Omniscience is just a Google-search away.
You're reading Mabsterama, the weblog of Matt Hamilton. Enjoy your stay.
In what seems to be a common theme in my posts, here's a snippet of information that everyone probably already knows but I just learned about. Have you ever had two tables you're trying to join in a query using text-based columns (eg varchar), but they're different collations so you get a...
As well as being a network support guy, my workmate Mike is a photographer. I've just discovered his flickr collection . There are some really nice shots in there. Check it out!...
I had a work trip out to Bendigo yesterday, and since my brother's place (in Shepparton) is on the way, I thought I'd pop in for a visit. While there, I did the obligatory family-IT-support thing and took a look at his PC. It's a relatively new Dell desktop PC running Vista Home Basic. As...
Welcome to the new-look Mad Props! As you can see, I have given the whole site a bit of a makeover, care of the new theme capabilities of Community Server 2007. I have to say that the upgrade to CS 2007 was the simplest yet. A database upgrade script that actually worked! Who'da thunk it? The new theme...
Courtesy of Geek Check : Home-made Transformers Costumes ! I love the fact that they actually transform !...
I'm sure there are a few people waking up a bit seedy this morning after yesterday's "gaming party" at my place. We've decided not to refer to it as a LAN party, since the PC gaming wasn't the highlight. Instead, the best games we played were table-top board games. Specifically...
Last night was our June meeting of the Albury/Wodonga .NET User Group , and since Anthony was away at a conference (meaning he'll have to give his Code Generation presentation next month) I filled in with "WPF - A Noob's Eye View". The idea was to take a lot of the stuff I've learned over the last ten...
Because the SQL Server dev team at Microsoft don't have enough to do, I present you with a really silly suggestion that would make my life just that little bit easier: @@clipboard I want a special variable (it only needs to work within SQL Server Management Studio) that lets me interact with the clipboard...
Hey guys, So I'm designing my issue editing form in the WPF version of Comicster , and one of the fields you can edit is the release date of the issue. Thing is, if you don't know (or don't care) what the release date is, you can leave it blank. The property itself is a Nullable DateTime, so it doesn...
Daniel Crowley-Wilson writes : I'm working on a WCF in Orcas presentation, and I just stumbled across a really easy way to consume RSS/Atom feeds. The assembly is used to generate feeds, but it can also be used to consume them. It doesn't have to be a WCF application. He also gives us some code to consume...