{"id":39,"date":"2006-07-18T13:17:59","date_gmt":"2006-07-18T01:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/2006\/07\/18\/left-out-in-the-net-cold\/"},"modified":"2007-04-14T14:35:51","modified_gmt":"2007-04-14T02:35:51","slug":"left-out-in-the-net-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/2006\/07\/18\/left-out-in-the-net-cold\/","title":{"rendered":"Left out in the .NET cold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekzone.co.nz\/juha\">Juha's blog<\/a> is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dot.net.nz\/Default.aspx?tabid=51\">NZ .NET blog<\/a>, then dammit, I ought to be one too.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dot.net.nz\/blogvote?blogname=Off%20the%20Record\">Vote for me<\/a>!  I have a Smartphone, and wrote a program in C# once!<\/p>\n<p>On that note, did you hear I wrote a program in C# once? Mostly while watching one-day cricket last summer, in fact. It progressed really well, and seemed like it would fill a need - it does profile management for Windows 2000\/XP machines.  I learnt a lot on the go, and got it to the point where I didn't think that I would be able to go much further without peer review.<\/p>\n<p>So, I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hs.net.nz\/~crb\/profiletool\/\">released it<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.co.nz\/group\/microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp\/msg\/321ef4a7d781f749\">posted about it<\/a> to some newsgroups. And got no feedback.  Not one.  Not a sausage.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, I've actually gone to run it once, and found that it didn't actually work on .NET 1.1 - even though I'd deliberately eschewed nice new 2.0-only classes and done things The Hard Way for maximum compatibility, because I'd used Visual Studio Express 2005, it used 2.0 by default.  I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hanselman.com\/blog\/BuildingNET11ProjectsUsingVisualStudio2005.aspx\">found out how to fix that<\/a>, but by that time, it was quicker to fix the profiles manually.<\/p>\n<p>I don't really enjoy programming the way that my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wand.net.nz\/~stj2\/blog\/\">programmer<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/coders.meta.net.nz\/weblog\/\">friends<\/a> do.  If I had a Windows programmer buddy to help me with the details and motivate me, then the Windows sysadmins of this world could end up with a pretty cool tool.  So, <strong>1.<\/strong> I think this post must make my blog the best .NET blog in NZ <em>(cough cough)<\/em> and <strong>2.<\/strong> if anyone out there wants to help out with a useful C# project for Windows sysadmins, please comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, if Juha's blog is a NZ .NET blog, then dammit, I ought to be one too. Vote for me! I have a Smartphone, and wrote a program in C# once! On that note, did you hear I wrote a program in C# once? Mostly while watching one-day cricket last summer, in fact. It progressed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66],"tags":[2,3,27,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}