, 2005 2:36 PM
# The Salami from Killarney said:

The Salami from Killarney and smg (still in Transkei) from Splattermail will be there. But you guys can all get f*cked if you think we're paying.

Thursday, January 06, 2005 3:48 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

riiight, be a stingy bastard then...

Thursday, January 06, 2005 5:40 PM
# Roaan Vos said:

Without being funny, I wonder how suceptable this will be to malicious attack?

Thursday, January 06, 2005 5:48 PM
# TrackBack said:
Thursday, January 06, 2005 8:02 PM
# Janco said:

OK that's it. Now it's my turn to earn a quick retirement. I bet the guys from Giant Company Software are smiling all the way to the bank... ;)

Friday, January 07, 2005 6:54 AM
# Aquila said:

I think I can make it - I'll be there.

Friday, January 07, 2005 10:18 AM
# Colin said:

+1

Friday, January 07, 2005 12:04 PM
# Hilton Giesenow said:

... or the blogs on MSN, blogger, etc. etc. etc. Also, they didn't give a link to Goldstuck's blog, if he has one ;-)

Friday, January 07, 2005 3:09 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

No he hasn't afaik. check out www.gadget.co.za or www.theworx.biz.
that's the closest to his blog you'll come i reckon :p
will see what his predictions is once he's got his own blog :p

Friday, January 07, 2005 4:05 PM
# KevinT said:

I'll be there (so confirm Craig's attendance as well).

Saturday, January 08, 2005 11:31 AM
# Georgi from Bulgaria said:

I want skype OUT for free,you awlays want money...$$$...Money...money...I hope you change your mind about the Skype OUT

Tuesday, January 11, 2005 12:01 AM
# Arno Nel (Sharepoint Guy) said:

If its on Thurs, then i can also make it

Tuesday, January 11, 2005 9:48 AM
# Derek said:

The AS/400 programmer will be there too. ;)

Tuesday, January 11, 2005 12:59 PM
# Thi Nguyen said:

How can i get free skype free?

Tuesday, January 11, 2005 6:47 PM
# NealeF said:

So can new guys make an appearance???

Wednesday, January 12, 2005 8:14 AM
# Armand du Plessis said:

For sure, the more the merrier :-)

Wednesday, January 12, 2005 8:51 AM
# TrackBack said:
Wednesday, January 12, 2005 7:24 PM
# Icecoder said:

Hey Sounds like a great Idea!! I will write a test to ensure I will make it...

Wednesday, January 12, 2005 8:40 PM
# Icecoder said:

Hey Sounds like a great Idea!! I will write a test to ensure I will make it...

Wednesday, January 12, 2005 8:40 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Assert.IsTrue(BloggingDinner.Attendees.Contains(David.Winslow)); :-)

Thursday, January 13, 2005 7:38 AM
# Triads said:

then i can free call ???

Thursday, January 13, 2005 4:04 PM
# yuppi said:

may give mevsenard 1 iso

Friday, January 14, 2005 11:09 AM
# Rein Petersen said:

I like the solution - until you want to deserialize the xml back into an object - doh.

I think I just have to accept that my collection can't be the root node and use the workaround Jon B described - too bad cuz otherwise, it serialized perfectly.

Friday, January 14, 2005 10:42 PM
# robin said:

Thanks!

On my developing machine i had a global.asax with an empty Session_Start() and my hash based on the sessionId worked fine. But on the deploying machine there was no global.asax at all, so it allmost made me nuts...Thanks again

Saturday, January 15, 2005 1:46 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

glad it could help you!

Monday, January 17, 2005 7:44 AM
# David Peyton said:

The bandwidth consumption by Skype is very minimal.

The FAQ on the Skype website that during an active converstaion, Skype uses between 3-16 kb/s. The is quite accurate. I have had 2 long distance calls to China (45 mins each) and noticed that each time between 15-20mb were used.

So dont worry about the bandwidth usage.. not only because of this, but also because February 1 is looming with much anticipated changes....

Monday, January 17, 2005 6:11 PM
# Ionic Shade said:

Glad it worked out for you . . .

Tuesday, January 18, 2005 5:13 AM
# PeterGomez said:

I don't want SkypeOut for free, I want phone calls for free ;-) gimme!

Tuesday, January 18, 2005 11:20 AM
# Stuart Gunter said:

A useful link that surprisingly few people know about is: http://www.smscode.co.za/

This is where you can find out who's sent you an sms (commercial only), and report them if it's unsolicited. I'm sure most people know that SA is pretty geared up legally to prevent this kind of thing. So report any spam sms and hopefully it'll get dealt with.

Unfortunately there are always other ways around it. But you should bitch to CellC!

Wednesday, January 19, 2005 10:57 AM
# Kevin Jaako said:

That's a really interesting example, because its not an online based community, like the others. It certainly brings up the possibility for encounters where people would repeatedly see each other at the gym but never really meet, which is certainly a different form of community from the others.

I will recall the example I used last week with the online forum futureproducers.com. This is a perfect example of a Gemeinschaft type community. The entire premise of the forum is built around the concept of helping others out, giving advice and basically being able to tap into a large source of knowledge.

An interesting example of Gesellschaft I think would be SETI@home, or the search for extra terrestrial life at home, which is a special screensaver you can download that will use your computer's unused cycles to decode radiotelescope data. This community is definitely bound together by the search for extra terrestrial life, even though they never meet or interact.

Thursday, January 20, 2005 6:03 AM
# Andre Odendaal said:

Looks like we're going to have to become super-smart consumers. I also subscribed to this service and without carefully watching it sent an invitation to my 100+ strong contacts in my MSN messenger. When other unwitting people subscribe to this service, it sends an email back to me, asking if I want to join!

Thankfully, I haven't received any SMS spam or otherwise from the service, but I'll make sure I unsubscribe.

Is this the start of American-style force-feed consumerism in our country? (YOU WILL BUY NOW!!!)

Thursday, January 20, 2005 7:44 AM
# Armand du Plessis said:

I don't know, why don't you ask google?

Thursday, January 20, 2005 8:41 AM
# Michael said:

Did you check TargetProcess:Planning?
http://www.targetprocess.com
It is free and provide the same functionality as XP StoryStudio.

Thursday, January 20, 2005 4:02 PM
# Anthony Clayton said:

We bought C# Refactory in the beginning, but now we all think ReSharper is better. It does not have a smany refactorings as C# Refactory right now, but they are adding more and more. And it has some other features that are very nice.

www.jetbrains.com/resharper

Thursday, January 20, 2005 8:00 PM
# John Rusk said:

How does it compare to Resharper?

Thursday, January 20, 2005 8:01 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

I've only got Coderush and Refactory installed at the moment. I had some issues with ReSharper but is keen to try it again.

Thursday, January 20, 2005 8:19 PM
# Rudolf said:

I also used ReSharper for a while (still got it installed) but it completely screw up VS when u start doing compact framework stuff. Don't know why.

Friday, January 21, 2005 9:30 AM
# Senkwe said:

Ahh, yes, I knew about this class from way back but couldn't remember the specifics when a colleague asked about extracting month names from dates (yesterday in fact). Who says blogs aren't useful? :-D Thanks!!

