Was perusing the ASP.NET Forums earlier when I stumbled across this post by Revjon (of FreeTextBox fame), his question was on whether plans exist for integrating FTB 2.0 into .TEXT. Well, I went ahead...
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Had mine ordered for months now...but the big day finally approaches - Code Complete (US) is simply the single most essential book for any coder. I read the Drafta few months ago and have to say that...
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This post by Scott Hanselman is just a brilliant starting point for beginners in application architecture (in any language actually). In my experience a good basic structure can solve so many problems...
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Back from my (admittedly short) break - Dad's birthday which I really wanted to be at home for this year. We're trying to get a bit more structure going at my place of work, well we had some before...
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I was replying to this forum post I actually couldn't find a good example on how to do this - wierd, it's such a common thing to do. So, the problem is, is there a better method than using the...
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Oddly I've had a couple of email (even one from a Microserf) asking why I thought I would never become an MVP. Well, the simple answer is - time. Keeping a blog takes relatively little time, I...
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Roy clarifies his position on the whole Rory thing...(incidentally, Rory, I tried to email you but it bounced back)
My response, well, I posted an ill concieved post yesterday about the whole debacle...
Monday, 05 July 2004 00:00
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Sorry, I had some downtime over the weeken - I was away for the Easter break and so was only able to restart just now. If you've sent me any mail over the last couple of days, chances are I haven't...
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OK, let me start by saying that I enjoy working in C# / .NET more than I have any other language / framework in my working life. The problem is, that's just not enough.
The simple fact is that I've...
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Really exciting changes by the looks of it - not long now before we can actually use these features (well about a year). Anyway, a usual an excellent article from G. Andrew Duthie (or G. for short).
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When replying to this post in the ASP.NET forums, Dave023 (I wish people would use their real names, we're not posting porn there or anything!) he mentioned using the System.Data.IDataRecord instead...
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AARGGHHHHH! Man I hate it when you get a nice fun gadget and it doesn't work...So anyway, I decided to buy myself a nice new iPod (20Gb model in case you're interested), got it home, read the...
Sunday, 04 July 2004 00:00
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I'm currently working my way through the book "Agile software development with Scrum" by Schwaber and Beedle [US] - gotta say, it's looking pretty good! I'm only about half way through but so far it...
Sunday, 04 July 2004 00:00
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You know when you get to the point where you're happily coding away then suddenly, Visual Studio .NET causes you to want to kill someone...two things are really bugging me right now:
Editing stored...
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I thought this was pretty interesting - compiles MSIL into Java Bytecode so you can run C# or VB.NET (or any other . NET language I assume) on J2EE application servers. At first glance, the question...
Sunday, 04 July 2004 00:00
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Been playing with Mozilla Firefox - gotta say, it really is fantastic! MUCH faster than IE at loading pages, more standards compliant, skinning, better privacy settings...basically what IE should be...
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From Jon Galloway's blog, a new version of BlogJet - with a bunch of new features including, finally, HTML Source editing - this is fantastic news!
New BlogJet!
Well, it's beta, but I'll take it - it...
Sunday, 04 July 2004 00:00
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Via Leon Jollans (on the MSWebdev list) - a really neat way to do ASP.NET like stuff in classic ASP...
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I'm aware this is a fairly controversial viewpoint, I should explain some of my own background as a precursor to my dislike of this. In the bad old days, I was a penetration tester; I ran my own...
Sunday, 04 July 2004 00:00
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I'm really at the end of my tether with VS.NET and source control. I'm working from home this morning, accessing the office Sourcesafe over my VPN using SourceOffSite - fine, SourceOffsite is a great...
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