Dan McKinley : February 2006

Solidarity With Denmark Rally NYC, March 3rd

posted Monday, February 27, 2006 6:39 PM by mcfunley with 0 Comments

I'm not sure that I will be able to attend, but there will be a (relatively subdued) solidarity demonstration outside of the Danish consulate midday on the third. Anyone who sees this is encouraged to be present. If you haven't heard already, there is Read More

The Worst Possible Way to Handle Exceptions

posted Wednesday, February 22, 2006 2:11 PM by mcfunley with 0 Comments

The worst possible way to "handle" exceptions is to show the user a message box with __FILE__ as the text. This is extremely poor form. Apparently, Intel did not get the memo. Worse, this happens as many as ten times when I open Visual Studio. Why do Read More

A Minor Victory for Secularism in Lower Manhattan

posted Monday, February 13, 2006 7:25 PM by mcfunley with 0 Comments

I'm sure there are those who will find irony in this post's title, but sometimes we have to fight our battles where we find them. Roughly a month ago, I found this statue assaulting my aesthetic faculties at the corner of Water Street and Old Slip.Joseph Read More

Art in the Dar al-Harb

posted Thursday, February 09, 2006 3:51 AM by mcfunley with 1 Comments

I had a few extra hours this morning, due to a metabolic irregularity of mine that causes me to wake up in the middle of the night after drinking. So I did my best to make constructive [read: anything not involving Dunkin Donuts -ed] use of this time. Read More

A Real Head-Scratcher Courtesy The CLR And Office Teams

posted Tuesday, February 07, 2006 6:20 PM by mcfunley with 8 Comments

"Why the hell is this application insisting on loading an old version of the CLR?" I'm guessing that's what you're asking yourself if you've gotten here through your search engine of choice. Well, relax. I'm about to explain.It is reasonably well-known Read More

I Work So You Don't Have To

posted Monday, February 06, 2006 6:37 PM by mcfunley with 0 Comments

I googled around, and couldn't find a generic singleton implementation that was 1) correct and 2) met all of my needs. This is a clever approach, but unfortunately it is limited to objects that are created by calls to constructors. So I went ahead and Read More

Thus Ends the Great Adsense Experiment

posted Saturday, February 04, 2006 6:36 AM by mcfunley with 0 Comments

I install Adblock on all my machines, so I wasn't seeing any of the ads on my own site. I had thought they were all going to be hilariously off-topic (one that stood out was some guy named "Dan Poynter" plugging his small business), but apparently not. Read More

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