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December 2007 - Posts

Friday, December 14, 2007 2:19 PM

Nerdvana - Coding on a Beach

Recently on the Regional Director mailing list, the topic of Theater Glasses like these came up, which led me to express my wish for a high-res version of such goggles that would be sufficient for writing code and otherwise being productive as a developer.
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Friday, December 14, 2007 11:03 AM

Holiday Skins for .NET Controls

As the end of year holiday season approaches, it's fairly common for some web sites and products to re-skin their logos and applications to make them a little more festive or seasonal. Google has long been known for their creative variations of their
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007 12:28 PM

RegExLib Redesign Complete

We've done some design work on the Regular Expression Library , and cleaned up the code base significantly to get rid of some cruft and fix a few bugs. The site gets a surprisingly large amount of traffic, considering how esoteric a topic regular expressions
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007 10:56 AM

Being Agile Means Understanding When to Change

While I was completing my drive into work this morning, I was thinking about a book I read recently, Cryptonomicon ( highly recommended - very smart and interesting), in which there's an exchange between a WWII German cryptanalyst and some of his Allied
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007 10:28 AM

MVC Getting Started

Scott Hanselman has posted a very well done screencast on getting started with Model View Controller for ASP.NET , which I watched and did all the code for last night. There was only one hangup in the code portion, which has to do with changes that were
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007 10:07 AM

It isn't working?

My wife hates me because of this, and my co-workers are learning to consider their question phrasing carefully if they want to be able to understand the answer, because I have this annoying tendency to answer questions as they are given. For example,
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007 9:57 AM

Cool Apps from Microsoft

I attended the Cleveland .NET SIG last night, where Jeff Blankenburg (my new Developer Evangelist ) gave a demo-rich presentation on some cool new(ish) applications Microsoft has been working on this year. Most of them I'd already seen, but it was a good
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Sunday, December 09, 2007 11:10 PM

MVC and ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview Available Now

A couple of days later than expected, but the bits are available now as Brad Abrams announced a little while ago. Read his post for all the goodies, or just Download , Get Started , and Discuss Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!
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Thursday, December 06, 2007 1:44 PM

PDC 2008 Announced

Microsoft PDC 2008 will be held October 27-30 in Los Angeles. Mark your calendar and check out the site . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007 2:29 PM

Generic Web Controls and EnumDropDownList

I just published an article on ASPAlliance that shows a few different techniques for binding a DropDownList control in ASP.NET to an enumerated type (enum) . As part of the article, I wrote a custom control that uses generics to bind a DropDownList<T>
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Saturday, December 01, 2007 7:17 PM

Save SQL Query Results With Column Names

A minor frustration I've had with SQL Server for years is that when copying the results to Excel, the column names are not included. Well, Brendan blogged about this yesterday , and in a great demonstration of the value of blogging, he received a
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Saturday, December 01, 2007 7:09 PM

Web Deployment Projects for VS2008

Yesterday, Microsoft released a CTP for Web Deployment Projects for Visual Studio 2008 . I don't use these in my own projects, having built a robust system that revolves around CruiseControl.NET and PyroBatchFTP, but it sounds like they have fixed some
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