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Articles - 2004

• December
  • Attributes and Inheritance - 12.30.2004 04:02:28 PM CST
  • Partial Classes and Loose Typing Semantics - 12.30.2004 11:43:32 AM CST
  • Fooling Controls Into Thinking it’s Design-Time at Runtime - 12.30.2004 10:53:25 AM CST
  • It Wasn’t an Act of God - 12.30.2004 10:08:28 AM CST
  • Question About Testing Read-Only Properties - 12.29.2004 03:55:14 PM CST
  • Continuing Right-To-Left Woes: DateTimePicker and the MonthCalendar Controls - First Solution - 12.29.2004 01:54:41 PM CST
  • Continuing Right-To-Left Woes: DateTimePicker and the MonthCalendar Controls - 12.29.2004 01:39:49 PM CST
  • 2005 Goals - 12.29.2004 12:15:44 PM CST
  • Error Messages in UI Applications - 12.29.2004 11:41:19 AM CST
  • Two News Stories - 12.28.2004 08:12:35 PM CST
  • Winter Vacation 2004 - 12.28.2004 07:57:06 PM CST
  • The Regex Documentation - 12.22.2004 01:56:04 PM CST
  • Knowing if the InstalledUICulture is Right-To-Left - 12.22.2004 01:16:24 PM CST
  • Speaking of the Images Property - 12.22.2004 12:57:00 PM CST
  • Read-Only Configurable Properties and Unit Testing - 12.22.2004 12:40:48 PM CST
  • WinRes and ImageList Objects - 12.21.2004 03:26:02 PM CST
  • GroupBox Controls in .NET 2.0 With RightToLeft Set To Yes - 12.21.2004 01:16:49 PM CST
  • Mirroring a GroupBox Control - Solved (I Think) - 12.21.2004 11:14:29 AM CST
  • Mirroring a GroupBox Control - 12.21.2004 10:57:53 AM CST
  • Close Image in Base64 - 12.20.2004 03:44:02 PM CST
  • Passphrases and Errors - 12.20.2004 11:51:52 AM CST
  • I Know I’m Getting Old - 12.19.2004 12:58:26 AM CST
  • Three Class Issues in VS .NET - 12.16.2004 01:49:35 AM CST
  • Running Build Events for Testing Cleanup - 12.15.2004 02:01:01 PM CST
  • A Small, Yet Very Important Point, About Creationism - 12.15.2004 12:23:29 PM CST
  • Because, You Know, The Bible is the Only Source of Truth - 12.15.2004 10:36:19 AM CST
  • Cloning XML Nodes - Round 2 - 12.15.2004 10:01:03 AM CST
  • Cloning XML Nodes - 12.14.2004 03:23:30 PM CST
  • I’m Loving the Day Job - 12.13.2004 07:30:57 PM CST
  • The CodeProject Needs a Cleanup - 12.13.2004 03:44:11 PM CST
  • Meeting the “Godless” Author - 12.10.2004 07:51:41 PM CST
  • Using Attributes to Name Resources in Assemblies - 12.09.2004 11:33:59 AM CST
  • Mirroring in WinForms and Owner-Drawn Strings: SOLVED (With Code) - 12.09.2004 09:42:51 AM CST
  • Mirroring in WinForms and Owner-Drawn Strings - 12.08.2004 02:38:21 PM CST
  • Controls, Interfaces, and Helper Methods - 12.07.2004 02:58:44 PM CST
  • Kitchen - Before And After - 12.06.2004 12:26:22 AM CST
  • Security - 12.03.2004 04:55:48 PM CST
  • Learning a Lot about i18n and l10n - 12.03.2004 04:41:06 PM CST
• November
  • Thanksgiving Weekend - 11.28.2004 08:56:08 PM CST
  • High School Hell - 11.23.2004 11:05:14 AM CST
  • “One”, by Neal Morse - 11.22.2004 08:01:19 PM CST
  • Crunch Weeks - 11.21.2004 11:11:12 PM CST
  • “Saved!” - 11.19.2004 10:17:07 PM CST
  • Voting Challenges - 11.19.2004 10:39:36 AM CST
  • “Earth”, by David Brin - 11.19.2004 10:29:01 AM CST
  • Halo2 FragFest Images and Video - 11.16.2004 12:29:53 PM CST
  • One More Week, and is Darwin Wrong? - 11.15.2004 07:37:21 PM CST
  • Aborting Threads - 11.14.2004 11:24:59 PM CST
  • Winter 2004 Halo2 FragFest is Complete - 11.14.2004 02:52:30 AM CST
