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Here's a nifty Ruby on Rails presentation that I gave for a Lunch 'n' Learn here at work. It is accompanied by an even niftier Rails website demo. Interesting that the PowerPoint file is larger than the entire Rails website. Download presentation and...
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If there was a contest to design the most annoying popup message, I would submit this one. Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!...
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It seems that iPhone can't be avoided even while developing on Windows using Visual Studio. Our client recently asked us to make sure that their telephone number was clickable for iPhone users. This being news to me, some quick research confirms that...
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Live Search is mounting a campaign called " SearchPerks " that gives you points for web searches! For 1100 tickets (where one ticket = one search), you can get a t-shirt. If we place the value of a t-shirt at $10-11, this mean you get paid about 1 penny...
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I noticed today that DHL has an animated favicon when viewed in Firefox. I'm not entirely sure that another thing moving in my peripheral vision is what the world wide web really needed. I have my fill of that with flash-based animated ads and still have...
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Size of scope document plotted over time probably isn't the most scientific method of measuring scope creep, and I'm sure it's not PMP-approved, but I think it works. Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!...
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Only one search engine is bright enough to figure out that "dot net" is another way of referring to the Microsoft .NET Framework, and it's not Microsoft's search engine. Despite my best efforts to like Live Search, it seems Google is always several steps...
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Using the "General Development Settings" for Visual Studio 2008, building is [CTRL + SHIFT + B] and renaming is [CTRL + R, CTRL + R]. For C#, these two are simply [F6] and [F2]. Either folks using General settings are not using keyboard shortcuts, or...
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I thought I'd take the plunge this weekend and jump onto the Ruby On Rails bandwagon. It's still hip and trendy,right? Someone please tell me if it's not. Bad timing, I guess, to pick the date they are having domain hosting issues . But that's okay. I'm...
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This one made me stop for a minute and try to figure out what I had just asked Vis ual Studio to do. Had I asked it to calculate my salary? Nope, too many digits for that. Maybe I had asked it to pick lotto numbers for me. Maybe Visual Studio just had...
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As you can see from this screenshot of my console, Home Server is mightily confused as to the operating system of my newly "service packed" laptop. Before applying SP1 to CASPIAN, Home Server was right on top of things, identifying it as " Windows Vista...
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Here's a fun one! Our Enterprise Library exception handling logging mysteriously quit logging to the Application event log yesterday at 6:00 PM. It was still logging to files, still handling all of the other exception handling rules, but just not logging...
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Until our recent snowstorm, I thought red was as bad it got when it comes to Live Maps traffic. But I guess it can get much worse. Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!...
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It's nice to be surprised by good software design. For example, my Windows Mobile phone rang today while I was listening to music. Upon answering the call, Media Player paused playback. After I hung up, it resumed playback. Seems simple, yes, but I know...
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The St Louis C# user group has Patrick Smacchia lined up for their March event. Patrick is a Microsoft MVP, creator of NDepend, and author of several .NET books. Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!...
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I was recently working on a MonoRails application. It was more a less a basic CRUD website for the admins to massage their data. We wanted to use the built in scaffolding for the application, but we choose just to create the custom pages using the helpers...
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Microsoft is hosting an official launch for Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008, and SQL Server 2008 around the country this spring. The event will include "promotional" versions of all three products, although I'm not entirely sure if that means...
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The January 28 meeting of the St Louis .NET User Group will cover the Windows Live Platform. Clint Edmonson, an Architect Evangelist from Microsoft, will be presenting. Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!...
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Last night I played with the Vista Network Map (which, like many things in Vista, is cooler than it is useful). It was a little bit of hassle, requiring the Link Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) Responder to be installed on our two XP machines, and a interesting...
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Here's my coworker Shawn's attempt to play nicely with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 during the St Louis Install Fes t . Luckily, you didn't need to actually complete the install to get your free copy. And free t-shirts always help the medicine go down....
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Microsoft and the St Louis Visual Basic User's Group appear to be giving away copies of Visual Studio 2008. Sign up at http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032360731 Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit...
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My favorite SQL Server Management Studio trick is assigning USE statements to keyboard shortcuts so I don't have to manually change databases by using the drop-down in the SQL Editor toolbar. Under Options, Environment, you'll find a Keyboard section...
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Ever notice how long Adobe's famous " readstep2.html " has been around? Or ever wonder if there is a "readstep1.html"? http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html has been around for as long as I can remember. In the early web days, we were converting...
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Here's a nice, good-looking set of slides from a recent Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Presentation I gave. The slides cover all the basics: tools, XAML, dependency properties, data binding. Windows Presentation Foundation (Office 2007 Format)...
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Here are some slides from a recent presentation I gave on the ADO.NET Entity framework. The presentation was a pretty high-level overview, so don't expect a whole lot of detail. ADO.NET Entity Framework (Office 2007 format) ADO.NET Entity Framework (Office...
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