October 2004 - CraigBlog

CraigBlog

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  • A Dad Be I

    If you haven't seen me for the last two days, it's for a very good reason...my daughter was born today after a long and difficult labor. “Woohoo!“ doesn't even start to describe it. :) Details here .
  • Book Review: Beginning .NET Game Programming in VB.NET

    Let me get the full disclosure bit out of the way right up front: I was sent a free copy of this book by the publisher, I know two of the authors somewhat, and they mention this website in their references. That said, you can choose how large a grain...
  • Longhorn Ship Date?

    From the WinInfo Newsletter , (which is generally pretty good, IMO): According to recent internal schedules I've seen, Longhorn and Office 12 are set to arrive concurrently on May 22, 2006. And the first Longhorn beta is set for February 16, 2005--the...
  • Rewriting WSDL.EXE

    The other day, I blogged about how easy it is to generate WSDL directly from a web service assembly, without having to set up an actual web service. Well, I decided to take it a step farther and see if I could generate the proxies directly, too. As it...
  • Generating WSDL Without ASP.NET

    Because wsdl.exe generates classes that don't look exactly like we want them to, I've set up a process at my client to generate custom proxies. Right now, we do this as a partly manual process - we've got a simple script that downloads the WSDL from a...
  • TDD Is Great...Except When It Isn't

    I've been a big fan of Test Driven Development (TDD) ever since I first started using it to write FlexWikiPad (FWP) about a year ago. In fact, that was one of the reasons I wrote FWP in the first place, as an excuse to see what the fuss about TDD was...
  • KDiff3 - a new favorite

    Diff and merge tools are critically important to pretty much any real development effort. I've been using WinMerge for a few months, and have been mostly happy with it. It doesn't do three-way merge, but hey, it works. Then the other day I ran across...
  • RichTextEditor

    Wangdera is my company (my wife's name is Wang - get it?), and I've set up a Source Forge project for us to publish whatever we feel like. Well, tonight I shipped the first release of the Wangdera Control suite. If you download Wangdera.Controls.dll ...
  • Disk Tray

    I generally have no complaints with the computer I've been given to work on at my client. It's reliable, it's plenty fast, and they're good both about quickly fixing what goes wrong and not getting in my face with a bunch of arbitrary standards. However...
  • Pushing Towards a SolidRelease

    David Ornstein is sending out a rallying call around FlexWiki .We're recruiting developers in an effort to fix the little things that are wrong with FlexWiki. It's pretty stable and fast now, but there are enough corner cases that an effort like this...