# Thursday, June 10, 2004

As if to mock me, I had three comment spams added to the blog last night.  While I would like to continue allowing comments, especially since sometimes readers post code fixes and useful information, but I refuse to allow spam and don't have time to implement a captcha.  If you've got one working for dasBlog, email me and let me know, otherwise commenting here will be turned off until I find the time to integrate one myself.

 

Thursday, June 10, 2004 8:31:12 AM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)  #     | 
# Wednesday, June 09, 2004

For those curious about what I've been up to, I'm working on a thing - can't really name it, but it's longer than an article, but not quite a book.  Think of a 3-chapter technical book.

The working title is “Communication with VB.NET” but it's somewhat misleading.  When I say “communication” I mean data marshalling.  It's going to cover intra-thread, inter-thread and inter-process data marshalling.  Basically if you have one Form and you need to get data to another, how do you do it?  How about from one thread to another?  Or one process to another?  These kind of questions come up frequently in the newsgroups, so I'm putting together a definitive guide. 

As you may know, I think print media is dead for technical subjects, so I'll be PDFing it and selling it through OpenNETCF Consulting.  It'll probably be in the $5-$10 range.  If it's successful, we'll try to do a series of them on several topics and in several languages (think C# or VB, not English v. French).  Any topics you think need to be covered?

This one will be unusual in that it will apply to desktop developers in many instances, but all code will be targeted to run under the CF.  It's a real pain when CF developers have to “down-port” desktop code in a book to use it.

Wednesday, June 09, 2004 11:12:03 AM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)  #     | 

Well I've migrated my blog engine to dasBlog.  I'm not happy about the fact that it has poor FireFox support (readable, but not editable), but it does add the ability to edit and delete stuff without having to manually modify the XML and since it was based on BlogX it was pretty simple to migrate the content.

The primary motivator for the migration is blog spam.  Neil's using dasBlog and hasn't seen any spam yet, so I'm hoping just changing engines will work - at least for a while.  I implemented a CAPTCHA in the Wiki, but adding it here is a bit more work and I'd really rather do other things.

Wednesday, June 09, 2004 11:02:49 AM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)  #     |