Unhandled Exceptions

As any developer knows, sometimes you are unlucky.. You work for a while, forget to save, and all of a sudden, *poof*, your work is gone. Sometimes it’s a mix of laziness and arrogance which inhibits the proper testing on a particular feature.
In my case, it was a client’s haste in wanting [...]

This is more a personal note than anything else, but when using
sa-learn
, make sure the format (
–mbox
or
–mbx
) is the last thing in the option list, just before the filename… the “learner” seems to freeze if that isn’t the case.

One of my side projects is rapidly becoming a beast. Every time I think I’m getting close to being done, more (billable) features and requests are added to my plate. I’m not complaining, but what little break I thought I would have for the holidays is rapidly dwindling.
As the project is becoming a [...]

So, I searched for enabling XP Visual Styles in .NET apps on Google. I found LOADS of articles dealing with creating manifest files and adding them as resources to your executable (after building the exe’s). But I found that fishy, as I remember applying XP styling to C1Live (ComponentOne’s Live Update Utility that [...]

Drive for show, putt for dough. A phrase with which most golfers are at least vaguely familiar. Unfortunately, Daly found the truth of that statement the hard way.