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February 2006 - Posts
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Scott Bellware just released a Code Snippet package for NUnit in Visual Studio 2005. Man, I should have done this months ago. If you are using NUnit, and Visual Studio 2005 (and every developer should be using NUnit), then you will want to install these Read More...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2006 10:00 AM
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Christian Weyer and the Thinktecture team have released a version of the WSCF (Web Services Contract First) plugin for Visual Studio 2005! At the NYC Code Camp, I gave a presentation on an Intro to Web Services and used Visual Studio 2003, instead of Read More...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2006 9:43 AM
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Jeremy Miller posted a reply to my Intro to Web Services post/presentation entitled Pragmatic viewpoints on SOA , where he questions coding WSDL by hand, but agrees with my stance on decoupling the message contract from the business object. A lot of the Read More...
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Sunday, February 26, 2006 8:35 PM
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I must admit, I bought Thinking for a Living by Thomas Davenport for 2 reasons. 1) I wanted to get some ideas on motivating and guiding other developers (aka computer programmers) 2) I also want to see the techniques others would try to use on me to accomplish Read More...
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Sunday, February 26, 2006 7:55 PM
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I finally got around to buying the Framework Design Guidelines book by Krzysztof Cwalina and Brad Abrams, and I must say I should have bought this book when it first came out. As far as guidance documentation goes, this book is extremely easy to read. Read More...
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Sunday, February 26, 2006 7:34 PM
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Wow! That is all I can say about my “Intro to Web Services – It’s All About the Message” session at the NYC Code Camp . For something that I put together pretty quickly, and under pressure of time constraints, I really like the Read More...
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Sunday, February 26, 2006 12:34 PM
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Jeff Palermo’s RAD kills. . . software - level 200 strikes a familiar chord with me. But I’d also like point out that although RAD isn’t something that I want to use when building an enterprise ready application, you have to watch out Read More...
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Tuesday, February 21, 2006 1:49 PM
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Chris Webb has an older blog entry that I missed somehow, OLAP Jokes . Here are a couple just to tempt you to read the rest: Q: Why did the dimension go to prison? A: Because it was degenerate A cube walks into a bar, pops himself on a bar stool and says Read More...
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Monday, February 20, 2006 5:02 PM
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There has been quite a commotion on some of the private discussion/newsgroup and sending Datasets or Data Tables via web services. So much so, that I think I need to say it again, Send Messages Not Serialized Object Graphs. The usual offers of this rule Read More...
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Sunday, February 12, 2006 9:05 PM
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Creating and debugging web pages using XHTML and CSS isn’t as easy as it should be. I find myself jumping between my text editor, browser, and various other helpful tools. But, one thing that has made my life a whole lot easier is the Internet Explorer Read More...
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Sunday, February 12, 2006 8:36 PM
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I’m heading out to Microsoft and their Redmond campus next week, Feb 15–18. Feel free to contact me if you want to get together. I’m not sure on how much time I’ll have, but I’ll try to fit everything in. No, it isn’t Read More...
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Wednesday, February 08, 2006 12:56 PM
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On Feb. 14th I’ll be speaking at the Northern NJ .Net User Group on my favorite new topic, the Patterns & Practices Team’s Guidance Automation Toolkit. I’ll be doing the same session at the New York City Code Camp on Feb. 25th. I Read More...
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Tuesday, February 07, 2006 3:30 PM
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Michael Otey has an article in the Feb. 2006 SQL Server Magazine called LINQ to the Future along with an online editorial LINQ—The Missing Piece of Database Development where he continually uses the term LINQ, instead of the correct term DLINQ, Read More...
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Monday, February 06, 2006 11:39 AM
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Microsoft conference (and marketing blunder) called MIX06 is giving away 3 free trips to what, in essence, is the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) with a different name . The contest is called Remix MIX and is essentially CSS Zen Garden -like Read More...
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Monday, February 06, 2006 9:49 AM
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Daniel Cazzulino kick started the whole “Is XLINQ’s XML Literals a bad thing” issue with his post, XLinq: is XML embedded in a host language a good idea or a terrible one? . Mike Champion replied on the XML Team blog, XML literals undermine Read More...
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Friday, February 03, 2006 7:30 PM
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Jason Beres and the folks at Infragistics started up a Central Jersey .Net User Group ! I know Jason has been trying to get this thing going for almost as long as I was trying to get the NJ SQL Server group started. The first meeting is next week: Thursday, Read More...
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Thursday, February 02, 2006 9:45 AM
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