Book Review: Barbarian Way
Posted by Brett Veenstra
Just finished a great book lent to me by my friend KC: The Barbarian Way.
I connected with this book immediately. Particularly challenging and exciting was reading someone who was describing the kind of faith I had during my teen years. Wild, reckless, risk-taking, total Spirit-in-the-Wind, which seems so very scary to consider now. Hmmm…
It’s only about 140 pages Read the rest of this entry »
NTLM in Firefox
Posted by Brett Veenstra
I mean I loved Firefox before this, but as is the case in the technology field, you sometimes miss great stuff!
Have a windows box that you want to do NTLM against in Firefox? Try this out!
- Type “about:config” in your FireFox Address Bar
- Edit the value for “network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris”
- Add a comma separated list of values for the servers you want to NTLM against. For example (”localhost, us.mycompany.com”)
Just plain nuts. My last reason for using IE just vanished.
ASP.NET Page event basics
Posted by Brett Veenstra
In ASP.NET 1.1 there are four major events that fire for the Page class (System.Web.UI.Page). Here’s a hack of an explanation:
- Init - page class is instantiated in ASP.NET worker process. Advisable to instantiate private members of your class here but hold off on much else as the web UI controls can get modified in later events
- Load - ControlTree is created, all PostBack data has already been posted to the controls, all ViewState has been processed, this is the place to rearrange controls, visibility and dynamically create controls
- PreRender - last chance to alter web controls - you cannot OVERRIDE this event
- Unload - output has been written, and you’re just doing cleanup now
For a detailed discussion into all ten, check out 4GuysFromRolla.com
Browser War?
Posted by Brett Veenstra
It’s over dude…
Yeah, I’m a techno-elistist type… but when Firefox rips through pages without crashing, flickers and other IE “normalities”, it is SO OVER. I hope I can write software someday that flies like this thing!
Memories for Mother’s Day
Posted by Brett Veenstra
Sometimes it is hard to remember in detail the things our mothers do that went above and beyond that everyday grind they pulled us through childhood. Putting Liddy to bed tonight I had a rather large flashback to a memory that qualifies.
I was between 8 and 10 years old, and it was a particularly bad episode of an earache, one that seemed to make time completely stop. I can’t tell you how many times I was in my parent’s room seeking comfort and crying terribly. Back to the point, the only other element of that horrible evening was my Mom singing and rocking me over and over and over again. I can’t remember the song, I just remember that she sang for a long time and everytime I seemed consoled and finally able to rest, my ear would flare up even worse.
I’m so thankful we’ve not had massive earaches in my kids, I just don’t have that level of caring, Mom has me beat six ways to Sunday; that concern and self-sacrifice, that defines my Mom.
Love you Mom and Happy Mother’s Day.