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Reading .NET Exceptions from the Event Viewer
Handling and dealing with Errors can be tricky. When your program crashes you want to fix it as soon as possible. One of the most valuable pieces of [...]
Uploading and Downloading Data from Postgres: Revisited
Following my experience fiddling with this as documented Here I found the result had numerous issues. Even when running it on a separate thread there was [...]
“The Type or Namespace could not be found” in plain sight.
The other day I encountered a very curious problem. My task was simple; I was simply creating a new Project, then adding references to our Libraries such [...]
Uploading and Downloading Data to PostGres with C#
Oftentimes dealing with Database logic is like pulling teeth. Other times, it’s like being knocked unconscious by having a fruit bat thrown at your [...]
“Companies are giving our information to the NSA”
On this NSA thing So this whole thing with the “leaks” and the NSA is becoming pretty ‘common knowledge’. To be honest though [...]
An Open Source Vent
Making Programs, Classes, and Source code available for free is a very helpful service to those who would wish to consume that content. One has to select [...]
How to Like C#
Visual Basic has a useful Operator, the “Like” Operator. Observe it in action: [crayon-6793efdcd8897951760256/] The Like operator is a pattern [...]
The Ups and Downs of Hard Drive failures
Hard Disks fail. It is a fact that those of us who use computers understand. Perhaps ironically, however, many of us who otherwise warn others about [...]
Unicomp 104-key Ultra Classic First Impressions
My Unicomp Purchase arrived a few days ago.   Some may consider it quite spartan. No fancy gadgets or special Gizmos. It has one feature that makes it [...]
Software Development: What makes it fun?
This is a topic that I find recurring between myself and my non-programmer friends, as well as people providing freedback on some of the Open-Source [...]