May 2007 - Posts

Thursday, May 31, 2007 1:39 PM

TipS o' the day

Wondering about LINQ these days? Solving the code generation problems and world hunger in one bold move, check out the creater of LINQ Eric Meijer on InfoQ. On the standards tip category, make sure to put this item in the standards tool belt!
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Thursday, May 31, 2007 10:19 AM

Brad Wilson Overheard in the Team Room

Awesome correlation statement.  
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007 8:33 AM

String.Empty vs. ""

MSDN ReferenceIn almost any decent coding standard the rule of usage:string someVariableName = "";     //  Bad  and...string someVariableName = string.empty;   // Good!  The later does not create an object
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Sunday, May 27, 2007 2:23 PM

Search and Navigation Improvements on MSDN

Anyone using Visual Studio .NET reading the start page would know about this, but I thought it neeed a dedicated post. Microsoft has completely redesigned the navigation and search of MSDN.  I personally dig the new design, it isn't as convoluted
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Sunday, May 27, 2007 12:56 PM

Jobs, Jobs, and more Jobs

Competition is a key factor of the software industry.  It's why the industry can get the talent, people, and entrepeneurial spirit that it has.  A problem has come back that is a familiar beast in the indusrty, everybody is short of 100% on
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Sunday, May 27, 2007 12:30 PM

Community Server 2007 - Writing Custom Modules - Chapter 13

I started last night working some demo modules out of the Professional Community Server book from Wrox written by Wyatt Preul, Keyvan Nayyeri, Jose Lema, and Jim Martin.  The book has been a good starting point and for the most part well written,
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Friday, May 25, 2007 12:44 AM

AJAX List Application

As I sat down on the bus and hit the web via my Sprint PCS Wireless card I thought, "I really need a dedicated to do or task list application that I could deploy to my domain or somewhere on the web to maintain things with."  Being that I'm a developer
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Monday, May 21, 2007 10:40 PM

Speed Pt. II

So a while back (almost a year) I made an entry about speedtest.net.  Well I did another test and I got a smashing faster speed (just check the old speed records).  Then of course there is a "local" test location now which is a plus. 
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Monday, May 21, 2007 5:10 PM

Development Tools... the ongoing quest of great developers!

Great development tools are always sought out by great developers.  One tool I found recently has kicked me off to start a list of my own cool tools that help me produce great software.  This first tool is ReSharper by Jetbrains software. 
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Saturday, May 19, 2007 11:27 PM

Silverlight, WPF, XAML, Browsers, and Proprietary Applications

As I sat in the Silverlight session this morning in Vancouver, Washington for the Portland area's Code Camp I stumbled on some odd thoughts and questions.  The more I hear about Silverlight, XAML, and these other things that Microsoft is pushing
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Saturday, May 19, 2007 11:26 PM

Raw XNA

Jason Mauer took a different approach to this particular session.  Instead of having a set outline he decided to just present off the cuff.  This approach created an interesting session atmosphere. Right off he dived into creating various 3D
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Saturday, May 19, 2007 11:01 AM

Code Camp Session 0.125.

So I went to hit up my second session which is about XNA Development.  I caught the tail end of the Speech Server Session (Code Camp Link) by Mithun Dhar.  In hat short 10 minute tail end of that I must say I am very interested in the voice
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Saturday, May 19, 2007 10:49 AM

Silverlight (WPF/e)

With Erik Mork presenting the Silverlight or WPF/e presentation went well.  He provided good sample material and a nice overview of what Silverlight is, what problems it solves, and what could be done or should be done with Silverlight. The major
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Thursday, May 03, 2007 1:20 PM

Fun Adobe Reader Installation Error

"The Temp folder is on a drive that is full or is inaccessible. Free up space on the drive or verify that you have write permission on the Temp folder." This is dumb... but, Adobe Acrobat is designed to install with UAC enabled and will fail if it is
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