Keith Rull

One thing that i really really really really want to be included on the next release of dasBlog is the ability to ping more than one feed site inside dasBlog. Something like pingomatic.com where you just select which website you want to send a ping when a new post is created. This feature would be really useful specially if you want to generate traffic to your blog by adding your blog to blog directories all over the internet universe.

How to fend off assigned work!

Got my BlogMap!

In part 1 of this series i have showed to you how to use a IDataReader in creating a function that would generate a CSV file. On part 2 of this series I'm going to show you how to accomplish the same task but this time using a different object. We will still implement the same concept that we used in part 1 but shortening code by using native properties of a DataTable in accessing rows and columns.

As always, Mike Gunderloy made my eyes go 'BIG' after reading his article regarding some of his recomendations on how to use and manipulate strings in .NET 2.0. This post also gives some highlights about some key changes on System.String namespace and other aspects of using strings including the dreaded localization.

Creating A Date Dimension Table in SQL Server

Part 1 shows us how to create CSV files in both C# and VB.NET using techniques that were used back on the old days of ADO and OLEDB but implementing them using native ADO.NET objects(IDataReader) instead of recordsets.

Grasshopper: Visual Studio .NET IDE for Linux!

File System Browsing: New Approach vs. Old Approach. this demonstrates how to use the a datable combined with filesystem objects to browse for folders and files. This also deffirentiate the different techniques in doing this task, from the classic programmers point of view, to the asp.net point of view

A stored procedure that sends notifications connected users in an SQL Server.