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Git

By Winston ⋅ March 11, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I’m really enjoying using Git.

Easy Progress Reporting in Powershell

By Winston ⋅ March 10, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I decided to write a function to make it easier to report progress in PowerShell.
The Problem
You may be familiar with Write-Progress, but if you’re like me, you probably don’t use it that often, partly because you don’t use it that often, so whenever you want to it means you have to go look up the help [...]

Get it together, Google Chrome!

By Winston ⋅ January 6, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I love me some Google Chrome.
It starts fast and feels very lightweight, and managing each tab as a separate process seems to handle my laptop resources much better than Firefox does. I also dig that I can drag tabs from one window to another.
It took me a while to figure out that I need [...]

Trends

By Winston ⋅ December 28, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Reading up on Microsoft LiveMesh and SSE. Interesting stuff. Revolutionary? I dunno. Still processing.

New utilities

By Winston ⋅ December 17, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Digging Cubic Explorer and WinSplit Revolution

ListView: Using DisplayIndex when Paging

By Winston ⋅ December 11, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Just learned that you need to use a row’s DisplayIndex rather than its DataItemIndex when retrieving its DataKey value. Otherwise, stuff is not going to work with paging.
Not obvious. But I guess it makes sense.
DataItemIndex is the index of the row within the overall data set. DisplayIndex is the index of the row within [...]

Weirdest Visual Studio bug ever

By Winston ⋅ November 19, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

The Bug
My loathing for Visual Studio continues.
Suddenly, every time I ever tried to search for anything, the search wouldn’t even start. It would just say:
No Files Were Found To Look In.
Find Was Stopped In Progress
Gross. Nothing fixed it. Restarted. Nothing.
The Real Problem is that Visual Studio is Giving Me CTS
The search feature was [...]

Digging Google Chrome

By Winston ⋅ November 14, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I just installed Google Chrome and it feels nice, fast, and lightweight. But it’s weird looking at my Task Manager and seeing tons of chrome.exe processes running. Still, if it’s less of a memory hog than FF, I’m all over it.

BindOnPreRender Control

By Winston ⋅ November 13, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

One useful little control we wrote for ASP.NET is our BindOnPreRender control. It simply calls DataBind() on itself at PreRender.
Its utility may not be obvious. This is sort of related to my post on WebForms DataBinding. Binding is better. It lets us bind properties to objects in our markup, which helps reduce code-behind. I’m not [...]