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New Tech Blog
This article is now located at Sagara.NET:
Response.Redirect and the ThreadAbortException, and why it’s a good thing.
I have written my first post on my new tech blog, Sagara.NET*. As the name implies, I will focus on .NET and related technologies. Mostly, the articles will be targeted at beginners. I see a lot of frequently asked questions in programming discussion forums, so I thought, instead of typing out the answers over and over again, why not create a central place to answer these questions? And that’s what I plan to do.
First article: Response.Redirect and the ThreadAbortException, and why it’s a good thing
If you’re into that sort of thing, please give it a read and leave me some feedback.
Thanks!
* A sterling example of why I didn’t go into marketing or advertising.
I am such a nerd
So I preordered Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows back in … February? *clickety-clickety-amazon.com-click-click* Yep, back in February. It was supposed to show up today, the day of the release.
Previously, when we preordered Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, it showed up a day early, so when HPDH didn't show up yesterday, I wasn't too concerned. I figured, Hey, Saturday delivery, sweet! UPS and Amazon are on the ball! There's no way they're going to deprive hardcore HP fans of the 7th and final book on the day of its release, especially when they preordered it the day it was announced!
10am rolls around. No UPS guy. No big deal. The day is young!
12pm: No book. I'm getting antsy. Blood sugar levels are getting low, and I'm getting cranky. Better feed myself to take my mind off of the book. Going to Mr. Pickles for a hot pastrami sandwich.
3pm: Still no book. My nerves are frayed. I have developed an eye twitch, and that pastrami sandwich is really weighing me down. I should take a dump.
3:02pm: Bathroom break.
4:32pm: Bathroom break over. Time to resume my vigil by the front door. When the UPS guy comes up the walkway, I'm going to pounce!
5pm: I decide that there's no way in HELL that the UPS guy is coming today. I just KNOW he is maniacally laughing his ass off at this virtual wedgy he has bestowed upon the HP nerds all over the greater Sacramento area.
At this point, I take matters into my own hands. I have to have this book, and I have to have it today, so I jump into the car and high-tail it over to Target.
I pull into the parking lot and jump out of the car. I run straight toward the book section, body checking a 10-year-old and his grandmother along the way. I locate the Harry Potter DH display. It's empty! No, wait – there are two left! *Tiger Woods fist pump* CRISIS AVERTED.
So come Monday, I will have two copies of the latest Harry Potter tome, and assuming I stay coherent for the next 30+ hours subsisting on nothing but speed Red Bull and gummy worms, I will have found out what happens to Harry and Voldemort before it gets plastered all over the Internets.
Postscript:
7:22pm: As I write this, Homer decides to unload the contents of his stomach all over the floor, right in front of the TV. That is a special dog, I tell you what.
Update 2007-07-22:
Evidently, UPS decided to ship the book to our local post office, who then stuck it in our mailbox. It arrived yesterday, the day it was due to arrive. D'oh.
Dream Job
Other than being a full-time dad, this is pretty much the closest thing to a dream job in my line of work that I have seen in my 8-ish years as a working adult:
We are now looking to hire a talented web Development Engineer to join our growing team at dpreview.
You will be passionate about digital photography and possess a strong understanding of dpreview, our principles and our community. Being a self starter with good design and user interface skills, you have at least two years demonstrable experience of web development; we will expect you to be able to have extensive experience in ASP.NET 2.0 as well as fully integrated client-side Javascript and hand-coded HTML (reliance on WSIWYG editors will be seen as a negative). We will also expect you to have experience of SQL databases, specifically Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and 2005.
That's totally the job for me.
And it's totally in London, with no telecommuting option.
Playground fun
[Via Worse Than Failure]
GoDaddy.com to take over management of stranded RegisterlyFly domains
This has been a long time coming. I'm very happy that ICANN has chosen GoDaddy.com, seeing as they were my registrar prior to RegisterFly. I only moved away from GD because RF offered the same services for about $10 less. Sadly, for the consumer, this episode proves once again that you get what you pay for.
Upgraded to CS2007
I just upgraded to the latest CommunityServer bits, so please let me know if you see any weirdness.
Thanks!
Techies: the perfect gift for Mom
Especially if you’re anti-social.
Copilot is a service that allows you to remotely control a willing participant’s computer. So, for example, if your mom is having trouble with Outlook, you can log in and check her SMTP settings for her without having to describe all the various menus and dialogs she would have to go through.
From the Joel on Software blog:
This Sunday is Mother’s Day. Why not fix your mom’s computer?
You know: remove the spyware and adware, install Firefox, and make it so that weird toolbar toast doesn’t pop up every 15 seconds.
To make it easy, this Sunday we’re making Fog Creek Copilot absolutely free.
No strings attached. Just go to https://www.copilot.com on Sunday, get a free pass, and we’ll email your mom a link she can click on to download the helper application. It’s really easy.
Spineless
Twitter twitter’d
Yesterday, on the recommendation of Paul Watson, I signed up at Twitter. AFAICT, it’s a stream of consciousness communication medium, sort of like IM, but it’s geared toward the SMS crowd.
Anyway, since I signed up, I’ve had nothing but trouble accessing their site. Apparently they have become too popular too quickly. Hopefully they get it resolved soon, because I’d really like to test it out. It seems like a cool idea, and I’d hate to give up on it because they can’t figure out how to scale their application.