Archive for November, 2004

Thanksgiving

Friday, November 26th, 2004

First of all, Happy Tahnksgiving to all you Stateside!!!
I think you all have a lot to thank for—foremost, for having just elected a fart-brained President in Bush. Second, youre falling greenback means that while you may think twice about travelling outside your big bad country—it might actually be better for you health-wise…

Anyway, I am cancelling my long-planned trip to New York this December — in favor of a 3-day sojourn with a friend in Barcelona…

To the rest of the world, Happy Thursday!

Hiatus

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004

Have not posted for a while but that does not mean I have not been continuing with my blogging routine.

In fact, I have been keeping my entries private. Blogging has become so widespread but most bloggers may not probably know they can publish posts in private—and make them public at a time opportune.

The result? They unwittingly bare themselves and their private lives open for public scrutiny (and possibly ridicule). They are exposing their weaknesses for other people to exploit.

Even government officials and movie stars would agree….. it is not a good idea.

You are a chicken

Sunday, November 14th, 2004

A man runs to the doctor and says, “Doctor, you’ve got to help me. My wife thinks she’s a chicken!”

The doctor asks, “How long has she had this condition?”

“Two years,” says the man.

“Then why did it take you so long to come and see me?” asked the shrink.

The man shrugs his shoulders and replies, “We needed the eggs.”

PinoyUk

Friday, November 5th, 2004

Registered the PinoyUK domain the other day. Dont hold your breath , but this is set to become to premier internet portal for Filipinos in the UK.

More on this later.

GAC Referencing

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2004

When you are developing a class library, you may want Visual Studio .NET to list your library in the Add Reference dialog box on the .NET tab without the user having to browse for it.

This issue is not resolved if you install your assembly to the Global Assembly Cache (GAC), because the Add Reference dialog box is path-based and does not enumerate the components from the GAC.

To display your assembly in the Add Reference dialog box, you can add a registry key, such as the following, which points to the location of the assembly
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft

\ .NETFramework\AssemblyFolders
\MyAssemblies]@=”C:\MyAssemblies”

–where MyAssemblies is the name of the folder in which the assemblies reside.

NOTE: You can create the this registry entry under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE hive. This will change the setting for all of the users on the system. If you create this registry entry under HKEY_CURRENT_USER, this entry will affect the setting for only the current user.

Restart Visual Studio .NET after you have added the key.

MORE INFO:

Microsoft recommends that you not install your assemblies to the GAC, unless you want to share your assemblies with other applications running on that system.

Also, note that it is not possible to directly reference an assembly from the GAC in your project. If you want to use an assembly from the GAC, you should drop your assemblies to a local folder, and then add a reference to the assembly from this folder. You may want to set the Copy Local property to False for that assembly if you do not want the assembly to be copied locally to your project folders. At runtime, the application will use the assemblies from the GAC.