Three useful articles on Cathodic Protection:

http://www.npl.co.uk/upload/pdf/cathodic_protection.pdf
http://www.sescocp.com/tutorial.php
http://www.corrosionsource.com/%28S%28cylzjm45pkvkle45ywzhvn55%29%29/FreeContent/1/Cathodic+Protection

Notice I added customErrors with the value, mode=”Off” and I added a whole section called system.codedom section.

You will also need to configure your project by right clicking on your project, and selecting “Add Deployable Dependencies…” and then check all the boxes in the dialog that follows.

Then, highlight and select all the references in your new _bin_deployableAssemblies and set the properties for all of the to either “Copy always” or “Copy if newer”

Finally, make sure that Global.asax is added to the list of files you can access. This is done under IIS under the Virtual directory you care about (where you installed your web site) or under the web site itself.

Dear Karl, you haven’t heard, but you wrote something in Communist Manifesto that is now superseded by your coldly dead voice. You wrote:

When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared, and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast association of the whole nation, the public power will lose its political character. Political power, properly so called, is merely the organized power of one class for oppressing another.

Really Karl? Were you writing a romance novel or a real work on economic philosophy? You need to pick. This paragraph is so sophomoric that first I must name it what it is: juvenile. It maps to no reality known to human history. I would expect to read this kind of sentimentalism only if I happened upon the journal of some lovestruck junior high girl.

Karl, were you on drugs? Come on, you can tell us (…okay, I guess you can’t). Only a cocaine addict would trip-out on his own beliefs that political power will all go away and all the good guys will win. Bunny rabbits and unicorns will gently rule the world and nobody will hurt anyone.

Karl, you are dead and in the ground rotting, so you can’t answer me. But you don’t need to, because the sound coming out of your dead and decaying mouth says enough. Reality has set in. Dead people don’t believe this nonsense you wrote. It is the self-evident testimony of the dead: things don’t turn out like you dreamed. You don’t even believe your own words anymore. Dead people have more sense than your daydreaming, effeminate pen which wrote about world peace and a perfect government utopia. Seriously, I can almost hear you falling in love with yourself as you penned this euphoric drivel — it reads like some sort of perverted self-kissing embrace. The only thing your writing proves is that you were less intelligent when you were alive than when dead. Dead people are more intelligent than the self-loving Marxists who see their own image in your writing. Dead people make better sense and testify to what really is. Dead people are unable to embrace themselves in some sort of drug-induced self love. They lie reposing in a grave, and we shall join you there along with all the unicorns and bunny rabbits.

This is a follow-up from my earlier article on the ten points of Marxism (which, by the way, is my second most accessed article on this blog).

In C# this makes all the difference. I realized this morning that I don’t wire-up relationships, but the C# MVC system works on the basis of mere existence.

If a filename with a certain name exists, it is accessed by a controller. In the Data Entity Model, the existence of a table name is mapped to a class name. By existence. I don’t tell the C# system what to associate with what. I just create the item, and its existence makes it alive.

C# MVC programming is programming by existence.

It is also programming by name. When something exists, it must be named (a file name, a class name, a property name, etc.). If it exists, its name is how it relates to the system.

C# MVC programming is programming by existence with right naming.

This is eloquent.

@if (false) {<script type="text/javascript" src="../../Scripts/jquery-1.6.2-vsdoc.js"></script>}

Put this before your jquery include.

If this is what you seek, then let me point you to the TextHighlighterExtensionSetup by Frederic Torres (you can use Visual Studio, Tools->Extension Manager to obtain it, or do the following steps).

Step 1: Install the Iron Python 2.6 or greater (for .NET 4). It was a one or two click install, I didn’t change any settings, it just worked. Try this link: http://ironpython.codeplex.com/releases/view/41236#DownloadId=159515 or get 2.7 here: http://ironpython.codeplex.com/releases/view/62475. If the link is no good, just go to Iron Python, click on the Download menu, and get the latest download.

Step 2: Get and install the .CMD extension itself: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/6706b602-6f10-4fd1-8e14-75840f855569 If this link dos not work, go to the Visual Studio Gallery and search for TextHighlighterExtensionSetup (note, there are a few search boxes, make sure to use the one that searches the extensions).

For another useful extension, see also Spell Checker which adds the little red underline to misspelled words in comments. Very nice.

Step 1: Pick a name for your program (I picked “microSpeak140″).

Step 2: Go to Twitter and register that name: https://dev.twitter.com/apps/
If you are like me, you may want to skip this step and go right to the TCP/IP interface (thinking, “just tell me what port to connect to and I’ll start talking”). But it’s not like that. Twitter won’t let you near their server so easily; there is no skipping this really simple step. This only takes a minute and it is free, so go register your program name at https://dev.twitter.com/apps/ and snatch the keys they give you. Namely, save off the “Consumer key” and the Consumer secret”; those are the two bits of data we really care about in the following steps. You need these keys for Twitter to let your program talk to their server, and you will put those keys into your C# code file.

