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I came across a rather unusual issue at work last week — one involving Oracle database connections. The application I’ve been working on makes us of multiple Oracle connections; some of them simple connections which open, perform a read, and then close; and some of them are persistent connections that are utilized for larger transactions, [...]

I was scratching my head over this issue for a while. I’ve written briefly on the topic of binding a GridView inside of a Repeater before, but I encountered another issue recently when trying to bind data to a control within a GridView, nested inside of a Repeater.
Originally, I was approaching the task as I [...]

The past couple of days I’ve been racking my brain trying to find a solution to my computer’s, ever diminishing (at seemingly random intervals) hard drive space. I have decent size hard drive; even taking into account my music and movie collection, I should still not being using more than half of my drive’s total [...]

The Scenario
I’ve recently been placed in a scenario where I was required to nest a GridView control within a Repeater control. I thought this would be more straight forward then it ended up being, so I began searching for my elegant solution. Unfortunately this wasn’t as straight forward a task as I thought it would [...]

The Preamble
Steven Hawking has recently announced his theory of time travel and stated that he believes traveling into the future is a possibility. His theory, in my unqualified summary, states that if a ship could be built to travel faster than the speed of light, it could also travel faster through time. In essence, one [...]