Reading a CSV file into a DataTable
If you don't share my opinion that CSV should be banned by an international convention, it might be because you've never had to write code to read a CSV file.
StackOverflow
I've spent the last couple of weeks hanging out on StackOverflow, and thinking about how successful its design is.
SQL 2005 Cyclical Forwarding
Just a quick one about a SQL 2005 message that I found; I've also found quite a few unanswered questions about it on other forums so thought it might be worth posting here.
Asus EcoBook and Used Laptops
The Asus EcoBook was paraded at various tech shows last year, and it's pretty exciting:
The PC Decrapifier
If you buy a new PC or laptop these days, it likely to come with all kinds of unwanted junk: trail versions of antivirus, browser toolbars, CD-burners that replicate that the OS can already do by itself, and so on. There's a great little utility called The PC Decrapifier that can help clean this up. Its basically a script that searches the PC for 'crapplications' and then gives you a list of what it finds. You then choose the ones you want to get rid of, and it gets on with it for you.
Server Controls, UniqueID and Master pages
Recently I was updating some ASP.NET pages for a client. They had a set of custom-built server controls that worked very happily, binding data to and from domain objects. I modified some of the ASP.NET pages so that they became Content pages that shared a common Master page. Then suddenly all the Server controls stopped working - they were not processing postbacks properly or firing events. That is, Server Controls that had worked in normal ASP.NET pages suddenly stopped working in Master-Content pages.
