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You need to add reference to the DLL, then you can call JeremyABoyd.MailEnable.Utilities.AddMailbox()

The day started late, it was a Saturday, and the wife and I slept in. I woke around 9:30 or so and she around 11. We then had to decide what it was we were going to do that day. Go to the Mall, Museum, Zoo, Movies? The decision was tough, but we decided to head for the Galleria Mall in Houston to use up some coupons and gift cards we had lying around.

The drive into Houston was your average stop and go on I-45, and once we made it to the 610 loop, everything was opened up, ready to do 2.5 MPH over the speed limit (I’m a speed demon, I know). Right before the Scott Street exit, though, something happened. It didn’t register with me at first, I just checked my mirrors and slammed on my breaks. as I look to my right I see a small flatbed trailer being pulled by a Ford F-350 King Ranch that has blown one of its tires. I stopped just in time for it not to swerve into my lane taking out the front quarter-panel in the process (and possibly more). Everything ended just fine, he made it to the shoulder, and we made it to the mall (after getting lost a couple of times — I wasn’t using my GPS).

The second incident wouldn’t happen until much later that night. I was hanging around the house, watching TV, emailing back and forth with the boss doing some late night stuff with him and getting ready for bed. Told the boss that I didn’t mind sneaking a few minutes here and there to do work, because family was over and work is a fun distraction from drama. He asked me if I wanted to go grab a beer, but I said no because I was about to hit the sack anyway. Little did I know, I wouldn’t be going to sleep any time soon.

I got off the couch because I wanted a bed-time snack. Grabbed a pickle from the jar, and our brand new Mandolin slicer from the cabinet. I started slicing me some pickle slices for a snack. The a searing pain. I looked down, and I was missing part of my thumb. I hadn’t started bleeding, but I was swearing like I had been shot. I ran to the bathroom and started washing it off, and then the blood came. It was about three of the vials the doctors use to grab blood for testing. I applied pressure, and kept my hand above my head for about 30 minutes before dressing the wound, and being pissed that my pickles were ruined now (my chunk of skin had fallen into the pile of slices). I would bleed through the bandage that night.

One and a half days later (Monday morning), and the bleeding is under control, but still bleeds a little. I can see new skin growth already, and I am ready to be able to use my thumb again. You never realize how much you use your thumb until it hurts to do so.

Moral of the story: stay inside forever and never slice shit… eat it whole (but don’t choke).

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Needed to create a single file installer for a Visual Studio setup and deployment solution. WinRAR self extractor wouldn’t work, and neither did Winzip. Both would error out on the Setup.exe file being run (not sure why, I didn’t investigate it). So I built one based on the tutorial here. Then I had to make changes to the setup and deployment project, then go through the same process again… So I built a setup builder (Setupzor) to do it for me.

It runs on .Net 4.0, so if you have it, you can use this AWESOME utility.

• Setupzor (129 KB)

It was irritating beyond belief. I wanted to just steal some code. After all every great programmer steals their code!

After looking for an hour I decided I could have written it in the amount of time I had spent looking. Boy howdy, I was right. For your copy and pasting pleasure, my awesome spinner:

public class Spinner
{
    private static Random rnd = new Random();
    public static string Spin(string str)
    {
        string regex = @"\{(.*?)\}";
        return Regex.Replace(str, regex, new MatchEvaluator(WordScrambler));
    }
    public static string WordScrambler(Match match)
    {
        string[] items = match.Value.Substring(1, match.Value.Length - 2).Split('|');
        return items[rnd.Next(items.Length)];
    }
}

I am open to working with anyone who wants to help improve this project. It has slowed down a lot since George and I first started working on it, and like me, I am sure he would be more than happy to have more capable hands working with us.

Extract the zip, and upload both folders to your wp-content folder.

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Love does not mean I have to agree. This is from an old article that I read back the day it was published (as I have been doing for almost 5 years now).

If your “build process” is the F5 key, you have a problem. If you think this sounds ridiculous– who would possibly use their IDE as a substitute for a proper build process? — then I humbly suggest that you haven’t worked much in the mainstream corporate development world. The very idea of a build script outside the IDE is alien to most of these teams.

via Coding Horror: The F5 Key Is Not a Build Process.

My problem with this is that most people in a mainstream corporate development world USE the IDE to build. I know because I have been there in MULTIPLE jobs. I have been a rookie, and I have been a lead, that doesn’t stop me from using the IDE to build and publish. Now as the owner of my own company why would I want to waste money on something that comes for free out of the box?

I understand central build system, scheduled build processes, but I haven’t ever needed them.

Whether I was in a team of 10 or a team of one hundred, we would each check our code in, get latest and F5.

When I have a developer building an application for me, I don’t want to waste my time or theirs (billable) on an infrastructure that doesn’t get me a finished product any faster.

My Super Kick Ass GridView!

Here is an excerpt of how to use it

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George and I have had the pleasure to work on a couple of WP Themes together, one of them is still under development while the other Handgloves, is publicly available.

A tumblr developer, I am not. But I though what the heck, might as well try.

This theme is a work in progress, but it is my implementation of Handgloves for tumblr.

I will be releasing the source once all of the post types have been implemented.

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