April 7, 2004 11:21 by
MarkI just recently discovered Omar's
blog and he
posted an interesting find about improving the performance of loading images from a file. The real issue is loading an image from a stream, since that what the .FromFile method ends up calling anyway. I wonder how many places this could affect performance in a lot of software out there!
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April 6, 2004 22:02 by
MarkI was using dasBlog (for about a day and a half) but when I found out that trackbacks don't work or at least a number of people have problems getting them to work, I switched to .Text. I hadn't posted too much yet so migration was pretty simple. I just re-posted what I had posted in dasBlog and changed the dates in the db.
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April 6, 2004 21:50 by
MarkJeff Putz asks for help defining delegates.
At DevDays 2004 in Phoenix, Rob Bagby of DotNeXt had an interesting definition of delegates. He said a delegate is like “Huggy Bear” from Starsky and Hutch. When Huggy got some information, he passed it off to Starsky and Hutch. There was more to it, but that is what I can remember of it. Wish he had a blog, I really liked his presentation.
Some people would say a delegate is a pointer to a function, but that isn't really the case. When a delegate gets called, it could wind up calling multiple methods, instead of just one. Anyway, that's my 2 cents.
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April 6, 2004 21:45 by
MarkMario Szpuszta recently posted an
article to
MSDN that talks about using the
MSDE Deployment Toolkit. I hadn't even realized it has been available since December, although it is only a release candidate. This should help out a lot of developers who want to use MSDE as a local data store for standalone apps or as an offline storage facility for networked apps. I was about ready to write some sort of front-end for the MSDE installer to use with the software we are writing at
work. Looks like I don't need to now. Thanks MS!
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April 5, 2004 21:43 by
MarkI flashed my Linksys BEFSR41 v2 router to firmware 1.45.7. That was a mistake. Every few hours it would require a reset. I couldn't even get to the configuration web page. I turned off UPnP and that seems to help a bit, but I still had to reset once today. I am going to keep shutting stuff off until I get it stable. If that doesn't work I'll try downgrading the firmware.
Linksys, are you
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April 5, 2004 21:41 by
MarkWell, I finally got around to setting up a weblog. We'll see how this goes. I've been lurking for a while, reading other blogs and decided to try it out too.
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