By Renegade on Friday, February 05, 2010 11:01 AM

I just about never do things the same way twice. I always end up looking for a better way to do things. Well, not really that case this time, but I couldn't remember the AM/PM string formatters, so I do a quick search and turn up with http://www.blackwasp.co.uk/CSharpDateManipulation.aspx. It's got a very good treatment of things there.

I generally search online rather than go to the Visual Studio MSDN library documentation because the library is rather slow, and I'm not all that patient. ;)

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By Renegade on Thursday, February 04, 2010 9:29 AM

I was checking out map SDKs and APIs a couple weeks ago, and today got a CodeProject newsletter...

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By Renegade on Friday, January 08, 2010 9:30 AM

I have a component toolkit that was really cheap, but the guys there are real fast with support tickets. PureComponents.

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By Renegade on Saturday, December 12, 2009 6:58 AM

WOW! FINALLY! Somebody else said it! I've been ranting alone about the insanity in the computer security industry, and finally there's someone else out there saying to take it down a step!

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By Renegade on Sunday, September 27, 2009 5:54 PM

The old features vs. benefits thang... not an easy task to get right. Here's a quick primer to help write better. I outline one approach where that is basically a series of refinements that steer you towards writing about benefits instead of features until you get to the actual writing step.

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By Renegade on Tuesday, September 08, 2009 1:38 PM

Well, just finished an illustration that took 3 hours to do... And adds no really useful information...

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By Renegade on Sunday, August 02, 2009 9:34 PM

Email regular expressions? Wow... Talk about opening up Pandora's box...

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By Renegade on Tuesday, July 28, 2009 10:50 PM

Contests can be rigged, and we all know that US elections are... errr... fair! Yeah! That's it! Fair! But in the ultimate contest of popularity in the market, there is one force that shines fair and true: Bitorrent.

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By Renegade on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 10:52 PM

Well, I've had a couple now, so here's yet another unrant... The topic? Comodo and being thorough... (A continuation from here.)

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By Renegade on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 3:44 PM

Well, here's another unrant, with a mini rant sandwiched in there... The unrant topic for today? Service speed and GoDaddy...

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By Renegade on Sunday, July 12, 2009 5:48 PM

While I often love to rant about things, this is an unrant about Infralution.

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By Renegade on Saturday, July 05, 2008 5:33 PM

It's been a very long time in coming, and it's need it for years, but the new web site is finally up and running live. There are a ton of new features and truckloads of new content in it.

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By Renegade on Monday, May 19, 2008 12:00 AM

I find it difficult to stomach some people's nonchalant attitudes towards their freedom and their general apathy towards it. This is just me ranting about how technology and laws are being seriously twisted. Read More »

By Renegade on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 12:00 AM

I really hate complicated solutions to problems, and really don't like to muck around with more than is needed. I just figured out a nice, clean way to intercept ALT + F4 in C#... Read More »

By Renegade on Saturday, April 19, 2008 12:00 AM

Ok, so I've been sick and my brain fell out, but searching for the answer shows just how small a world it is... Read More »

By Renegade on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 12:00 AM

I recently started getting some phishing emails. The timing was scary... Read More »

By Renegade on Sunday, March 02, 2008 12:00 AM

I've been using DeZign for years now, and finally upgraded to v5. Here are a few thoughts on it... Read More »

By Renegade on Tuesday, January 08, 2008 12:00 AM

I'm by no means against free software. I love it. However, as an author, it can be frustrating sometimes... The Renegade DNN Keep Alive is a source of pain for me... Read More »

By Renegade on Saturday, December 29, 2007 12:00 AM

Just about everything is banned from air travel these days, except for the real threat... BAKED BEANS! Read More »

By Renegade on Thursday, December 27, 2007 12:00 AM

Just a little bit on getting an HTMLDocument from a string... Read More »