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One of my pet projects has just been made an open source project. The project is named "Halide", and it's a set of ASP.NET 2.0 classes, written in C#, that are designed to make creating web... Read More »

Here's a simple method for determining the first and last day of an arbitrary time period. For example, have you ever needed to get the first and last date of "last quarter", or "next month"? This method returns a simple structure with those dates. Simply pass the method a date in time, like today, and the date type you'd like to retrieve. For example, if you want the first date and last date for next quarter, you'd make a DateTime variable and assign it today's date plus 3 months (to create a date that occurs some time in the next quarter), and then pass that along with DateRangeOptions.Quarter to the method. The method will return a structure with the first and last date of that quarter. Read More »

Adobe Acrobat Professional 8 for Macintosh is bloated beyond belief. Now, I understand that it's a universal binary, and has code within it to run on Intel and PowerPC Macs natively, but even split in... Read More »

For those of us who use Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, suffering is a part of life, well, that is, unless you use the workflow that Microsoft shoves down your throat. Let me briefly explain. Microsoft wants... Read More »

Have you ever needed to load the contents of a web page via HTTP? Have you ever needed to execute a page from within another page, perhaps to process some logic or data? What about interfacing your site... Read More »

Here's a simple method for .NET, written in C#, to calculate a percentage and format it as a string. You simply pass the method a value, the total from which the value is a percentage, and the number of... Read More »

Here are some little-known software applications that I use relatively frequently. Obviously, I find them very useful for one reason or another, but you may too. Some are obscure, and some are well-known... Read More »