Love Newegg?
I know I do. It’s one of a handful of places that I choose to do business with when it comes to purchasing computer parts. In fact, I only purchase computer parts from online retailers (and have been doing so...
Author: Charles Chen
Workshop : XML Schemas + Object Models
Actually, very few .Net developers that I’ve worked with know what a typed DataSet is let alone how to create one. It’s one of those perplexing things that always baffles me as typed DataSets are not a bad way to...
Weekend Thoughts
Just a collection of random info to wrap up the week that was. This is the first year I’ve ever filed my own tax return. It’s also the largest tax return that I’ve received…hope the IRS isn’t coming for me....
Random DevTools Entry: #004
I’ve been doing some WinForms work lately (I’m primarily a WebForms developer) and had a lot of trouble working with the WinForms DataGrid. Primarily, the DG just seemed very difficult to customize in terms of behavior and look & feel. ...
The Problem with Ordinary
I came across a very good article by Ian Thomsen on SI.com discussing Shawn Marion’s “frustration” towards his role in Phoenix. Marion is averaging career-highs of 21.4 points and 11.9 rebounds, well on his way to a fifth-straight year of...
A Little Introspection
I’ve always had a hard time figuring out what I want to do with my life. From a career perspective, I’ve always had a hard time defining what interests me because, to be honest, everything, interests me. Well, let me...
Random DevTools Entry: #003
DHTML Edition. Came across an awesome listing of DHTML resources today via weblogs.asp.net. Just a short snippet: 3 Column Holy Grail. For good reason, clean, search engine optimized CSS layouts have been hot in the web design space for quite...
Random Links
It’s always interesting to see how people end up on this site. That’s one of the neat things about dasBlog…I’m always giddy when I see some new referrals 🙂 Every once in a while, I’ll get a few referrals from...
Happy Chinese New Year!
Yay! I celebrated over the weekend with hotpot at my mother’s significant other’s house. It was great…I love hotpot! But so damn tired from my drive home from Connecticut the night before (I live in Jersey, but currently working in...
Yet Another Bookmark
I going to have to take a look at this Composite UI Application Block from Microsoft’s patterns and practices group. It actually looks very similar (at least from a 10k foot view) to the architecture/design implemented by Omar Al Zabir...