Sorry for gReader mesh… but to subscribe our feed – it’s worth it!

And we got our 4th member Rainer too.

And still waiting for Marti’s first so-so content-rich blog post

static void Main()
		{
			Mutex instanceLock = new Mutex(false, "My.Unique.Name.What.Should.Be.Quid");
			if (instanceLock.WaitOne(0, false))
			{
				try
				{
					var listener = new Listener();
					listener.Start();
				}
				finally
				{
					instanceLock.ReleaseMutex();
				}
			}
			else
			{
				Environment.Exit(5);
			}
		}

And this is my first wordpress post (in their editor, because my live writer is one big wuss). Congratulations to me!

I have always used Daemon Tools for mounting ISO files but it seems that it isn’t compatible with new Windows 7. Fortunately I managed to find alternative software that does the same and is simple to use. It is called Pismo File Mount.

Btw if you didn’t know, burning an ISO to a CD/DVD is built in feature in Windows 7 – Just right click on an ISO file, select Open With and Windows Disc Image Burner. How cool is that!

Fortunately there is alternative how to reset your phone if you have forgotten password. But in strange way the guidelines in manual didn’t worked, like all suggestions in google, such as in this site:

HTC Wizard – Cingular 8125 – i-mate K-JAM – T-Mobile MDA
Hold the Comm manager button and the Voice Command button, the press the reset button once. Hold the Comm Manager and Voice Command buttons until there is a screen asking you if you want to clear all data. To reset, press the green send key.

Another is from original manual:
After pressing the reset button with the stylus you must CONTINUE TO HOLD the Comm Manager and Voice Command buttons until you see a message asking you to press the send button (the green phone) to perform a hard reset. Following this, wait patiently and the K-JAM should eventually boot into Windows Mobile.

With little time I still managed to reset my Qtek 9100 and this is little guideline for all others, who have the same problem:

1. Turn on your phone
2. Press both buttons from side
3. While pressing buttons quickly press ‘reset’
4. wait for text to appear
5. push green button, hold it
6. release other buttons except green one

Ha-ha Funniest Dilbert recently

Performer and web toymaker Ze Frank delivers a hilarious nerd core standup routine, then tells us what he’s seriously passionate about: helping people create and interact using simple, addictive web tools.

Source

I found myself writing following method:

public virtual HorseStatistics GetStatistics(int year)
{
    foreach (HorseStatistics statistic in this.HorseStatistics)
    {
        if (statistic.Year.Equals(year))
            return statistic;
    }
    return null;
}

This method is in object Horse and contains list of HorseStatistics with unique property Year.

With some help from .NET 3.5 I have this:

horse.HorseStatistics.Find(x => x.Year == 1999);

Just think how my first method look like if I want to do this:

horse.HorseStatistics.Find(x => x.Year == 1999 && x.FinishedAsFirst == 3 && x.FinishedAsThird == 5);

Actually there are some component based problems with this (I use nHibernate and so my List must be IList), but as seen in source article performance improvement is amazing.

That is a 289200% improvement in performance.

Source.Equals(“realspeedyobjectfiltering”);

What is more efficient in respect of memory usage and performance: The use of string or the use of System.String?

The correct answer is It doesn’t matter which one you take, they perform equally. string is a synonym for System.String. Therefore it does not matter if you take string or System.String.

Source.Equals(“CShapDotNETSecrets”);

Little more about string:

A string is a sequential collection of Unicode characters that is used to represent text. A String object is a sequential collection of System..::.Char objects that represent a string. The value of the String object is the content of the sequential collection, and that value is immutable.

A String object is called immutable (read-only) because its value cannot be modified once it has been created. Methods that appear to modify a String object actually return a new String object that contains the modification. If it is necessary to modify the actual contents of a string-like object, use the System.Text..::.StringBuilder class.

Source.Equals(“MSDN”);

• Messing around with SubSonic
• Messing around with NHibernate
• Messing around with LinqToSql
• Messing around with ADO.NET Entity Framework Beta 3
• Messing around with Castle ActiveRecord (added 8 Jan 2008)

The examples all go through same steps: the basic configuration required to get going, inserting a couple of records, and then getting some data back out with some simple queries, including traversing a many-to-many relationship.