  • I Needed More Cowbell - 11.12.2004 02:27:01 PM CST
  • I’m Way Too Competitive - 11.11.2004 11:25:39 PM CST
  • How Much Work is Too Much? - 11.11.2004 09:45:21 AM CST
  • A Preview of Things to Come - 11.10.2004 08:28:50 PM CST
  • I Will No Longer Have a Life … - 11.09.2004 10:49:30 AM CST
  • “The Incredibles” - 11.06.2004 10:22:59 AM CST
  • Why I Hate Politics - 11.04.2004 02:05:23 PM CST
  • Don’t Blame Me … - 11.03.2004 08:12:49 AM CST
  • Clear and Sober - 11.02.2004 05:00:02 PM CST
  • Voting - 11.02.2004 01:50:18 PM CST
  • Dentist - 11.02.2004 01:26:38 PM CST
  • New Gig in Three Weeks - 11.02.2004 10:45:51 AM CST
• October
  • Fun With VS .NET 2005 - 10.31.2004 11:19:02 PM CST
  • Podcasting - 10.28.2004 04:50:57 PM CST
  • Impossible, or Infeasible? - 10.28.2004 10:57:22 AM CST
  • Complaints About Unit Testing in VS .NET 2005 - 10.26.2004 08:07:19 PM CST
  • Another Attempt With Speech Recognition - 10.26.2004 04:16:07 PM CST
  • “Team America: World Police” - 10.26.2004 08:21:30 AM CST
  • New Technology is Always Fun - 10.25.2004 09:36:06 PM CST
  • Testing Something New - 10.25.2004 09:33:28 PM CST
  • Eek! - 10.24.2004 10:25:52 AM CST
  • “It’s Been a Good Life”, by Isaac Asimov - 10.24.2004 10:16:39 AM CST
  • Sorry, Firefox Folks - 10.22.2004 11:56:33 AM CST
  • Good Dinners This Week - 10.21.2004 09:57:17 PM CST
  • Tomorrow Will (Hopefully) be a Good Day - 10.21.2004 04:06:38 PM CST
  • Blah, Blah, Blah - 10.21.2004 01:32:26 PM CST
  • Services Are The Exception - 10.21.2004 10:35:20 AM CST
  • Rocky Gets Wacky on Generics - 10.21.2004 12:11:52 AM CST
  • One Thing You Can’t Do With Generics in .NET - 10.20.2004 06:26:57 PM CST
  • Creationists, Knock it Off! - 10.20.2004 06:07:29 PM CST
  • IdeasHappen, Round II - 10.20.2004 03:25:33 PM CST
  • SOA is BS … Sort Of - 10.20.2004 02:16:13 PM CST
  • My Thoughts on Xamlon - 10.20.2004 08:30:25 AM CST
  • “T2: Rising Storm” and “T2: Future War” - 10.17.2004 04:49:50 PM CST
  • Pictures and Experiences From Code Camp II - 10.17.2004 03:13:08 PM CST
  • Basking in Boston - 10.15.2004 11:14:18 PM CST
  • Dead at 41 - 10.14.2004 09:13:13 AM CST
  • If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers - 10.13.2004 10:38:07 AM CST
  • Overslept - 10.13.2004 10:18:06 AM CST
  • Say What You Want To, When You Want To - 10.12.2004 12:41:41 PM CST
  • I Couldn’t Avoid it Any Longer: SOA - 10.12.2004 10:23:35 AM CST
  • Why I Don’t Care About Sports Anymore - 10.11.2004 08:33:22 PM CST
  • Perfect Morning with Transatlantic - 10.11.2004 04:38:08 PM CST
  • On the Road for the Next Two Weeks - 10.08.2004 09:48:00 AM CST
  • 10 Years Ago Today … - 10.07.2004 01:25:52 PM CST
  • Humanity’s Greatest Achievement - 10.03.2004 12:23:51 PM CST
  • The Joys of Refactoring - 10.03.2004 01:17:45 AM CST
  • Paint.NET 1.1 Released - 10.01.2004 08:37:22 PM CST
• September
  • Terminator 4 … Hmmmm … A Disaster in the Making? - 09.27.2004 08:00:09 PM CST
  • RSS Bandit and Firefox - 09.27.2004 07:37:31 PM CST
  • Pictures of the Drum Set - 09.27.2004 07:19:33 PM CST
  • “Success Under Pressure” - 09.26.2004 02:36:19 PM CST
  • “Extreme Encounters”, by Greg Emmanuel - 09.26.2004 01:23:57 PM CST
  • Renaming the Little Guy - 09.25.2004 09:54:18 AM CST
  • Going With Your Instincts - 09.24.2004 08:32:56 PM CST
