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Friday, November 02, 2007 10:04 PM

Tom Bihn, Hours Are No Good :(

As I wrote about a month and a half ago, I was going to go on a mission on one of my last days in Seattle to possibly purchase a Tom Bihn backpack and bay for my laptop. Well, because of their hours (10am-4pm) I wasn't able to get in to check them out
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Thursday, October 11, 2007 2:13 PM

Moving Along...

I have been working for Centerstance almost a year and 4 months and made a lot of good friends.  It has been a great ride and I've learned a lot, and forgotten a lot (not really), had tons of great beers (Vodkas, Wines, tasting sessions etc.) with
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007 11:20 AM

Meeting Etiquette

One of the things I really got ingrained in my habit while working at Bank of America was the respect of other people's time.  Especially in fast moving projects this is a very important thing to practice.  While working at BoA one
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Tuesday, June 05, 2007 9:39 PM

Icky CAB

Ok, I've been using CAB, the SCSF, in "pseudo kinda sort of" Model View Presenter Pattern usage.  The application that is being developed definitely uses the core of the mentioned products.  Recently as I read some techno babble by Glenn
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Sunday, June 03, 2007 10:18 PM

SCSF - Smart Client Software Factory - May 2007

So I just realized the latest SCSF has been released.  This is a software package that we've been using for the entire project that I've been on for almost a year now.  The SCSF has saved us tons of time, even though it is somewhat cumbersome
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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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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 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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Monday, April 23, 2007 2:59 PM

Daily Stuff

Martin Fowler hit on some keen topics over the last few months.  I say they are keen topics because they are things that need worked on at the current project I am on.  I must add, we have all gotten much better, but it seems a quick read over
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Wednesday, April 04, 2007 9:32 AM

Scope Alterations, and Transit Engines

Several times on my current project there has been push back and push forward on architecture decisions.  For instance the NxBRE solution, which I was stoked about working on, has gone away.  I am now creating a row based database result set
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007 6:10 PM

NxBRE Integration and Visual Studio Team Server Strangeness

So after a far longer process than I originally had planned on (fortunately I had saved a ton of time by using a prebuilt solution such as NxBRE) I acheived a building integration of the NxBRE Project into the primary Visual Studio Solution.  No
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007 12:59 PM

NxBRE Download, Installation, and Setup

The NxBRE Application is available at the owner Agile Partner's Website.  It is located in a sub path at http://www.agilepartner.net/oss/nxbre/.  To the left of the page one can download the software package via the download link.  The
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Sunday, February 18, 2007 10:15 AM

Scope Definition

So I've got my scope better defined after this week on the current rules engine I need to create for the current job I'm working on.  The prospect of developing this rules engine is interesting to me.  In the very near future (next 2-3 business
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Thursday, February 15, 2007 11:16 AM

Things to - do...

So I got a list of things to do for work and play...  Of course, the line between these is so think one couldn't tell what is for work and what is for play! Get various rules based engines setup for testing and features list ready for ecision to
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Monday, February 12, 2007 1:22 PM

Nifty Stuff and Notes to Myself: Rules Engines Bound!

So I have a new assignment at work along with moving from team Häschenhetterzufuhren (A) to team Arrogant Bastards (B).  My purpose in moving is to bring some CAB/SCSF experience building MVP/MVC Application Code to balance the teams.  Right
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