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Month: July 2009

  • Welding Cart

    I completed an introductory welding course at Conestoga College last year, and bought myself a small oxy-acetylene torch outfit.  I figured my first real project should be a welding cart. I had my gas cylinders freestanding up against a wall, and that’s just not very safe. I try to cultivate a healthy fear of compressed…

  • Welding

    Last year I took an evening course in Basic Welding at Conestoga College. It was just an introductory course for people who want to learn how to weld for their own projects. No credit toward welding as a profession. It covered oxy-acetylene and a bit of GMAW (aka MIG). I like oxy-acetylene, but i didn’t…

  • Delay-loading assemblies in .NET

    I was trying to find a .NET equivalent to the “/delayload” option that the linker has for unmanaged code. For the uninitiated, “/delayload:someDLL.dll” changes the resulting .EXE/.DLL so that someDLL.dll will not be loaded until the first time a function in it is called. It’s a handy option you can use so that you do…