I have this neat 12 volt electric fan on the boat. Last time I plugged it in, the inline fuse blew. I made a trip to the auto parts store to pickup a new fuse today, installed it, plugged the fan in, and ….. nothing. I took a look at the fuse and, yup –… [Read More]
Archives for July 2011
Vineyard
I was listening to a sermon on John 15 this past week which lead me to some research and additional reading. The specific scripture that started it was John 15:1-8: I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch… [Read More]
MSMQ – Receive Message
The introduction to this serious of Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) posts is here. This time around, I’d like to show you how to read (or receive, dequeue, or pick) a message from a local queue. By default, the first message read from the queue is the message with the highest priority followed by the time received… [Read More]
Message Queuing
Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) has been around a long time and, from my experience, is very stable. I have used the independent client approach with private queues in a variety of systems with excellent results. It is available in all versions of Windows Server and Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 (at… [Read More]
URL Tutorial
What is a URL? I recently gave a little tutorial on URL’s and thought I’d share it here. Most developers that I know have had this burned into their brains for years but it seems that there are many who have not been so fortunate. 🙂 Let’s start with the basics. A web page or… [Read More]
Weather Sites
There are a LOT of web sites available offering weather information for nautical, sailing, marine purposes. I figured an attempt to compile all of those sites might be useful. So, here goes… http://www.accuweather.com/ http://www.wunderground.com/ http://www.Passageweather.com http://www.sailflow.com http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/ http://www.mwxc.com/ http://www.buoyweather.com http://l-36.com/weather.php http://www.intellicast.com/Travel/Weather/Marine/Sailing.aspx http://www.windguru.cz/int/ http://www.windfinder.com/forecasts/ http://bearpawsweather.com/ http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/marine/home.htm http://stormcarib.com/
Print What You Like
I recently found a really slick printing utility. I do not print many things – very few, in fact. Occasionally I would like to print portions of a web page but certainly NOT the whole thing (header, menu, navigation columns, etc…). When this happens, I zip over to http://www.printwhatyoulike.com/. It has certainly saved me some… [Read More]
Boat Pics
My posts lately have been kinda “heavy” so I figured it was time for some photos. I hope you enjoy. She is a 1984 Hunter 34 sailboat (obviously). The first photo was taken anchored at Marco Island, FL and the second just offshore.
Compliment
Compliment are so nice. I was talking to a business associate today that was doing some work for a fairly large client that I done a lot of network and system design and implementation work for about eight years ago. Since that time, this client has had a number of different organizations involved in his… [Read More]
Buffer Size
Buffer Size?? Really?? I have spent a large portion of the last three weeks attempting to resolve a slow TCP Socket communication slowness problem. This particular problem was between a Windows Service and multiple Windows Forms Applications. Lots of network troubleshooting revealed nothing – neither did code reviews, gobs of debug, multi-threading research, and so… [Read More]