Friday, January 28, 2005 6:35 PM
# luis said:

buena onda me gusta el skype porque es mas facil sacar las llamadas

Saturday, January 29, 2005 12:33 AM
# rafik said:

i need call by the skype system but it's impossible please help to charge free skype out

Sunday, January 30, 2005 2:22 PM
# nick said:

a

Monday, January 31, 2005 7:06 PM
# TrackBack said:
Tuesday, February 01, 2005 12:49 AM
# TrackBack said:
Tuesday, February 01, 2005 12:50 AM
# Pieter said:

Aaaaaaagh! :D
Been there, done that, got the T-Shirt!

Thursday, February 03, 2005 3:37 AM
# Pieter said:

ooooh what happened there?
I tried to post from RSS Bandit, then realized that you have this new comment validation and then added the comment through the browser, enad now I see there is two entries! Not sure what happened there!

Thursday, February 03, 2005 3:41 AM
# Pieter said:

I'm also a Resharper fan. It does do some strange things some times, but more than makes up for that with its features

Thursday, February 03, 2005 4:33 AM
# Mongo-Matty said:

"Microsoft SQL to MySQL" A medal for you for making choices like this. Jolly well done.

Thursday, February 03, 2005 7:15 AM
# Armand said:

Now I'm up to a medal and a T-Shirt for my stupidity :p

PS. My database of choice is and always will be Microsoft SQL. I've had the opportunity to work with quite a couple of database engines in the past and still prefer mssql.
The clients requirements called for a conversion to MySQL due to some licensing concerns.

Thursday, February 03, 2005 9:37 AM
# Omshaath said:

I used session variables to store the viewstate, and I distinguished the state for each page by using Guid, and every thing goes fine.

private string GetPageGuid() {
//on executing SavePageStateToPersistenceMedium on first load, then this.Request.Form["pageGuid"] will return string.Empty
//on executing LoadPageStateFromPersistenceMedium , then pageGuid.Value will return string.Empty since the this.Request.Form will be not populated.
return pageGuid.Value == string.Empty ? this.Request.Form["pageGuid"] : pageGuid.Value;
}

protected override object LoadPageStateFromPersistenceMedium() {
return Session[GetPageGuid()];
}

protected override void SavePageStateToPersistenceMedium(object viewState) {
Session[GetPageGuid()] = viewState;
}
protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e) {
base.OnLoad (e);
if(!this.IsPostBack) {
pageGuid.Value = Guid.NewGuid().ToString();
}
}

Tuesday, February 08, 2005 2:49 PM
# Rudolf said:

I think I found a problem with this library particularly with the FindFirstFile API call. They seem to have incorrect parameters or something. I found a independant C# sample using the API and the structure they pass to the API looks different - hmmm

Wednesday, February 09, 2005 8:17 AM
# Ernst said:

Wow, this sounds coooool...
Curious - what's the difference in the parameters passed that you spoke of Rudolf?

Wednesday, February 09, 2005 8:31 AM
# Ernst said:

That's strange - when I hit that link with Firefox - nao problemas.

Wednesday, February 09, 2005 8:36 AM
# Armand said:

For FindFirstFile, except for performance reasons why wouldn't you used the managed wrappers in System.IO?
I assume you're speaking of a difference in the WIN32_FIND_DATA structure? I haven't tried the FindFirstFile, FindNextFile etc from the library but will give it a go later.

Wednesday, February 09, 2005 9:06 AM
# Rudolf said:

My reason was exactly for that - performance. I have a network share with potentially 100000+ files in it that I want to monitor. The managed wrappers could not handle that.

Wednesday, February 09, 2005 9:53 AM
# nathan said:

ok

Thursday, February 10, 2005 12:04 AM
# Swannno said:

I'm actually having this problem with any browser I use, as long as it's coming from my IP, if anyone knows what's wrong or how to solve this, please let me know at swannno AT hotmail DOT com. It's frustrating because I can't even google the problem from my home computer!

Thursday, February 10, 2005 6:53 AM
# TrackBack said:
Thursday, February 10, 2005 3:02 PM
# Ayella Andrew said:

Why is it not possible to call offline friends on phone and mobile,yet we pay for skype through the use of internet?
If this facility is availed,it wouls gain alot of popularity to the other means of communication.

Friday, February 11, 2005 9:54 AM
# shady said:

there is another software 2 make free calls its called pulver communcation

Friday, February 11, 2005 1:35 PM
# Claudio Pacciarini said:

Armand: congratulations for your amazing article and very beautiful solution implementation. Saved me days/weeks of R&D!
Thanks!

Claudio Pacciarini

Friday, February 11, 2005 8:34 PM
# Armand said:

I'm glad it helped really!

Saturday, February 12, 2005 4:26 PM
# reda said:

i looking for the answer how to get skypeout

Monday, February 14, 2005 3:08 AM
# Jorge said:

It happens the same to me... What the hell is Google doing?? I`m not infected.

I`m changing to Yahoo in the Firefox search tool and I will foruet the fu***ng google.

Wednesday, February 16, 2005 10:35 AM
# Matt said:

Is it recognised by Windows XPSP2 Security Centre?

Wednesday, February 16, 2005 3:52 PM
# Armand said:

Not sure, i'm running 2k3

Wednesday, February 16, 2005 4:27 PM
# Kyle Schultz said:

Great Stuff Armand. I do have one question though: what is the proper way to pass an array structure to DSOP_INIT_INFO.apwzAttributeNames? I get null pointer problems when I (badly) Marshal an array to pass to COM. Any suggestions?

Wednesday, February 16, 2005 10:03 PM
# Chirs Weber said:

Here is the solution to the issue raised by Rein Petersen. Just make sure you use the same root element that you told it to serialize as.

static public object Load(string XMLString, Type t)
{

XmlSerializer mySerializer =
new XmlSerializer(t,new System.Xml.Serialization.XmlRootAttribute("Packages"));

StringReader myReader =
new StringReader(XMLString);

return mySerializer.Deserialize(myReader);

} // Load

Friday, February 18, 2005 5:25 AM
# Chris Weber said:

Sorry let me make that a little clearer if I may:

static public object Load(string XMLString, Type t, string RootElementName)
{

XmlSerializer mySerializer =
new XmlSerializer(t,new System.Xml.Serialization.XmlRootAttribute(RootElementName));

StringReader myReader =
new StringReader(XMLString);

return mySerializer.Deserialize(myReader);

} // Load

Friday, February 18, 2005 5:27 AM
# Armand said:

Thanks Chris

Friday, February 18, 2005 5:52 AM
# TrackBack said:
Sunday, February 20, 2005 10:37 AM
# Ernst Kuschke said:

Hot damn, you're right dude... beats most of my weekends!

Monday, February 21, 2005 7:03 AM
# Arno Nel said:

Dont think forums should be here, still think sadev should host discussions etc. Im all for advertising 100%. Although there should be a cut between paying for hosting and your time in admin, and the users blog. I think we are all building profiles and could use this to market ourselves etc to make some extra pocket money. Up for debate tho.

Other than that, you know my ideas etc to grown this awesome blogging community :)

Monday, February 21, 2005 8:07 AM
# Ernst Kuschke said:

Adverts
are cool with me too ;) I think bloggers should have to make the decision whether to advertise on his personal blogsite or not. For me, ads on the mainpage should be at Armand's discretion.

