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August 2004 - Posts

Ow ow ow ow!!!

Posted Tuesday, August 31, 2004 8:22 AM by CyrusN
I awake renewed Attack of the vicious wasps I am joe merrick Read More...
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Ambiguities

Posted Monday, August 30, 2004 9:30 AM by CyrusN
I spent a few hours yesterday working on a rather interesting problem that we've never really dealt with in the IDE. As you might expect VC# works like a pretty standard compiler. There is a lexical tokenizer which takes the raw input source and produces Read More...
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Nags Head

Posted Thursday, August 26, 2004 8:00 PM by CyrusN
It's been a great week in North Carolina and a much needed vacation. I'll be coming back to work to try and get through this backlog of work and to hopefully get this stuff out of our hands and into yours ASAP. What's on the menu for this evening? Fettucini Read More...
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The Alien Quadrilogy

Posted Sunday, August 22, 2004 7:53 AM by CyrusN
It was my birthday this weekend and I celebrated by watching the entire Aliens saga . (Ok, it wasn't really my birthday, but that's no reason not to give yourself a gift every now and then). I have to say, I was even more impressed with this series than Read More...
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Murphy's law

Posted Sunday, August 22, 2004 7:23 AM by CyrusN
Well, I'm pretty sure all of Seattle hates me right now. I woke up yesterday and decided it would be a good idea to get to all the cleaning I've been meaning to do. My roommate's internship just finished and I figured now was a good time to get everything Read More...
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Olympic Bliss

Posted Wednesday, August 18, 2004 2:16 AM by CyrusN
I have figured out the best way to get my olympics fill for the day. I go to the gym with some friends and we turn on a different channel on each TV each of which is showing some olympic sport. NBC, MSNBC, Bravo and even CBC (god bless you kooky canadians Read More...
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Useful C# tools

Posted Tuesday, August 17, 2004 6:40 AM by CyrusN
If you're a reader of this blog than you probably know about this already. But who really knows and just in case you don't, here's a link to Duncan Mackenzie 's great page of C# tools . You'll find links to all sorts of .Net libraries, compilers for your Read More...
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(far) Cry ‘havoc!’ and let slip the dogs of war

Posted Tuesday, August 17, 2004 6:25 AM by CyrusN
(far) Cry ‘havoc!’ and let slip the dogs of war A friend let me borrow his copy of Far Cry after telling me what an amazing game it was. Well, I loaded it up on my little HTPC and attempted to play it. All I can say is “Ack!” My machine is certainly not Read More...
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What would you do for a klondike bar?

Posted Sunday, August 15, 2004 11:09 PM by CyrusN
Would you get goggles permanently affixed to your eyes? Well, if your Klondike bar is an olympic gold medal, then you just might. All it takes is a little superglue and you have aerodynamic (or is that hydrodynamic) visual assists that can shave off a Read More...
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How are you watching the 'Pics?

Posted Sunday, August 15, 2004 12:35 AM by CyrusN
The olympics that is. This weekend has been a pretty solid block of watching on all the channels that carry it for me. Unfortunately, i was not consulted about the schedule and it appears as though there are going to be games broadcast while I'm at work. Read More...
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Name that tune!

Posted Friday, August 13, 2004 9:56 PM by CyrusN
I'm watching the opening of the olympics, and besides being wowed by the beauty of the opening ceremony I've also been bouncing in my seat because of the great techno beats being played during the procession of nations. 2 points to the one who can point Read More...
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It's not fair!!

