Monday, June 30, 2008
UPDATED: Orange Crush
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Members of Orange Crush, I in no way meant to come down on you guys or anything. I think you guys are a great team, and are always very nice on the field. If you interpreted anything below as inflammatory, then I'm sorry as it was not my intent.
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Oh how the mighty have fallen.
This was the first meeting of Orange Crush and Scared Hitless, and we have have taken down the first place team. We have spoiled their perfect season, that's right we have beaten the only undefeated team in the league. We split the series with them, but we beat them. They are indeed fallible.
The first game is the one they won. Their first two batters we got out right away, I thought it was going to be a quick inning. But they rallied and scored 10 runs I think with two outs in that first inning. I dunno what happened, we kinda just fell apart for a couple of minutes there. We were also down a few of our normal players and had to use some subs. We did play well the first game though, with couple of great catches from our third base woman and some good catches in the outfield even though we were short handed. They beat us this game like 16-6 or something like that. I don't have the score book handy.
The second game starts and we are up to bat first, and we score like 10 or so runs in the first half of the inning. Orange Crush brings in their relief pitcher and he ends up closing out the inning. At this point we are in their heads. They are starting to have some internal squabbles, yelling at each other and things like that. They have a four running inning and we are back up to bat and we score a few more. It keeps going back and forth like this for a few innings, both of us scoring a few each inning but us staying firmly ahead. And their composure is going down the tubes. And we won that game 16-11 I think, again don't have the score book in front of me.
We played a couple of great games, I am only sad about a few things, one of them being my blocking a runner rounding first. The batter hit a dribbler to the shortstop and I had my foot on the inside bag (we have two, runners have to tag the outside bag) . Our shortstop stops the ball, but bobbles it a little and she is already on first so I call off the throw, and take a step backwards thinking that she is going to stay where she is. She keeps running and I back into her on accident since she cuts the corner so sharp. So the ump calls interference and gives her a base. It was valid yes...I was in the way, but she wouldn't have made it to second anyway. Oh well.
We have to play Orange Crush two more times. And we are in their heads. They are runnin' scared now. No games next week cause of the 4th. So look for our game in two weeks.
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008
B. A. Baracus
So we are in the process of hiring a new BA (Business Analyst) at my job, right? So is it sad that anytime someone says BA I think of
B.A. from the A-Team?
Just me?
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Monday, June 23, 2008
The Interior Guys round 2
Well we didn't actually play this week because the Interior Guys couldn't field a team and didn't show up to play. So we got two forfeit wins out of it. We'll take them but wish we could have played.
I think it actually turned out to be a good thing seeing as about half the team was feeling pretty rough from a house warming party we all went to the night before. So we just had a little batting practice instead, so it wasn't a complete wash, but a little disappointing none the less.
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Monday, June 16, 2008
Taking a .Net app offline
There are times when you need to take an application off line for a period of time for maintenance or you just don't want people on the site for back up or something. I dunno.
With .Net 2.0 there is a really easy way to do it, and there are no configuration settings you have to mess with in IIS or anywhere. You just have to drop a file named
app_offline.htm into the root of your site and blammo your app will show whatever text is in that file. There is one little pitfall though. The file size has to be at least 512 bytes or sometimes the .Net compiler won't recognize the file. So you can just put some junk in there in HTML contents, or you can write a really nice long message to your users
And when you want to bring the app back up, just remove or rename the file. Pretty neat little trick...
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Sunday, June 15, 2008
The Tornadoes and the Newbies
So, you may have noticed that I haven't posted about last week's game. We played poorly and lost against the Tornadoes, and that's all I'm gonna say.
So we shake it off and played today against the Newbies. And we had a couple of great games.
