Twilight Soul

I'm using my blog to keep track of where I am while working this OCW course. Reading Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs: Foreword

I'm giving serious thought to changing my field of study. Up until now, it has been in enterprise information systems. Corporate systems, including web sites, and business processing. The problem with that is that a) it's not really inspiring to me and b) the higher up I get, the less it is about really creating new solutions to problems, and...

This MSDN article shows how to get components listed in the Customize Toolbox Dialog Box without installing them in the GAC. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/9yxtkx75(VS.80).aspx This can be quite useful when you have problems with the toolbox, like I'm having right now. I'm writing a custom web server control, and although I can get...

This post by Vittorio does a good job of explaining how federated claims should work. Where I work, we are preparing one of our first really serious forays into federated single sign-on (FSSO), and we're still wrapping our minds around what we and our partner should be doing. Too bad we won't be able to use the Geneva server, but this blog post...

I'm overwhelmed with spam comments. I'm not sure why -- Community Server supposedly has a spam filter for comments, but maybe I don't have it configured right? Anyway, from now on, if you want to leave a comment, you'll have to register as a user at TwilightSoul.com. You can make up whatever name you want, leave a fake address, I don't...

So this is where you've moved. Love that word potpourri [Alan McBee's Blog...]. Second time I have heard it today. If only you could program to emulate the berry smells of potpourri. Now that would be cool to read to!

Environment: ASP.NET, .NET Framework 2.0.50727, Visual Studio 2005 SP2, IIS 6 I am a control nut. That is, I really like to use a lot of individual user controls and custom server controls rather than pile everything into a single WebForm. I have a user control that contains a drop down list for selecting a category, named Category.ascx. I sometimes...

I was hoping for something a little more, you know, like " The Enemy Within ." But then again, I have always been a little too much of a Trekker than is good for me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO_Qovoysu8&feature=channel_page

We have two servers in the Web farm for our Internet site. Seems like every time we have to promote a major build, we re-figure out the deployment sequence. I don't know. A while back, I mapped out a sequence diagram for this on my whiteboard, and now I'd like to reclaim my whiteboard. So I'm moving that sequence diagram to here, instead...

I was trying to watch Mark Russinovich's presentation " Case of the Unexplained... " at work. But here at work, they are crazy protective about the desktop machines. We are still running Windows 2000!! and everything is locked down hard. Meaning I can't install Silverlight . Yet there are no alternatives for watching the video. So...