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Thursday, May 29, 2008 9:41 PM

Tech Ed 2008 Speaker Idol

Next week (and the week after) at Tech Ed, several experienced speakers will compete with one another in Speaker Idol, held at the Tech Ed Online stage during lunch time and hosted by Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell . The winner gets a guaranteed speaker
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Monday, May 19, 2008 10:02 AM

aspNetPRO 2008 Readers Choice Awards Published

A couple of weeks ago the aspNetPRO magazine's annual Reader's Choice Awards were published in their latest issue. DevExpress swept the awards, winning nine different categories as well as product of the year . I've blogged before about DevExpress and
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Saturday, May 17, 2008 1:31 PM

GeekFest Party at TechEd 2008 June 3rd

Doug Seven of Microsoft is hosting a party at Howl at the Moon during TechEd on June 3rd. He has some details on his blog and the party will include (and require for admission) a rubber duck competition. You'll need to pick up your duck for admission
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 11:16 AM

Book: Freakonomics

Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner: Books I've been a bit behind on blogging but I'm trying to catch up this week. I wrote earlier that I've just finished
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 10:51 AM

Visual Studio Team System 2008 White Papers

Microsoft has published a set of white papers which provide a good technical overview of the features available in Visual Studio Team System 2008. They're available individually for download: Visual Studio Team System 2008 Capabilities White Papers .
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 10:40 AM

Black Belt ASP.NET Performance Techniques

Last night I presented at the Cleveland .NET SIG on Black Belt ASP.NET Performance Techniques, which is a talk I'll be giving in a few weeks at Tech:Ed Developers in Orlando . I was asked a couple of weeks ago if I could give a talk in May and I decided
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 12:07 AM

Book: Working Effectively With Legacy Code

Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Robert C. Martin Series): Michael Feathers: Books I've just finished the above book, which was recommended to me by Jeffrey Palermo a few months ago. It is one of the most useful software development books I've read
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Monday, May 12, 2008 9:48 PM

Speaking in Cleveland May 13th

I'll be speaking at the Cleveland .NET SIG tomorrow night. The topic is Black Belt Performance Tips for ASP.NET, which will be a dry run for a session by that same name I'll be giving next month at Tech:Ed Developers in Orlando . Some of the primary areas
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Thursday, May 01, 2008 10:00 AM

Comments in Code Indicate Functions Trying To Escape

I interviewed a couple of college students earlier this week for internship positions with Lake Quincy Media , and one of them reminded me of my own college days when we were graded in part based on how well commented our code was. In school, comments
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