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MSDN Hands-On Labs
Introducing MSDN Online Hands-On Labs MSDN offers you new interactive content on a trial basis from May 19 to June 13. Three free labs are being made available that can help you enhance your skills with Visual Studio…
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New Article: Practical Parsing Using Groups in Regular Expressions
Hi Folks. here's my latest article: Practical Parsing Using Groups in Regular Expressions Have fun :)
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Practical Parsing Using Groups in Regular Expressions
Practical Parsing Using Groups in Regular Expressions note: This article is part 2 in a series of articles. Here are the rest: Introduction To Regular Expressions What we’ll cover: The Purpose and syntax of groups in…
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More Books On My Shelf
I forgot to put some books on the “ My Bookshelf ” link. Here they are: VB C++ For VB Programmers Developing COM/ActiveX Controls using Visual Basic Project Management Managing Software Requirements AntiPatterns…
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Implementing A Data Layer
Ted Posts about ways to implement a Data Layer. I never liked Data Layer generators myself. They never actually did a good job. I fear I've become a sort of "Generator-Bigot" because of my past experiences with them. In…
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About Design Patterns
Christopher posted about " Design Patterns Explained ". Having been down that road myself (and so has any developer that learned this stuff at one time or another) I can only congratulate you on a good decision. Some…
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Spammer Tactics
A thought provoking and kinda scary post about Spam and Anti-Spam tactics and the brilliance of SpamBayes Addin for outlook and how its tactics compare with SpamAssassin. Very good stuff. One example of a deceptive spam…
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Blindfolded
Here's something I couldn't figure out: Did you know that Regedit has a "Favories" menu? Yes. That good ol' (hateful, conniving) regedit we all "love". I only realized this a few days ago, thanks to a comment from David…
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Windows Longhorn 3D UI - short videos
Here are some short media clips (.rm) showing the Windows Longhorn 3D UI in action. Cool stuff, though I don't know why I would still use notepad than... Thanks to Scoble for the link
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Scoble About MS Interviews
It's always a good idea to read Scoble Once a day. You nenver know what might happen... . In this post he talks about how he relaxed before his own interview , plus some helpful tips. This is just the state of mind I'm…
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I'm Available
OK. I've decided to make myself available to job offers. Here's your chance to grab me while I'm still young and underpaid... ;)
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I'm Available
I'm currently available for job offers. The job description may be any of the following: Consulting on projects Teaching Test driven development techniques Lead C# /VB.Net developer Junior C#/VB.Net developer Part/Full…
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Expresso Is Coolness
The more I play with it, the more I learn new stuff. Expresso is a really neat Regular Expression tool.
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Free Book Chapters
Lots of free book chapters here about All things .Net (most are beginner material, but there are some gems)
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Introduction To Regular Expressions
I just added a new article: Introduction To Regular Expressions Have fun.
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Introduction To Regular Expressions
Introduction to regular expressions Note: This is part 1 of a series of articles: Part 2 - Practical Parsing Using Groups in Regular Expressions What will be covered In this article I’ll demonstrate the use of the…
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Why Good Design Comes from Bad Design
Found a very nice piece: Why Good Design Comes from Bad Design By Scott Berkun . Good stuff.
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Mind Rates
Duncan Replies to my post about Chris Pirillo: " I need some work done, whether that is easy or hard for the person I hire isn't relevant... and if they answer my question too quickly that certainly shouldn't be a…
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InnovaSys SmartTasks Beta Download Available
I requested and got permission to post the following beta material. Being a fond user of some of their other products, I'm posting this. You are all welcome to download and try it out. have fun :) From what I've tried…
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Retro Games
Here's a retro: Tech TV's "The Screen Savers" have a list of their f avorite Graphically challenged games . Some good ones there, but i especially liked this [text based] one: " The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The…
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How I Learn New Technologies
As the years go by, I seem to understand better and better how my learning process works. When it comes to new technology, I seem to be a “ circle thinker ”. When I try to learn something, I do it in stages. I don’t…
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How To Lose Your Job (Unless you are Don)
Don points to the Microsoft Reaserch Downloads site . Now here's a place to spend a week or two....
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Writing Articles Is Hard!
I'm currently in the process of trying to write an article to be posted on my blog. Its on a bigger scale than the others I already have posted before, and I must admint it's a bigger task than I imagined. One of the…
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Blog Junkie
How's this for a blog junkie's start page? He also has an interesting blog . Another thing : This guy gives a very good example of how to expose your portfolio to potential employers . Here . Very slick.
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Mort Banner - Revised
OK. Here's the new Mort Banner, courtesy of Dan . (Click on the banner to learn what's a mort) Hey, maybe now people will actally use it! :)