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The author is just another obsessive compulsive hacker (the good kind) who when confronted with anything new can't help but wonder "how'd they do that?!?"

By day, I'm the Software Architect for CBMC; by night, I just try to "keep the clients happy" as Director of Technology for sdgInteractive.


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RadioButton GroupName Insanity

by hilkiah 13. July 2009 15:03
OK, this is hands down one of the craziest things I’ve seen in a while. When dynamically creating RadioButtons for a registration form, I discovered that even if the GroupName was set correctly, the group would not behave as expected and keep the selections unique. After a very short search,... [More]

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Extension Methods, Display Helpers and SoC

by hilkiah 22. May 2009 05:46
I developed a habit a few years ago (and it escapes me where I first saw it used) of extending my Business Objects with little display helpers for easily serializing them into web pages and email templates. At first, I was just overriding .ToString(), but that never really felt like the right plac... [More]

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Process Identity on a Domain Controller

by hilkiah 1. May 2007 03:05
Ok, I fully realize this runs into the far reaches of obscurity, but I felt like sharing. I was just uploading an admin tool for one of our clients that host their own site. Part of the tool configuration was allowing write access to folder a for file uploads. Now, usually this just follows the simp... [More]

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Virtual Earth and Firefox

by hilkiah 26. March 2007 21:03
I've been playing around some more with Virtual Earth and have continued to run into weird "uncaught exception" errors when doing anything more advanced than displaying a map in Firefox. In a previous post, I mentioned that I'd found a workaround for the onMapLoad callback not working c... [More]

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report you requested requires further information

by hilkiah 26. January 2007 06:01
More fun with Crystal reports . . . I had a new report fully configured and signed off on and was all set to publish to our report system when I made a wonderful little discovery: when running the report, the viewer would fail with the (seemingly infamous) error message stating that the &qu... [More]

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Faking a null in Crystal Reports

by hilkiah 25. January 2007 07:01
I've been learning quite a bit about Crystal Reports in the last month. We've begin migrating all of the internal CBMC reporting tools from custom HTML display logic to using Crystal XI Developer. One of the more interesting issues I've run into resulted from trying to calculate a summar... [More]

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Msn.Drawing.Exception

by hilkiah 9. January 2007 22:01
It appears that Firefox and Virtual Earth don't play as well together as I had thought. I've been working on implementing a map for one of our clients to show just a basic display of their location. Things were going fairly well until I noticed Firefox 2 wasn't firing the onMapLoad() callback I h... [More]

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