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Small cool news
Ah. Some interesting days have just passed. I'll blog later about what I've been going through. But today I discovered two cool things: Thanks to Kent , My Author Page on MSDN is ready . Ain't that a classy picture (my…
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Disappointed with RSS Bandit
I didn't expect for this to happen. RSS Bandit just gave me a huge disappointment. I really thought this was it , that it works OK now, but I was wrong. Out of about 150 feeds, RSS Bandit can't parse 22 of them. And not…
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Good design is easily recognizable. Everywhere.
Good design does not have to come from software to be acknowledged. Here's a good example: [via Edward Tufte ]
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Some cool links
While I promised myself I would not go down the linky road that Mike Gunderloy has managed to turn into an art form, here I go just the same. Jon Galloway points to useful classes and libraries posted by the C# team on…
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Moving to RSS Bandit: A simple review
RSS Bandit is my new RSS aggregator.Yep. I just downloaded the latest build and decided that I'm gonna stick with it. I love sharpreader , but there's just too many features missing from it to me. What I like about RSS…
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Query Analyzer Tricks
Here are some small cool tips from SQLServerCentral : Query Analyzer Tricks (note: you need to register on the site, but registration is free)
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Another one bites the bullet: Santo has left the building
My good friend Addy Santo just blogged about himself taking the red pill . " Finally " is all I can really say. This guy has " Redmond " tattooed on his butt, figuratively speaking, and It's about time MS faced up to…
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Jan does cool stuff: nice article and cool extension to the winform data grid
Jan is on a role. First, his Object Spaces article got published on MSDN, then he releases the Extended Winforms DataGrid . Great work.
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[OT] This year in pictures
Wow. This is the most beautiful set of pictures I've seen in quite a while: The Year in pictures (via my darling wife who I miss so much it hurts as the year comes to a close here in Norway)
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[OT] cool ad
Now this is a cool funny and true ad for a men's magazine: (and here are 9 more ads you won't see in the USA ) (via eclecticism )
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Losing a customer
It's always interesting (as in watching a car crash) to see how a company easily loses a customer. This time it's Numega.
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Another article of mine published on MSDN: Search Dynamically for Plug-Ins
Search Dynamically for Plug-Ins Summery: "This article is an extension to my previous article about plug-ins . I encourage you to take a look at that before diving into this article. That said, my main goal in this…
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How low can you go? Iran rejects Israel's help with earthquake
Gotta love the Iranian goverment: "Jahanbakhsh Khanjani, a spokesman for Iran's Interior Ministry, said Saturday that Iran would accept aid from all countries of the world, aside from Israel . The announcement followed…
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Risk Management
Darrel points to the MSF Risk Management Discipline . Indeed, this is something I believe to be very important, however, I did not put my money where my mouth is, and although I've read about it , I never got the chance…
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more SQL optimization resources and a bonus tip
Michal suggests a few more SQL optimization links in return for my optimization experience : sql-server-performance.com SQL Server 2000 Performance Tuning Tools Performance Category on SQLTeam.com Performance Tuning…
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The Internet explorer security bug everyone should know about
Luke Hutterman shows just how easy and evil it is to exploit this bug in Internet Explorer and take details from unsuspecting users with a click of a mouse. This scam makes you "update your paypal account details" but…
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MyRss.com is to Feedable as...
Well, I'm totally impressed. MyRSS.com (link via Cameron ) are offering the same service as Feedable , only they have an advantage: They automatically create the RSS feed on the fly from the site you give them, whereas…
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Help the Iran Quake victims
I can't explain why I have not blogged about this before, but if you can help in any way to the Iran quake victims, please do . In the link you will find ways to send donations.
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This coffin has performed an illegal action and will be terminated
That's just what I need: a coffin powered by a PC to change the epitaph dynamically. Can there be more jokes running in my head at the same time?
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Code: CRUD base classes for unit testing
I never felt comfortable with doing unit tests against live database, alas, I feel it is a necessary evil to contend with, because the feedback you get is much more helpful than using Mock objects for such a task, I…
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New year's Nant, pathetic geek style
It's no wonder that I'm sitting here right now, in front of the computer, about to write about the new release of Nant( 0.84 final ), while on the outside, the "party of parties" is going on a block from the office, to…
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Cool handy site: DropLoad
This is another very handy site. Not everyone has an FTP site to upload files for their friends and sometimes hotmail's 1MB size limit just doesn't cut it. The site below will hold the file for 48 hours (and 48 hours…
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My First *real* SQL optimization (and some good resources)
Yeah, I know how to design a database and normalize tables, but this is some optimization stuff I never had to do. It was fun! We recently encountered the task of optimizing a stored procedure that was taking very long…
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An optimizing experience
We recently encountered the task of optimizing a stored procedure that was taking very long to perform its business. It wasn’t that complicated but it was operating on a large table (350,000 records). The table has…
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Good stuff: New book, Remoting for imbeciles,CodeSmith 2.5 RC1, and OMG 0.2
Julia Lerman points to a hearty recommendation for this book: Code Generation in .Net and I agree. It seems pretty cool. I'll add it to my "really wish we celebrated Xmas" list :) Leon Bambrick writes the Quick and…
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New year's resolution: lowering the noise on the main feed (excluding this post :) )
Now that Scott has implemented a feature in .Text that allows one to decide whether a particular post will be aggregated to the main feed or not, I'll be trying to take advantage of this and "filter" my off topic…
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Holiday greetings, Gunderloy style
In light of the coming holidays, I'd like to grit you all with my favorite holiday greeting yet, courtesy of Mike Gunderloy : " Happy whatever to those of you who celebrate something . " and in that cheerful holiday…
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Good Article: Strong Names and Security in the .NET Framework
Sam gentile has recommended all those who feel a bit "lacking" when it comes to assembly security and strong names (me included) to read this fine article on the subject: Security Briefs: Strong Names and Security in…
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Tool: The complete idiot's add-in for signing your assemblies with a strong name
It is a shame that this ability has not been created sooner (shame on me, that is) but better late than never. Robert Mclaws has just introduced an add-in that allows you to easily manage the fuss that using a strong…