The Hogg Blog : Fun

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Jason Hogg — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 23:08:00 GMT

I did a particularly lousy job of sending out Christmas cards this year, so figured I would instead make a last ditch effort to bring some joy to the world through my blog. As you may have seen we have had a pretty interesting winter so far in Seattle with record amounts of snow bringing the city to a near stand still. The photo below shows the Microsoft campus from my office in B117. Merry Christmas (or Happy Holidays if the former offends you :-)) to all and best wishes for the coming year.

Sticky Notes for Your Code

Jason Hogg — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:51:00 GMT

If your desk is anything like mine it is cluttered with millions of sticky notes, each containing some snippet of information that at some point seemed worth writing down. If you have been dreaming of the day that you can have your VS environment look similar, then wait no longer! My good friend Pablo Galliano has the perfect solution.

Seriously though, Pablo is probably one of the leading experts at extending VS (in both natural and unnatural ways) and has written a cool little utility allowing you to add post-it notes to your code. Take a look here for more information.

Oslo MGrammar Turtle Graphics for VS2008

Jason Hogg — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 04:16:00 GMT

My colleague Joshy Joseph reminded me that the MGrammar based Turtle Graphics parser that I posted here was for VS2010. I have attached a newer version of the solution that Joshy coverted to run in VS2008. I noticed that Doug Finke has also done the same thing whilst also creating a couple of additional samples as well. Take a look at his blog for more details...

WhoIs Shenanigans

Jason Hogg — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:29:00 GMT

I am sure that everyone has used a WhoIs utility (such as http://www.internic.org/whois.html) for querying the owner of a domain name such as microsoft.com. There is however an alternative to these Web forms which provides more information allowing you to search not just for strings matching a domain name, but also for strings matching registered hostnames of domain names. This provides hysterical insight into the minds of some Webmasters. For a laugh take a look at some of these hostnames registered with microsoft.com or google.com in them.

MICROSOFT.COM.WILL.LIVE.FOREVER.BECOUSE.UNIXSUCKS.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.WILL.BE.BEATEN.WITH.MY.SPANNER.NET
MICROSOFT.COM.SOFTWARE.IS.NOT.USED.AT.REG.RU
MICROSOFT.COM.SHOULD.GIVE.UP.BECAUSE.LINUXISGOD.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.NOT.HOSTED.BY.ACTIVEDOMAINDNS.NET
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.GOD.BECOUSE.UNIXSUCKS.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.HAS.ITS.OWN.CRACKLAB.COM
MICROSOFT.COM

GOOGLE.COM.ZOMBIED.AND.HACKED.BY.WWW.WEB-HACK.COM
GOOGLE.COM.YAHOO.COM.MYSPACE.COM.YOUTUBE.COM.FACEBOOK.COM.THEYSUCK.DNSABOUT.COM
GOOGLE.COM.IS.NOT.HOSTED.BY.ACTIVEDOMAINDNS.NET
GOOGLE.COM.IS.HOSTED.ON.PROFITHOSTING.NET
GOOGLE.COM.ACQUIRED.BY.CALITEC.NET
GOOGLE.COM

To see the complete list (r rated) try running the code yourself. Post a response with your funniest hostname or domain names other than these two that are particularly funny.

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using System.Net.Sockets;

using System.IO;

namespace WhoIsQuery

{

class Program

{

static void Main(string[] args)

{

// A query that results in more than one result lists all possible results

// so that a more precise query can be entered.

// A query with only one result returns just that result.

// Send request to WhoIs Server

Console.WriteLine("Contacting Internic");

TcpClient client = new TcpClient("whois.internic.net", 43);

StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(client.GetStream());

writer.WriteLine("microsoft.com");

writer.Flush();

// Retrieve response

StringBuilder output = new StringBuilder();

StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(client.GetStream());

{

output.Append(reader.ReadLine() + Environment.NewLine);

}

while (!reader.EndOfStream);

Console.WriteLine(output);

Console.ReadLine();

}