Urls
Please keep them the same :)

Forums
Yeah, sadev is the place to keep them for now.
We could have a blogging-related forum though?

Thanks for the effort Armand ;o)

Monday, February 21, 2005 9:03 AM
# Arno Nel said:

re: forums, maybe we can vamp up the comments section ? or use the forums architecture to plug into the comments ? so you can chat about the blog that was posted....

Monday, February 21, 2005 10:02 AM
# moruso said:

this code only downloads teh html file, but how i can download the images??

Tuesday, February 22, 2005 8:55 PM
# yaip said:

how can i turn off horizontal scrolls?

Thursday, February 24, 2005 2:49 AM
# Vasil From Bulgaria said:

I mant SkypeOut freeeee......Who want to give a money??? Write me if you found SkypeOut free to Vasko_1@abv.bg

Thursday, February 24, 2005 7:27 AM
# Armand said:

You'll have to parse the file to get the image links and download them individually.

Sunday, February 27, 2005 8:06 AM
# Hendrik Swanepoel said:

This post from the only guy that I know that actually does have GPS in his car!!

Monday, February 28, 2005 11:08 AM
# Armand du Plessis said:

lol :-) true, but the site was still useful when trying to mail someone directions :-)

Can't email from my car yet :p

Monday, February 28, 2005 11:13 AM
# Art Cancro said:

Keep in mind that most of what the Hula project is promising is vapor: the current codebase is a semi-working pile of code and a bunch of promises.

Furthermore, the "Groupware BAD" rant is just totally misguided. It sounds good at first, but totally misses the mark. Read http://www.citadel.org/groupware.php">http://www.citadel.org/groupware.php for a more rational take on the subject.

Finally, if you're going to look at open source collaboration servers, check out Citadel [http://www.citadel.org]. It delivers *today* much of what Hula is promising to deliver *eventually*.

Wednesday, March 02, 2005 6:16 AM
# Multiplayer said:

what about the VB.NET COde? can anybody provide it please?

Wednesday, March 02, 2005 4:55 PM
# samhain said:

yeah...u'l be the first to know

Thursday, March 03, 2005 2:56 PM
# Joe said:

I wish there was a way to delete all msgs in a pop3 account from the command prompt with one command, not having to type it manually for each message.

Thursday, March 03, 2005 6:00 PM
# Arno Nel said:

Good stuff, thanks dude

Friday, March 04, 2005 10:12 AM
# KevinT said:

Serves you right for opening Visio in the first place! REAL programmers don't need pictures. ;-)

Friday, March 04, 2005 11:37 AM
# Armand said:

yeah, but i'm a real NINJA [1] not a real PROGRAMMER [2] ;-)

[1] - http://www.realultimatepower.net/index4.htm
[2] - http://www.progsoc.org/~jselliot/real_ultimate_power/

Friday, March 04, 2005 11:49 AM
# ahmeds said:

You will be happy to know the database diagrams will be coming back (and I will be happy to)

Friday, March 04, 2005 2:43 PM
# Armand said:

Ah yes, very glad indeed thanks :-)

Friday, March 04, 2005 3:26 PM
# joe musta said:

<?
include "validate.php";

$sterr="";

if($REQUEST_METHOD == "POST")
{
$flag = TRUE;

if ($_POST[studentName] == "")
{
$sterr .="Please enter your name <br>";
}

if ($_POST[studentAddr] != "")
{
$flag = validate($sterr, $_POST[studentAddr]);
}

if($flag == FALSE)
{
$sterr = "Please enter correct street address";
}

echo $sterr;



?>

Friday, March 04, 2005 6:34 PM
# senthil said:

thanks

Sunday, March 06, 2005 12:47 PM
# daoq uan said:

fdsdfd

Saturday, March 12, 2005 3:15 PM
# daoq uan said:

sdfg

Saturday, March 12, 2005 3:16 PM
# Alex said:

Here is the VB code.

AJPB

****************************

Imports System
Imports System.Web.UI
Imports System.Web.UI.WebControls
Imports System.ComponentModel



<DefaultProperty("src"), _
ToolboxData("<{0}:IFrame runat=server></{0}:IFrame>")> _
Public Class IFrame

Inherits System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebControl
Implements INamingContainer

Private m_src As String = String.Empty

Public Sub New()
MyBase.New(HtmlTextWriterTag.Iframe)
End Sub

<Bindable(True), Category("Navigation"), DefaultValue("")> _
Public Property [src]() As String
Get
Return m_src
End Get
Set(ByVal Value As String)
m_src = Value
End Set
End Property

Protected Overrides Sub RenderContents(ByVal writer As System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter)
MyBase.RenderContents(writer)
End Sub

Protected Overrides Sub Render(ByVal writer As System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter)
If Me.src = String.Empty Then Exit Sub
MyBase.Render(writer)
End Sub

Protected Overrides Sub AddAttributesToRender(ByVal writer As System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter)
writer.AddAttribute(HtmlTextWriterAttribute.Src, m_src)
MyBase.AddAttributesToRender(writer)
End Sub

End Class


Saturday, March 12, 2005 6:30 PM
# Armand said:

Thanks!!! :-)

Sunday, March 13, 2005 10:50 AM
# TrackBack said:
Wednesday, March 16, 2005 10:00 PM
# yyy said:

lhnj

Sunday, March 20, 2005 9:11 PM
# Rich...! said:

Hey I'm jealous, Windhoek rocks. Sorry we had to run, but you know how it is, the up-side is that the client loved it, so we're good.

Send my love to Thea ;)

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 8:16 AM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Yeah, we were actually in a small town about 3 hours north called Otjiwarongo, I think the internet infrastructure might be better in Windhoek :-) I'll definitely* send your regards to Thea, actually waiting for her call now. I'm glad it was worth it, the party was great fine but priorities is priorities and I love the commitment you guys show, it really is damn commendable!
* Don's spelling lessons is working


Wednesday, March 23, 2005 8:38 AM
# Ernst Kuschke said:

Cool! Heading there right away...

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 12:57 PM
# Ernst Kuschke (C# MVP) said:

Welcome back dude... (who did you fly with?!)
...they played the original Numa Numa song at my gym last night...

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 5:00 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

I flew with SAA, except for the lack of communication I have no real complaints about them :-)

Thursday, March 24, 2005 7:36 AM
# Zahid Nawaz said:

How can object spaces concept be implemented in ASP.NET?

Thursday, March 24, 2005 11:09 AM
# elie said:

cool

Thursday, March 24, 2005 5:20 PM
# James Hewitt said:

A Win32 library for .NET

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 4:08 PM
# Senkwe said:

Sounds very cool Armand. I definitely need to become that sophisticated with my own dev environment. I've never even tried going the Virtual PC route (I just buy a new machine!) In fact, I'm looking for a new flat to rent with a spare bedroom just for my machines! :-D

I'm curious about the performance over time so please update in a few months :-)



Thursday, March 31, 2005 9:58 AM
# Thea Burger said:

Damn, that landing was awful - at a stage I thought that was the end ;)

Thursday, March 31, 2005 10:48 AM
# Armand du Plessis said:

lol, that is funny! And the flat must have redundant power supplies as well and a backup generator :P

Thursday, March 31, 2005 11:04 AM
# Pam said:

I was beginning to think they just had a personal conspiracy plan against me. The lies, the ineffeciency, the incompetence, is unbelievable - I run an internet business, my digital line is my life line - for 2 weeks I had promises and more promises as I watched my business fade - finally - yippeee it was back up and running. But within 24 hours the landline went down - that was 2 weeks ago. Oh - and they don't do compensation for loss of earnings, but they will cut you without a second thought if you don't pay on time. Even sweetheart Joseph at - tshifajm@telkom.co.za - whoever he may be - daily replies to my e-mails that are cc'd onto another telkom body to ask someone to get back to me on the status of my line. Of course - there is never a response to this.

