Mark Treadwell

One of the things I always seem to be checking are the various characteristics of the C# value types. You know, stupid questions like whether int is the…

For a period of time, I have access to both an MSDN and a TechNet subscription. Both offer Microsoft software for download. I wondered what the…

I am working on my first significant WPF application and found myself in need of a simple visual color picker. I quick trip to Bing linked me to a Sacha…

When a Sailor pays off a debt to the command (advance pay, overpayments, etc.) they say they have paid off a Dead Horse. The saying comes from a tradition…

The Google Print Beta is available here. Publishers and libraries seem to hate it. I wonder how much more effective/different it is from CiteSeer.

My degree is in Aerospace Engineering, so I have followed aviation even as I drove ships around the ocean for a living.

This is a reminder to myself in the future. When you need to adjust the z-order of controls on a WinForm, you can use the controls' SendToFront and…

Actually, it was an implementation of technology that just got me extremely irate. I was so upset that I just left my purchases there and went over to the…

Update: I have started a series of posts which will build towards implementing as full-featured design surface as I can manage. The series begins here.

Work and weather defense has been keeping me away from almost everything else. Now, a third hurricane (Ivan) is approaching. This too we shall survive,…

While refining my unhandled exception handler code, I wandered into this question. What is the real difference between the following three statements:

We use the term "three sheets to the wind" to describe someone who has had too much to drink. As such, they are often bedraggled with perhaps shirttails…

Over the past several months, I have been learning about how DateTime really works. It turns out that there are pitfalls in something that appears to be…

Today, the expression "the devil to pay" is used primarily to describe having an unpleasant result from some action that has been taken. An example is…

The reluctance of seamen to sail on a Friday reached such epic proportions, that in the 1800s the British Government decided to take strong measures to…

There are few of us who at one time or another have not been admonished to "mind our P's and Q's," or in other words, to behave our best. Oddly enough,…

Here we are at the start of another hurricane season. As with past years, I have been preparing. Last year I had the house painted with a high-quality…