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January 2008 - Posts

Wednesday, January 30, 2008 2:29 PM

Automotive Gadget Wish List

A few weeks ago I posted about Ford SYNC , which runs on Microsoft Windows Automotive . The technology is definitely a step in the right direction, but I have to agree with Sondre , another Regional Director, that it's not enough and really should be
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008 4:12 PM

Creating a New SQL Database

Today I need to set up a new database for a new web site I'm working on. Last week, I saw Rick's post about the "mousercise" that defines the typical table set up in SQL Server 2000 and 2005's table designer . I have to admit that I completely relate
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008 3:42 PM

Department of Redundancy Department

I really hate repetition, especially useless repetition, in language. I guess I've been a follower of the DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) programming principle long before I knew about the acronym, but I tend to apply it in natural language as well, as much
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008 12:05 PM

Finding Untitled Page Titles

Sadly, Microsoft decided that with the addition of the Title attribute on the @Page directive, it would make sense to include it by default with some text that one would absolutely never want to use as the title, "Untitled Page". They could
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Monday, January 28, 2008 2:12 AM

ResXFileCodeGeneratorEx and Visual Studio 2008

A couple of months ago I found a great Extended Strongly Typed Resource Generator that would let me use Resource files in shared libraries ( Brendan blogged about it and set it up ). The default resource generator in Visual Studio generates code that
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Sunday, January 27, 2008 11:41 PM

Web Deployment Projects for 2008

Web Deployment Projects (WDP) for Visual Studio 2008 were released to the web (RTW) a couple of days ago. These didn't make the November ship date of VS2008, but were promised to follow shortly after release, and as promised, they're here! I haven't looked
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Friday, January 25, 2008 11:25 PM

New Puppy!

Today we brought home our new puppy, a mastiff boy with brindle coloration whom we have named Odin. So far he's doing well, learning his way around the new home, playing with the kids, and getting to know our three cats who are completely terrified of
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008 1:16 PM

Ohio Day of .NET

Several user groups in southern and central Ohio are putting together a Day of .NET event this spring. The Central Ohio Day of .NET 2008 will take place on 19 April 2008, in Wilmington, Ohio . This was originally the Cincinnati-Dayton Code camp and ran
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008 7:59 PM

Silverlight Hyperlink

Playing with Silverlight and needed a simple way to redirect the page. This isn't built-in yet but probably will be. For now, you can call out to the page's script, and for this since I don't want to rely on the page having any particular
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008 1:08 AM

TFS Tips

I'm just wrapping up a long article on Team System 2008 and its new capabilities, especially its continuous integration support and build server improvements. In the course of researching for this article, I found a couple of tips that didn't really fit
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Monday, January 14, 2008 6:22 PM

Visual Studio XAML Editing Tip

So I'm working in XAML in Visual Studio 2008 and it has some nice statement completion features now, like automatically quoting my attributes for me (cool!). When there's an item it knows, like Orientation="Horizontal|Vertical" it will give me a dropdown
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Monday, January 14, 2008 12:53 PM

Olympics With Silverlight

I missed this last week, but it appears that the 2008 Olympics in China will be made available online via Microsoft Silverlight. Every minute of every event will be available on-demand. Read more about it on Soma's blog . Obviously, this is a pretty major
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Thursday, January 10, 2008 5:09 PM

CodeMash Hanselman IIS Talk

I'm at CodeMash today and Scott Hanselman gave the afternoon keynote on IIS7 mashups. The talk was preceded by a very funny introduction Scott gave that introduced me to the LOLCode.NET language with the help of some LOLCats and humorous sample code.
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008 2:02 PM

Microsoft Auto and Ford SYNC

One of the themes of last night's college championship football game (which, sadly, OSU lost, though not quite as badly as a year ago) during the commercials was the new SYNC technology available from Ford and Lincoln Mercury. I've been peripherally aware
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008 11:26 AM

Trends in Programming Languages

Al Pascual wrote about some trends he noticed using Google Trend , with regard to different programming languages. It's an interesting tool, since it can be used to gauge general interest in particular keywords and search terms, as well as news, going
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Friday, January 04, 2008 12:22 PM

SimpleCMS for IIS7

SimpleCMS is a (very) simple content management system I developed with Brendan for ASPAlliance.com and which is now available from CodePlex (with source). Steve Schofield recently put it to work in IIS7, a scenario we have not yet tested ourselves, and
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Thursday, January 03, 2008 8:43 PM

Attending CodeMash 2008

I'll be attending CodeMash again for its second year, at the Kalahari Resort in Ohio. Last year it was a great local conference and this year I expect it will be even better. The conference is uniqe in its approach in that it combines a wide variety of
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Thursday, January 03, 2008 7:49 PM

Facebook and Scoble Square Off

Like so many others have noted, I think 2008 and the next few years will see a shakeup in some of the "web 2.0" and social networking community sites. As evidence of this, I just read that Robert Scoble has run afoul of Facebook for running an automated
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Thursday, January 03, 2008 3:36 PM

Fall DevConnections Session Comments

I've been speaking at the DevConnections conferences since Fall of 2001 and have really enjoyed the experience. The speakers are a great group of people to hang out with, Shirley and Erik and Paul and the rest of the team put together a very well-organized
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Thursday, January 03, 2008 11:20 AM

Some 2008 Goals

With 2007 gone and 2008 already 1% complete I need to start thinking about what some of my goals are for the year. Last year I didn't blog about any sort of yearly goals, but looking back at my posts from January 2007 makes me think about Michael Palermo's
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