Creating Custom .NET Controls with C#

This article by Budi Kurniawan at ONDotNet.com gives a clear and concise explanation with an excellent example of creating and using custom .NET controls.

String to Byte Array Conversion

String to Byte Array

String strSource = ...
System.Text.ASCIIEncoding  encoding = new System.Text.ASCIIEncoding();
Byte[] arrDest = encoding.GetBytes(strSource);

Byte Array to String

Byte[] arrSource = ...
System.Text.ASCIIEncoding encoding = new System.Text.ASCIIEncoding();
String strDest = encoding.GetString(arrSource);

.NET Collections

Summary of .NET Collections

• System.Collections at MSDN
• System.Collections.Generic at MSDN
• System.Collections.Specialized at MSDN

Winning Strategy

“The only winning strategy is not to play.”

-M.A.D. Magazine

Column-oriented DBMS

This post at Slashdot.org talks about how Column Stores or Column-oriented DBMS are getting more popular, especially in the data warehousing market. A column-oriented DBMS stores its content by column rather than by row. Read more about it here.

ACID

A single logical operation on data is called a transaction. The ACID set of properties guarantee that database transactions are processed reliably:

• Atomicity
• Consistency
• Isolation
• Durability

(Reference: ACID at Wikipedia)

Database, DBMS, SQL

“If wealth is lost, nothing is lost

If health is lost, something is lost,

If character data is lost, everything is lost”

-Anonymous

A great playwright with a Shakespearean name once said, “All the world’s a database, And all the men and women merely records”.

Data[bases] drive[s] the world. They are the sum of human knowledge, and all around the world many an overworked DBA (DataBase Administrator) spend endless, sleepless nights just keeping these things running. There is currently talk going on of Transforming the Web into a database.
Here is the sum of my database knowledge.

References:

• Database at Wikipedia
• Beginner SQL Tutorial – Quick Reference

Resources:

• Fundamentals of Database Systems (4th Edition), By Ramez Elmasri and Shamkant B. Navathe (Addison Wesley, 2003)

In Nature…

“In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments, only consequences.”

-R. C. Ingersoll

The World Is Round…

“The world is round, and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.”

– Ivy Baker Priest

Impossible Is Nothing

“IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING”

-Adidas Advertisement

I believe that given enough resources, nothing is impossible. After all, man walked on the Moon, didn’t he? And yes, desire and motivation are resources.