Jeff Makes Software

I'm sitting here on my deck this morning enjoying a somewhat cool Northeast Ohio morning, wondering how we ever got along without wireless ethernet.

Answered my own question regarding SqlCommand.ExecuteDbPageReader() by looking at it in the object browser:

Someone told me that SqlCommand.ExecutePageReader would be dropped from v2 of .NET. Well, it's in beta 1, so does that mean it will stay? Anyone have the skinny on that?

A friend finally hooked me up with a Gmail account. I guess the biggest reason I wanted an account was because it's not fun not being a part of the “in” crowd. So now that I've got one, well, not sure what I'm going to do with it.

A while back I wrote about my disgust following the merger of G4 and TechTV. I'm convinced that the idiots at Comcast really had no idea how bad their programming really was in terms of production, air talent and scope. They bought TechTV because of its distribution, and ignored that fact that its programming was mostly top notch, so they killed good shows, fired a ton of people, and shut down the heart of the operation in San Francisco. Dumbasses.

The text parsing in POP Forums has always been the bane of my existence in that product. Version after version, it's the thing I've hated most to try and make it work better. In a nutshell, it's supposed to translate “forum code” into HTML for post storage as well as reverse parse it or parse the sad excuse for HTML that comes out of IE's built-in HTML editing.

I revised the event/event handler listing I did last night. See edits there.

It appeared to me that they added a few things here and there to the Application, Page and Control lifecycle in ASP.NET v2.0. Curious, I whipped up some derived classes to output to a text file every time one of these events fired in the grand scheme of a request. I wired in the basic events then did overrides for everything that appeared to fire at some point. I think it's mostly complete, but the data binding events don't appear to fire unless you've got some data binding to do...