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New entry to blog roll – John Robbins
This most recent post by John Robbins is what motivated me to add his blog to my blog roll. However, it has been a must read for a while now. This post is actually more “fluffy” than most for him, I just loved the insight into things macros can do that...
The Achilles Thread
Recovered from DotNetJunkies blog -- Originally Posted: Sunday, November 18, 2007 "[when debugging] If you see hoof prints think horses, not zebras". Hunt and Thomas, in The Pragmatic Programmer Developing in the brave new world of managed memory and...
Forest for the trees – Don’t forget the compiler
Recovered from DotNetJunkies blog -- Originally Posted: Wednesday, June 6, 2007 Back in school my teacher was not much on the formal aspects of the course he was teaching.He was instead, as I describe him, the kind of guy you could imagine living in his...
slidingExpiration = NotReally timeout = NotWhatIThinkItIs
Recovered from DotNetJunkies blog -- Originally Posted: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 As a new approach to some meaningful blogging, as I work on debugging some new bug/issue, the info I collect and my deductions I record right in my LiveWriter window so...
That which we call a Namespace, by any other name would just smell.
Recovered from DotNetJunkies blog -- Originally Posted: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 There is nothing sweet about spending hours, days, evenings and weekends chasing "ghosts" in your code. In this context "ghosts" mean compile or runtime errors that are not...
ab-normal.dot – Why are all my documents locked?
I have been dealing a lot with documents. I have a fun project dealing with WPF documents that I hope to blog more on soon. Anyway, the last few days I have noticed that every document I open is locked. In order to do anything, even cut-and-paste, I need...
Posted: Jun 26 2009, 01:00 PM by azenker | with no comments
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The CMD crisis
I really like being familiar with command line tools, however, in reality I often find myself searching on line for some command I know I used before but just can't seem to remember. In a past life ( read "job" ) I was able to turn around and ask a fellow...
Posted: Apr 16 2009, 10:22 PM by azenker | with 2 comment(s)
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WATIR under the bridge (Proxy)
Hit this today attempting to install WATIR on my current development box. The domain has a proxy server that has only occasionally caused me issues, but now I was unable to use gem to install WATIR unless I could configure the proxy. The correct syntax...
Setting up remote debugging on 2003 and 2008 server
For a long time I have wanted to be able to do this without it being a 2 day ordeal, or having to beg IT to open up some ports etc. Seems to me the last time I looked this was a lot harder than it is now. Has it gotten easier or did I just assume it was...
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