Honest Illusion

In my daily web-surfing, I often stumble upon snippets of C# code posted by people.  Usually, I can tweak  it a bit. Sometimes, I can tweak it a lot.  I usually post a quick comment to the site offering it.  Today, I came upon some code that was so bad --- which the author said was from his forthcoming book! --- more drastic measures must be ...

This was intended to be a two-part article.  It was just after I published the original article, I noticed that I’d left out a large part of ViewComponentEx. We continue….. protected bool RenderOptionalSection(string section) protected bool RenderOptionalSection(string section, string defaultText) Renders the named ...

I’ve been rewriting my website, njtheater.com, (very slowly) as a Castle MonoRail application.  Along the way, I’ve written a number of ViewComponent and other elements.  Many of these were of general use, so I’ve added them to the CastleContib project, and documented them in the using.castleproject.org wiki. Two problem there: First, some of ...

(Me + you) && (you + me) var nomatter = dice.toss(); assert (it != null) me.Only1(you); assert(you == me.Only1()); (Me + you).happy = so;   (more on the meme here)    

Over on CodeProject, I spotted an article by Mahdi Yousefi called '' Creating an ASP.NET captcha using jQuery and s3capcha”. public static List<int> shuffle(List<int> input) { List<int> output = new List<int>(); Random rnd = new Random(); int FIndex; while (input.Count > 0) { ...

As I slowly rewrite NJTheater.com, one task that I was trying to move from a MSAccess application to a webpage would be made much easier if put in a wizard form, with the user being led through the steps.  Since I was using jQuery throughout the site, I figured I could find a plug-in for the job, and I did – sorta. After rejecting a couple, I ...

You may have noticed that I don’t write on this blog much.  But the thing is I do write a lot on the inter-webs about technical matters --- I just don’t to it here.  Usually, I find something interesting on someone else’s blog, and then write an improvement in the comments.  So, my work goes to helping other people’s pagerank.  I figure this ...

Another week, another C# interview question from the good folk's at Dev102.com -- Although I use the term ''good folks'' advisedly, as this week they did not even acknowledge the solution I posted for last weeks puzzle (which was both correct, and, I believe, the first blog post about it). Anyway, time to move on to this week's question. ...

The folks at Dev102.com are offering weekly programming challenges, where they offer questions, and let bloggers post about them.  I meant to write an answer for last week, but never got around to it.  Just as well -- my answer would have been wrong.  SO, let's move on to this week's: How would you implement the following method: Foo(7) == ...

Today, either Bloglines.com or blogs.MSDN.com blinked, and suddenly I'm seeing old entries on the 'C# Frequently Asked Questions' blog as new.  No one has posted anything there in over two years. Anyway, reading the most recent message, it offered a method for logging a message.  Now, ignoring side debates over log4net vs nLog vs. the Event ...