tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74493962421144556212011-12-09T13:41:29.163-06:00Mike In BAMan.Myth.LegendMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168411175211496338noreply@blogger.comBlogger191100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7449396242114455621.post-7121985586310976572009-11-24T14:22:00.002-06:002009-11-24T14:59:44.910-06:00What Was, Has Never Been: Global WarmingSo, most of you may have not have heard on TV...or pretty much any other major news outlet that the cats out of the bag. A hacker was able to break in to the servers at University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit. To say the least, what has been revealed is pretty shocking. Emails reveal deletion of data meant to be kept for FOIA records, conspiring to manipulate data with other Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168411175211496338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7449396242114455621.post-84587734944154630822009-11-10T10:52:00.002-06:002009-11-10T10:52:49.291-06:00Milton Friedman on Health CareMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168411175211496338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7449396242114455621.post-77089182843763270982009-11-09T07:59:00.001-06:002009-11-09T08:04:08.818-06:00Generic Client for WCF
While working on WCF i got frustrated working with the proxy auto-generated by VS2008. While I loved creating the client channels using a ChannelFactory, i really got tired of writing:
ICommunicationObject c = Client as ICommunicationObject;
if (c.State == CommunicationState.Faulted)
c.Abort();
else if (c.State != CommunicationState.Closed)
c.Close();
after every remoting call. I searched Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168411175211496338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7449396242114455621.post-30186385982055999352009-10-22T07:53:00.001-05:002009-10-22T07:54:03.235-05:00Windows 7 Will Give You a Heart AttackWell, not really. But this Windows 7 Whopper from Burger King in Japan is certainly doing its best:
Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168411175211496338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7449396242114455621.post-89952478819887700772009-10-08T08:04:00.002-05:002009-10-08T08:06:25.104-05:00How To: Setting up mobile blogging on iPhone for BlogSpotI realized a bunch of people dont know how to setup mobile blogging (MMS/SMS) for the iPhone. So here is a short step by step.
Prequisites: iPhone must be updated to OS 3.1, use iTunes to make sure you have your phone completely updated.
Step 1: Go to http://www.blogger.com/mobile-start.g and follow the instructions for setting up MMS. You DO NOT need to follow the instructions for setting upMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168411175211496338noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7449396242114455621.post-20285763900349455222009-09-30T09:11:00.001-05:002009-10-13T12:45:46.315-05:00Speeding up LINQ .Contains Queries with an Extension MethodIve been working on some reporting forms for the company i work for. Ive been using LINQ to filter the data, and ran in to some, well actually ALOT of slowdown when trying to filter a bunch of Int32. The query typically looked something like ths:
var someHugeListOfIds = myData.Pages
.Select(p=>p.ParentSessionId);
var someSessions = myData.Sessions
.Where(s=>someHugeListOfIds.Contains(s.Id));
Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168411175211496338noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7449396242114455621.post-8499646374546360612009-09-25T10:30:00.000-05:002009-10-07T10:22:56.706-05:00QuestionsI often do my best thinking while driving. Life, programmming, dinner are all fair game. I answer all my questions except for one: was that light green or red?aMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168411175211496338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7449396242114455621.post-68196209662068844842009-09-25T02:11:00.000-05:002009-10-07T10:22:56.706-05:00Must Have: Free Waze App Turns GPS Navigation Into a Social Cellphone
Gamehttp://gizmodo.com/5367212/free-waze-app-turns-gps-navigation-into-a-social-cellphone-gameMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168411175211496338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7449396242114455621.post-82602818301362741672009-09-23T02:20:00.000-05:002009-10-07T10:22:56.706-05:00Must Have: Microsoft's secret 'Courier' booklet device unveiledhttp://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/09/22/microsofts-secret-courier-booklet-device-unveiled Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168411175211496338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7449396242114455621.post-42697986372224271972009-09-13T13:28:00.000-05:002009-10-07T10:22:56.707-05:00Great 912 VideosIm stealing this one, but you can watch the rest over at moderateinthemiddle Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168411175211496338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7449396242114455621.post-11167267353226225772009-09-13T05:25:00.000-05:002009-10-07T10:22:56.707-05:00Timelapse of the Crowd in D.C. for the 912 GatheringMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168411175211496338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7449396242114455621.post-88397061753660068112009-09-13T04:52:00.001-05:002009-10-08T08:06:48.392-05:00Pics from the Tulsa 912 Gathering(click to enlarge)
Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168411175211496338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7449396242114455621.post-6113566436272794892009-09-12T04:53:00.000-05:002009-10-07T10:22:56.707-05:00Not legal in californiaMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168411175211496338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7449396242114455621.post-19810208208138866892009-09-11T12:58:00.000-05:002009-10-07T10:22:56.707-05:00912 projectCan't wait for the 912 rally tomorrow!! Pray for no rain!Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168411175211496338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7449396242114455621.post-19599073195725172652009-09-11T04:12:00.000-05:002009-10-07T10:22:56.707-05:00Error in WCF with tons of objectsTwo interesting errors relating to essenially the same thing: There was an error reading from the pipe: The pipe has been ended. (109, 0x6d). The formatter threw an exception while trying to deserialize the message: There was an error while trying to deserialize parameter SomeAssembly.SomeObject:MethodNameResult. The InnerException message was ‘Maximum number of items that can be serialized or Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168411175211496338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7449396242114455621.post-7088616532522089612009-09-11T03:34:00.000-05:002009-10-07T10:22:56.707-05:00Lets try this again...is it going to work this time?Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168411175211496338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7449396242114455621.post-34193221412028420572009-09-11T03:33:00.000-05:002009-10-07T10:22:56.707-05:00That is a good questionhmmmmmmMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168411175211496338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7449396242114455621.post-4672880994509100292009-09-11T03:26:00.000-05:002009-10-07T10:22:56.708-05:00QuestionWhy did my latest post appear @ the bottom?Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168411175211496338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7449396242114455621.post-24201817153790191662009-09-11T03:22:00.000-05:002009-10-07T10:22:56.708-05:00Photo from OUTER SPAAAAACE!Awesome Hubble picture released yesterday. Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168411175211496338noreply@blogger.com0