Can anyone do anything against these guys !!!!

Someone out there must be able to help.

Thursday, March 31, 2005 12:33 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Really wish someone could do something but unfortunately it seems to be the trend of service from our lovely telecoms monopoly holder. Just as a note, once technicians have come out to our premises they've always been courteous and professional. The problem for me has always been the incompetent call centres and general lack of ownership there.

Maybe try Thea's approach and email every single Telkom address you can find every hour, it worked for us : http://dotnet.org.za/thea/archive/2004/01/22/212.aspx

Thursday, March 31, 2005 12:42 PM
# Abe said:

how abt Spyglass?

Thursday, March 31, 2005 3:51 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Good names, sad thing in the end we never picked a name.

Thursday, March 31, 2005 3:54 PM
# Ayende Rahien said:

I wrote a review on that book here:
http://www.ayende.com/Blog/BookReviewCodingSlave.aspx

I didn't like it very much.

Thursday, March 31, 2005 10:55 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Thanks, I'll check it out. Still waiting for my copy.

Thursday, March 31, 2005 10:56 PM
# Ernst Kuschke (C# MVP) said:

Innovations like these make Google as brilliant as they are.

Friday, April 01, 2005 9:32 AM
# KevinT said:

It is a smart idea which benefits the user.

Which makes me wonder if the MSN Search team will be able to swallow their pride and implement the same?

Friday, April 01, 2005 4:50 PM
# Penny said:

This evening - about 12 dropped lines in half an hour .... and I'm trying to work. Every time it is money for Telkom. What do they care. And yes, after numerous calls to Telkom 'support'. at my expense and about 10 changes to my internet settings (sometimes reverting to original and being told to 'try again', I have given up. I just don't understand it. They must be the worst ISP int he world, yet they're THE telephone company. It doesn't make sense!

Friday, April 01, 2005 9:34 PM
# sunil said:

good

Monday, April 04, 2005 7:53 AM
# Emilio said:

A problem arises when you have a collection class that is derived from CollectionBase and then you have such collection as a property of a parent class. Then the problem is when you try to use the XmlSerializer on the parent class.

public MyClass {
public MyCollection Items;
:
}

public MyCollection : CollectionBase
{
:
}

Monday, April 04, 2005 7:50 PM
# Mark said:

I just love the way MS are having to play catch-up with things like this! :-)

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 9:36 AM
# mozzi said:

Glad to see you using a decent operating system like Linux for a change :-P

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 4:22 PM
# mozzi said:

Why don't you like firefox? It is the coolest fastest slickest browser available and tabbed browsing just makes my life so much easier!
Also there is no spyware out for it so it is actualy safe to browse :-)

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 4:26 PM
# Craig Nicholson said:

Thanks, this has saved me a little bit of pain. I'm experimenting with new blog tools and I really like RSS Bandit and I'm in two minds now between IMHO and W:Bloggar.

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 7:58 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Would help if <i>someone</i> would give me my disks back ;-)

Wednesday, April 06, 2005 7:36 AM
# Armand du Plessis said:

ok, i'm a closet firefox user :P

Wednesday, April 06, 2005 9:56 AM
# Father Ray said:

I agree with my whole heart. Thank you for pointing this out, and thank you for the great site!

Wednesday, April 06, 2005 3:06 PM
# TrackBack said:
Wednesday, April 06, 2005 3:07 PM
# Johann de Swardt said:

Yes, I think he's a bit of a cry baby... His parents probably beat him with a stick as a child. The only way he could escape this torture was to run into a world of aliens, vortexes and flying cars.

Sweet lord! Only five year olds and social misfits are 'passionate' about Sci-Fi. Watching Sci-Fi is cool, but running a campaign for "Sci-Fi Messiah of Africa" is a bit much. Sci-Fi channel is dead, deal with it buddy.

I know that he will read this and think: "This Johann is a doos" or "Shame, maybe he'll grow up one day". I don't care dude, you have no sense of humor and you take yourself WAY too seriously. Chill out Rudolf. Get laid or drunk or something... It will do you good.

Wednesday, April 06, 2005 3:13 PM
# Johann de Swardt said:

PS- Yes Armand, you site rocks! You allow comments with 'naughty' words too... Good on ya buddy!

Wednesday, April 06, 2005 3:14 PM
# TrackBack said:
Wednesday, April 06, 2005 3:22 PM
# TrackBack said:
Wednesday, April 06, 2005 3:33 PM
# TrackBack said:
Wednesday, April 06, 2005 3:33 PM
# TrackBack said:
Wednesday, April 06, 2005 3:34 PM
# Rich...! said:

You reffering to us bro?

Wednesday, April 06, 2005 6:59 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Rich...! No dude!
The timing of this post might seem like it referred to the Sharples post but you guys have the integrity to stand by what you say and much respect for that!!

This post referred to a local blogger here on dotnet.org.za. And after seeing his comments I'll post the link to the post I referred to... [1]

[1] - http://dotnet.org.za/rudolf/archive/2005/04/06/16555.aspx

Thursday, April 07, 2005 7:50 AM
# Ernst Kuschke said:

AJAX rocks. But that makes me wonder - isn't it in essence a smart client?! hmmm....
Smart client rocks.

Tuesday, April 12, 2005 9:08 AM
# blogstuff@vectorsoft.net (Adam Heunis) said:

Komaan. Dit sou my eerste post gewees het vanoggend!! Onthou jy's op SA tyd, so ek't 'n verskoning! :o)<br /><br />Ja-nee, baie oulike util die. Ek is net so 'n bietjie worried oor security - dit lyk nie asof die Javascript file wat hy dinamies bou enige sekuriteits inligting terugpos nie. Dit beteken dat jy vanaf enige plek kan post sonder om eers op die regte site te wees. En jy kan presies sien hoe om te post deur die script file oop te maak.<br /><br />Ek het self omtrent 3 jaar gelede so 'n program geskryf (met ten minste session security) in VB6. Maar toe was AJAX nog nie ge-coin nie en die source code behoort nou aan vorige my werkgewer. D'Oh!!

Tuesday, April 12, 2005 11:17 AM
# Senkwe said:

Ernst, it's different from smart clients because you can't work disconnected using AJAX techniques.

Tuesday, April 12, 2005 2:20 PM
# blogstuff@vectorsoft.net (Adam Heunis) said:

I disagree. AJAX IS disconnected.

Tuesday, April 12, 2005 3:01 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Using AJAX techniques or an AJAX engine behind the scenes works like your normal http request/response interaction. The trick is just your users don't see this happening. They don't see the request/responses between the browser and the web server.

