Author Archives for Gandalf

Allo Guvna! From England!

Posted by Gandalf on May 4th, 2009

Just finishing up another trip to Manchester this week. My buddy Vu and I went up to Edinburgh, Scotland and checked out the town. The following weekend I drove down to London. Next trip I’ll have to bite the bullet and shell out the bucks for the ferry ride to Ireland (Hopefully I […]

Stryder’s Learning Center beta released

Posted by Gandalf on September 26th, 2008

I’ve been working on some software to teach my son Stryder things like letters and numbers and math and etc. You can read all about it at my new website www.MyKidsBrain.com

Simple Singleton .NET Remoting with Serialization

Posted by Gandalf on August 2nd, 2006

.NET Remoting has two important concepts to master, the first is the MarshalByRefObject which is introduced in Simple Singleton .NET Remoting. The second is Serialization. MarshalByRefObject is a class that you derive from if you want a given class to stay put (in other words, the object will not move from where it […]

Simple Singleton .NET Remoting

Posted by Gandalf on July 31st, 2006

In .NET remoting you have the option to host objects as either a Singleton or Single Call object. The Singleton hosting option guarantees that one and only one instance of your object will be hosted. Single Call means that each client will get a fresh copy of the object. You can think of Singleton objects […]