Monday, October 25th, 2004
If you are a DDJ subscriber like me, you will get Google Labs Aptitude Test attached right in there. I got my magazine late so I found it late
The test is quite interesting though. What impressed me most is question number 2: write a haiku to describe blah blah blah. Gee, haiku? Is [...]
Life in USA |
Wednesday, October 20th, 2004
Last Tuesday I’ve renewed my car’s registration on-line, and yesterday the new registration sticker was in my mailbox. It’s the first time that CA DMV moves so efficiently. In the past two years I had to mail check back, waited for several monthes, and the new registrations were not always mailed to me before expiration [...]
Life in USA |
Thursday, October 14th, 2004
I typed a blog ten minutes ago. I thought that there maybe some spelling errors inside so I’ve decided to run a spell check provided by blogger.com. When I clicked on it, IE told me that a pop-up window is blocked. So I clicked the title bar to “temporarily allow pop-up”. Then another message showed [...]
Troubleshooting |
Monday, October 11th, 2004
Today is Columbus Day. My company does not give us a day off
Columbus discovered America on Oct 11th some long time ago. My boss said that this day should not be celebrated because it’s not politically correct. It is worth celebrating for immigrants but not for native Americans.
It’s good to know that though. [...]
Life in USA |
Monday, October 4th, 2004
If you try to find the best books talking about ASP.NET on Amazon.com, the first pair you will get is “ASP.NET Unleashed” and “Essential ASP.NET”. I choose the latter because the author’s name is very inspiring
Essential ASP.NET with Examples in C#, Fritz Onion, Addison-Wesley 2003
The book is designed for experienced .NET and C# [...]
Reviews & Comments, Windows |
Sunday, October 3rd, 2004
I found a very good book for teaching C# Windows Form programming:
MCAD/MCSD Training Guide (70-316): Developing and Implementing Windows-Based Applications with Visual C# and Visual Studio.NET, Amit Kalani, Que 2002
It’s near perfect Covers almost everything you need to know about .NET Windows Form programming. The only important thing missing is multithreading under Windows Form, [...]
C++/C#, Reviews & Comments |