I was browsing around through my web logs this morning and I found a little bit of military humor. One of my vistors came from a machine called mulder2.chinalake.navy.mil. See, the X-Files never really will die. ;)
Technology Lesson 101
I just feel the need rant and this will probably mean nothing to most of my readers, but to any VB.NET programmers, do not assume that string functions are case-insensitive. I’ve spent about 2 days debugging code looking for this mysterious problem that was preventing users from logging into my system. Turns out that a long departed coder made the assumption about the case of the URL and was using the IndexOf function to make a decision about the status of a user.
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New Sites Everywhere
Looks like something is in the air that makes people want to revamp their sites. Cyberhobo has a brand new look as well.
This is really interesting
Technology never ceses to amaze . . . Amazon is now returning search results based on the entire content of their books. Full Story
[Listening to: Sleep To Dream - Fiona Apple - Tidal (04:10)]
Lack of Posting
I know I haven’t been writing much lately. I’m currently rewriting the RadicalWacko code base in .NET in preparation to transfer to a new hosting company. I will write more when it’s ready to go. Till then I’ll keep the pictures coming.
Blogger
If you haven’t already heard it, blogger has moved almost all of their features reserved for paying members into the free side of blogger. This includes spell check, file upload, draft posts and post dated posts. I know a lot of you are sticklers about running your own software but for guys like me who already has enough code on his site to take care of, it is really a wonderful service and these new features only make it better.
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Good news for .NET, competition! Borland is going to build development tools for .NET.
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More geek news: A 1994 patent on Web Services?
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I guess it’s a geeky day: Tips for Avoiding Spam!
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I’ve already tried this product, and it’s pretty neat. Think of it as Seti@Home II. The Looksmart search engine has released a screensaver called Grub that uses unused CPU cycles and network bandwidth to crawl the Web.