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A beginners intro to Extension Methods in C# 3.5

Trivium DawnWalker — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:24:00 GMT

Cross posted from http://www.stevenmcd.net/ Extension methods are something new to the .Net 3.5 framework and an extremely valuable add-on! Have you ever had a situation where you have been given a sealed class and desperately needed to add a method? Extension methods allow to add your own custom methods to any class! As a small example: imagine to want to add a method to the standard .Net String class. Normally you would never be able to do this. Lets say we want to add a method to the string class...(read more)

LiNQ to SQL Example for Beginners

Trivium DawnWalker — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:04:00 GMT

Since starting my journey into seeing what LiNQ can do I have been amazed. It is truly amazing and this will definitely shorten development time on so many different projects! Here's what I did tonight and you decide for yourself whether LiNQ is going to be useful or not. I first created my database tables and set the relationship between the tables. Once you have done this, from your database server tab in Visual Studio, you simply drag and drop both tables into the LiNQ to SQL designer in Visual...(read more)

How to improve your web applications performance.

Trivium DawnWalker — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:28:00 GMT

Today I discovered 2 tools that I can't believe that I've missed up and till now. So for all you web developers out there who use Firefox check my entry here: http://stevenmcd.net/wordpress/?p=26 I can assure you that this will change the way you optimize your web apps! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!...(read more)

My Blog is moving

Trivium DawnWalker — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 20:28:00 GMT

I have received numerous emails asking me why I'm not blogging here so often anymore. I recently set my own site so that I can begin trading off my own name. BUT I'm still going to cross post my important article here at DotNet.org.za because I firmly believe that this is where us South African developers should discuss .Net topics. Besides that, there is such a wealth of knowledge in the blogs contained here that I am going to try my best to live up to the standards set by the likes of Armand...(read more)

The Image of IT

Trivium DawnWalker — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 21:13:42 GMT

So here's the deal. I'm a developer at an insurance company. We are two full time developers, one full time report writer and then our manager develops whenever he has the time. Now we trying to get a new policy in place whereby users are not just allowed to call us directly. They have to make use of a system called SysAid. Now for those of you that don't what sysAid is, basically its a small app on which users can log help requests that then gets sent to us. Now that we starting to enforce...(read more)

XBOX360 Warrenty extended

Trivium DawnWalker — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 21:48:36 GMT

REDMOND, Wash. — July 5, 2007 — Microsoft Corp. today announced that it will expand its global Xbox 360™ warranty coverage. Any Xbox 360 customer who experiences a general hardware failure indicated by three flashing red lights will now be covered by a three year warranty from date of purchase. All other existing Xbox 360 warranty policies remain in place. This is such great news!!!!! Read the full story at: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/support/systemsetup/xbox360/resources/warrantyupdate.htm Share...(read more)

eNaTIS - Powered by a FREE Open Source CMS

Trivium DawnWalker — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 21:27:33 GMT

Thats right! After looking at the eNaTIS website trying to figure out why someone would want to deface already ugly looking sight, I looked at the source of the page and what do I see? meta content="Joomla! - Copyright (C) 2005 - 2006 Open Source Matters. All rights reserved." name="Generator" So our new Traffic Website is powered by a *FREE* *OPEN SOURCE* Content Management System?! Thats right folks! This *FREE* *OPEN SOURCE* implementation of Joomla! for the traffic department...(read more)

I just got engaged :)

Trivium DawnWalker — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:31:11 GMT

Time Flies

Trivium DawnWalker — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:45:29 GMT

"well once again time has eluded me. <insert general excuse about too much work here>. So I’ve now decided to get Certified so now I just need to get hold of all the books that I need for studying and then of course the time to study. I’m also using a Trial version of an application called “ Ecto ” to write this post........" Read more at http://stevenmcd.net/wordpress/?p=9 Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!...(read more)

African Independent

Trivium DawnWalker — Tue, 08 May 2007 10:53:00 GMT

Long time no blog. I have just started a new job at African Independent Insurance Brokers in Springs thus I have been a little quiet as I'm still learning about everything here. I now only work 1.3km from home where I used to work 72km from home. Its a massive difference but a pleasant one to say the least! I must however thank all the guys at Signify Software for everything! Its an amazing company to work for but nothing can compensate for the time spent on the road. Anyone looking for a job...(read more)

Facebook

Trivium DawnWalker — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:22:53 GMT

I might be a little late in "joining the revolution" but I'm finally up on Facebook. If I had've received one more invite I would've gone crazy. It amazing though, the more I use it the more awesome it becomes! I even hooked up with a mate I've been trying to track down for years! Just my opinion but feel facebook is better than MySpace but that's just my Opinion. It uses less bandwidth and it's a look faster. Check it out at http://www.facebook.com Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg...(read more)

CLR Profiler for .Net Framework 2.0

Trivium DawnWalker — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 05:45:02 GMT

Microsoft has just released a CLR Profiler! Download it here . Thank you to Diago for bringing it to my attention on Sadeveloper.Net . I'm going to download it tonight and play around with it. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!...(read more)

Some Midweek humor for you my friends

Trivium DawnWalker — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 09:36:07 GMT

Here are 16 actual error messages reportedly seen on the computer screens in Japan, where some are written in Haiku. Aren't these better than "your computer has performed an illegal operation"? Enjoy! The Web site you seek cannot be located, but countless more exist. * * Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return. * * Program aborting: Close all that you have worked on. You ask far too much. * * Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams...(read more)

Defending your Partner

Trivium DawnWalker — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 09:36:00 GMT

Now I am completely stumped. This has nothing to do with Development or Technology but everything to do with boyfriends defending their girlfriends. My gf and I have been talking about getting engaged and she told some friends at work when a guy in his 30's heard this. He asked her whether we getting married and she informed him that we talking about getting engaged. He said it was a good thing since she needed time to lose all that extra weight. Now anybody who knows my gf will know this, if she...(read more)

Split your local and International Bandwidth

Trivium DawnWalker — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 06:49:36 GMT

So now that I have my ADSL up and running, I have decided to run off a 1gig unshaped service from www.webafrica.co.za and so far so good. That was until last night when I hosted a Gears of War server on xbox live for a few local guys. To cut a long story short, after 2 and half hours of play I had used 285MB of bandwidth. So this morning I started looking for something that could save me money because there's no way my cap is going to last at this rate. Now a 1gig prepaid is R125 for unshaped bandwidth...(read more)