Joseph Fluckiger's Blog

Faith is beautifully defined by Alma as a belief in something which is not seen but which is true. It is also defined as a seed which grows, and takes root because of truth and faith. However I learned something new about faith tonight. I was listening to Glenn Beck give a fireside to our the youth of our stake, and while i was listening I had one of those eureka moments. And this is it: "Faith is a degree of enthusiasm in something." To have faith in something is to be enthusiastic about it. To believe in something, one is moved to act and direct decisions in accordance to faith in a principle. Enthusiasm is both the affect and the effect. So faith is not a passive principle, it is one which requires our activity, else it is not. Faith without works is dead, Faith without enthusasm will never have works.

I was talking to some 15 year old kids the other day and it is weird to think they were born in 1990. They never even knew the 80s! What a shame, what a gold age. Rockin time the 80s, and the 90s even better, too bad for them they couldn't have grown up in the best two decades ever!

In .NET the string class is a special type. It is a hybrid of both a value type and a reference type. A typical reference type is stored on the heap, and a typical value type is stored on the stack. Classes are reference types, for example, Windows.Forms.Textbox Numbers are value types, for example, Integer and Double. Value types are able to be stored on the stack because they have a finite length. Reference types have variable length. So for reference types, .NET keeps a memory reference on the stack to a location on the heap where the actual value is stored. This allows the stack to be very fast and compact while still being able to store large values like a string variable that contains the preamble to the Constitution. An analogy: A comparison to Sqlserver variables is the difference betwnee the char and the varchar data types. The char always has a fixed length, the varchar does not. So the string is a special animal. You can use it without always having to use a constructor. G...

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It’s amazing what you can find by typing in your name on google. Especially if your name is as unique as Joseph Fluckiger. Of 7 billion people on the planet, there are only a handful of Joseph Fluckigers. By searching on google, you can find, interestingly enough an archive of my race histories throughout my life, including my all-time favorite: a posting of the 1993 state championship team, Mesquite Poteet. Ah the glory days. I think my time was a 16:20 for a distance of 5 kilometers. My best race ever for sure. Scrolling through the results of the search "Joseph Fluckiger" brings up the following: 1993 texas state championship: http://www.uil.utexas.edu/athletics/archives/cross_country/playoff_text/93at_bcc.html 1999 BYU Rex Lee Memorial Run: http://www.runnercard.com/Results/1999/RexLee/RES-MEN.TXT 2004, Tripple threat: http://www.redtrailracing.com/TTT2004_final.html 2006: Venice triathalon http://www.altavistasports.com/results/2006results/venicetriathlon090206.html

I finally found a reliable, concise list of future shuttle launches and their statuses.   http://www.spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts116/fdf/manifest.html   It also shows how is on the mission and what is being done.  

I found a bug in the Microsoft Report Viewer 2005 control. When used in LocalMode in an application that does not have a strongName signature, the reportViewer control saves temporary files to IsolatedStorage folder and does not ever delete the temporary files that it creates. So the result of this is that it takes up a lot of harddrive space, about 240k per page of the report. And when a report has 900 pages, this is a problemo. The problem is solved simply by making sure that your application has a strong name key (see the “signing” tab of project properties).   Nevertheless, this untidy habit of not cleaning up after itself caused me a lot of problems, several customer servers where this application is installed almost ran out of hard drive space because of this bug. Not good!     -Joseph