I’m clearing my bookshelves and have four books that I was planning to trash (since the local library doesn’t want them). Then I thought, what the heck, give ‘em away on the blog. So, forthwith, I have the following four books available: Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual (1998 Edition): This is a reference book [...]
Archive of posts tagged Visual Basic
How I Code On This Blog: Elegance Vs. Transparency
My recent comment exchange with Scriptar has prodded me to post an explanation of how I code on this blog. I view the code I post here as having two priorities: elegance and transparency, weighted slightly more toward elegance. What I mean is that most importantly, the code I post should be as simple, compact [...]
MSDN Roadshow In Augusta, March 19: Well Worth The Time
People love to criticize Microsoft, and much of the criticism it gets is deserved (when you release patches to your OS that are bigger than the original software, you probably deserve some negative press). But the one thing Microsoft does better than anyone is product support, especially developer support. Enter the MSDN Roadshow, a series [...]
Moving ListItems From A ComboBox / DropDownList To A ListBox In .NET
Recently asked on Yahoo! Answers: ComboBox Question in Visual Basic? I am trying to create a combobox dropdown list of countries. When user click on a country, it should add to the listbox. I manage to do it. But I want to enhance some form of checking. If the country is already added in the [...]
Revisited: Adding Non-Selectable ListItem Controls To An ASP.NET DataBound List Control
Last August I had quickly blogged on the subject of adding non-selectable ListItem controls to an ASP.NET DropDownList. At the time I didn’t have an easy way to demonstrate how that code worked — and, in all honesty, I hadn’t tested it thoroughly, so it had some problems. But now, thanks to GoDaddy’s dirt-cheap ASP.NET [...]
The Trouble With PHP’s Weak Data Types: An Example Examined And Explained
Asked recently on Yahoo! Answers: Multiple nested MySQL functions in PHP? I was going through code today, trying to make some things more compact. The application worked without problems, so I knew that mysql error statements were superfluous. This is the type of statement I was changing, I figured that I’d remove the seemingly unnecessary [...]
