Ages ago I came across some fonts that are the best I’ve used for development, scripting or anything like that. I never wrote about them before so I thought I’d do it now.

At the moment I’m rebuilding my laptop (don’t ask why). It’s the only machine I’ve got and as such has heaps of stuff installed on it. One thing I have installed is the MSDN Library.

Have you ever needed to query a specific key value in an XML file? Depending on the format of your XML file, here’s how to do it using XPathNavigator.

This one might be interesting for people who have wondered about how to distribute the latest version of their application without having to tell people when an update is released.

Back in Using VB.NET to display Cacti & RTG graphs - Part 1 I wrote some stuff about how I’ve been implementing an application to show Cacti and RTG graphs on a 42″ plasma screen.

Recently I wrote a post to start a “thread” about how I’ve been implementing a site monitor application to run on our 42″ plasma TV.

At the moment I’m working on an application that will eventually run on one of our plasma screens to show statistics and the current status of a number of things on our network and infrastructure. We use Cacti and RTG to map this data at the moment but they only produce static data, [...]

Yesterday I posted an article about how to list all the users in your Active Directory using VB.NET. This post is a lot smaller and will cover how to search your Active Directory for a specific user.

As per usual I had a situation recently where I had to do some Active Directory stuff with VB.NET. I had to grab a list of all the users in our AD so that people could select a user and perform functions on them from within a webpage.

ARGH! That was uttered quite a few times while trying to edit a website on a local Windows XP machine that needed to connect to a mySQL server on a remote machine. Shouldn’t be too tough, right? Wrong …