Keith Rull

Seems like i learn something new everyday...

public string Name
{
   get
   {
      return name;
   }
   protected set
   {
      name = value;
   }
}

I never knew that i could put an accessibility level to the 'set' portion of my property. This technique is called Asymmetric Accessor Accessibility. Read more here.

We had a programming quiz couple of weeks back at Devpinoy.org.. there where 5 people who dared to take on the quiz but sadly nobody got the correct answer after two rounds of testing(i guess i was pretty strict with my test cases) in the end i decided to just give the prize to the person who got the most correct program(15 out of 17 test cases). All in all it was a fun event... anyway, i decided to post my answer to the quiz that i gave so that people could see how i solved the quiz(btw, this is not perfectly refactored so don't whine if you see some code smells in it...)

A simple demo that shows how to create a Master-Detail View in ASP.NET.

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.