Posted Friday, August 13, 2004 1:33 AM by CyrusN
I'm on the C# team, but Eric is going to be coding C# for work before I get to!! Not only that, but he'll be getting to work on Longhorn features. <british>bastahd!</british> It's also pretty cool that he started out as QA (hard), then went Read More...
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I hate unchecked exceptions

Posted Friday, August 13, 2004 1:20 AM by CyrusN
Well, actually, I don't hate them at; i just hate not having any tools to tell me what exceptions could get thrown on the calls I make. Of course I realize how that might not be possible to compute given that you really don't know what could happen with Read More...
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Informational observations

Posted Friday, August 13, 2004 12:35 AM by CyrusN
There are some messages that the C# compiler could give that really wouldn't fall into the warning or error camp. These would fall into the category of more informational, like "hey did you know that..." and would refer to issues that you could choose Read More...
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A simple security guy

Posted Friday, August 13, 2004 12:03 AM by CyrusN
Went to an excellent all-afternoon security review workshop held by Michael Howard . He's the author of Writing Secure Code which certainly was an eye-opener for me. While I was already pretty aware of most of the coding issues raised in the book, many Read More...
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Writing your own Web Browser that supports tabs and an integrated search engine link

Posted Monday, August 09, 2004 6:20 AM by CyrusN
While there are many browsers out there that do this already like the superb Firefox and My-IE I wanted to link to a really cool article by John Kennedy (unfortunate name I know) on how to build your own version based on top of the IE rendering component Read More...
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Now where did I put that member?

Posted Monday, August 09, 2004 4:16 AM by CyrusN
Got this Ladybug report from a customer concerned that intellisense was broken because he wasn't seeing all the valid members in a drop down list when he did this: public void DoSomethingOfRelevance() { PrintPreviewDialog ppDialog; ppDialog<dot> Read More...
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SuperXPSP2TurboUltraRevivalAlphaEx3

Posted Monday, August 09, 2004 3:17 AM by CyrusN
Spent friday afternoon slipstreaming XP SP2 and then installing it. It was incredibly painless and the install was the same ~45 minutes that I'm used to from an XP installation. Initial thoughts are quite positive. I really liked how after the install Read More...
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Things that get me peeved

Posted Thursday, August 05, 2004 1:49 PM by CyrusN
Driving to work see a great parking spot get halfway through the turn spot the miata nestled in there laughing at me grrrrrrr... It's the top floor of the garage for me today. Read More...
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Make me an offer I can't refuse

Posted Wednesday, August 04, 2004 3:17 AM by CyrusN
For 13 years, Persian rugs made in Iran were banned from the U.S. market. The embargo was lifted in April 2000 and there's been a rise in imports of these amazing pieces. Before the 1987 embargo, rugs from Iran, were famous for their beauty and high quality. Read More...
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HELP!!! Finder has gone insane!!!

Posted Wednesday, August 04, 2004 3:02 AM by CyrusN
Ok, serious problem happening and I hope someone out there can help explain it to me or tell me a solution. Starting yesterday the Finder in OSX started sucking up every last free bit of CPU. I tried killing it, but it would just restart with the same Read More...
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¿¿¿EO:E???

Posted Wednesday, August 04, 2004 2:55 AM by CyrusN
Just had one of those supremely weird waking moments where you rmind has difficulty getting a hold on reality. I woke up looking at my alarm clock and noticed that it said EO:E. In my somnolent state I know that something was wrong, but I couldn't quite Read More...
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Should intellisense do what you want, or do what's correct?

Posted Monday, August 02, 2004 3:20 AM by CyrusN
Ok, that could be a terribly misleading title, but hopefully some explanation will help clarify things. I just got a bug assigned to me complaining about the following behavior. Say you have the following: Looks good right? Well, not quite. Technically, Read More...
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Inferring doc comments for methods that have none.

Posted Sunday, August 01, 2004 11:51 PM by CyrusN
We were going over things that came up in Ander's informal chat at Tech-Ed. It was a lot of fun because it reminded me of the difference of giving a lecture versus doing a TA recitation. You got to really just chat with people and got to walk through Read More...
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Beermaker beermaker make me a beer!

Posted Sunday, August 01, 2004 10:52 PM by CyrusN
Got to spend some wonderful hours this weekend at the Seattle International Beer Festival . $20 got you in the door with a nice little glass (which Moon threw away guh!) that you could take around to try out all different type of beers from all over the Read More...
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