Author: jedreynolds
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Love Visual Studio, Crashes!
Moving the Call Stack window while debugging was crashing VS2009. Luckily, there was a KB article about it.
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What Prizes Will LinuxFest Northwest 2010 Behold?
I enjoyed taking Liam to LinuxFest Northwest 2009. I won i Core i7 system at the raffle there! I don’t expect to win such a thing again. I thought I’d just post a screenshot, because Compiz is just so cool. It runs BOINC pretty well: top – 21:07:17 up 2 days, 9:08, 2 users, load…
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Checking the Ends of Files
Bash command displays the end of files written recently: find -type f -mtime -1 | xargs ls -tra | tail | xargs tail
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What Every C# Dev Needs to Know About Dates
There’s a big difference in what a M, MM, MMM, and MMMM mean in a date format. Also, you can say: String.Format( “{0:yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss}”, DateTime.Now ) to convert a .Net date into a MySQL format date, without needing to pass a format string to the DateTime.ToString() method.
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Search Highlighting in VS 2008
I found a way to highlight search results in Visual Studio 2008, using the RockScroll add-in. I still miss the Highlighter plugin in jEdit, tho.
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Trikes Safer Around Cars?
Just stumbled across this post describing how recumbent tricycles feel safer around cars because they’re given wider berth.
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Quake Rattle and Roll
Email from my mom today, she writes: We got a real roll from the 7.2 quake in Mexicali earlier this afternoon. We swayed and rolled for nearly 45 seconds; the dining room chandelier swayed for nearly 5 minutes afterwards. Both Dad and I felt a bit seasick for a while afterwards! Kind of a strange…
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Fastest Bicycle Found at Bellingham Farmers Market
Here we have the Juice Peddler at the Bellingham Farmer’s market. This rocks!
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