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December 2005 - Posts
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The great folks on the Visual Studio team just sent me a couple one-year subscriptions to Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite with MSDN Premium Subscription and ask me to “give them away to individuals of my choosing in the community”. Read More...
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Thursday, December 29, 2005 10:59 PM
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I haven’t been able to get on the beta test list for the next version of Hotmail (codenamed Kahuna) Windows Live Mail , but I was able to get onto Yahoo Mail Beta, and that UI totally rocks. Dare’s coworkers sure have their work cut out for Read More...
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Thursday, December 29, 2005 10:13 AM
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One of my first blog posts (way back in April 2003 and on the old DotNet Weblogs site, now Weblogs @ ASP.Net) was called Pet Peeve – Using HTML Tables to Control Web Page Layout . Since that early post I really haven’t seen much headway made Read More...
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Wednesday, December 28, 2005 8:47 PM
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Back in May, 2004 I wrote the blog post, Why Shouldn’t Authors Self-Publish? and like most decent posts, it garnered some attention, and then slowly faded into oblivion, only to be found by people searching about self-publishing. Over the holiday Read More...
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Wednesday, December 28, 2005 7:24 AM
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Back at the PDC, iMate was selling a limited number of iMate JASJAR for bargain basement prices, and it hit me. What I really wanted, a TabletPC that would let me double it as a cell phone. If you took something like the Motion LS800 Slate TabletPC (which Read More...
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Wednesday, December 21, 2005 12:09 PM
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This is the second of a series on Test Driven Development with Domain Driven Design. It would be in your best interest to start at the beginning before reading this post. I’ve received a lot of feedback on the first post, via comments, instant messages, Read More...
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Sunday, December 18, 2005 8:49 PM
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Over on the Domain Driven Design discussion group Scott Bellware asked the group their opinions on how they go about driving their domain driven design implementation using test driven development. Rather then just answering him there, where only the Read More...
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Thursday, December 15, 2005 11:58 AM
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At the N3UG meeting last night the new NYC.NJ Developer Evangelist, Peter Laudetti had a talk on Enterprise Library , and had mentioned the Guidance Automation Toolkit . I had mentioned that it hadn’t been released for Visual Studio 2005 RTM, but Read More...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2005 9:33 AM
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Oleg accidentally restarted the XSLT 2.0 on .Net firestorm by trying to startup an informal survey . Dare chimed in with his view of how to get XSLT 2.0 in .Net. M. David (the guy behind Saxon.Net which let .Net developers use Saxon on .Net) jumped in Read More...
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Monday, December 12, 2005 2:58 PM
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Somehow I missed this announcement on the Anti-Malware Engineering Team blog back in early November. Microsoft Anitspyware has been rebranded Windows Defender. It’s strange that the Microsoft Antispyware site has not been updated, but if it was Read More...
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Saturday, December 10, 2005 8:29 PM
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Disclaimer: I do not work for Microsoft, but I am a Microsoft MVP. The following is all derived from public information, and any inferences or extrapolations are entirely the work of my imagination, and is not something that I know that Microsoft is working Read More...
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Thursday, December 08, 2005 4:09 PM
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This is one that perplexed me for a couple days. It seems that in SQL 2000 (I haven’t checked in the 2005 equivalent, SSIS) you can accidentally create a DTS Package Name with trailing spaces (by something like pasting in the package name which Read More...
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Tuesday, December 06, 2005 11:37 AM
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I recently picked up a copy of 37 Signals’ Defensive Design for the Web : How to improve error messages, help, forms, and other crisis points, (part of the Voices That Matter series). These are the guys that write the very good Signal vs. Noise Read More...
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Saturday, December 03, 2005 5:41 PM
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