Rob Garrett - Blogs

October 2005 - Posts

• FIOS Installed

  I am very excited today, "and why is that?" you ask.... because today my Verizon FIOS installation was completed. After having a new fiber cable buried from the street to my house yesterday, and two engineers working inside my house for a few hours today, Read More... Posted Thursday, October 27, 2005 10:21 PM by Rob Garrett | 2 Comments

• Multicast Delegate Events as Properties

  The saying goes "you learn something new every day", and today is no exception. I'm not sure how I missed this, but never less, this post shows how to gain finer control over adding and removing of event handlers to public multicast delegate events. Typically, Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 25, 2005 5:37 PM by Rob Garrett | 0 Comments

• Verizon to offer IPTV over FIOS

  Verizon , the provider of my phone and Internet, is soon to be offering IPTV - TV over the Internet - to those using FIOS . http://www22.verizon.com/FiosForHome/Channels/fios/FiosTV_comingsoon.aspx Hopefully, I shall subscribe to this service as soon Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 25, 2005 2:32 PM by Rob Garrett | 1 Comments

• IIS 6/ASP.NET 2.0 Security Demystified - Part 1

  This week I have been working on a custom security module for ASP.NET 2.0 (you mean to say that Windows authentication and Forms authentication is not enough?). My development process has involved wading through .NET Framework security code (thanks to Read More... Posted Saturday, October 22, 2005 9:17 PM by Rob Garrett | 0 Comments

• SonicEncoders for Media Center Edition 2005

  I've been using MCE 2005 for a little while now, and I am smitten. What's more, my wife loves it too, and our MCE box has become one of the most used pieces of electronic equipment in the house. However, since I installed MCE, last April, I have never Read More... Posted Friday, October 21, 2005 12:51 AM by Rob Garrett | 24 Comments

• Apple Video IPOD - A Money Spinner?

  I had the pleasure of meeting up with my good friend, and business savvy colleague this weekend - Anton. Over breakfast, we got chatting about Apple's plans for the video IPOD . Anton remarked that the video IPOD currently does not offer a fast forward Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 18, 2005 11:04 AM by Rob Garrett | 3 Comments

• LCG Performance

  The following are the results of a performance test performed against LCGs , direct function calls, and reflection API invokes. Each test ran for a number of iterations and produced a mean average time in milliseconds. The efficiency of the dynamic method Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 12, 2005 1:57 PM by Rob Garrett | 1 Comments

• Reflection and LCG

  Anyone who has played with .NET long enough will tell you that Reflection is a really cool feature. Essentially, reflection enables the developer to query the type system (CLT - Common Language Type system), dynamically invoke methods, and dynamically Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 12, 2005 12:17 AM by Rob Garrett | 6 Comments

• RSS Class Library

  Looking to create RSS in .Net? Cannot find much in the way of source code on the net? No problem - Check out my article about a class library I created in C# 2.0 to generate RSS 2.0. Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! Read More... Posted Sunday, October 09, 2005 2:58 PM by Rob Garrett | 0 Comments

• Change WindowsXP Bootskin

  Fed up with the usual Windows XP logo screen at boot up? No problem, check out StarDock's BootSkin application to change it. I am amused by the Commodore C-64 skin Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 04, 2005 10:01 AM by Rob Garrett | 1 Comments

• Reminiscing with a notepad

  I was in a meeting this afternoon and happened to look back through my ring binder notepad, which I always bring with me (like the diligent worker I am). As I looked back through the pages, I realized that some of the notes were taken back when I used Read More... Posted Monday, October 03, 2005 2:37 PM by Rob Garrett | 0 Comments

• Composite Video, S-Video and Media

  I invested a chunk of this weekend messing with my home media setup. It all began when I became aware of a problem with the display on my MCE PC, in the midst of Simon's Birthday Party - I was hoping to play some background music and scrolling pictures Read More... Posted Monday, October 03, 2005 12:06 AM by Rob Garrett | 1 Comments