Something I also need to correct which is not entirely correct in my post is that the combination of the technologies that make up AJAX entails much more than what you get by implementing script callbacks in ASP.NET 2.0. Script callbacks in ASP.NET 2.0 is just a technology that can be used to simplify the implementation of one of the technologies required, namely the asynchronous transfer bits.

Tuesday, April 12, 2005 3:32 PM
# Senkwe said:

Adam, how do you make an asynchronous request to a remote server if you have no connection to it? Maybe I'm missing the point, would be cool if you clarified a bit :-)

Tuesday, April 12, 2005 7:40 PM
# TrackBack said:
Tuesday, April 12, 2005 9:01 PM
# TrackBack said:
Tuesday, April 12, 2005 11:09 PM
# giuseppe longobardi said:

please can I download?

Friday, April 15, 2005 1:44 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Sure, the link is in the post :-)

Friday, April 15, 2005 1:47 PM
# God said:

----->What are u looking at?<-------




WTF Im your God deal with it!!


Friday, April 15, 2005 7:30 PM
# TrackBack said:

^_~

Saturday, April 16, 2005 11:07 AM
# Rudolf said:

One question: will posting from other browsers that IE work better now? Like Firefox. Before the web controls did not work is anything other than IE.

Monday, April 18, 2005 9:51 AM
# Arno Nel said:

Good stuff dude, shout if you need help from deep dark Africa :)

Monday, April 18, 2005 9:52 AM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Arno - I will definately thanks. Let me know when you get back from deep dark Africa :-)
We need to discuss some stuff asap.

Monday, April 18, 2005 10:04 AM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Rudolf - The limitation was on the text input control used in .Text. Previous versions of FreeTextBox didn't support the same rich UI in Firefox than it did in IE. Newer versions works fine in both browsers. (The alternative would've been to upgrade the one used in .Text to FTB3 but seeing we're upgrading anyways it would've been a wasted effort.)

Monday, April 18, 2005 10:08 AM
# KevinT said:

Looking forward to the upgrade - broken image links are a small price to pay.

Monday, April 18, 2005 10:08 AM
# David said:

Cant wait and thanks for giving us a blogging home!

Monday, April 18, 2005 10:19 AM
# Derek van Blouberg said:

Dis nou lekker.

Monday, April 18, 2005 12:22 PM
# Craig Nicholson said:

Cool stuff, I can't wait. Will any external blogging URLs be changed? ie. Will we need to reconfigure IMHO, W.Bloggar, etc.?

Monday, April 18, 2005 1:41 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

That did change unfortunately. I'll post some more information on those changes a bit later.

Monday, April 18, 2005 1:57 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Sorry for the spelling mistake -> definitely*

http://www.joblog.co.za/2005/03/sp.html

Monday, April 18, 2005 4:52 PM
# Rudolf said:

Hi Armand,
The download you listed seems to be missing. I get a 'The download you requested is unavailable' error. Perhaps the URL got truncated?

Tuesday, April 19, 2005 9:32 AM
# Jason Ng said:

you guys rock!
can you keep me updated with your videos by sending me emails to jays0n_ng@hotmail.com

Friday, April 22, 2005 6:44 AM
# Mark said:

Hi, I am using the <a href='http://www.dualphone.co.za' target='_blank'>Skype Dualphone</a> - it works like a charm and allows you to be portable. No more waiting at the computer to receive calls. I chatted to New Zealand for 2 hours and it was crystal clear!

Friday, April 22, 2005 11:02 AM
# yassine0812 said:

pourquoi ce n'est pas gratuit

Saturday, April 23, 2005 1:05 AM
# VB6 Dev Turning .NET said:

I haven't been playing with C# (or .NET for that matter) for very long, so I have been searching a lot for .config file examples. This is awesome. I haven't found any examples that can group sections in this much detail (most of the examples have been for ASP). Thanks A Lot!

Sunday, April 24, 2005 6:55 AM
# KevinT said:

...or not. :-(

Monday, April 25, 2005 3:35 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

check again punk ;-)

Monday, April 25, 2005 4:18 PM
# kevint@gmail.com (KevinT) said:

Congratulations dude! You are, in my humble opinion, totally and utterly friggen insane, but congratulations anyway. And you didn't tell me your bro blogged - subscribed!

Monday, April 25, 2005 9:15 PM
# Thea Burger said:

All I can say is 'Respect', but I have to agree with Kevin's comment - crazy!
Next time you have to run faster, 5 hrs are very long to wait for you at the finish ;) Aim for 2hr 45 min...

Tuesday, April 26, 2005 8:21 AM
# ryancrawcour@gmail.com (Ryan CrawCour) said:

goeie hell!
does this mean that your Ironman preparations are on track?
now it's just Simon Stewart we worry about !!!
or was that me ...

Tuesday, April 26, 2005 8:32 AM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Ryan, this is actually for our Comrades build-up. Will worry about that next year :P Have you dusted the cobwebs of your bike yet?

Tuesday, April 26, 2005 9:00 AM
# Kiran said:

Add folllowing Code To Ur Page Directive
<% SmartNavigation=true %>

Wednesday, April 27, 2005 11:01 AM
# cristi said:

mkj

Wednesday, April 27, 2005 4:23 PM
# Hermo Terblanche said:

Congratulations!!

The Comrades is something I wanted to do since childhood, but never got the time to prepare for. You set the example! Well done!

Friday, April 29, 2005 1:03 PM
# sibusiso scelo said:

how can i become a member of free skypeout calls

Friday, May 06, 2005 6:08 PM
# wanus of K said:

is there any way, be it a crack or something to make skypeOut calls for free

Saturday, May 07, 2005 1:09 PM
# Indus_v said:

Hi,
Great to be a part of the discussion board.
Could anybody suggests me the feasibility of using the Oracle 10G with Microsoft Data Access Application Blocks.

Indus_v

Sunday, May 08, 2005 11:45 AM
# TrackBack said:
Tuesday, May 10, 2005 9:43 PM
# ergin said:

ergi uçgun

Thursday, May 12, 2005 10:23 AM
# Ernst Kuschke (C# MVP) said:

Dude, you're crazy :P
Respect.

Tuesday, May 17, 2005 5:32 PM
# outlook express errors said:

I have been using Outlook Express errors repair tool for the past few months and LOVE it.
I've even recommended it to all my friends. Outlook Express more stable and secure than other programs.

Wednesday, May 18, 2005 4:05 PM
# Outlook Express fix said:

I must admit to being more impressed with Tool for Outlook Express fix. I've even recommended it to all my friends.

Wednesday, May 18, 2005 4:07 PM
# Pieter said:

Armand - a little slow? No Way!!!
:D

Tuesday, May 24, 2005 2:58 AM
# Ryan said:

I've been trying to modify this control to remember it's src on postback when i have changed the src through client scripting. Here is my code:

Imports System
Imports System.Web.UI
Imports System.Web.UI.WebControls
Imports System.ComponentModel
Namespace IMCControl
<DefaultProperty("src"), _
ToolboxData("<{0}:IFrame runat=server></{0}:IFrame>")> _
Public Class IMCIFrame
Inherits System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebControl
Implements INamingContainer
Implements IPostBackDataHandler
#Region " Windows Form Designer generated code "

'UserControl overrides dispose to clean up the component list.


