Tim’s Blog

  • App_Code and Namespaces

    When working in Asp.net, I discovered something interesting about namespace.  Before I explain what that is, a little background… If a page accesses it’s masterpage through the typical this.Master way, then any custom methods you’ve written aren’t accessible as it as typed as a MasterPage, not your class that inherits it (presumably something like _MyMasterPage).  […]

  • Gigabit Switch and Nics Arrived Today

    Backups and local media streaming just got a whole lot faster.

  • UTF-8 Encoding with XMLWriter and a Stringbuilder

    You could waste a lot of time trying to figure out why an XMLWriter ignores the Encoding set on XMLWriterSettings that is passed into the XMLTextWriter.Create() function.  Instead, read the following blog post and move along… http://devproj20.blogspot.com/2008/02/writing-xml-with-utf-8-encoding-using.html

  • The Sun Also Rises (on the Technology Coast)

    One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. -Ecclesiastes 1:5-6 Apple released Mac OS X in 1999, using a BSD core and embracing many libraries and utilities of the open source world.  […]

  • Mysql Gem on Leopard

    After getting a whole lot of errors, I found the only way I could get this gem to work is the following: -Install x86 version of mysql -Install Gem like the following: sudo gem install mysql — –with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql –with-mysql-config=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config –remote I hope that helps…

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