Wes' Puzzling Blog
... trying to solve the puzzles of .NET
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Online Bookmark Manager
Well thanks to a comment on an old post. I'm now using Crutons as my bookmark manager. So far I like what I see. I have tried a lot of them and this one meets my needs the best out of all of them (If you look at the comments of the old post there were a lot of recommendations and I looked at everyone). It doesn't have very much documentation but it is pretty simple to use but I would still like a to see a little more documentation. As for features it has most of the features that I was looking for, including rearranging nodes via drag and drop, support for Firebird and IE sidebars, and a search feature.
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Virtual CDRom Drive
Do you have a few CD ISO's and hate burning a CD every time to access the data?
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Microsoft Internship Interview
Well I have my plane, hotel, and car reservations for my internship interview with Microsoft on Jan 30. I'm going to be interviewing for a software design engineer position. Besides for Chris Sell's Microsoft Interview Tips, does anyone have any tips or pointers for me?
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Trip to India
Well it has been a while since I last blogged its also been a while since I’ve been on my computer (luckily I some how survived without my computer for 3 weeks). I just got back Sunday from a 3 week trip to India. I meet my wife's family members for the first time, I have no idea how many people I met but it was a whole lot. I was in Mumbai with her parents most of the time but I did get to visit New Deli, Agra (Taj Mahal), Jodhpur, and the deserts of Jaisalmer.
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Potential Summer Internships
Ok I have had an on campus interview with Microsoft for a summer internship and I received an email stating I will be flown up to Redmond sometime in January for a second interview. That should be fun.
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Set Field to Null in Sql Server Enterprise Manager Result Set
Have you ever edited a result set in Enterprise Manager and wished that there was a way to set a field to null? Your in luck because there is a way.
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Get Directory Size in .Net
Here is a code snippet that someone else might find helpful. Also if anyone else knows a better way to do this please let me know.
/// Returns the size of the directory in bytes public static long Size(System.IO.DirectoryInfo dirInfo) { long total = 0; foreach(System.IO.FileInfo file in dirInfo.GetFiles()) total += file.Length; foreach(System.IO.DirectoryInfo dir in dirInfo.GetDirectories()) total += Size(dir); return total; }
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Master's Thesis Topic
I'm finally settled down now in Blacksburg VA and have started my first semester in Virginia Tech's CS Master program. I have found a professor who is willing to be my research advisor and allow me to work on a research thesis dealing with Microsoft .Net. Now I need a topic.
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Permutations in .NET
Permutations in .NET Dr. James McCaffrey provides a nice introduction to "permutations" along with some .NET to generate them. He further goes on to use permutations for security purposes, but that's not all they're good for. [Chris Sells]
Thanks Chris for the article I totally enjoyed it. Of course I'm a math person and I like that kind of stuff. I have allows wondered about a good, clean, efficient way to generate all permutations of a set, but I've just never really took the time to research or develop one. Dr. James McCaffrey did an excellent job of demonstrating this and gave a few examples of what you might apply permutations toward. So if you are interested in math things like I am I would recommend checking this article out. -
Busy as a bee
I have not been online much the past 3 weeks or so, In fact I haven't even had access to a computer.