Joshua's Blog now with actual content!

While I was working on one of my personal projects I needed to do some administrative tasks from a program launched as a normal user. Since I try to follow best practice to the best of my ability I knew I had to write an external module that could el... [More]

With the recent update to blogengine.net 2.5 and a somewhat renewed interest in blogging I decided to port my Http:BL anti-spam plugin from my old custom blog engine to blogengine.net. The Http:BL (DNS blacklist) is run by the people at Project Hone... [More]

Even in Windows 7 Explorer is limited to paths of 260 characters. [More]

Part 1 of listening and parsing xAP messages using C# .Net [More]

Ha, it's freakin 5:41 in the morning, and here I am coding... about to fall asleep! Guess what! Part 1 of my AntiSpam (tm) project went well. Keyword matching is up and working! With weights! This means that you can specify certain words to be weighe... [More]

Well, here are a few updates about the site. Most of my work recently has been behind the scenes, optimizing code, commenting code, and lastly updating and creating new SQL procedures. I've redone how users are handled internally, now using a collet... [More]

Right well, it's not really a pipe dream... not even close, but it was a cool name anyways because I've learned how to use named pipes! Woohoo! I'm sure none of you know what those even are. Since using sockets is unbelieveably hard (for me at least,... [More]

Woohoo! Well, after working on the linux system for three days (off and on), I finally built the kernel to my system. You know, the last step in the LFS book? (www.linuxfromscratch.org) I booted the system after compile and for the first time ever - ... [More]

It has been almost a month now since my last post... I almost forgot I even had a website here... A lot has happened believe it or not. At work we are implenting a Windows 2003 Active Directory (finally moving towards an all Windows environment! Wee!... [More]

For those of you who install Visual Studio 2005 and the Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK, everything should be fine and dandy. If you have Internet Explorer 7 installed (whether in Vista or as the beta on Windows XP), you'll notice that you can't really create... [More]