I've worked on various projects for a couple of different employers that made use of Log4Net and it was extremely helpful in identifying and resolving some strange behaviours. However, I'd never had to set it up in a new project myself until recently. I wasn't sure what to expect when I got into it but it was actually a very painless procedure. [More]

One of the most intruiging parts of PDC09 was, for me, Scott Gu’s keynote discussion on Silverlight 4. Video of his keynote has been online for some time now, and today Scott posted the demo projects he used to show off the new features he was discussing, including webcam capturing and image effects. [More]

Among other things, I love to put code bits in my Google Notebook for storage and later reference. It's unfortunate that Google is no longer developing or supporting Notebook, and not allowing new users to register for it, but thankfully they won't be eliminating it for the time being. [More]

Over the past couple of weeks I had been writing a utility for a friend of mine that involves parsing a CSV file. One of the fields in the file was for song names. Song names, as you know, can contain commas in them, so a simple split on the comma was not viable. [More]

One thing I’ve never been happy with was the ability to highlight code syntax in blogengine.net. I was using a plug-in called Copy Source As HTML 3.0 which was a plug-in for VS2008. It did the job in that it coloured the text, but I hated the spacing and the look of the code section. Here’s an example of the ugliness it would leave me with: [More]