FerretArmy: A Web Developer's Paradise

Pushing the Web Forward, Since 2007

Entries for September, 2007

New, Useless Gallery

I decided to put up a gallery of some of the random junk I’ve acquired over the years. My search for material was far from exhaustive, but take a look none the less, should you dare! Spoooky!

.NET & Application Pools

[Note: I use the term web application in this post. This is not the Visual Studio 'Web Application' but rather refers to any .NET content that runs under IIS.]
Application pools, on the surface, look to be a wonderful addition to IIS 6.0. However, unless you have a good understanding of how application pools work with [...]

Waiting Patiently for Halo 3

So, I’ve never been the biggest Halo fan in the world. I thought the first one was a bit overrated when compared to PC FPSs of the time. Halo 2 was a true gem, but I never really got into the online aspect all that much. I believe online mode is where the true zealots [...]

Describable, Smart Enumerations Helper Class (C# 2.0)

Update – Check out this article for the latest and greatest.
I’ve decided to post an EnumerationHelpers class written in C# 2.0. This class allows you to easily work with description tags on your enumeration values, and search them to pull the appropriate value out based on the description. This is great for times like when you [...]

Mexico Pictures are Up

I’ve posted some pictures from my trip to Riviera Maya this past August. This was about a week before Hurricane Dean came storming in. I went with a good friend, K for short, and we stayed at the Occidental Grand Flamenco Xcaret resort. If you wanted to take a look at beautiful Mexico, have [...]

And the Winner Is…

Here is something else that came out of my work on my senior thesis. We had to present our papers, and my wacky department chair decided that we needed to sell the content. So, she made us create posters for our presentations. So, instead of working on content, I decided to come up with the [...]

Content! We need CONTENT!

So, there hasn’t been all that much going on with the site since I got the space. Blame life, I guess. So, instead of working hard to come up with new content, I decided to republish existing content. Specifically, here lies within my undergraduate senior thesis on the Genetic Algorithm. It was done in 2000-01 [...]