Life of Danie

Growing up

danievh@gmail.com (Daniel van Heerden) — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 03:08:00 +0200

Original post: 3 Aug 2007 from South Africa, during my stay in hospital (will get to that) Okay, I’m starting a little before the beginning cause I don’t really remember much before “the accident”. I put that in parenthesis because it has been such a defining point in my life that it sometimes feels like it should be announced with a large Chinese GONG. My first Dad, was a

My first car

danievh@gmail.com (Daniel van Heerden) — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 03:07:00 +0200

You never forget your first car! In the process of transferring the previous post I came across this photo :) Can you spot me the head sticking out, lol. I have loads of memories associated with this old skiedonk. It had a big exhaust that meant it could be heard from kilometers away. One of my friends said that their TV distorted when I pulled up :) We had a blast with it, and even did

My 21st

danievh@gmail.com (Daniel van Heerden) — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 03:04:00 +0200

I had the option of a party or a trip to a warm water (at the time it was called Warm baths or Warm Bad) resort for my 21st with a couple of friends. Guess which one I picked :) It was a great weekend. As I recall one entire boot of one car was dedicated to alcohol. But we also had some amazing Ribs (wonder if they still make them in Witpoortjie) I have a fond slighly hazy memory of making up

JsonRequest.com simple data server

danievh@gmail.com (Daniel van Heerden) — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 07:45:00 +0200

I'm please to announce my new website jsonrequest.com JsonRequest.com provides a cheap and easy way to serve data to your mobile app or website, or just a way to test how your application reacts to different JSON responses from a server. Its free to use, and currently I don't have limits set on its usage. Please let me know if you have any ideas for me to make it better and more useful to you!

Should I comment my code

danievh@gmail.com (Daniel van Heerden) — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 04:40:00 +0200

Yes.... but. I've been doing some reading regarding the pro's en con's (actually it is more like the for and against commenting) and I figured I'd make a quick summary of what I've come across. Firstly I think that both camps (for and against comments) have the same goal in mind; readable code. The against camp's main concern seems to be: You don't need comments because your code should be

Code reuse myth

danievh@gmail.com (Daniel van Heerden) — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 23:20:00 +0200

I've been wondering about this for a while and found an article with an interesting take on it. Basically write testable code. Don't code for possible future reuse. Only make something reusable when you write a new piece of functionality and notice it is similiar to something you did before then make it reusable. I like this because I see people spending a lot of time architecting reusable

Busy skies

danievh@gmail.com (Daniel van Heerden) — Mon, 3 Sep 2012 09:29:00 +0200

Last night In dreamed that there was a huge meteor shower. We were driving on a highway and saw one after another plane and helicoper fly past us. The jets would occasionally let a missile go which would be followed my a great explosion, presumably blowing up a large meteor. I looked up and saw lots of planes in the air.

Developer VS Project Manager

danievh@gmail.com (Daniel van Heerden) — Tue, 15 May 2012 11:34:00 +0200

A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes he is lost. He reduces height and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts: "Excuse me, can you help me? I promised my friend. I would meet him half an hour ago, but I don't know where I am." The man below says, "Yes, you are in a hot air balloon, hovering approximately 30 feet above this field. You are between 40 and 42

How to hide duplicate Column Entries GridView VS2008 using c#

danievh@gmail.com (Daniel van Heerden) — Sun, 4 Jul 2010 12:52:00 +0200

The Code below will hide values of textbox and label controls with the same ID in a gridview, you should be able to modify the code easily enough to support other controls. This does however mean that you have to use TemplateFields not basic BoundFields. For example if you have a Template field and inside it you have a textbox called txtName and a Phone number field called txtPhone, you specify

The Garbage Law

danievh@gmail.com (Daniel van Heerden) — Wed, 2 Jun 2010 15:20:00 +0200

This is how I try to live my life. Was surprised it had a name, but thought I'd share it here.

Vitamine D for Hodgkins Lymphoma

danievh@gmail.com (Daniel van Heerden) — Tue, 11 May 2010 16:23:00 +0200

Its all over the internet but I think its important enough to keep repeating. Vitamin D hinders lymphoma and a whole bunch of other cancers. So much so that this study found that people diagnosed in summer times seems to have a 20% better survival rate!!! So stock up on Vitamin D supplements, and if possible get in the SUN as much as possible!! (without, obviously, burning yourself and getting

Microsoft SQL - Return random number in Query in Microsoft SQL

danievh@gmail.com (Daniel van Heerden) — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:21:00 +0200

After a lot of searching around for a random number generation function for Microsoft SQL views, and trying all kinds of different methods, and only finding very resource expensive methods for getting a random number for each line in a query result set, I stumbled on this very obvious solution in a forum. I unfortunately cannot remember the forum otherwise I would post the link but I figured it

Cars are better than trains

danievh@gmail.com (Daniel van Heerden) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:40:00 +0200

There are certain definite advantages to public transport, aside from the obvious environmental benefits, you don't have to worry about car maintenance, traffic (at least not the kind the makes you calves hurt from having to maintain constant clutch control) and the fact that you can read your paper while travelling to work instead of concentrating on the road.My mind, the unfortunate cynic,

Big night out

danievh@gmail.com (Daniel van Heerden) — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:46:00 +0200

It really does amuse me to find what I see as big night out now a days. Many people will smirk at a 29 year old thinking about the good old days. However my first big night out was around 12 year ago so I figure I am starting to gain just a little right to.When I was 18 a big night out was synonymous with alcohol. If there was brandy there was a party, something that didn't change much by the

Train delay theory

danievh@gmail.com (Daniel van Heerden) — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:38:00 +0200

On Monday we very proudly managed to walk out of our house very proud of the fact that we left a full 5 minutes before our train was due. We only need a minute to walk there so we would have plenty of time to get to the station, get our metro and align ourselves with where the train door would be in order do get a seat when the door opens.We were thus surprised to see the train arriving just as

Voting for South Africa

danievh@gmail.com (Daniel van Heerden) — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:00:00 +0200

Me and my wife were one of the many "Londoners" that braved the cold rainy day to vote for South Africa. We were very impressed with the turn-out, and they were even fairly organized.We can only hope that we will make a difference, the scale of problems in Africa are huge, and corruption is unfortunately a daily reality in our governments. The sad fact is that we probably would never have another

Classic Irish Joke

danievh@gmail.com (Daniel van Heerden) — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:08:00 +0200

Mick and Paddy were walking home from the pub.Mick says to Paddy, ' I can't be bothered to walk all dat way.''I know,' says Paddy, 'but we've no money for a cab and we've missed the last Bus home.''We could steal a bus from the depot,' Mick suggests.They arrive at the bus depot and Mick tells Paddy to go in and get a bus while He keeps a look-out.After shuffling around for ages, Mick shouts, '

Read if you feel like laughing for 5 minutes

danievh@gmail.com (Daniel van Heerden) — Thu, 9 Apr 2009 18:17:00 +0200