My name is

David Cumps

Freelance software engineer

A passionate geek, always curious, always learning.

A list of bad IT people, all based on true events: from losing their command prompt to burning 1.8 MB on a 700 MB CD.

Resource hacking shell32.dll on Windows XP to give the Run box a custom look, with ResHacker and Replacer.

Time for a new article, but not about C# this time.

The link to the C# property macro from Jan Tielens' .NET Magazine #5 article went missing in print; here it is.

How to pass several options in one enum parameter, like RegexOptions, using powers of two, bitwise OR and bitwise AND.

Getting DotNetNuke 2.1.2 running: install 2.0.4 first for the SQL Server tables, and take spmenu.js from 2.1.1 to stop IE hanging.

Connectedly, a site I built, won the Communicator prize from the Minister of Education at the DigiKids 2004 Awards, among 120 entries.

Notepad wouldn't start from Run: a notepad.com in system32 ran first, because PATHEXT puts .COM before .EXE.

McAfee's licence agreement lists acts of God among the reasons the software may be unavailable. Does anyone read these?