January 2008 - Keith Rull

What Happened At SoCal Code Camp And The Best Session I Attended!

Woohoo! That was a great Code Camp. Thanks to Woody and the gang for making this event happen. It was a fun and knowledge-filled event. I even got swags (a few books, a shirt, a small bag and a gym cup from Avanade). I saw a few Filipino devs in the event...

Published 01-28-2008 11:09 AM by keithrull

Filed under: Pinoy, DevPinoy, Events, Filipino Developer, DevPinoy News, Rant, Life, Community, Code Camp, Filipino, Meetups

See you at SoCal Code Camp!

Me and my wife will be at the Code Camp in Fullerton tommorow and we are excited. Code Camp is a great time to get together, learn new things about technology and network with people with the same mindset about technology and that is passion for learning...

Published 01-25-2008 5:40 PM by keithrull

Filed under: SoCal Code Camp

How To: Create Zip Files In C# with SharpZipLib (#ZipLib)

I encountered a problem today with one of my projects. The problem was about a third-party application choking when it encounters files greater than 20MB. I have a Windows Service that creates PDFs of KPIs for around 150 users and each of the file that...

Published 01-25-2008 2:01 PM by keithrull

Filed under: C#, Zip, SharpZipLib, #ZipLib

How To: What is Anonymous Types in C#

Yesterday I wrote an article explaning what var means in .NET 3.x . Today lets talk about Anonymous Types. Anonymous Types as describe by the C# 3.0 specification are tuple types automatically inferred and created from object initializers. Anonymous Types...

Published 01-23-2008 2:04 PM by keithrull

Filed under: How To, C#, Tutorial, Demo, Learn, Anonymous Types, Visualize

How To: What does "var" exactly mean in C#?

More than a year ago when I was reading about C# 3.0 and all the goodness attached to it I saw this new keyword called "var". At first, I thought it was something similar to what Variant means in VB6 or something like the Object type in .NET...

Published 01-22-2008 4:20 PM by keithrull

Filed under: C#, var, new feature, Shapeshifter

How To: List databases in a SQL Server using T-SQL and truncate their logs

Finally i'm back after a month of crazyness due to my webhost not performing up to its promise of 99.9% uptime. Enough with the rant and on with the article, today i'm going to talk about how to list databases in a SQL Server by just using T-SQL...

Published 01-22-2008 11:59 AM by keithrull

Filed under: SQL, T-SQL, sp_MSforeachtable, Truncate Table, DBCC, sysdatabases, sys.sysdatabases, Truncate Database Logs, SHRINKDATABASE, sp_msForEachDB, sp_databaases, sp_helpdb

My webhost frustration

I've been hosting with IPower for 3 years now and man i'm getting really really really really really frustrated with their hosting! 2 years ago I had the same experience with them and it drove me crazy to the point that I was already shouting at their technical support agent. Imagine hearing this words "we don't have any backup of your site" in a time when you are getting really mad. Intense huh? Eventually my site was restored because "they actually" have a backup system in place. But this week is a different story......

Published 01-11-2008 11:48 AM by keithrull

Filed under: Rant, Webhost, Life

How To: Use Extension Methods In .NET

One of the cool feature ( if used correctly ) added to .NET 3.x is Extension Methods which enables you to extend an specific type by adding your own methods to it. It's useful in cases where you want to extend a library that you dont have access to...

Published 01-04-2008 3:47 PM by keithrull

Filed under: C#, Tutorial, MD5, .NET 3.x, Extension Methods

Free E-Books about LINQ, ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight 1.0 from Microsoft

Just in case you are interested... Microsoft is giving away Free E-Books of 3 great books Introducing Microsoft LINQ by Paolo Pialorsi and Marco Russo ISBN: 9780735623910 Introducing Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX by Dino Esposito ISBN: 9780735624139 Introducing...

Published 01-04-2008 1:09 PM by keithrull

Filed under: Silverlight, LINQ, ASP.NET AJAX, Free, E-books

January 2008 - Keith Rull

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