Anyway, I have been coding crazy as always when i found out that one of the Image Buttons in my project is missing a grayscale hover image. Whats crazy is that i didn't have Photoshop in my PC that time. The detail-oriented guy inside of me made the decision that i should have that image created because it is bothering me whenever i hover on an empty image placeholder. And so, I was of to the races...

Brendan Tompkins and the guys at CodeBetter.com is having a weekly book giveaway! 8 great books and 1 easy way to win.

I have always been a Sql junkie. Analyzing data was one of the things that I enjoy alot... Sometimes this task also involves writing gargantuan scripts.. and that is where the problem starts. Finding what stored procedure or view that uses a specific table could give you a hard time since SQL server doesn't have a feature that enables you to look at each and every stored procedure and view. usually when this problem arises we tend to open each and every script that we could think of(when this happens i usually script my database, open the generated .sql file in note pad and start using the Find function to search for the table/view name).

Joshua Flanagan has just released library he calls "ReadableRegEx"(I preffer calling it ReadEx) which is basically library that envisions itself to create a more readable(friendlier) RegularExpression code wrapper.

After creating this article, i realized that i can use a new utility in my toolbox. A Font Viewer. I don't want to download a new spyware so decided to code a simple one, something that i could use from time to time whenever i have the need to view a font before placing it on my Photoshop design(i do photoshop and flash on the side in my current job).

This is a really basic stuff that alot of developers tend to forget(just like me :D)

After reviewing my first example.. i realized that doing reflection is not the easy way to do get the known color collection(thanks to Chris Vega who pointed to me the Enum called KnownColor which basically contains .NET known colors). Somebody also told me that the demo would be nicer if the colors are real images instead of just painting a panel(which makes really sense if you are thinking of saving the generated image in your desktop). With this suggestions i decided to create a revised version of our Color Chart Generator.

I had a little downtime today so i decided to create something useful(ala coding4fun) and one of the things that i wish i have in my toolbox is an .NET color chart since most of the time i tend to look at what colors i could use when matching my controls with my UI's theme(stylesheets? nah, that only works for the web.. how about if its a windows app? see! 'nuf sed!). Plus, i'd like to play with alittle bit of Reflection today and some basic Generics(hmmm, seems like i'm already dead hooked with this one)

I'll be at the So Cal .Net Tech Summit tommorow at Irvine Hilton, Irvine CA.

I created a demo today about WMI to demostrate to a friend how to read his machine's information. The resulting application is listed below. It's funny because i was just supposed to show him how WMI works but ended up discussing IEnumerators, Hashtables, Enums, Strategy and Command Pattern plus a hint of Generics. Which might make this sample application a little bit too much out of it's title.