'Required by the Windows Form Designer
Private components As System.ComponentModel.IContainer

'NOTE: The following procedure is required by the Windows Form Designer
'It can be modified using the Windows Form Designer.
'Do not modify it using the code editor.
<System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThrough()> Private Sub InitializeComponent()
components = New System.ComponentModel.Container
End Sub

#End Region
Private m_src As String = String.Empty
Public changed As EventHandler
Public Sub New()
MyBase.New(HtmlTextWriterTag.Iframe)
End Sub
<Bindable(True), Category("Navigation"), DefaultValue("")> _
Public Property [src]() As String
Get
If Not viewstate("IFsrc") Is Nothing Then
m_src = viewstate("IFsrc")
End If
Return m_src
End Get
Set(ByVal Value As String)
viewstate("IFsrc") = Value
End Set
End Property
Protected Overrides Sub RenderContents(ByVal writer As System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter)
MyBase.RenderContents(writer)
End Sub
Protected Overrides Sub Render(ByVal writer As System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter)
If Me.src = String.Empty Then Exit Sub
MyBase.Render(writer)
End Sub
Protected Overrides Sub AddAttributesToRender(ByVal writer As System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter)
writer.AddAttribute(HtmlTextWriterAttribute.Src, src)
MyBase.AddAttributesToRender(writer)
End Sub
Public Overridable Sub RaisePostDataChangedEvent() Implements IPostBackDataHandler.RaisePostDataChangedEvent
OnChange(EventArgs.Empty)
End Sub
Public Overridable Function LoadPostData(ByVal postdata As String, ByVal collection As Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection) As Boolean Implements IPostBackDataHandler.LoadPostData
Dim origval As String = src()
Dim postedval As String = collection(postdata)
If origval = String.Empty Or origval <> postedval Then
src = postedval
Return True
Else
Return False
End If
End Function
Sub OnChange(ByVal e As EventArgs)
If Not changed Is Nothing Then
changed(Me, e)
End If
End Sub
End Class
End Namespace

any thought as to why this dosen't work. It only seem to remember the origional src i set in code behind, and none of the changes i make with javascript. Also when i debug, the IPostBackDataHandler subs and functions don't even fire. Any and all comments are appriciated.

Tuesday, May 24, 2005 11:48 PM
# TrackBack said:
Wednesday, May 25, 2005 2:44 PM
# lexuswarren said:

SkypeOut is not free

Friday, May 27, 2005 7:57 PM
# kadir said:

dfdf

Saturday, May 28, 2005 11:30 AM
# Fusion said:

such a n00bs here, wining about skypeout for fre.. well forget it, thats not gonna happen! make sure all of your friends get the regualr skype, then you dont need skypeout...

Monday, May 30, 2005 2:13 PM
# Thea Burger said:

Kyk waar kom ek uit :)

Tuesday, May 31, 2005 2:14 PM
# loren said:

free SkypeOut

Wednesday, June 01, 2005 4:06 AM
# Derek said:

I'll be there. Depending on the date of course, but most wednesdays / thurtsdays should be fine. Blueberry was great! I vote there.

Wednesday, June 01, 2005 9:39 AM
# Paul Sainsbury said:

I vote for the 23rd (I might be able to convince my wife to join). Trumps is probably going to be easier for me to get to, so I'm partial to having it at Trumps.

Wednesday, June 01, 2005 9:58 AM
# Simon Stewart said:

23 is cool.
Would prefer Blueberry Grill, but don't mind too much.

Wednesday, June 01, 2005 12:03 PM
# Thea Burger said:

Don't mind where or when, I'll be there... Can't think that I have anything planned that far into the future!!!

Wednesday, June 01, 2005 12:37 PM
# Craig Nicholson said:

I should be there. Either place should be cool. Wednesday the 22nd is better for me as I have a personal trainer session on Thursday evenings. Otherwise Thursday after 19h00.

Wednesday, June 01, 2005 1:18 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Craig, a personal trainer session you say, ok, that's the most creative possible excuse so far ;-)

Wednesday, June 01, 2005 1:21 PM
# Craig Nicholson said:

Its not an excuse, its da twoof. :)

Wednesday, June 01, 2005 1:45 PM
# SkypeAss said:

I did it!! All of u who want free SkypeOut calls...........Theres a program called SkypeAss...all u have to do is give yo cheap ass to Skype programmers and get 5 ...yes u read it right 5!! free calls a week!!! now aint that cool?!!! well, im paying.....

Thursday, June 02, 2005 3:55 PM
# clive said:

Blueberry Grill would be easier for me, but either.

I can't make it on Wednesday 22nd since that's when my under 40's touch rugby league is having its Boney M party. We'll also be doing a brainstorming session for our Touched By An Angel fan fiction site later that evening so i really can't make an exception... (take that Craig)

Friday, June 03, 2005 2:19 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Darn, I forgot about the Touch By An Angel meeting Wednesday. Can't miss that.

Friday, June 03, 2005 2:24 PM
# Rich...! said:

See you there...!

Saturday, June 04, 2005 4:24 PM
# Haha said:

HAHA

Sunday, June 05, 2005 7:45 PM
# skypeeeee said:

i pee on you cause im sick off skypeeeing on me and the crack is here dum ass

Monday, June 06, 2005 9:57 AM
# D'ave said:

Hell yeah. I'll just have to get my hair done the night before, which might clash with my bingo club...

Bollocks. I'll be there.

Monday, June 06, 2005 12:19 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Shame, Thea's giving up Girl Scouts to be there. She promised cookies.

Monday, June 06, 2005 12:30 PM
# Wezzo said:

The ChumpStylers will definately try to be there...

Monday, June 06, 2005 2:58 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Wez, don't you have badmington practice dude?

Monday, June 06, 2005 3:02 PM
# KevinT said:

I'll be there for sure, but I vote Clive puts RSS and comments on his site, or else he has to sit at the table next to the Blogging Dinner table and worship from afar...

Monday, June 06, 2005 3:06 PM
# Aquila said:

I'll be there - provided that some dumbass burglar doesn't try to attack me again...This time I'll be armed with more than just a frigging barstool.

Monday, June 06, 2005 8:24 PM
# Aquila said:

PS: I vote 22 June @ Blueberry Grill
But then beggars can't be choosers

Monday, June 06, 2005 8:27 PM
# smg said:

i vote 23rd.
Got an ultimate frisbee game against guys from pretoria on 22nd. if anyone wants to come play (beginners welcome) email me.

Tuesday, June 07, 2005 2:10 PM
# Rich...! said:

Yeah, Thea's cookie('s)

Tuesday, June 07, 2005 4:30 PM
# Johann de Swardt said:

That is brilliant dude...

Wednesday, June 08, 2005 3:41 PM
# The Salami from Killarney said:

23rd is better for the salami. 22 is my unlucky number.

Thursday, June 09, 2005 3:15 PM
# Colin said:

Blueberry +1

Friday, June 10, 2005 9:34 AM
# siborg_hacker said:

I'm surprised none of you have found out how to get SkypeOut to make free calls! I found it out a while back and have been using it for a while! FREE SKYPEOUT RULES!!

