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A big bug in Google
Seth Finkelstein has made a startling discovery, backed with lots of evidence : when a spam result comes up in a search, Google not only blocks the spam, but every result after it. This means that for searches where…
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[Tip]:MemoryStream.GetBuffer() vs. MemoryStream.ToArray()
One of my readers posted a comment on my Site-To-RSS article that just solved me a bunch of trouble! In the article, I was using a memory stream to write the XML into memory. I was using the MemoryStream.GetBuffer()…
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Excellent TDD articles, and a Code Kata
"TANSTAAFL! - There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch." I liked this acronym so much I had to post it. I ran across it in one of a group of amazing articles that depict working in test driven development: Test Driven…
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.Net Rocks closure, suggestion, and discovering Salamander. Oh my!
Carl Franklin stopped by for another comment on my pseudo-flaming post about Scoble . What he wrote made me very happy. I'll cite this here because I think those guys deserve a big round of respect from the community…
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[Cool tool] : Visustin - Visually graph your code
I'm currently in the process of reviewing and understanding a bunch of legacy VB 6.0 code. One of the trickiest parts of reviewing such things is getting the “gist” of what's going on on a specific method, or…
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More than 500 sample chapters
Srinivasa Sivakumar has listed more than 500 sample chapters (in HTML/PDF format) on his resource site , from various books related to .NET. A great resource! [ Ashutosh Nilkanth's .NET Blog ] Awsome! Some serious gold…
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Getting a focus on performance - some new pages
Brad Adams's performance team just posted their own page on GotDotNet . Very cool. That page also points to the MSDN performance center , which currently has lots more information. It's great to see performance focused…
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.Net Blogging MVP - a myth?
So here's a tough question. despite the fear of sounding too full of myself (which I notably am), is it remotely possible to receive an MVP award on blogging? Is there any chance that if I do this long enough and hard…
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The "Don box" of windows installer?
Rob Mensching has been working at MS, primarily on the Office Setup/Deployment team, for the past 4 years or so; It figures that when he has something to say about Installer Merge Modules , it's wise to sit down and…
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When running 'aspnet_regiis -c' still doesn't fix it...
If you ever find yourself with this error: “ Unable to find script library '/aspnet_client/system_web/1_1_4322/WebUIValidation.js'. Try placing this file manually, or reinstall by running 'aspnet_regiis -c'.” and you've…
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Geek marriage - Episode I
Oh yeah. My wife and I are real geeks(even though she won't admit it for a loong time). The other day we had a discussion about washing the dishes. I found out that she had a totally different way of washing the dishes…
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Good JavaScript reference and help
This site looks like a very promising resource for learning the basics (and no so basics) of JavaScript. It's something I'm just getting the hang of, and already I've found it very useful with a discussion about the…
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More on .Net Rocks
Speaking of .Net Rocks , Mark Dunn, one of the anchors, commented on the last show they made (in the tavern): Hi Roy, We've had several folks comment on the sound quality. In response, Carl has reworked that file.…
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Scoble on .Net Rocks? Give me a break..
OK. Is it just me or does it sound really ridiculous that Scoble is being interviewed for the NET Rocks show ? I mean, How is Scoble related to .Net development, other that the fact that he knows people who do it? Oh,…
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Funny [ot] post
Although waaay of topic, this is truly one of the funniest posts I've ever read. :)
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Fun with NUnit - clarification
I just got a comment on my Unit Testing article. The comment was by Manfred Land - the Project Manager for csUnit, and it clarifies some errors and some things I didn't write(or know) about csUnit when I wrote the…
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AmazReplacer- revamped
Got this email from ScottW regarding my AmazReplacer tool: Hi Roy, If you are interested, I made a couple of quick tweaks to your Amazon replacer. 1. Allowed AssociateID to be configurable (sorry :) 2. Added handling…
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Another day, another bombing
Nothing like waking up from a Saturday noon nap and finding out there's been another terrorist bombing. But don't worry ,this is Israel. We're used to it. The suicide bomber went into a restaurant in Haifa city - one of…
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Skype Rocks!
I just realized something - Skype totally and utterly rocks! It would be really cool to get to talk with some of the people I've been IM'ing with for the past few months. So if you'd like to voice me, feel free. My User…
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Web GUI unit testing techniques
Continuing my Unit testing theme in recent weeks, I've found a very interesting post in reply to a question posted on the XP mailing list . What was so interesting is that the question, and thus the answer, deal with a…
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Real Progress Bars in Web Application
I was fighting with this a while ago and I think I found at article right to the point on the subject: Real Progress Bars in Web Application “The key thing for creating Progress Bar in a web application, is the…
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Two good blogs: Hiring Technical People, Managing Product Development
I just found out about these two magnificent blogs, and I highly recommend both of them to everyone. Both are from the same source: Managing Product Development Blog Hiring Technical People Blog (recommended for job…
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Visual Studio .NET Shortcut Key Guide
Keyboard shortcuts can save hours of programming time. Appendix A of Mastering Visual Studio .NET lists the command, shortcut, and description of each in a convenient table format. [via safari.oreilly.com ] Heaven. I'm…
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Visual Basic Resource Kit (C# developers are not banned!)
The download isn't up yet, it takes some time to sign and virus scan an entire CD packaged up as a zip, but the site that details what is included is there! Check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/vbrkit for all the…
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Congratulations Robert!
Every once in while we all get to have our “Special Day” where everything is just handy dandy, and all our hard work comes back to haunt us in a good way. Such is today for Robert McLaws . He's full of announcements:…
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The Exception Model
Without even skimming through it first I'm letting you know that Chris brumme posted another “post”: The Exception Model Just a little something to read in bed. Oh, I forgot to mention. It's 11,200 words, by the way.…
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Win A Free pass to the PDC!
Yup - Wintellect is giving away a free pass. You'll have to pay all other associated costs of the trip. But this is huge! You guys rock. (hooray Sara!!!!!) http://www.wintellect.com/special/pdc.aspx [ Julie Lerman ] Oh…
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[Cool Tool]: Code Library for .Net
If you are looking for a way to manage your sample code, snippets, articles, etc. get Code Library . It is available in SQL Server and access versions. Very high quality software and FREE. You can even drag links right…
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Google Frequent Searchers tool
“ Do you search with Google a hundred times a day? Do you reach for Google before the phonebook, the dictionary or the newspaper? Do you think, just maybe, you're a Google frequent searcher? Now you can know for sure.…
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See you at the Israel .Net user group tomorrow!
Next Meeting: October 1, 2003 (Wednesday) 17:30 - 18:00 Assembly 18:00 - 18:05 Introduction and miscellaneous 18:05 - 19:15 “Life Without Enterprise Services” Yosi Taguri and Lior Rozner , SPL Software 19:15 - 19:30…