Renaissance Programmer

Idea for Simple Multi-threaded Software

2008-07-21T16:25:14Z

As multi-core CPUs become more and more common, the ability to write quality software that takes advantage of them will become more important. The tools currently available are not adequate to this task. We are seeing a few things emerge to help...

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VB.Net vs C#, Round 2: Partial Namespaces

2008-07-17T17:31:25Z

I've talked about this before, and I don't want to go over the same issues a second time. However, I recently had a project where I finally spent a few weeks in C#, with no VB work at all. At last, I had a chance to develop a deeper familiarity ...

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Make your Code as Useful as Possible

2008-07-16T17:35:23Z

I don't know how many times I've seen code similar to the following on programming help forums: Function MyMethod(ByVal InputParameter() As String) As String() 'Do Stuff here that returns a different string array End Function That's okay. We...

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The Power of Declarative Code in ASP.Net

2008-07-11T15:55:55Z

ASP.Net is often mistaken for a simple update to Classic ASP. Just take ASP, throw in some .Net classes, and you're done. You get a better IDE and you might get a small performance boost from using pre-compiled code, but not much else. Of cours...

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SQL Injection, Part 2

2008-06-24T22:37:46Z

I first wrote about an SQL Injection attack way back in April. It died down for a while, but that attack is still going on. It broadened in scope to even hit some php and ASP.Net sites, and this week I've noticed several new requests for assista...

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Firefox

2008-06-17T18:51:48Z

Don't forget to download the new Firefox today. ... if you can, that is. It seems that the folks over at Mozilla vastly underestimated the amount of traffic their world-record try would bring. At least, the server isn't responding at the momen...

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Excel Column Names

2008-06-12T20:51:53Z

I ran across a request in a forum today to create an Excel column name from an index. It sounds simple, but it's harder than it looks. The obvious solution here is to think about a column name as a base 26 number, with A-Z for digits. Unfortunat...

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Oops

2008-06-12T20:12:33Z

So it's been a while since my last update. In truth, I just haven't felt like writing. It never fails that the same time I put the update schedule in the title is when I finally cave- though I did make it for several months. Anyway, I do have a...

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Screen Scraping ASP.Net

2008-05-14T14:47:00Z

I consider myself to be pretty good at scraping web sites. I've been able to get into sites others thought where impossible. I've even made it through some pretty tricky login verification. My tool of choice to accomplish this is VB.Net and a s...

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The End is Near

2008-05-05T19:28:11Z

Get out your tinfoil hats. It turns out that a small part of Windows was written by a machine. You have to read through most of a rather boring post to see what I'm talking about, and if you blink you might even miss it, but it's there. This is...

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