  • Islands of Knowledge - Never Again - 09.24.2004 02:08:13 PM CST
  • The Disaster That Almost Was - 09.22.2004 09:26:35 AM CST
  • First Picture With the Digital Camera - 09.21.2004 03:08:11 PM CST
  • “Secular Wholeness”, by David Cortesi - 09.21.2004 01:20:41 PM CST
  • Using Your Voice To Blog - 09.20.2004 09:52:07 PM CST
  • Never Mind, It Was My Own Dumbass Mistake - 09.20.2004 08:28:58 PM CST
  • Odd Behavior With Caching - 09.20.2004 08:18:33 PM CST
  • Unfortunately, You Can’t Ignore Crap Like This - 09.20.2004 02:40:02 PM CST
  • Eco Talks About The Scientific Method - 09.20.2004 02:29:56 PM CST
  • My Anniversay Present: A Canon PowerShot A95 - 09.19.2004 06:49:47 PM CST
  • A Very Estoeric ASP.NET Error - 09.17.2004 09:53:19 PM CST
  • iTextSharp is Very Cool - 09.16.2004 03:57:38 PM CST
  • New Member in the Household: Butters - 09.12.2004 12:01:56 PM CST
  • Burnout3 on XBox - 09.08.2004 11:16:31 PM CST
  • Butchering a Call - 09.07.2004 08:32:11 PM CST
  • OrcsWeb Adds Spam Filtering - 09.05.2004 11:02:53 AM CST
  • This is Becoming a Long Week - 09.01.2004 06:20:01 PM CST
• August
  • “Fay” and “Open Water” - 08.29.2004 04:12:03 PM CST
  • Back To VBA For an Hour - 08.25.2004 03:33:39 PM CST
  • “Testimony Live” DVD - 08.24.2004 09:28:18 PM CST
  • A Headhunter Tells My Wife That I’m Unprofessional. What an Asshole! - 08.24.2004 04:38:46 PM CST
  • Breathing Too Much CO2 - 08.24.2004 03:43:28 PM CST
  • MSI/WiX Help - 08.24.2004 03:34:44 PM CST
  • Why “But it Builds on My Machine!” Is a Complete Load of Crap - 08.20.2004 02:50:10 PM CST
  • Crypto-Gram RSS Feed - 08.19.2004 03:54:57 PM CST
  • “Alien Vs. Predator” - 08.18.2004 11:26:14 PM CST
  • What I’ve Been Worried About - 08.16.2004 08:07:50 PM CST
  • Vacation Recap - 08.15.2004 06:38:21 PM CST
  • Plans for the Weekend - 08.07.2004 11:39:30 AM CST
• July
  • Using Reflection to Find RGB Values for a Color - 07.27.2004 09:44:07 AM CST
  • Unit Test, Setup and Teardown, and Inheritance … Who’s Right - 07.26.2004 12:54:10 PM CST
  • WiXing Out - 07.23.2004 08:18:20 AM CST
  • Yikes - What a Complement - 07.21.2004 12:31:44 PM CST
  • PDF Libraries for .NET - 07.20.2004 10:51:05 AM CST
  • When Interviewing for a .NET Position, You Should Know the Difference Between an Object and a Class - 07.20.2004 10:01:17 AM CST
  • This Weekend: Mixed Emotions, but I’m Mostly Sitting on My Ass - 07.18.2004 04:03:04 PM CST
  • And I Though Putting an Underscore in Front of Field Names Was a Good Idea … - 07.14.2004 10:41:51 PM CST
  • Language Wars … Sigh - 07.14.2004 11:39:51 AM CST
  • Leg Cramp! - 07.13.2004 09:30:03 AM CST
  • This Weekend - 07.11.2004 06:38:04 PM CST
  • Thinking About the Future - 07.09.2004 11:19:43 AM CST
  • Divine Intervention? I Think Not - 07.08.2004 03:12:17 PM CST
  • If You’re Creating a Custom Collection, Then, Damnit, Make it a Collection!!! - 07.07.2004 01:15:18 PM CST
  • Paint .NET - 07.06.2004 04:14:34 PM CST
  • I Forgot to Mention - I Won $20 Playing No-Limit Texas Hold-em - 07.05.2004 05:38:47 PM CST
  • Vacation in Atlanta - 07.05.2004 03:36:32 PM CST
• June
  • Magenic Consultant of the Month … Wheeeeeeee! - 06.28.2004 10:46:58 AM CST
  • Done With Milwaukee - 06.28.2004 09:21:40 AM CST
  • Inspiring Article by Ann Druyan in the Nov/Dec 2003 Issue of “Skeptical Inquirer” - 06.25.2004 01:58:32 PM CST
