Month: June 2009

If you are looking to follow this series, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed at http://feeds.jasongaylord.com/JasonNGaylord or my Twitter account at http://twitter.com/jgaylord. This series can be followed by using the The Technology Post tag. Series Post #38 I’ve changed the Technology Post format again a bit in preparation for the new website. Let me know what you think. Daily Oddball – Googling with Bing (Tweeted by Shawn Wildermuth) .NET Framework General – Refactorings in Alphabetical Order – Tweeted by Javier Lozano Alternate Languages – Java, Rails, and other Languages PHP – How to implement a launching soon page … Continue reading The Technology Post for June 30th, 2009

All morning long I’ve been battling my Windows 7 system. I finally found out that the error code which reads: “Error 1500. Another installation is in progress. You must complete that installation before continuing this one.” can be attributed to the InProgress key found in the registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\InProgress After doing a little searching on the web, I found that Microsoft has a program called msizap.exe which can be found in the Windows Installer SDK. The problem with that is that the SDK itself is an .msi file. I didn’t really want to install the full SDK anyway. So I … Continue reading Windows 7 and Windows Installer Error “Another installation is in progress”

If you are looking to follow this series, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed at http://feeds.jasongaylord.com/JasonNGaylord or my Twitter account at http://twitter.com/jgaylord. This series can be followed by using the The Technology Post tag. Series Post #37 Daily Oddball – World Record Attempt – Largest Slab of Fudge (Posted by Betsy Weber) – Record Broken! (Pic here) Other Link Lists Dew Drop – June 29, 2009 – Alvin Ashcraft .NET Framework General – Ever wonder how .NET finds the assemblies that you reference? – Joe Stagner General – Multithreading: load and store reordering – Luis Abreu General – … Continue reading The Technology Post for June 29th, 2009

If you are looking to follow this series, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed at http://feeds.jasongaylord.com/JasonNGaylord or my Twitter account at http://twitter.com/jgaylord. This series can be followed by using the The Technology Post tag. Series Post #36 Daily Comic – The Commodore 64 vs. the iPhone 3G S: The Ultimate Showdown (Posted by Elijah Manor) Other Link Lists Dew Drop – June 26, 2009 – Alvin Ashcraft .NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic NetFX – .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Allows managed code to be launched from a network share! – Vance Morrison (Suggested by Rick Strahl) Office … Continue reading The Technology Post for June 26th, 2009

If you are looking to follow this series, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed at http://feeds.jasongaylord.com/JasonNGaylord or my Twitter account at http://twitter.com/jgaylord. This series can be followed by using the The Technology Post tag. Series Post #35 Daily Comic – If Pac-Man Were to Tweet [Pic] (Posted by Dana Coffey) Other Link Lists Dew Drop – June 25, 2009 – Alvin Ashcraft .NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic C# – Expressions Cheat Sheet – Jimmy Bogard (Suggested by Los Techies) C# – Multithreading: the BackgroundWorker class – Luis Abreu C# – Writing console output from a Windows … Continue reading The Technology Post for June 25th, 2009

If you are looking to follow this series, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed at http://feeds.jasongaylord.com/JasonNGaylord or my Twitter account at http://twitter.com/jgaylord. This series can be followed by using the The Technology Post tag. Series Post #34 Daily Comic – IE8 Comparison – Brad Colbow (Posted by Elijah Manor) Other Link Lists Dew Drop – June 24, 2009 – Alvin Ashcraft .NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic C# – Multithreading: AsyncOperationManager and AsyncOperation helpers – Luis Abreu Interop – Reading a Microsoft Project file (mpp) in C# – Tom Hearn Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing Design Patterns … Continue reading The Technology Post for June 24th, 2009

If you are looking to follow this series, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed at http://feeds.jasongaylord.com/JasonNGaylord or my Twitter account at http://twitter.com/jgaylord. This series can be followed by using the The Technology Post tag. Series Post #33 Daily WTF – Developer attention deficit history: From Books -> Articles -> Blog Posts -> Twitter. What’s next? (Posted by Rick Strahl) Other Link Lists LINQ and Entity Framework Posts for 6/15/2009+ – Oak Leaf Systems (Suggested by Mike Amundsen) Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 6/22/2009+ – Oak Leaf Systems (Suggested by Mike Amundsen) .NET Languages – C# and … Continue reading The Technology Post for June 23rd, 2009

If you are looking to follow this series, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed at http://feeds.jasongaylord.com/JasonNGaylord or my Twitter account at http://twitter.com/jgaylord. This series can be followed by using the The Technology Post tag. Series Post #32 Other Link Lists Dew Drop – June 22, 2009 – Alvin Ashcraft Dew Dump – June 16, 2009 – Alvin Ashcraft .NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic C# – Overusing var in C# – Brendan Enrick Exception Handling – Logging Error Details with ELMAH – Scott Mitchell (Suggested by Phil Winstanley) IronRuby – IronRuby with WinForms and ADO.NET Data Access … Continue reading The Technology Post for June 22nd, 2009

If you are looking to follow this series, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed at http://feeds.jasongaylord.com/JasonNGaylord or my Twitter account at http://twitter.com/jgaylord. This series can be followed by using the The Technology Post tag. Series Post #31 As a reminder, I will not be around really for the remainder of the week. If you don’t get a post from me, don’t be surprised. 🙂 Normal posts will begin again on June 22nd. .NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic ADO.NET – System.Data.OracleClient Update – ADO.NET Team Blog (Suggested by Kevin Dente) Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing Architecture – … Continue reading The Technology Post for June 16th, 2009

If you are looking to follow this series, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed at http://feeds.jasongaylord.com/JasonNGaylord or my Twitter account at http://twitter.com/jgaylord. This series can be followed by using the The Technology Post tag. Series Post #30 As a reminder, I will not be around really for the remainder of the week. If you don’t get a post from me, don’t be surprised. 🙂 Normal posts will begin again on June 22nd. Daily Words of Wisdom– Separation of Concerns also applies to blog posts (Posted by ayende) ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET MVC – Build your own Whois … Continue reading The Technology Post for June 15th, 2009