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Facebook Chat Authentication in C#

Disclaimer By viewing this webpage you have just agreed to the following; this article is not written or endorsed by Facebook, the information contained within it may or may not be accurate, your mileage may very and that I am in no way liable for your stupidity. Updated (26 Sept '11) to include StartTls and new usage of...

Twipler - A twitter web client

I know I don't update this website that often and that's because I spend most of my free time working on twipler. Twipler is my Twitter Web Client written in C# and is Open Source. My main motivation for writing it, is that I wasn't really happy with how twitter web worked and felt inspired by other web clients. Bustling with ideas for things...

New features of VS2012 revealed

With the release of Visual Studio 2010 just around the corner, I was lucky enough to get a sneak peak at Visual Studio 2012. Here are a few of the exciting things I found. Code window resize A feature you can turn on/off is automatic resizing of the code window. When you are editing your code, selecting the code window maximizes it at...

aspnet_regiis 0x80004005 Windows 7 IIS 7

Problem "aspnet_regiis -i" crashes when executed from command giving error code 0x80004005 on Windows 7 with IIS7 My solution I have UAC switched on, and launched the command prompt -as administrator-. Start -> cmd -> right click "Run as Administrator". Then aspnet_regiis worked fine. Did this work for you? please comment below for the...

Anti-Bug Pattern

The Anti-Bug Pattern occurs when you have two bugs in a system which cancel each other out. While refactoring one day, I couldn't work out why my code had broken. That's not unusual, and so I checked and re-checked the new code that I'd written. Nope, it was bug free! This was when I discovered the Anti-Bug Pattern, which occurs when there...

ChgDoc first release

After what seemed like a never achievable first release, and much personal deliberation over "what's the point" "will people think my code stinks" etc, I'm finally in a position to offer up a first version of the source code behind this site. Download ChgDoc Source Code here. This is GPL Open Source. You really need to be a developer to...

Create a new IBM database

A nice daily WTF (worse than failure). Using Visual Studio 2005 to connect to an IBM database. Step 1. Step 2.