This is a big thing and I’m sure it won’t be needed much, but the library is so large for .Net that sometimes finding out how to do something easy can take MUCH longer then it should.  For example I am working on a new app where the user has to pick ...[Read More]

I usually try to stay away from personal editorials on MS vs. Apple, but with the upcoming “mystery” (yeah, right) announcement, I gotta say, it sure seems like this Mock Ad for the iProduct is so apropos! A Boy And His Computer - Announcing the Ap ...[Read More]

So I’m working with install shield (which hasn’t been my favorite product in the past) and have been trying to get the source control integration built in to work with TFS source control.  Needless to say the help files and forums and knowledge base ...[Read More]

So here I am trying to port an application from asp.net 2.0 pre-Linq IIS7 application to a Windows Azure asp.net 3.5 application converting from old ObjectDataSource to LinqToSqlDataSource. The first thing I discover is why I find myself more and m ...[Read More]

As a general rule this blog is for Business, Technical and not personal musings, but I reserve the right to be inconsistent, and this is one of those times! I’m a geek, always have been, and happy to be so, and always will be.  In the town where I ...[Read More]

OK, I’m going to do something that I’ve read some people hate in blogs, a tech tip for me and my usage because I keep forgetting it, and it’s getting harder and harder to find using Google, people see to ask about it less and less and it’s going dow ...[Read More]

I came across this again today, and couldn’t stop laughing (and pretending I NEVER did that!). Introduction to Abject-Oriented Programming Saddest thing about this article, in the comments some “programmers” were too stupid to get the joke.  They ...[Read More]

If you are subscribed to this blog in feeds.feedburner, be aware that the links to the blog are being rendered incorrectly by Google.  I’m working on it to see if I can make a workaround for their bug.  Use http://www.longcloud.co.nz/Blogs/rss.xml i ...[Read More]

So one of my friends and former colleagues warned me today that my blog wasn’t working correctly with Google feedburner Link that Google generates (which isn’t really my fault) and that when he used the archive links to pull up the actual entry, h ...[Read More]

This entry won’t be much to anyone used to working with sql or refactoring or the With Clause, but sometimes I like to just walk thru how I started and how I ended when refactoring, and SQL can be refactored just like any other type of code. I ...[Read More]