Kirk Evans Blog

Monday night's Atlanta .NET User Group presentation went off with nary a hitch. Inspired by one of my favorite "WKRP In Cincinatti" episodes , I added a little something extra into the presentation. Nobody was hurt, thankfully. I will be in Chattanooga...

I got up around 4:00 am to work on a proposal for a potential client. Fixed myself a stiff cup of coffee, and started writing. About an hour later, the house shook to the point that pictures fell off our wall, books fell off shelves, and magazines piled...

Turns out that my post about using XSLT to convert CSV to XML hit a nerve with some folks. Robert thought it would come in handy, while Dare thinks it is convoluted . Dare suggests tokenizing the strings into a string array and iterating through the...

Two notable things this week were that we actually got some guys from Atlanta together for lunch: Paul Wilson , Don Browning , Wally McClure , Matthew Nolton , James Shaw , and John Croft . I had my camera there, but forgot to break it out for the group...

How to transform CSV to an XML format?...

Wish that Oracle had something like SQL Server's FOR XML query capabilities and OPENXML shredding capabilities? Here's how to make it happen using the XDK....

I was contemplating the opposite of The Giant Sucking Sound , and opted for "whoosh": the sound my son loves to make when wearing a bath towel around his neck and running through the house playing "Super Carson." I cannot think of a place I would like...

Got a great email tonight... To: Kirk Allen Evans From: Michelle M Smith Subject: Welcome to the ASPAlliance Welcome to the ASPAlliance! We are pleased to welcome you as a new columnist. I am pretty proud of this one... time to start...

I guess it depends on the dev work you do. I got by BS in CS ;) and while I agree it does give you a great foundation, it did not teach me to program half as good as those people going to the tech schools to get their certs. Unfortunately, I have found...

I don't know about anyone else but I have been waiting for this a long time, and it better be good. Here is a link to the final trailer. [ Wes' Puzzling Blog ] Umm... wow. That's about all I can muster up right now because I'm too busy wiping the...

It's not as if it's impossible to be bright and liberal. I praised Christopher Hitchens, didn't I? It's just that liberalism draws a higher percentage of non-thinking conformists than conservatism. Liberalism is all about conformity; that's because liberals...

Another addition to the Bulldog Faithful... let's hope he doesn't teach PE....

Following both Tomas and Brad's leads, I added my IM to my home page .

Get the path of a particular System.Xml.XmlNode....

What does not() in XPath really do? A background on max(), distinct(), and grouping using XPath (and props for FXSL)....

My great day started yesterday night. Working late at the office, a good hour from home, my wife called to say that she was going to start bathing our children and put them to bed. Would I like to talk to them? "Daddy! Hey daddy! I am watching cowtoons...

Working with RSSBandit and SharpReader this week, I though that it would be nice if SharpReader and RSSBandit could index the comments for a post and show them hierarchically like SharpReader does trackbacks. This got me to thinking about possibilities...

How to create a namespace declaration for an unused namespace and how to create the xsi:schemaLocation and xsi:noNamespaceLocation attributes using XmlDocument....

I have released nxslt version 1.1. nxslt is .NET XSLT command line utility, written in C#. Timings are now more accurate, I'm using System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter class now. Two new features: custom URI resolver and multiple output. ...

Thoughts on XInclude class model...

Why .Clear parameters when you can pre-compile the statement at the provider level?...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- In an apparent show of defiance, Iraq's Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf stood in the streets of Baghdad Monday morning amid a U.S. raid on the capital, issuing denials of coalition advances. [ CNN ] Is it me or is...

A look at W3C specs interpretations and implementations...

The first real family trip with the kids in a car for a long time, tips on effective technical presentations, and a really cool eamil I received from an author of a great book....

A review, of sorts, of the book "Google Hacks."...