March 2011

Stay Vigilent…When they can’t fool you, they go for your kids!

I love it.  My son has called me with the 3rd game he wants to sign up for on the computer. “This time I checked,” he said, “It says right on their site there are no viruses, no malware, and no spyware!” “Buddy,” I replied, “If I was going to write software that installed a …

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Plane Weird on Google Maps

This was just a weird artifact I stumbled across while map spelunking on Google… at first I thought maybe it was a memorial of some kind for flight 90 that crashed in the eighties, now I am thinking it is either someone being bored at the map factory, or an artifact caused by the picture …

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.NET Configuration File Madness

THE SETUP Pretend you want to open an app.config or web.config file.  OK, normally, that is easy.  But, let’s say you mange a bunch of config files, and you want to write a widget that can open any of them and edit them programmatically. That means opening a config file NOT part of your EXE …

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