Discovered something nice today, Microsoft has built a small tool to convert a XSD file into a code class for you. This is very very useful when need to serialize some information and using a XSD file as a base. Simply open up the Visual Studio Command Prompt and navigate to the folder that contains...

Ah yes, the life of a developer Being the geek that I am, I am currently reading Illustrated C# 2008 by Daniel Solis. Even though I have been developing in C# for a few years now I still feel the need to read these books as sometimes the author has a viewpoint someone else might have missed. It does...

I came across a little known config of ASP.Net applications. We all know about the built-in Garbage Collection system that the .Net Framework uses to recycle “dead” or unused objects from memory and recycle the space. By default the Garbage Collector is set to “Workstation” Mode....

Interesting weekend I must say. Decided to get some food from a well known shopping chain and I got some nasty food poisoning. So I sat on Sunday feeling very very sorry for myself. My wife took very good care of me! But on Sunday afternoon my wife and I decided to play some World of Warcraft. After...

This caught my attention today. In 4 days, if Sanwild.org do not raise enough funds, 3 prides of Rescue Lions will be put down. These Lions have been rescued by SanWild for various reasons and due to prolonged human interaction they cannot be released into the wild. Please check out the following website...

Previous Entries: back2basics Intro back2basics Types I apologize for the delay between posts, personal matters played a major role in this. I’m not going to go into the depths of explaining exactly what the Stack and the Heap is, for that you can use your friend Google. This article will revolve...

We are going on onto Types in this post so if you’re not sure about whats going on in: Namespaces General Class Structure Method Structure then please check out those links for an explaination on those. Pre-Defined Types: C# has 15 predefined types. Now a type is obviously a structure that houses...

Recently I’ve felt the basics of .Net slipping away from me. So I have decided to do a beginners series on .Net and C#. This will also benefit people with little or no .Net experience. The main purpose of this series is not to break new ground at all but remind ourselves of some basics. Sometimes...

I love Seether and I remember watching them when they were still Saron Gas. Music video is awesome, enjoy!

Since my mate Gavin introduced me to this guy I’ve been addicted to watching his vids. He imparts such a sense of energy and sheer awesomeness that when I finish watching one of his vids I wanna just “crush” everything around me. Nothing he says is revolutionary, but its just so pertinent...