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Thursday, June 30, 2005 2:54 PM

VSTSOffSite Opportunity

Ok, so I just finished a 3-day Ascend class on VSTS and one thing I'm disappointed by is the fact that I most likely won't be able to use VSTS to replace SourceGear Vault immediately, since I collaborate with developers over the Internet all over the
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Tuesday, June 28, 2005 10:54 PM

Visual Studio Team System Class Notes

I'm taking a VSTS class this week at Microsoft in Columbus, Ohio. The course is being taught by Chris Menegay , a Microsoft Regional Director and principal consultant with Notion Solutions, Inc . Chris developed the course material and works closely with
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Tuesday, June 28, 2005 10:31 PM

House For Sale!

If anybody is looking to buy a two story 3 bedroom home in Kent, Ohio in the next sixty days or so, please let me know. We've been getting ready to move since about 18 months ago, with my deployment to Iraq putting a significant wrinkle in our plans,
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Tuesday, June 28, 2005 10:25 PM

Preventing Duplicate Record Insertion on Page Refresh

Terri Morton has a new article this week on preventing duplicate records from being inserted when a user refreshes a page that does a form POST . Here's the abstract: A common concern of ASP.NET developers is, "How do I prevent previously submitted form
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Tuesday, June 28, 2005 2:54 PM

Scott Guthrie announces future plans for async callback story (AJAX-style stuff)

Scott writes: What we’ve set out to do is to make it dramatically easier for anyone to build AJAX-style web applications that deliver rich, interactive, and personalized experiences. Developers should be able to build these applications without great
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Thursday, June 23, 2005 2:10 AM

WebCasts and LunchTime Learning

Cindy Brucato has begun an interesting lunchtime learning program at her workplace, which she's dubbed The Brown Bag Initiative (or Brown Bagging It) -- BBI . Yesterday she updated this with a list of good webcasts to watch during these events, and since
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Wednesday, June 15, 2005 10:59 AM

Book Review - Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit

I recently finished reading Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit . It's a good overview of unit testing and I picked up a few things from it. I've previously read several of the books referenced in this one, including Kent Beck's XP book ( Extreme
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Monday, June 13, 2005 11:28 AM

Visual Studio 2005 DevCon - Detroit, Michigan

If you're in the greater Detroit area, and aren't doing anything more interesting this Thursday (June 16th), I strongly recommend attending the Visual Studio 2005 DevCon being put on by Microsoft and including a bunch of local subject matter experts.
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Sunday, June 12, 2005 9:08 PM

ASP.NET Podcasting

I've been talking to Wally McClure and a few others about doing some ASP.NET podcasting. I'm totally new to the technical details of publishing a podcast, but Wally and others mostly have that end covered. Wally just added a new 'episode' (if that's the
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Sunday, June 12, 2005 4:31 PM

More TechEd Thoughts

Sorry, I got busy and didn't post any more daily missives during Tech Ed. Here's my 'summary' blog post on it. Wednesday I ended up sleeping through my alarm, so I missed ScottGu's first session on what's new with 2.0, but I made it to his second session
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Tuesday, June 07, 2005 8:12 PM

Seth Godin and Viral Marketing

Seth Godin ( Seth's blog ) has written several books on a term I believed he coined, 'viral marketing'. I was talking to some folks at TechEd this week about ways to generate buzz for their products, and two topics dominated my advice: blogs and viral
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Tuesday, June 07, 2005 9:57 AM

Tech Ed Day 2 Keynote

Paul Flessner's keynote, still under way, has been about how much connectivity there is today. Samantha Bee is here again today and helps lighten the presentations significantly. One of the demos involved RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) tags, which
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Tuesday, June 07, 2005 9:04 AM

Tech Ed Day 1 (summary)

Got up early, which was an accomplishment considering how late I was out with Doug, Stephen, Scott, and Amy Sunday night, and made it to the keynote at 0900. Steve Ballmer was presenting, assisted by Samantha Bee (from the Daily Show, I think) and a few
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Sunday, June 05, 2005 5:30 PM

Tech Ed Day 0

I spent today at an INETA User Group Leader summit, which was pretty interesting but moreso for (not surprising) user group leaders than folks like me (who speak at user groups, but don't organize them). It was good to meet a lot of people either for
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Saturday, June 04, 2005 11:45 PM

Tech Ed Day -1

Today started off well. Got up on time, got some breakfast, things were looking good. Then things started to go wrong. The garage door opener had shorted out and wouldn't open/close. I noticed that my flight actually arrived at the connection at 10 something,
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Friday, June 03, 2005 11:42 PM

Party with Palermo pre-TechEd

Jeffrey Palermo is organizing a get together for folks coming to Tech Ed, Saturday night before the conference. Details Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Friday, June 03, 2005 11:09 PM

Google Maps has Satellite Imagery!

Ambrose pointed this out to me . Check it out! You can get down to like 1m resolution. And I really like the interface -- you can click and drag the image (or map) around at will, without postback. This isn't immediately obvious, but it's much nicer than
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Friday, June 03, 2005 7:12 PM

AspAlliance Ideas

One cool thing about blogs is that you can brainstorm ideas and send them to the entire world to see who likes them. Of course, in my case, the entire world is limited to the three of you reading this, but in theory there could be more. Something I haven't
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Friday, June 03, 2005 7:03 PM

Getting Ready for Tech Ed

Haven't blogged much in a while, sorry. Tonight I have to pack for Tech Ed. Going to be my first conference since getting back home in January, so I'm looking forward to seeing a lot of people I haven't seen in over a year. If you're going to be there
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