In the recent issue of Maximum PC magazine they have an article, “Google Inside Out”. In this article there is a small section titled, “How To Search Better” and within this section is the question “How can I find out who is linking to my site, since PageRank uses that info to rank my web site?”. The answer is to go to Google.com or use your Google Toolbar and type in LINK:WWW.YOURURLHERE.COM. So in typing in my site link:www.glass-images.com I found that there were very few links to my site. Not a surprise considering I have done nothing with it in so long. There is no real content to speak of. A few posts but nothing more. It has come to be used more as a holder for my email address and a place to store apps that I build for clients. Anyway, I noticed that the links that were there were from a couple of blogs that I have commented on ...

Yesterday I got a request from the higher ups, that we not show any paging links in our datagrid when there was only one(1) page to view. So I looked around at the datagrid for the best way to do this. My answer came when I remembered you can get the PageCount and you can set a boolean as to weather or not you want to allow paging. Now by default paging is set to True on the datagrid and it is set to page at 10 rows. With every page I build that incorporates a datagrid I always have a BindData method. Within this BindData method I have my sorting, filtering and any other data manipulation that is part of the regular process for displaying data in the datagrid. A sample of my BindData method is here:

Well it has been a very frustrating day as far as emails go. I am not sure why but my spam count has gone up by at least 100% as of late. Due to security issues where I work I have to use a web based mail system to work with my personal email. Now I know some of you might say why are you checking personal emails at work and it is because I belong to many programming and development mail lists.

If it's not the spammers then someone script kiddie has written yet another .EXE file to send out to the masses. You would think by now that everyone would get a clue and stop opening these attachments. My personal opinion is that anyone caught opening one should be publicly humiliated on national T.V. Talk about reality T.V. Well maybe that is a bit of an extreme but come on people, get a clue.

Here is a little one I pulled from VNUNET that show just how bad some of this has gotten. ...

While building my cutom controls I have always found that not being able have Intellisense in the designer was a bit frustrating due to the fact that in VS.NET 2003 has a very annoying habit of re-writing the HTML. More times than not it has made things so confusing that I just deleted the code and started over. So after some investigation I found out how to add HTML Intellisense to my controls. It's really kind of odd how it works and I am not sure why Microsoft would do it this way instead of using an embeded resource, but they did.

The basic idea is to create an XSD file that is used as the schema to tell .NET what attributes you have. However, creating this file is not the easiest thing to do. It's actually quite confusing. Until I found “ASP.NET Intellisense Generator“ by BlueVision. This program will read in your assembly and create your XSD file. One issue I found with this pro ...

Up until today when I wanted to read some blogs I would go to the users blog I wanted to read and scan the front page for any headlines that interested me. Of course on many blogs the authors would go a month or two or even more without a post so sometimes it felt like wasting my time. So I finally broke down and downloaded 2 Windows based blog readers. The first one was RSS Bandit. Nice interface but I could not get any information downloaded using it. Not sure why either. There were no error messages or warnings.

So after toying with that one for a while I decieded to try FeedReader. Once this one was installed I put my own blog RSS url in and poof, I had my posts listed. The interface on FeedReader is not as nice as RSS Bandit but so far the functionality seems better. The only thing I don't like about news readers like these is that they don't integrate into something like Outlook. Both of these are free though so ...

Does it ever seem weird to you that employers are now doing technical interviews on the phone? I just got done with one for a potential .NET job. Instead of asking me actual technical questions I heard the same questions that I heard on my last phone interview.

For some reason they want you to spew out definitions to things like: “

• What is a delegate?”
•  “Define an interface.”

Then you are told to come in for a 3-4 hour test which is basically you writing a program. I am not sure about you but when I am told to sit down and in 3-4 hours to write an entire program I have a bit of trouble. Not because I freeze up or that I cannot do it, but instead it is because the usual documentation they give is nothing compared to that of which I create for any project I do during my regular working process.