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So Internet Explorer 7 has been out for over a year (it was released on October 18th), yet there are still enough IE6 users that we still have to code for it. IE6 has some horrible rendering inconsistencies and bugs that have to be worked around and unfortunately it was out for so long and had so much market share that it's just not going away. IE7 was a little better, but not great. I'm...

I recently got to wondering who, if anyone, out there is reading my blog. I've just been thinking about it and was getting curious. I know at least one colleague at work that does. I think there's a few developers in the .net community that are subscribed by now. Anyone else from Bend? Any of my friends in Eugene? Anyway, if you feel like it and have the time, could you leave a short...

Me: I started digging into some Reflection.Emit stuff the recently. Him: I think I just saw a post about that the other day. Me: Was it the one I wrote last night? Him: Was that you? I didn't even realize it. (Goes to Google Reader to look up said post) Hey, it was yours....

PLAIN TEXT C#: public class HelloModifier { public static Target CreateTarget(& #41; { AssemblyName assemblyName = new AssemblyName("MyDy namic"); TypeBuilder typeBuilder = AppDomain.CurrentDomain. DefineDynamicAssembly& #40;assemblyName, AssemblyBuilderAccess.Run&...

For a while now I had been expecting better developer documentation from Microsoft. You'd think if you were looking for tips and ideas on how to develop software that Microsoft would know a thing or two. I mean they write a lot of software (some better than others) and they have several development tools and platforms. And there is a ton of documentation on specific tools or examples how to use...

DHL said it arrived yesterday, but I never saw it. Turns out DHL used USPS and it was in the mailbox. Anyway, the book is Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns: With Examples in C# and .NET. I just finished the first chapter and although a lot of it was familiar to me, I liked the author's writing style and found it more engaging than some of the more abstract books on the patterns,...

Every once in a while I run across a bug in Firefox that basically hides the blinking cursor that is supposed to be in a textbox. It's still there and I can still type, but I just can't tell where the next character will appear. Every time this happens, I have to Google around a bit and find the Bugzilla bug describing it. For my own reference: here is the bug report. It will be fixed in...