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The Pinedale Shopping Mall Was Just Bombed By Live Turkeys. Film at eleven.
Monday night's Atlanta .NET User Group presentation went off with nary a hitch. Inspired by one of...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/30/2003
XSLT as a Bigger Hammer?
Turns out that my post about using XSLT to convert CSV to XML hit a nerve with some folks. Robert...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/24/2003
What a day
Two notable things this week were that we actually got some guys from Atlanta together for lunch:...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/23/2003
Convert CSV to XML
[Update: As Paul Owen notes in the comments to this post, there were issues with the markup as...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/17/2003
FOR XML and OPENXML using Oracle
Ever wished that Oracle had something like SQL Server's FOR XML and OPENXML keywords? It doesn't...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/16/2003
The Giant Whooshing Sound
I was contemplating the opposite of The Giant Sucking Sound, and opted for "whoosh": the sound my...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/15/2003
More writing
Got a great email tonight... To: Kirk Allen Evans From: Michelle M Smith Subject: Welcome to the...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/13/2003
National Software Developer Skip-Day From Work
I don't know about anyone else but I have been waiting for this a long time, and it better be good....
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/11/2003
Welcome to the Bulldog Nation, Coach
Dennis Felton, who has guided the past three Western Kentucky University teams to NCAA Tournament...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/11/2003
IM
Following both Tomas and Brad's leads, I added my IM to my home page.
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/11/2003
Getting Path from an XmlNode
I actually posted this about a year ago, but just ran across a need for the snippet again. Thought...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/10/2003
A Great Day to be a Dad
My great day started yesterday night. Working late at the office, a good hour from home, my wife...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/09/2003
An Editing Scheme for RSS
Working with RSSBandit and SharpReader this week, I though that it would be nice if SharpReader and...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/09/2003
Namespaces in XML
Antonio asks:I have to create this same structure using the DOM model. How do I create the namespace...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/09/2003
nxslt 1.1 Released
I have released nxslt version 1.1. nxslt is .NET XSLT command line utility, written in C#. Timings...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/08/2003
XInclude is Rolling Along
I was working through the XInclude class hierarchy today, and ran across some interesting questions....
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/07/2003
Set Parameter Values, Don't Just .Clear Them
Okay, this bit of code iterates through a loop, running a stored procedure for each pass. The only...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/07/2003
XSLT Geekery - Moving to the Root Node of the Transform Source?
Gary ponders in the microsoft.public.dotnet.xml forum, why System.Xml.Xsl.XslTransform in .NET moves...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/07/2003
Google Bombing Myself
As soon as I heard the title "Google Hacks" was being released, I ordered a rush copy from Amazon. I...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/04/2003
Braves Are Swept by Expos for Season Opener Series
Asked after Wednesday night's 3-0 loss where the bats that produced a .291 average this spring were,...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/04/2003
Splitting single column data into multiple column HTML tables
On the ASP.NET message boards, dorsai78664 asks how to create a multi-column table with single...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/03/2003
Great article on nUnit and Test First Development
Rather than simply presenting nUnit, this article goes out of its way to illustrate the concepts...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/03/2003
Warning bells in a potential hire's resume
When looking through a potential candidate's resume', which of the following ring warning bells:...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/02/2003
Oracle 100% CPU Utilization with ODP.NET 9202100
Got an IM from Wally McClure asking if I had seen the latest on ODP.NET 9202100. No, I didn't...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/01/2003
RSS at MSDN
MSDN finally has official RSS feeds! Here are the URIs: Recently published on all of MSDN Visual...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/01/2003
April already?
https://www17.tomshardware.com/column/20030401/index.html
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/01/2003
nxslt 1.1 released
Oleg Tkachecnko's nxslt.exe 1.1 was released today.[cafeconleche]
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 03/31/2003
Using autoincrement for an XML document
On the GotDotNet.com message boards, GeFIN asks how to create a unique ID using XML. There are...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 03/28/2003
XPointer moves to Recommendation today
XPointer goes to Recommendation today. Remember XPointer? It's about "pointing", i.e. identifying of...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 03/26/2003
Oleg's started blogging...
Oleg Tkachenko recently started blogging... glad to see it, he has done some tough work with the...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 03/25/2003
Blog Storm
Time to catch up on the web log today. On Thursday, I drove about 3 hours North from Atlanta to...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 03/25/2003
A generic stylesheet for SQL Server XML queries using XMLDATA
In a recent newsgroup posting, Jake Segers asked how to display the results of FOR XML queries...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 03/20/2003
From OPML to editing XML in a browser
Stumbling into a Gem A couple days ago, I was looking at the source for RSSBandit and saw a .opml...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 03/19/2003
Atlanta at (a REAL QUICK) glance
The most comprehensive history of Atlanta I have seen in 1,201 words. My favorite link describes how...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 03/19/2003
Next up... Knoxville
Travelling to Tennessee This Thursday (March 20th), I am speaking to the Knoxville .NET User Group...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 03/18/2003
Detecting AddHandler in VB.NET
I found this while perusing the newsgroups for awhile... An event is basically a mask for a delegate...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 03/14/2003
XPath - What is an XmlNode, and what does node() return?
"Han" hp4444@kornet.net wrote:I used the term node in general manner. And I can show you many...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 03/14/2003
Bomb Michigan too.
https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31510 First Iraq, then France. Then...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 03/14/2003
A slight burst of activity
After a lengthy period of neglect, I started making some incremental updates to xmlandasp.net again....
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 03/13/2003
Visual Thesaurus
I really like this: the Visual Thesaurus. And it makes grammar a little more...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 03/05/2003
To float or not to float
This should actually be titled "don't edit HTML in a browser." I had a nice long post about using...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 03/05/2003
Visio - Abstract Method
This is definitely a glaring case of RTFM syndrome, but I hadn't found how to create abstract...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 02/27/2003