Archive for: July 2006

July 20, 2006

Best. News. Evar!

Filed under: Books, Dave White - 20 Jul 2006

Glad tidings come today from “Mighty” Dave White, who has announced that he’s sold When One Man Dies, his first book featuring private eye Jackson Donne, as part of a “very nice” two-book deal.

It couldn’t happen to a nicer …

July 12, 2006

Recent Reviews

Filed under: Books, Movies, Reviews - 12 Jul 2006

After seeing some of the enthusiastic reviews around the web, I finally kicked Kiss Kiss Bang Bang up to the top of my Netflix queue. The verdict: one of the most entertaining movies I’ve seen in a long time. …

July 10, 2006

ASP.NET: Adding a Null Row to a Data Bound Drop-Down List

Filed under: Programming, .NET, Visual Web Developer - 10 Jul 2006

Today’s .NET tip is a quickie (previous entries here and here): When you are using a database to fill the rows of a data bound drop-down list control, you will inevitably run into an error when the bound …

July 8, 2006

Quote Du Jour

Filed under: Quotes - 08 Jul 2006

I’m not quite sure I agree with this:

“An asshole who makes great art is an asshole who makes great art; but an asshole who makes lousy art is just an asshole.”

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July 3, 2006

Changing the value of a data-bound control using ASP.NET’s LinkButton Control - UPDATEDx2

Filed under: Programming, .NET, Visual Web Developer - 03 Jul 2006

(UPDATE #2: When I wrote this post a couple of years ago, I thought this was a pretty brain-dead way to handle things. Turns out that I really know what I’m talking about when the subject is my own …

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