Techno-Babble
Trying out XMind
Trying out XMind again. Looks about the same, and I’m not that impressed with the mind-mapping UI itself, but the application shell based on Eclipse RCP is pretty slick. The whole thing makes me want to get back into MindTree (I need to think of a new name, too). Maybe once things settle down. The [...]
JAD vanished from the internet
I recently started doing Java development again and went off looking for the trusty Jad compiler, which I planned on using with the JadClipse so that I could browse straight into any class. Not for the purpose of cribbing someone else’s code, but for faster, better comprehension of how to use other libraries. In .NET I [...]
Apple download failures are ruining my life
For the past few weeks I’ve been trying to update my iPhone to the new 2.2.1 firmware, but the download always failed. Same with downloading a new version iTunes. Tried and tried and tried.
Then today I got fed up, tracked down the url for manually downloading it (this forum thread is a good source). But [...]
Easy Progress Reporting in Powershell
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!
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 [...]
New utilities
Digging Cubic Explorer and WinSplit Revolution
ListView: Using DisplayIndex when Paging
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
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 [...]
BindOnPreRender Control
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 [...]
New MindTree HTML and Clipboard Features
Lindsay has been traveling the world for work a lot lately. This week she’s in Vegas, and I’m home taking care of Claire, which means I have a lot of time on my hands late at night. So, I’ve managed to do a bit of MindTree development.
A lot, actually. But I don’t have much to [...]
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