Mike In BA

Oct 22, 2009

Windows 7 Will Give You a Heart Attack

Well, not really. But this Windows 7 Whopper from Burger King in Japan is certainly doing its best:

Oct 8, 2009

How To: Setting up mobile blogging on iPhone for BlogSpot

I 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 up SMS.

Step 2: Once you have setup your mobile MMS account for blogger, and linked it to your blog, go to your iPhone's 'Settings' app.

Speeding up LINQ .Contains Queries with an Extension Method

Ive 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));

foreach(var session in someSessions)
DoSomething(someSession)

Questions

I 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?a