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Fried eye anyone?
Ouch! Sean Gerety talks about his eye operation and it reads like a Steven King novel. Very graphic. I was catching myself mumbling out loud "holy crap" at some point. Anyway, if you ever wondered what it feels like to…
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Some new blogs and a story of quantity vs. quality
I've been getting more and more into reading blogs that discuss management and design rather than pure tech stuff. There are some great gems out there. Here are a few blogs I found today: Joseph Pelrine's Blog…
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School Blogging
This is a nice idea: Jim is taking a Binary arithmetic class, and is blogging it. Why am I blogging this class? Well, I want to see if it will help me learn the material better. I'm thinking that by writing about the…
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.Net Roars live
As critical as I can be, Rory is still one of the funniest people I've never met. He's now going to co-host the .Net rocks show on a regular basis. I think this is a great move and I think the show is going to get a…
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Seal clubbing - the game (almost)
Heh. This automatically reminded me of Rory's seal clubbing days.. Update: yeah, I missed the correct link there. Here's the game .
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Scheduling games
Found this one on my referrer list: Scheduled Games , people post about their experiences about scheduling games withing a project. Very familiar stuff in there, and my story was put there as one of the last points to…
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I'm available again
It's that time again. At the end of next week I will be finishing up my work in Norway and will be coming back to Israel. That means I'll be available for job offers . If you are in Israel or abroad and would like to…
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Intellij IDEA version 4.0 release candidate 1
oh oh, Intellij IDEA version 4.0 release candidate 1 is out and ready for download (free registration). I liked it so much I'm going to download and play with it even though I don't do anymore Java.. That's usability…
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Visible Progress
Johannah Rothman writes about visible progress in a project for the manager.You should really read the whole thing to see just how unhealthy mine and my manager's actions were on my Don Quixote story .
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Winform Singleton pattern example
Stefano describes how he implements the Singleton design pattern for a form object in a winform application. I disagree. The main points of a Singleton: No new instances of the Singleton class can be created There…
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Authorization and Profile Application Block
[ James Avery ]: Authorization and Profile Application Block - They slipped this one out on us, check it out. Indeed, check it out I will.
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Good stuff on DataReader->Dataset
Just in time to take me to task on my " reactions " post, the DataReader to Dataset post has generated some very good comments on alternative (and better) ways to do just that. And, if Steve keeps his promise we'll also…
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Nice PDC logo
Heh.A little late but still- I really liked this logo on Adam Kinney's blog :
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Free Web charting control: WebChart
Jason sends word of the free WebChart control. Seems pretty cool and powerful. Me likes that.
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Israel DevDays
If you're in Israel you should try and sign up for DevDays in Israel: Israel DevDays It's on Feb. 10th. I'll be back home by then so I'll see you all there! (Look me up in the ent. dev. track)
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2 BlogJet issues
I really like BlogJet , but it has two main problems: No spell checking. Even the spell checking component I installed (the one used in .Text) does not work on text in it. This is bad news for me because I often spell…
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[way OT]College blogs
Heh. Just found this shared aggregated blog : http://writingblog.org/ . (via Tariq )It's a collage students blog (over 200 there) but the coolest thing is the amount of different colors for each post. Try to scroll down…
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.NET Framework debug symbols
Wouldn't this be cool? Being able to debug-step into the .Net framework code inside the debugger without using reflector sounds like a killer feature to me. But, do I need longhorn for that?
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Should I get a laptop or a tablet?
I've been considering purchasing a laptop for presentations and offshore development use. But lately, I've been considering purchasing a Tablet PC instead. But I don't know. Are tablets suitable enough for dev work? I'd…
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Convert a DataReader into a DataSet
Stefano describes a solution they use in a webservice, needing to convert a data reader to a dataset: Public Function ConvertDataReaderToDataSet(ByVal reader As SqlDataReader) As DataSet Dim dataSet As DataSet = New…
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The humble programmer
Reading the ACM Turing award lectures really opened my jaw the other day. In his lecture, " The Humble Programmer ", Edsger W Dijkstra is promoting the kind of ideas that even today a lot of developers that I know don't…
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Congrats to all new MVPs
It's like the flu. Everyone seems to have it ;) Hearty congratulations to all the new MVPs out there. May you continue to help the community and make our lives a little easier.
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.Net Rocks?
It's not fair to critique a free show, but, I really have to. It's all out of love though. Hey, I love Microsoft technologies, but is it just me or was the show sounding like an orgy of ass kissing from both sides to…
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Group Policy Settings Reference Spreadsheet
Group Policy Settings Spreadsheet (Pre-Release) This spreadsheet lists the full set of Group Policy settings described in Administrative Template (.adm) files shipped with Windows Server 2003. This includes all policy…
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[OT]Subscription honors
Isn't this cool? Ron Jefferies subscribes to my Blog . Hey Ron :) I'm honored. Of course, I'm honored that anyone even reads it at all...
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How low can you go?
MS has done it again . Any word from Scoble on this? (link via Matt )
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Testing BlogJet
I have downloaded and installed an interesting application - BlogJet . It's a Windows-client for my blog tool (as well as some for other tools). Actually, it was not me who wrote this text: when I launched BlogJet for…
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Is SmallTalk a real option?
There's a nice little back and forth developing over at Cincom Smalltalk blog (Yes, it is a smalltalk'ish blog): Over on QLOD , a new Smalltalker asks: "What makes me wonder though: Are Smalltalkers really that much…
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Learning from mistakes: the Don Quixote pattern
Experience is built on mistakes. in the near future I'll try to describes some of the biggest mistakes I've made during my (short)career and the lessons that I learned from them. In this article I'll tell you about one…