Keith Rull

The Repeater control is probably the most over used control in the company that i currently work for. Almost every grid and listing has been built using this and i has made me nuts when i first started using it since i consider myself a Datagrid or a DataList guy. One of the things I hate about it is that usually, people try to format everything in a way that the Visual Studio.NET IDE barks, squels and cry. Adding those pesky <%%> all over the code which makes the page resemble an old ASP page that any developer who has thrown those coding style into the trash bin have nightmares and gloom scapes all over their nightly pundit rest. And since I am a good employee who follows strict coding guidelines and comply with it with utmost care.... i decided to embrace it rather than to do a holy war against this control. But i need to do something to make my life easier. With that I built this control...

Damn! This is freaking cool! I can't wait to use my skype to call friends all over US and Canada! I hope this can extend more than December 2006 and cover more places too!

A quick and easy way to load files and directories contained in a specified folder into a DataTable.

Remember the old 90's song "Baby got back" by Sir-Mix-A-Lot? well here's a remix of it Christian style! without the bad words :)

Yikes! Man, you wasted your skills.

"A 22-year old former call center agent faces imprisonment after pleading guilty to charges of hacking into his company's system to steal credit card information. Jeffric Carlos Abiera was sentenced Thursday by the Quezon City metropolitan court to a minimum imprisonment of one to two years plus a fine of P100,000 ($5,858) in violation of section 33 of the E-Commerce Law."

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I work in a company that has alot of headstrong people. really intelligent one's if i may add. and in this kind of environment... trust me, you dont want to get caught in an arguement with this guys because they wont fizzle down... everybody has his on take an everything making its really challenging to raise a point wherein everybody could agree on a definite strategy.

Here is some samples on how to use cursors in SQL to do updates and deletes on records. Nothing fancy, just pure t-sql code. :)

I wish we could also do this in the Philippines... This ad is currently being ran in India to promote social awareness about poverty. Pretty slick if you ask me :)

I saw this article today and it reminded me of my early years in IT. Users and developers banging heads over and over again 24/7.

Working in the financial industry is a tough job, specially if you are in the IT department. There are alot of factors that you need to consider whenever you build an application.. theres those State Laws that you need to follow.. corporate guidelines... And at the end of the day after you have followed all these mumbo jumbo they only boil down to one specific topic... SECURITY. In the financial industry, an application must be secure at all times... in fact it should be 110% percent secure since you are dealing with peoples information, money and ALOT MORE MONEY.