I adopted a dog (Molly) this month.  She was born in Tennessee but has been living up at my cabin for the last 5 years.  Molly is a pure bread Britney and I think she has a nipple fetish… Not my nipples, you sick bastards, but she sucks on toys like she missed out on something as a pup.  She seems to be enjoying city life since she came here.  I’ve taken her to a park close by, where she promptly harassed the local goose population.  Other than that, she has successfully eaten the head off her gorilla toy.  All and all it’s been an exciting last couple days…  She is a bit overweight, so I’m trying to get that under control for the holiday season… Hell, maybe she’ll make a New Years resolution about it ;).  Anyway, I’ll keep posting more pictures as the days ahead become memories. 

Also, I posted some pictures from this years deer hunting expedition at my cabin. 

I wanted to add text descriptions to my enum values; similar to overriding ToString on a class.  This is what I came up with, using the beauty of generics:

A sample enum implementing my custom description attribute:

Finally, a static method that prints the attribute from any enum, using generics:

For performance reasons, the StringDictionary is used to cache the values.  Reflection tends to be expensive, so why not cache things? 🙂

Because the post editor uses postbacks, this doesn't feel like a native app.. but it's the best I can do w/ the design.  This will add a key mapping for ctrl-s so that it does the same as the "Save and Continue Writing" button.

Add this to the bottom of ~/ControlPanel/Blogs/CreateEditBlogPost.aspx

<script language="javascript">

var isSaving = false;
function DoKeyCommand(evt)
{
  var key = (evt.which || evt.charCode || evt.keyCode);
  var stringKey = String.fromCharCode(key).toLowerCase();
  var cmd = '';
	
  if (!evt || !evt.ctrlKey) return true;
  
  switch (stringKey)
  {
    case 's':
    {
      if (isSaving) return false;
      isSaving = true;	  
      if (evt.preventDefault) {
        evt.preventDefault();
        evt.stopPropagation();
      } else {
        evt.returnValue = false;
        evt.cancelBubble = true;
      }
      WebForm_DoPostBackWithOptions(new WebForm_PostBackOptions("ctl00$ctl00$TaskRegion$Editor1$SaveEditButton", "", true, "", "", false, true));
	
      return false;
    }
  };
  return true;
}
if (document.addEventListener)
{
  document.addEventListener("keypress", DoKeyCommand, true);
}
else if (document.attachEvent)
{
  document.attachEvent("onkeydown", function(evt) {DoKeyCommand(evt)});
}

</script>

 

This video really amazed me… After watching it, I was then drawn (excuse the pun) to YouTube to watch more from the group (RinpaEshidan). Via Drawn!…

Bored?   Take a look at this: Little People – A tiny street art project.  There are some cool photos in there…

I can’t get over the strength that some glues have to offer…  You find these glues not in a reasonable place like say where a strip of velcro meets an I-Pass transponder, but rather this particular glue held the seam of a cereal bag with a force rivaling jedi mind control.  This morning, after I tore apart a cereal bag in every possible location other than the seam, I decided to finally give in and purchase containers dedicated to holding and preserving cereal.  Apparently there are about 3 choices for this type of container, other than the cardboard box that the cereal originally came with.  You can go with a plastic version, a round stainless version, or the pyrex jars that require an air pump.  After much searching, including reading a thread by some hippies vegans who got side tracked and started talking about microwaving baby sea turtles, I decided to go with Tupperware’s Super Oval 4.  I’m not totally satisfied with my decision, but I feel that it was the best outcome from the choices presented.  Provided my crude math is accurate, I’m estimating that it’ll hold a large box of Crispix with little to no crushing needed.