Step 3: Download the .NET library, TwitterVB2 from CodePlex.

Step 4: Create a new project in Visual Studio, a Visual C# > Windows > Console Application (give it the same name — in my case, again, this is microSpeak140.cs). Note, I also like to rename the default “program.cs” to “microSpeak140.cs”

Step 5: Add a ref to TwitterVB2.dll (which you downloaded in Step 3).

Step 6: Create your Main program as follows (inside program.cs or, in my case, microSpeak140.cs):

using System;
namespace microspeak140
{
    class microSpeak140
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            if (args.Length > 0 && args.Length < 3)
            {
                Speak140 t = new Speak140();
                if (args.Length == 2 && args[0] == "-W")
                    t.theirWall(args[1]);
                else if (args.Length == 1 && args[0] == "-F")
                    t.iFollow();
                else if (args.Length == 1 && args[0] == "-M")
                    t.followMe();
                else if (args.Length == 1 && args[0] == "-W")
                    t.myWall();
                else if (args.Length == 1)
                    t.Say(args[0]);
            }
            else
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Usage: microSpeak140 <-F> | ");
                Console.WriteLine("           <-W [name of someone else]> |");
                Console.WriteLine("           <\"message to send (max 140 character)\">");
                Console.WriteLine("       -W   Show me what is on my wall, or [someone else]'s wall.");
                Console.WriteLine("       -F   List the people I follow.");
                Console.WriteLine("       -M   List the people that follow me.");
            }
        }
    }
}

Step 7: Include the Speak140.cs object into your project.
This is the meat of this whole post, as I wrote this object to wrapper the TwitterVB2 object. TwitterVB2 is great, but with it, you still need to handle authentication. So I put it in a class suitable for a command line tool so as to make Twitter-Console creation a little easier (and hence the pithy code in Step 6). Click here to look at it or download it.

Step 8: Edit that file, Speak140.cs, and fix these two lines

    string ConsumerKey = replace this with what you got off the Twitter site
    string ConsumerSecret = and replace this also with what you got off the Twitter site

Step 9: Build your program.
Note: you may need to go to Project->microSpeak140 properties->Application and set the target framework as .NET 3.0 (i.e., not the default 4.0). Then build it. Then switch it back to 4.0 and try again.

Step 10: Drop down to a command window, go to the build directory, and run it:

    microSpeak140  "At Starbuks reading Steve's blog"

Step 11: What next?
Maybe you will want to add your own reader functions to the Speak140 object? Or, it might be a good idea to add code to use the registry as opposed to files, and thus handle multiple twitter accounts.

And that makes these triangular numbers. And that means that every triangular number squared is the sum of cubes. It works both way in being interesting.

For example, this little text here shows how I log onto my bank web site securely using SSL and certificates:

Me->www.MyBank.com: Browse to web site
note left of Me: I think I am attaching to my bnak
www.MyBank.com->Me: My bank sends an SSL Certificate
note right of www.MyBank.com: My bank got an SSL certificate file VeriSign or GoDaddy
note left of Me: I decrypting the cert using the Verisign public key.
Me->www.MyBank.com: Now I send my password
www.MyBank.com->Me: Display my bank account

Feeding that text into the FREE web site, http://www.websequencediagrams.com/, I get the following PNG image file showing the flow of messages:

This free web site is a wonderful resource, especially as sequence diagrams are useful for showing the relationships of events, messages and entities.

Here is how to do it:

1. Create a file called loop-index.php; it will get used instead of loop.php
2. Populate that file as per the loop-index.php file below
3. See my WordPress blog at http://www.mrrives.com/Gezer, to see how it looks

<?php
/*   THE LOOP - Rives Simple Version, cf. http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_template_part
     This file is called by index.php, get_template_part( 'loop', 'index' ), which does a PHP require()
      for the first file that exists among these, in this priority:
        wp-content/themes/twentytenchild/loop-index.php then wp-content/themes/twentytenchild/loop.php
        wp-content/themes/twentyten/loop-index.php      then wp-content/themes/twentyten/loop.php
 */
?>

<h1><i>The Articles</i></h1>
<?php $pcounter = $wp_query->post_count; ?>
<?php $first_time = 1; ?>
<ol>
 <?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
  <?php if ($first_time == 1): $first_time = 0; ?>
     <i>Ordered by date of publication with the most recent article listed first<br/>
      Date of last publication: <?php echo get_the_date(); ?><br/></i><br/>
  <?php endif; ?>
  <div>
     <li value="&lt;?php echo $pcounter--; ?>">
     <h5 class="entry-title" style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal;">
     <a href="&lt;?php the_permalink(); ?>"
 STYLE="text-decoration: none"
title="<?php printf(
esc_attr__( 'Permalink to %s', 'twentyten' ),
the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ) ); ?>"
rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h5>
     </li>
   </div>

 <?php endwhile; ?>
</ol>