Config files can be nice. They can help set settings so that you can tweak things on the fly without having to recompile your code. Or so that non-techies can modify things without having to know your code. Microsoft uses several config files for .NET. The biggie is Machine.Config. And today I had the pleasure…
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Last night’s CharJUG presentation from Andy Hunt
Last night CharJUG had the priviledge of having Pragmatic Programmer Andy Hunt speak. Though I was sorely disappointed in the turnout (19 people of 60 some odd who I had talked or had expressed interest in going) I was not in the presentation. The talk started at 6:45pm and went until nearly 9:45pm. I took…
Upcoming CharJUG meeting with Andy Hunt this Thursday
For anyone in the Charlotte area, Andy Hunt, of the Pragmatic Programmers, is speaking at this month’s CharJUG meeting. We are being sponsored by the ACM Student Chapter of CPCC, The Futures Institute, and best of all, MobileHWY (my employer). One of the guys from CharLUG put together a really nice graphic for it that…
MTTMPFS
One of my coworkers uses the term MTTMPFS a lot – Mean Time To Major Product Focus Shift. It’s amazing how low that mean time really is.
Targetting NAnt to a different framework version
I’m sure this is all over the web, but bugger if I had a hard time initially finding it. I’ve been working on some custom extensions to NUnitASP and was having trouble building the project. The NUnitASP guys provide an NAnt build script, but when I ran it I was getting the following: BUILD FAILED…
CharLUG Meeting tomorrow
The next Chalotte Linux User’s Group meeting is tomorrow at our new location at Central Piedmont Community College in downtown Charlotte. They’ve got the lowdown up on the CharLUG site.
Screen Print Capture in C# using SendInput()
Recently I needed a way to have an app take a screen shot of itself and save it to a directory. I only wanted the currently focused screen to be captured. I looked around on the web, and found lots of crazy interop scripts to handle doing a screen shots. But it just didn’t seem…
Halo 2 Golden Warthog
I admit it. I play Halo 2. On XBox Live nonetheless. And while, yes, most of the people are indeed teenagers (or younger) who think it is cool to say stupid things, it is a lot of fun being able to play with some of my friends from Florida. However, like any popular game, there…
CharJUG Site up and running
I finally got a dedicated site and server for CharJUG. The new address is http://www.charjug.org and I actually took some time to make it pretty! We have a great speaker coming up this month – Andy Hunt from the Pragmatic Programmers is giving a talk on Agile Techniques. I’m pumped, and we are holding it…
CharJUG meeting – Pervasive IBM DB Technologies
CharJUG is having its next meeting this Thursday. We’ll be having a technical introduction to IBM’s pervasive database technologies by Frank Koconis. Frank will also introduce the group to the new Cloudscape Network Server which allows a single Cloudscape database to support multiple concurrent JDBC or ODBC connections. Pizza and refreshments are provided, so come…