Friday, June 10, 2005 10:43 AM
# kevint@gmail.com (KevinT) said:

Thanks for sorting this out, and your ongoing commitment to the local blogging community Armand - I am not sure if everyone realises that you don't actually get paid to do this, so thanks on their behalves as well.

Friday, June 10, 2005 2:09 PM
# Janco said:

I'm not so sure either, and I'd also like to take the opportunity to say thanks a gajillion Armand! We really appreciate all the effort you're putting into this.

Friday, June 10, 2005 2:51 PM
# Craig Nicholson said:

Well done and thanks Armand for sorting it out. :)

Friday, June 10, 2005 5:59 PM
# King Rudi said:

Hey, how do u get free Skype out? Please tell me,i'd really dig it.

Saturday, June 11, 2005 3:26 PM
# King Rudi said:

Hey SIBORG_HACKER, if you can, do u think u can e-mail me at thebleckwun@walla.com to tell me how u get free calls? i'd really appreciate it. Shot bru...

Saturday, June 11, 2005 3:29 PM
# Ernst Kuschke said:

Armand, you can even bump the maxWorkerThreads up to 100 (this value automatically gets mutliplied by the number of CPU's.

Mate, thanks for all the effort also.

Monday, June 13, 2005 7:54 AM
# Ernst Kuschke said:

BTW, Check out this article for recommended settings if you haven't already done so ;o)(

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnpag/html/scalenetchapt06.asp

Monday, June 13, 2005 7:57 AM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Good to see you back mate! I forgot about that article and the recommended settings, will "tune" the server a bit more :P

Monday, June 13, 2005 8:13 AM
# h4ck3r said:

King Rudi,

its so easy! Surely you can do it?

Monday, June 13, 2005 7:27 PM
# Ahmad Coldplaymed said:

Siborg_hacker, how is it done to get the free calls on outskype?

could you please explain how...?

thankyouplease

ahmad coldplaymed
ahmad@cold.play.co.in

Monday, June 13, 2005 7:30 PM
# siborg_hacker said:

sorry ya'll. i've been busy "workin"!

well you cant get FREE SkypeOut unless you actually have a SkypeOut account.

I found out a way to get it free while using SkypeOut. I didnt crack the normal Skype.. you have to get SkypeOut.. I'm in the process of "cracking" the standard Skype. But the only way atm is to get the SkypeOut...

how many of you actually have SkypeOut.. if you got it.. i'll tell ya how its done!

Monday, June 13, 2005 7:57 PM
# Ahmad Coldplaymed said:

ive got it

Monday, June 13, 2005 8:02 PM
# Jinja said:

Armand, you KNOW I'm there like a beer... I mean bear. Ok I lie, I mean beer. Doesn't matter about the day.

Wednesday, June 15, 2005 1:41 PM
# Qazar said:

to [SIBORG_HACKER]
Yeah, and then you can send that zipped .exe file that will make "SkypeOut free" via email to everybody who wants it. And they will discover that it's not workin' and theyre PC's are gettin fu**ed up. ;p

Wednesday, June 15, 2005 6:43 PM
# FeroK said:

Perfect. Just 2 notes:
1. line 10 should be
ToolboxData("<{0}:IFrame runat=server></{0}:IFrame>")]
2. src will be easier chosen with URLEditor, so add following attribute:
[Editor(typeof(System.Web.UI.Design.UrlEditor),typeof(System.Drawing.Design.UITypeEditor))]

Friday, June 17, 2005 12:44 PM
# clive said:

thanks kevin. seeing as how i intend spending every free minute of my next few weeks watching "dr quinn medicine woman" reruns, i'll be needing that kiddies table that's far far away.

Friday, June 17, 2005 1:35 PM
# Ernst said:

Added to my calender ;o)

Monday, June 20, 2005 8:45 PM
# Craig Nicholson said:

Armand, you might wanna correct the vCalendar file as it contains the wrong dates. :p

DTSTART:20050113T160000Z
DTEND:20050113T210000Z

Monday, June 20, 2005 9:33 PM
# siborg_hacker said:

i'm not that type of person [QAZAR]

besides ive sent the info to AHMAD so ask him if it works!!

Wednesday, June 22, 2005 11:03 AM
# siborg_hacker said:

i'm not that type of person [QAZAR]

besides ive sent the info to AHMAD so ask him if it works!!

ive also added him to my skypeout contact list

Wednesday, June 22, 2005 11:04 AM
# Tet said:

send me info at tetsuruuzuki@aol.com thanks

Wednesday, June 22, 2005 1:04 PM
# KevinT said:

Don't know about anyone else, but I got nailed last night with spam comments (nearly 50)!

Andre tells me he had the same problem.

Thursday, June 23, 2005 7:34 AM
# Arno Nel said:

Thanks dude, fark i hate these dumbbass idtions !

Thursday, June 23, 2005 7:55 AM
# Colin said:

While you're in a fixing mood? http://dotnet.org.za/Opml.aspx

Thursday, June 23, 2005 9:15 AM
# the salami from killarney said:

I'm guessing we're looking at 19h30ish?

Thursday, June 23, 2005 10:08 AM
# Craig Nicholson said:

Same here, I got about 20 or so.

Thursday, June 23, 2005 11:44 AM
# Matt said:

I'm getting spammed more than ever today!! Doesn't look like this code is working properly :S

Thursday, June 23, 2005 12:10 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Matt, the spam "wave" today is comment spam. The change last night was for trackback spam.

I'll revise the comment spam blocking code over the weekend.

Can't f*cking win with these f*ckers.

Thursday, June 23, 2005 12:38 PM
# Martin said:

dasBlog has had comment spam blocking for a while now, and it works like a charm (uses MT blacklist, I haven't even had a whiff of a problem since).

On the trackback front, <a href="http://www.shahine.com/omar/TakeThatYouPeskyTrackbackSpammer.aspx">Omar</a> has promised to do blocking in the next few weeks. I keep on getting hit like crazy on one of my <a href="http://www.d2.co.za/blog/loveisawonderfulthing.aspx">old entries</a>... Nuts!

Thursday, June 23, 2005 1:03 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

I've booked from 18h00 onwards, 19h30 is sharp

Thursday, June 23, 2005 1:15 PM
# Andre Odendaal said:

Is it too late to throw my name in?

Thursday, June 23, 2005 5:20 PM
# Jeremiah said:

siborg_hacker, can you please send me the same information.

JCRoyale@gmail.com

KANX

Friday, June 24, 2005 9:34 AM
# kurwiarz jebaka z dociskiem said:

spierdalac

Friday, June 24, 2005 3:53 PM
# yusufsimork@msn.com said:

KÖNNSIE MIR DAS PROGRAM ANSCHEKENN

Friday, June 24, 2005 5:57 PM
# Rudolf said:

Thanks Armand for all your trouble!

Friday, June 24, 2005 7:55 PM
# Ernst Kuschke said:

Heck, I got 300 just today... thanks dude, this is seriously pissing me off.
Oh yes, I see you have contacts... I would want to like some Viagra and to playing poker better. Yes? I phone you.

Friday, June 24, 2005 8:23 PM
# r u f.listening? said:

what a bunch of losers..if anyone had the crack it would be round the planet in minutes...instead you get the odd ass saying he's got it and doesn't have it...

