Archive for August, 2006

Aug

18

New planets are good!

By ian

For those who don’t know, there is currently a large debate among astronomers about the definition of a planet. There are 2 competing proposals, one would result in Pluto losing it’s planet status the other would result in an increase of planets potentially numbering in the 100s. Right now, the International Astronomical Union (IAU), which […]

Aug

18

Typed Datasets make me smile

By ian

So I’ve been going through some new data access tutorials in the MSD library. Let me say that I’m very glad that I did.
The first few tutorials cover creating and working with typed datasets (.xsd). Essentially they allow you to build an entire data access layer in a few hours. Visual Studio writes all of the […]

Aug

7

I’m still alive

By ian

Well, it’s been more than a month since I’ve posted and I actually recieved an e-mail today asking if I was still alive. Recently I just haven’t been inspired to post. I’ve had a few ideas about web/design related topics, but they seem to be well covered already and I’d like to avoid just regurtitating […]