We won the first game, and it was close one. They were up to bat first and we gave up a few runs because of an error or two and things like that, and then we had a scoreless first inning. Second inning I was up first and hit a home run. Normally it would have only been a triple but they let it get over their heads and I was able to slide into home. We were trailing the most of the rest of the game, and we were batting last in the final inning and tied up the game with two outs (at least I think there were two outs, but that may be just me making it sound all that much cooler). I was at bat and the bases were loaded. So in this league if you walk a guy he can take two bases. And since the bases were loaded that would have forced two runs at home. So the other team, and my future father-in-law are heckling me and saying that the "manly" thing would be to hit, the first two pitches were balls, and third pitch was close but the was called a ball to win the game (this league also starts with a 1-1 count, so there is only two strikes for an out and 3 balls to walk). May not have been the manliest thing to do or look the coolest but we won the game cause of it so i consider it a good thing.
The second game we lost, but it still was a very good game. They pretty much did to us what we did to them in the first game. They had home field advantage and were up to bat last and scored the winning run on a walk too I think. I hit well in this game too but only got on base once. My other at bats were fly outs...but I made solid contact and drove 'em to the fences. The time I got one base was a pretty good line drive for a base hit. The sweet part about that on base for me was sliding into third. I got a pretty good little scratch on that one so that kinda made up for my not taking a cut for the win of the previous game.
I think that this weeks games were ones for the books. We were pretty evenly matched against this team and both teams played well. Since this is the first time we played them we will be playing them one more time this season and I'm looking forward to it.
Next week we play the interior guys.
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Friday, June 13, 2008
.Net Mailbag
So I got an email from a co-worker who normally does ColdFusion work and is working his way into .Net, and he posed the following question that I thought would be a good post here.
Question:
If I'm not going to do anything dynamic with my label, is there a reason to use <asp:label> instead of just plain <label> in my ASPX code?
My Reponse:
Pretty sure you're gonna have to use the ASP label. When your page compiles it will change the name of the control you are referencing.
For example, if you have a text box that is just sitting out by itself called txtSomething. Once the page complies the textbox name will change to something along the lines of cp100_txtSomething.
Since this happens the traditional HTML label control will lose it's association. With the ASP label it will update the reference.
If you are not doing anything dynamic with that label however and want to save a little bit of memory, you can change the EnableViewstate property on the control to false and it won't bother storing it in the viewstate.
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Monday, June 2, 2008
The Juggernauts, Round 2
The second meeting of the Juggernauts vs. Scared Hitless went better than the first time. We won both of these games upping our record to 6-4. Not sure how the rest of the teams did yesterday but this weekend may have put us in the number 2 spot.
The first game for the team went really well. I wasn't to happy with my game personally, but the team did really well, winning 15-2. Our outfield had some great plays and our pitching was really good this game, and we had some really good heads up plays allowing us to get a few outs that we wouldn't have normally gotten. I think we need to work more on a few more running plays. For example. I was on first, the batter hit a dribbler to the pitcher. He scooped it up and I wasn't on the bag yet, I was still running to it, way in front of the batter. It should have been an out. But the pitcher threw it to where I was instead of where I was going to be while running. So the ball was thrown behind me and it was a double since I had to turn around and get off the bag.
Second game was a little bit closer than the first with a score of 10-6. With a bit better playing on my part than the first game. Infield did a great job of stopping the ball and getting into first. I even managed to snag a line drive.
The only sad part for me is that I was walked 4 of the 6 times I was at bat yesterday.
Oh and I almost forgot, I had a great play at home. I was running home and had a great slide and had to swing my leg around the pitcher (who was covering home) to tag the bag. I wish I had a camera, cause apparently it looked good. Big cloud of dust and when the dust cleared the ump yelled safe. It was a Kodak moment, even if now my left leg is all scraped up. I'm taking a beating for this team. Got a black eye from a ball at practice last Wednesday, and now my leg is all scraped up. Chicks, and by chicks I mean the Fiance, dig scars (and black eyes).
Next week is the late game against Ro's Hard Hitters.
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Sorry Ladies
For those of you who read my blog and don't already know. The Girlfriend has now become The Fiance. HURRAY!
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