  • UriViewer, or, How to Make a Quick Object Viewer in 5 Minutes - 06.24.2004 01:47:50 PM CST
  • Potential Pitfalls in Using FileGenerator as a Language Translator - 06.24.2004 10:01:58 AM CST
  • A Memorable Quote (no Pun Intended) - 06.22.2004 10:32:44 PM CST
  • Generics are not CLS-Compliant. So? - 06.22.2004 08:37:52 AM CST
  • Cool Article on Awari - 06.21.2004 11:19:48 PM CST
  • Be Careful With Public Abstract Classes … - 06.18.2004 08:15:10 PM CST
  • “Dodgeball” - 06.18.2004 07:49:48 PM CST
  • Finding a Use for FileGenerator - Language Translation - 06.18.2004 02:46:21 PM CST
  • “Maximizing .NET Performance,” by Nick Wienholt - 06.18.2004 10:33:35 AM CST
  • Virtual Properties and Sealed Classes in C# and VB .NET - 06.17.2004 08:46:35 AM CST
  • Traveling to Milwaukee - 06.15.2004 10:46:09 AM CST
  • “The Chronicles of Riddick” - 06.14.2004 10:16:54 AM CST
  • “The House of Sand and Fog” (Movie) - 06.12.2004 12:14:10 AM CST
  • It’s Finally Over This Friday - 06.09.2004 09:18:32 PM CST
  • Back to Coding at Night! - 06.09.2004 02:23:47 AM CST
  • If You’re a .NET Developer, You Can Read Both VB .NET and C# Code - 06.03.2004 12:42:03 AM CST
  • An Interesting Discussion About CInt() - 06.03.2004 12:18:53 AM CST
  • Lots of Fun with Office Add-Ins - 06.01.2004 08:11:43 PM CST
• May
  • This is What I “Discussed” All Day at Work - 05.25.2004 07:53:59 PM CST
  • I Need An Attitude Adjustment - 05.22.2004 11:42:47 AM CST
  • “Bringing Down the House,” by Ben Mezrich - 05.22.2004 11:29:04 AM CST
  • “Threshold”, by Caitlin R. Kiernan - 05.22.2004 11:23:51 AM CST
  • My Project Has Changed :( - 05.19.2004 09:22:40 PM CST
  • Twisting My Head Around IsNothing - 05.15.2004 01:21:36 AM CST
  • RallySport2: A Piece of $hit? - 05.11.2004 07:11:23 PM CST
  • RallySport2: Interesting, but Way Too Many DDEs - 05.11.2004 01:05:29 AM CST
  • Golf Was … Interesting Today - 05.09.2004 07:54:28 PM CST
• April
  • Got Some Golfing in This Morning - 04.25.2004 05:30:01 PM CST
  • Why Is TDD Suddenly Becoming Big on Developer’s Radar? - 04.23.2004 11:28:52 PM CST
  • Sealed By Default - 04.18.2004 05:24:12 PM CST
  • First Golf Swings of the Year - 04.18.2004 05:00:09 PM CST
  • “Behind Deep Blue,” by Feng-Hsiung Hsu - 04.15.2004 09:31:31 PM CST
  • Nice Weather in Shakopee, But I’m Bummed - 04.14.2004 09:52:41 PM CST
  • No Edit And Continue in ASP.NET 2.0? Who Cares! - 04.10.2004 07:59:43 PM CST
  • Is SOA A Bloated Dollar Train?, Code Generators, And Starting Down the MCSD .NET Road - 04.08.2004 08:16:38 PM CST
  • “The Chronoliths”, by Robert Charles Wilson - 04.05.2004 08:29:15 PM CST
  • New Timbales, and “Lost In Translation” - 04.03.2004 10:17:05 AM CST
• March
  • “The Lake of Dead Languages,” by Carol Goodman - 03.27.2004 11:55:21 AM CST
  • The Runtime is Smuggling My Methods! - 03.22.2004 09:01:45 PM CST
  • The Gladney Center For Adoption - 03.20.2004 12:18:54 PM CST
  • Random Thoughts as I Fly Over the Midwest - 03.18.2004 10:47:42 AM CST
  • The Concourse Network Isn’t Free - 03.18.2004 08:16:50 AM CST
  • My Impressions of Extreme Programming (XP) - 03.16.2004 07:52:39 PM CST
  • Different Direction - 03.16.2004 12:31:17 AM CST
  • Obfuscation and Reflector - 03.15.2004 09:46:55 PM CST
  • “50 First Dates” - Better Than I Thought - 03.14.2004 12:24:45 AM CST

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