Visual Studio 2010 complaints about ELMAH on a 64-bit machine - fixed

  • August 23, 2010
  • James Skemp
My laptop has quickly become my development machine for smaller projects, especially after I purchased a low-end desktop to host the Subversion repositories. I recently added ELMAH support to one of my sites, but since I run 64-bit, and have been using the built-in Cassini for quick development, I started getting a message in Visual Studio 2010 saying "ASP.NET runtime error: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Data.SQLite' or one of its dependencies.

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Review: La Ballade Of Lady & Bird : A Project By Keren Ann Zeidel & Bardi Johannsson

  • August 17, 2010
  • James Skemp
The following is a review of La Ballade Of Lady & Bird : A Project By Keren Ann Zeidel & Bardi Johannsson. I believe this is my first review of an album ... I have a difficult time seeing how one can review the actual music on an album, since tastes are so personal, so I'll focus on myself. I'm a pretty huge fan of Keren Ann's work. I started with the absolutely beautiful Nolita, then the okay La Biographie De Luka Philipse, La Disparition, and then a big shopping spree of Not Going Anywhere, Keren Ann, and Lady & Bird.

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ASP.NET charts example: Odin Sphere: Part 3 - Creating the chart

  • August 15, 2010
  • James Skemp
In part one of this series we covered what we'd be doing, and what data model we'd be using. In part two of this series we used LINQ to XML to query the XML file with the data we want to display. This time we'll be doing the heavy lifting of actually creating the chart and displaying it to the user. For ease, I'll be implementing very basic caching. Preliminary requirement Before you can use the charting functionality you need to have a reference to System.

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ASP.NET charts example: Odin Sphere: Part 2 - Parsing the XML

  • August 14, 2010
  • James Skemp
In part one of this series we covered what we'd be doing, and what model we'd be using for the data. This time we'll parse the XML file that contains the data we need, and populate the objects. Loading the XML file The XML file we'll be loading is located at http://jamesrskemp.com/files/OdinSphere.xml, and to keep it simple, we'll load it in assuming we're on a different server/domain. First we'll need to add the following so we can make use of XDocument.

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ASP.NET charts example: Odin Sphere: Part 1 - Introduction and model

  • August 13, 2010
  • James Skemp
For a while now I've been meaning to work with ASP.NET 4's built-in charting functionality. While I was going to use it alongside my gas tracking, I think I'm instead going to use my Odin Sphere leveling guide, so I don't have to create an XSLT for the output. In this part of the series I'll outline the data model I'll be using, and preliminary setups. Method So that this can easily be deployed anywhere, I'm going to opt not to use the control itself, but rather programmatically create the charts/graphs.

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Odin Sphere: Character data file

  • July 30, 2010
  • James Skemp
Similar to my Resonance of Fate data file and Muramasa demon blade listing, I've begun work on converting a notepad file's data to XML. The data is still raw, but ... I plan on completing it as much as I can. View/download the Odin Sphere data file. As noted in the file, data is licensed under the Creative Commons License Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0.

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Review: The 12 Chinese Animals

  • July 25, 2010
  • James Skemp
This is a review of The 12 Chinese Animals, written by Master Zhongxian Wu. Like everyone who's been to a Chinese restaurant, I'm well aware of the 12 animals. Thanks to Philip K. Dick I've got a couple copies of the I Ching around the house, and enjoyed learning about the Asian philosophies during college. This last aspect of me was pleasantly surprised reading through this short work, as the author does a good job of explaining that there are not only animals for the years one is born, but also for the month, day, and hour.

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Night Walk - 7/24/2010

  • July 24, 2010
  • James Skemp
A white light. A yellow. A group of kids, playing a game of basketball, laughing, not keeping score. Lights illuminating plants, a woman straightening her's in a newly purchased house, one she may not have been able to enjoy before. It was Ray Bradbury, I believe, who wrote of a man who walked at night, and before being arrested for doing so, thought of the people sitting inside, their faces illuminated only by the light of a television.

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Tic-Tac-Toe in Visual Basic 6

  • July 24, 2010
  • James Skemp
Back in December of 2003 I created a Tic-Tac-Toe application in Visual Basic 6. Below is the code from MainWin.frm, which should be sufficient to create the application. This code is covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 license. VERSION 5.00 Begin VB.Form Form1 Caption = "Tic-Tac-Toe" ClientHeight = 3255 ClientLeft = 4410 ClientTop = 3255 ClientWidth = 4080 LinkTopic = "Form1" ScaleHeight = 3255 ScaleWidth = 4080 Begin VB.CommandButton AboutThis Caption = "

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Tic-Tac-Toe using Pascal

  • July 24, 2010
  • James Skemp
The following is a really old program (November 2003) written in Pacal using Bloodshed Dev-Pascal (which seems to no longer be updated). This is the code in main.pas, which it seems is the only file really necessary. This code is covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 license. program TicTacToe (input, output); label begingame, picknumber, checkmove, checkforwin, compmove, winner, nobodywon, playagain, illegalmove, compcrash, endgame; var playmove, turn, points : integer; place1, place2, place3, place4, place5, place6, place7, place8, place9 : char; currentplayer, ynagain, lastwinner : char; begin writeln; writeln('JRSs Tic-Tac-Toe v1.

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