Archives » December, 2005

008 days of 007…

It’s a good thing I have to work 3 of those days…
In what seems to have become a holiday requirement, Spike TV begins it’s “008 days of 007″ starting Friday (yes this Friday) at 9 a.m. Which means for a little over a week, at any time of day, I will be able to [...]

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B3 Award for December 10 - 16, 2005

I have to apologize for the delay in this post, but I don’t think there was ever any doubt as to last week’s winner….
They have invented a myth that Jews were massacred and place this above God, religions and the prophets,…
The West has given more significance to the myth of the genocide of the Jews, [...]

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Getting a directory size

The aforementioned consulting project has led me to rewrite a good portion of their photo gallery code. Their initial storage solution was horrendous, causing the database to become exceptionally large, increasing the number of calls to the DB (not to mention the size of each transaction itself), and not allowing me to do things [...]

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Asynchronous Method Calls in ASP.NET/VB.NET

The VB.NET app that I “inherited” as part of a consulting job I’m doing isn’t without it’s quirks. To remedy some of the problems we were having, we quoted and performed a refactoring of the photo gallery sections of the application. Prior to the refactoring, all of the images were stored in the [...]

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B3 Award for December 3 - 9, 2005

As I was browsing the news today I realize that there is somewhat of a holy war going on around us. The whole “Merry Christmas” vs. “Happy Holidays” debate seems to be a bit stronger this year than most. Perhaps the neocons are looking for something to fight about, or perhaps it’s [...]

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