[https://www.nilkanth.com/content/images/2005/08/dactylfractal107.jpg] A thoughtful and aesthetic look at natural recursion! It’s called Dactyl Fractal [http://zapatopi.net/themes/], conceptualized by Zapato [http://zapatopi.net/]. Each time I look at the infinite-iteration Flash version [http://zapatopi.net/themes/dactylfractalzoom.html], I can’…
SQL Server 2000 database backup programatically [http://www.dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/mihaibejenariu/archive/2005/08/12/131894.aspx] (using .NET) [via Mihai Bejenariu]…
Microsoft to drop Antispyware [http://www.longhornblogs.com/bleblanc/archive/2005/08/11/14441.aspx]? Just when I started liking the anti-spyware app [http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx], they plan to shelf it! Well, OneCare [https://www.nilkanth.com/archives/2005/08/04/windows-onecare/] anyone?…
Quite frankly, I didn’t knew that there’s even a WHEN clause to the TRY-CATCH block. Thanks to Eric Porter [http://weblogs.asp.net/eporter/archive/2005/08/10/422136.aspx] for sharing this tip! Public Shared Function SaveChangesToServer(ByVal ShouldThrowException As Boolean) As Boolean Try ' Do some…
The upcoming ASP.NET v2.0 contains out-of-the-box support for asynchronous client script callbacks [http://www.simple-talk.com/2005/08/10/asynchronous-client-script-callbacks/]. Go AJaX [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX]!…
With FeedMap [http://www.feedmap.net/BlogMap/] you can geo-code your blog, browse already geo-coded blogs and search for blogs in the blogosphere.…
“What happens to all the crashes in programs not written by Microsoft that are submitted via Windows Error Reporting? Microsoft still collects and indexes them, and vendors can sign up to gain access to the error reporting database [http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/maintain/StartWER.mspx] to see the crashes…
Google News gets RSS and Atom feeds [http://news.com.com/Google+News+gets+RSS+and+Atom+feeds/2100-1038_3-5825454.html] . There seems to be some problems with the Atom feed [http://news.google.com/nwshp?ned=us&topic=t&output=atom] though. I remember writing a PHP…