When you do something worth doing, do it with a Bang! At any job that you do, there will always be good people, bad people and just people. Take a look at the guy next to you. Is that the person you want to be like? It does not matter how insignificant your job is, [...]

Job Interviews are like double-edged swords. While it is an opportunity for the prospective employer to get to know you, what most people fail to do is getting to know your employer. Is that company a place you really want to work for? Will you be happy there or will it be an endless battle [...]

This is a simple solution on how to get data in chunks from a WCF service (e.g. a paged list of results) Assuming that your service pulls data from a SQL Server database, you can use Linq2Sql and create your data context, OR if you are not using SQL Server, then the Microsoft Entity Framework [...]

I had a fairly simple problem recently (well, most problems are simple – solutions are not always so). I had an interface for a class that exposed about a dozen or so methods, and I needed to call them all, one at a time. The methods were parameterless and the return types were identical. Basically [...]

I have tried various blog software in the past to run this blog. .TEXT I started using the now defunct .TEXT . In my opinion, .TEXT was excellent. It has a nice feature set and was more than good enough to run a personal blog. In addition, it had a 3rd party MS Access data [...]

I currently run my website on DotNetNuke as a content management server. I am considering changing to Community Server instead. I will give that a spin over the next few days at home, and if I am happy enough I will change this site to run on Community Server. Typically I am considering Community Server [...]

I often get asked questions about serializing a class to XML and then deserializing it back to its original object. There are numerous reasons why you would do this, but more commonly I found that it is the preferred way to persist objects in a database. I’ve put together these two methods that will take [...]

The Australian Tech-Ed 2006 this year is hosted in Sydney. I’ll make sure I attend the session How to get your grandmother building Missile Defence Systems, it sounds like a lot of fun

There’s a little tip on how to force a page_load when the user press the back button on the browser. In your page_load section, add this line of code: Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache) By disabling ASP.NET Caching on a page, we can force a Page_Load on BACK button. There are a few reasons why you would want this [...]

It’s a bit of a disappointment that “Something” hasn’t been added to the Visual Basic Language. I have been dreaming of a day when I can use Dim Blah as New Person … If IsSomething(Blah) Then ‘ Do Stuff with Bla Else MessageBox.Show(”Blah has not been initialised”) End If Well, until that day comes, I [...]