March 2007 Entries
Totally random but no matter how many times I watch it I can't not laugh.
It looks like someone has found how to ski once global warming melts all the glaciers.
Tube escalators :)
I just got a notification from Windows Live Mail Desktop saying it couldn't find the
url http://mail.services.live.com/DeltaSync_v1.0.0/sync.aspx when
trying to poll for new messages. I thought this as strange since aspx pages are primarily
used for rendering Html content (altho nothing is stopping you from outputting
something else such as Xaml).
The advantages of using a HttpHandler over a common Page (web form, ASPX) are
multiple: The HttpHandler gets the request very early, before it is processed by the
framework. When the request's recipient is a Page, the ASP.NET framework fires many
events, which may or may not be implemented by the Page. The mechanism is relatively
long and complex,...
You may have noticed my SportsDo Activities
have now been merged into my RSS feed (so you can see when i decide to do some exercise).
As I was using FeedBurner to abstract my
blogs RSS feed it won't affect any of my hordes of readers.
I used Yahoo Pipes to merge two RSS feeds (my
blogs feed and my activity feed from the SportsDo portal) and then sort them descending
by pubDate. I then pointed FeedBurner at the feed Yahoo then exposes.
Yahoo pipes is a great tool if you have multiple RSS feeds you want merged into one.
I've been downloading the Orcas March CTP Virtual
PC Image. Daniel Moth has been blogging about alot of the new language features
in C# 3.0.
Automatic
properties in C#3
System.AddIn
LINQ Resources
Go check it out.
I don't hang up the phone on people often, but after 10 attempts to tell the Pizza
Hut women my phone number I had to give in.
It took less time to order from dominos than it did to get past stage 1 of ordering
from Pizza Hut.
Dominos 1 - 0 Pizza Hut
Now I have to walk down the road and collect :(
It's not everyday that you find a bug in a piece of Microsoft code, but 2
bugs in one day? And those 2 bugs being in the same function? Well I should have
played the lottery this week.
In the Virtual Earth API the VEPushpin.Dipose
function contains 2 bugs, which are caused through carelessness more than anything
else (we all make them).
The LOC is:
VEPushpin.prototype.Dispose=function(){this.DetailsStyle==null; this.TitleStyle=null;this.IconStyle=null;this.Details=null;this.IconUrl=null;this.Title=null;this.LatLong=null;this.ID=null;this.m_vemapcontrol=null;this.m_vemap=null
Taking a quick glance and only one is obvious.
Instead of setting the this.DetailsStyle variable to null, a boolean comparison
is being performed. When the method is meant to set everything to null what you don't
expect is somethings to not be nulled.
The second bug...