Saturday, June 25, 2005 8:11 PM
# TrackBack said:
Sunday, June 26, 2005 10:29 PM
# Thea Burger said:

I know just how long it took eventually (Armand didn't have much of a weekend), so thanks a million!!!

Monday, June 27, 2005 6:52 AM
# Armand du Plessis said:

I'll post my notes on upgrading .Text to ASP.NET 2.0 tonight.
Thanks Thea :P

Monday, June 27, 2005 7:39 AM
# Janus said:

That's great news. Thanks Armand. You do alot for the community and we really appreciate this.

Monday, June 27, 2005 8:32 AM
# Colin said:

Thanks Armand, nice job.
Pity I didn't read this before I disabled comments on all my posts :-( now I need to go back and undo that. Sigh, that will teach me to be more patient.

Monday, June 27, 2005 9:59 AM
# Senkwe said:

Dude, first the Comrades, now this, are you trying to take over from "The Hoff"? :-) Good stuff man.

Monday, June 27, 2005 10:36 AM
# Craig Nicholson said:

Thanks Armand, I think I know how much of mission it is. I'll buy you two beers next time I see you. :)

Monday, June 27, 2005 11:57 AM
# Andre Odendaal said:

Thanks alot Armand

Wednesday, June 29, 2005 7:06 AM
# Emiliano said:

Is there a way to control the serialization process when a web service is performing it?

Thanks
Emiliano

Thursday, June 30, 2005 8:44 PM
# vedad said:

yes I want it freeee

Saturday, July 02, 2005 3:46 PM
# Spartakas said:

Mese muri mhata panapa. You cant expect to make free calls can you? Just pay the bitches and call. Makes life easier. Arseholes

Monday, July 04, 2005 10:14 AM
# Ryan said:

hey there;
i'd certainly be interested.
IM me and let's see what you want.

Friday, July 08, 2005 9:42 AM
# Simon Stewart said:

I'm keen too.
Let me know what you need.

Friday, July 08, 2005 9:59 AM
# Brady Kelly said:

I'm very interested in the Winforms side. I have about five hours free every weekday and more on weekends.

Friday, July 08, 2005 12:18 PM
# JM Gonzalez said:

I am very much interested.. send me an email regarding the details at jomargon@gmail.com

Friday, July 08, 2005 5:34 PM
# keithrull said:

Im willing to helkp armand, although im here in san diego right now. is there any possibility that you would allow me to help you even with the barrier of location?

Sunday, July 10, 2005 1:16 AM
# keithrull said:

ei armand! can you give me the source of your .Text. i want to see the 2.0 version. thanks! :)

Sunday, July 10, 2005 2:09 AM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Thanks for the offers, we've got someone to do it but will post other contracts here if relevant.

On the location, it's not important to be geographically close.

Monday, July 11, 2005 9:49 AM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Hi Keith,

I will email you the svn details, you can pull it from there.

Monday, July 11, 2005 9:58 AM
# rajivpopat said:

i ran into a similar problem after i took a single application offline using the web based admin console. Do you know if there's any Ms. Provided ui by which you can take offline applications online again? Where would this .htm file you talk about exist?

Monday, July 11, 2005 10:38 AM
# Armand du Plessis said:

The file is located in the root of your site. I'm not sure about the web admin though.

Monday, July 11, 2005 11:15 AM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Test

Tuesday, July 12, 2005 9:59 AM
# Derek vd Merwe said:

Nice going.. PS - What is happening with your conversion to CS?

Tuesday, July 12, 2005 6:36 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

We're looking at alternative hosting solutions, when moving to the new server I'll migrate the posts to CS

Tuesday, July 12, 2005 8:20 PM
# Jo Jo said:

too late to keep angry customers me thinks

Thursday, July 14, 2005 8:15 AM
# Matt said:

Are you developing in Windows or in Linux? (excuse the ignorance; but the screenshot is a Gnome app)

Friday, July 15, 2005 11:38 AM
# Armand du Plessis said:

That's from a Linux box from his blog. I dual-boot with SUSE but haven't tried the add-in yet. Will try over the weekend and post an update.

Friday, July 15, 2005 11:52 AM
# Durbadal Mukherjee said:

Hey I'm pretty much interested in the job. And I'll love to do this one.

Tuesday, July 26, 2005 10:40 AM
# Ernst Kuschke (C# MVP) said:

Glad you got it going mate, it's a very cool concept. Looking forward to hearing what you think of it once you can get some time to play more!

Wednesday, July 27, 2005 11:38 AM
# Rein Petersen said:

Hey Chris,

Thanks for the code... I have my object (derived from CollectionBase) serializing/deserializing as the root node very nicely. Except, I'm missing some attributes (public properties) that I had added to the collection. I'm thinking the XmlAttributeOverrides class might be the solution but thus far I haven't got it working...

Has anyone achieved serializing/deserializing an CollectionBase (derived) as the root node with attributes?

Rein

Wednesday, July 27, 2005 5:38 PM
# RevX said:

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Friday, September 09, 2005 8:43 AM
# Simon Stewart said:

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Thursday, September 15, 2005 1:03 PM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Indigo -> Communication Foundation.

This is workflow. Initially I thought that maybe local boys Sourcecode with K2.NET had a finger in the pie there somewhere but it seems it's a complete MS workflow solution. K2 can leverage of some of the WWF functionality though.

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So now I can get workflow in Sharepoint, Biztalk, Exchange ... and Vista?

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Tuesday, October 04, 2005 6:21 PM
# Angie said:

Congrats on the move!!

Thursday, October 06, 2005 9:50 AM
# Ernst Kuschke (C# MVP) said:

It looks cool mate, but those sunflower posts suck! :P

Thursday, October 06, 2005 10:24 AM
# Armand du Plessis said:

Crap yes, I forgot you prefer those little pink flowers ;-)

Thursday, October 06, 2005 10:33 AM
# Danie said:

Thanx for the effort Armand.

Thursday, October 06, 2005 9:50 PM
# Pieter said:

very clean and simple....

I like!

Thursday, October 06, 2005 10:31 PM
# Arno Nel said:

good stuff

Friday, October 07, 2005 7:04 AM
# stanley said:

Thanks you guys!

Friday, October 07, 2005 9:50 AM
# Derek said:

God bless you both in your new place. And now that you live down the road, there's no excuse to not come visit sometime... Cheers!

Friday, October 07, 2005 1:57 PM
# JH said:

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Sunday, October 09, 2005 6:38 AM
# abdurahman said:

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Wednesday, October 12, 2005 5:30 AM
# TrackBack said:
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Thursday, October 13, 2005 1:00 AM
# Kevin Trethewey said:

It is looking good - and the new functionality is awesome!

Well done :-)

Wednesday, October 19, 2005 8:53 AM
# davidb said:

Great work!!! Thanks!

Wednesday, October 19, 2005 9:42 AM
# Senkwe said:

Nice. Good work Armand :-)

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Wednesday, October 19, 2005 11:03 AM
# arnon said:

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Wednesday, October 19, 2005 12:08 PM
# Martin said:

Looking good :-)

A bit huge on my 1400px-wide screen, but well organised nonetheless...

Wednesday, October 19, 2005 2:50 PM
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