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.Net Debugging Resources Grows
Thanks to Julia's latest post , my .Net Debugging Resources page is now a little bit bigger. If you know of something missing in there, contribute!
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Living in a Bubble
Sometimes, I can see myself living in a sort of bubble. Not just me, actually, but all the other programmers around me, at my job. It’s like we’re living in a cocoon. Nothing can touch us. The day’s events usually all…
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Women Rule
In Respose to Julie's post about women in tech, I must say that in Israel, I think the situation is better, although not by much. I think about 30% or a bit more of the software developers I know are women. I (again!)…
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Announcing: .Net Desktops Contest
OK. Here's a cool idea. A " Coolest Desktop " gallery. Whoever wants, sends me a screenshot of their desktop ,either at home or at work, in a zip file, to [email removed] - make sure its a jpg or gif, not a bmp -put…
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Joseph Has a Point
OK, I think Joseph Cooney has a point on my last post.. Everyone should be able to participate, so from now on, everyone can send me their desktop screenshot. See this post for details.
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Disappointment
OK. I'm totally disappointed . I've recieved almost no screenshots of desktops.How busy are you guys? So, I'll urge again, and if in the next 24 hours I don't get a meaningful amount, this won't really be a contest…
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Announcing: .Net Desktops Contest
OK. Here's a cool idea. A " Coolest Desktop " contest. Whoever wants, sends me a screenshot of their desktop ,either at home or at work, in a zip file, to [email removed] - make sure its a jpg or gif,…
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The Google King
Heh. You know you've made it when you come up first in google for searching DB_SEC_E_AUTH_FAILED Yey!
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Nice DataBinding In Winforms Article
A nice article about Data-Binding in Winforms: http://www.akadia.com/services/dotnet_databinding.html Among other things, it explains about the Currency Manager, BindingContext,Master-Detail displays - all the stuff…
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Article Source now Online
I've just put the source code that goes along with my Regex, XML and Log Parsing Article online. It shows a very simple, yet pretty cool example of loading a log file, and searching through it using a small GUI. Grab it…
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Cool Photo Hosting
Just discovered pnavy.com . They let you host your own photo gallery(or weblog, or even a full community website) for free. Its all based on open-source too. Coolness. Here's mine . Nothing much there yet, but I'll up…
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.Net Rocks Show Do's And Don't's
cool. Chris Sells is on .Net Rocks : " Chris talks with Carl and Mark about Longhorn, Working at Microsoft, his book with Don Box, his new Windows Forms book, dealing with Printer Margins, passing command-line arguments…
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[New Article] Using Regex and The XML Classes To Parse Your Log Files
Phew. My new article is up. It's my first one for the O'Reilly network, and my first "real" article ever. You could say I'm a bit excited :) " Summery : Most systems these days can generate log files to store data about…
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Free Chapter From ADO.NET- Core Reference
Here's a free chapter I found from ADO.NET - Core Reference,Microsoft : Chapter 10: Submitting Updates to Your Database coolness. UPDATE: boy, this chapter rocks ! it's more advanced than I first thought. here's an…
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.Net Thread Pool Article
Jeffrey Richter has an interesting article about the .Net Thread Pool.
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Amazon .Net books Feed
Want to know of all the cool .Net books that arrive at Amazon's door? Inside your favorite RSS reader? http://www.yaywastaken.com/amazon/amazon-rss.asp?keywords=.Net
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Phew... Free Time, At Last.
Just a couple of quick words: * My mom told me she's reading my blog now(Hi Mom!). isn't that cool? She claims its the only way she knows when I go to sleep at night... you know you've made it when your mom reads you…
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IVBUG meeting went well
Went to my user group meeting today. Was kinda funny. We had no electricity for some reason, so the group leader decided to take us all out and have a “Help” session, in which everyone with a problem raises it to the…
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About Blogging Patterns
When I drive back home from work, I'm usually pretty beat. It feels good to sit back, relax, crack open the radio on some smooth jazz, and cruise on home, letting the whole day drain out. Sometimes, though, I'll tune in…
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A Big Mistake
wew. Have a few spare minutes. So I started reading Chris Brumme's Latest post about AppDomains. It was a mistake. It was a hell of an interesting post, but the mistake was reading it on the job. It contains 5299 words…
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Overworked
If you're wondering why I'm being so skimpy on the posts lately(all 3 of you), its because I'm going through a pretty rough week - A tight schedule, some very long Job interviews and coding challenges , and lack of…
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In-Your-Face
" I'm sitting here in a basement room in the Hyatt Recency right now listening to the inimitable Don Box talk about _______ and ________ (can't tell you about them yet...wait about 6 months. In a nutshell, we're making…
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Medieval Times
Is it just me, or does every developer sometimes feel like life is passing by and you aren’t doing a damn thing to do something useful about it Is it just me, or does every developer sometimes feel like life is passing…
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I'm a Configuration Manager... I Think.
My company is now trying to employ a major shift in our working process. One of the new roles that were introduced in this process is " The person who makes sure that no double-coding takes place among separate projects…
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SxS War Story
Dan posts a useful SxS story, involving Stored Procedures, ApplicationBlocks.Data and a totally obscure error. I'll need to pay attention to this stuff when the time comes *shiver*
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Another Cool Dynamic Loading Article
Following my two plug-in articles( this , that ) , I found another interesting article that deals with the subject of dynamically loading stuff from unreferenced assemblies: Loading Classes On The Fly It shows some more…
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Remoting Events May Break in V1.1
Russ Nemhauser over at DotNetJunkies wrote a solid piece about working with events through remoting (Hmm, I should write something about my experiences with that ..). Worth a read if you never done it before, since it…
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New Skin, New Host...
OK. I've put in Jesse's Skin into my blog. Hope this works out OK, I like the way it looks. If anyone has a problem reading my blog because of this, please tell me. Until I hear otherwise, I'm keeping it. Thanks, Jesse…