Posts tagged “Programming”

Visual Basic and Crystal Reports

For two days now I’ve been trying to get a report to run from my Visual Basic application. The report calls a stored procedure on the SQL Server from a Crystal Reports ocx in the app. I needed to pass two simple parameters through the ocx, from the app, to the storedproc so the report

Experts Exchange

Experts Exchange is an incredibly useful resource for computer professionals. Tell ’em GatorDavid referred you.

Batch Files

Can anyone ever possibly have enough Batch Files? I didn’t think so.

Why Computer Programming Is More Fun Than Accounting

From the readme.txt file for some sample PGP dll source code: “It lacks helpful comments, clever design, and artful writing, but it’s all you’ll get.”

coding

From the Things That Are Not As Easy As They Sound Department: in-line unzipping of PGP-encrypted files with a .dll From the Valuable Resources for This Sort of Thing Department: vbAccelerator Okay, I really just wanted you to see what the heck it is I’m doing right now. In case, y’know, you were interested. Which

“Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.”
Michael Sinz, seen at haha, no serious

Microsoft Programming Language

C# looks cool. (But not cool like surfing or going to parties cool. Man, get a life.)

Universal Networking Truths

rfc1925: Universal Networking Truths Universal Networking Truths

Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 3

Sometimes I think they are just trying to confuse people. Could they have possibly made the Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 3 Download instructions any more confusing? Actually it’s only step 4 that bugs me.

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.