Dan McKinley : July 2005

On the Current Subtitle

posted Wednesday, July 20, 2005 8:30 PM by mcfunley with 0 Comments

I suppose I will take a few moments to explain the blog subtitle, lest it be somehow misconstrued. The nod to Cato is mostly towards his more obstinately contrarian sensibilities. In that way I feel I have a certain kinship with the man. You may hear Read More

Does ANYONE Comprehend ASP.NET Web Projects?

posted Saturday, July 16, 2005 8:35 PM by mcfunley with 2 Comments

Once every few weeks I find myself wrestling with these foul beasts. And each time, I find the following phrase echoing in the empty space between my ears. Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens. I have been making Read More

A Macroeconomic Theory of Texas Holdem

posted Saturday, July 16, 2005 3:29 PM by mcfunley with 0 Comments

I am having a banner day as an intellectual, it being no coincidence that my television is currently broken. I could take this excellent opportunity for creative output to bemoan yet another unfathomably stupid government-funded “power of prayer” Read More

Quelling Rumors

posted Friday, July 08, 2005 6:40 AM by mcfunley with 0 Comments

Attention: my recent visit to western Pennsylvania and this swarm of satanic bees are completely unrelated events. End Communication. Read More

NAnt Task to Enforce VB.NET Project Settings

posted Thursday, July 07, 2005 2:40 PM by mcfunley with 0 Comments

Here is a NAnt task I am using to enforce VB.NET project settings during a build. This is useful if you can’t use <vbc> to compile your projects. Usage example: <vboptions compare="Binary" Read More

DataSetSurrogate Remoting Sink

posted Monday, July 04, 2005 7:41 PM by mcfunley with 0 Comments

I have received a trickle of requests for some code that I have written and alluded to here and here: namely, a custom Remoting sink that swaps DataSets for DataSetSurrogates as they pass by. Unfortunately, it would not be legal for me to release Read More

The Mandelbrot Set meets Rapid Development Tools

posted Sunday, July 03, 2005 4:41 PM by mcfunley with 0 Comments

The first time I wrote this program, it was a DOS-based program. I wrote my own putpixel routine in x86 assembly for it (among other things). It took me a few sleepless nights to finish writing it. Today I got bored and wrote it again. It took Read More

John Dvorak Benefits from the Public Stupidity he Decries

posted Sunday, July 03, 2005 4:27 PM by mcfunley with 2 Comments

Something has been bothering me about John C. Dvorak’s site for the last few days. This post in particular drove me to write about it. Here is a screenshot of the post. I would like to point out two things. Figure (1) is John Read More

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