availability-management.com ripping off my blog
availability-management.com has been ripping off my blog and posting it as their own. No credit is given (a tiny link to the original). They are using it to boost their…
Platform detection I: How to detect that your app is running in the emulator
When you develop your Windows CE or Windows Mobile application in .NET Compact Framework, you probably do a lot of testing on the Microsoft Device Emulators for Smartphone and Pocket…
Windows and Linux
This article is intended to be a store for some fair comparisons between the Windows and Linux operating systems. It’s not a Windows versus Linux document. Comments are allowed, but…
SystemParametersInfo: buffer size in unicode characters or bytes?
The SystemParametersInfo function in Windows CE can be tricky, even deadly, when it comes to passing in buffers for SPI_GETOEMINFO or SPI_GETPLATFORMTYPE. Each of these uiAction values fill a given…
Want a Writely invite?
It turns out that although you can’t directly sign up for Writely during this transition to Google, existing Writely accounts can invite others to Writely to collaborate on existing documents.…
How to empty a SQL Server database transaction log file
I have 1GB databases that grow several GB log files. How do you safely clear those logs? Well, probably the best practice includes backing them up. That was overkill for…
How I got OpenID working with Ruby on Rails
After spending two hours searching for good documentation for using OpenID as my authentication for my Ruby on Rails app and being disappointed in lack of examples and other documentation,…
Initial and abstract impressions for my first week at Microsoft
So I’ve finished my first week here at Microsoft working with the .NET Compact Framework team. They are a very friendly group, and I am happy to be working with…
WSE3 and ASP.NET Membership Provider authentication
I am not an expert in WSE3 by anyone’s definition. So when I went looking for a way to add authentication requirements to my web service that tied into the…
Why I’m giving up Ayende’s NHibernate.Generics (for now)
Ayende’s NHibernate.Generics is truly an incredible advance in supporting generic collections with NHibernate, and solving the two-way relationship problem at the same time. I switched all my projects to use…