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On the way back from Mix 09 by Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR)

AT&T have kindly opened up their internet for the weekend (at Philly airport) which gives me a good opportunity to update my blog a little bit. This week I popped over to Las Vegas for the Microsoft Mix 09 conference. A conference which puts together...
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Great Fridays dot Com version 0.11 is live! by Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR)

Twitter reference: http://twitter.com/chrisntr/status/1158701480 We finally got a site up on the tubes for Great Fridays - go check it out!
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*chirp - believe the hype? by Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR)

Twitter reference: http://twitter.com/chrisntr/status/1162024673 & http://twitter.com/chrisntr/status/1162055645 *chirp is a WPF Twitter app which has seem to be getting quite a bit of good press from people I follow on Twitter. However; as nice as...
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ASP.NET MVC RC1 Is Out! by Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR)

Twitter reference... After being in Beta for a month or two, the ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 1 is out and ready to download. Scott Guthrie put together a gigantic post on the features of this release - which heavily focuses on tooling support and bug...
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MVC Storefront by Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR)

Twitter reference... Last night I finished watching the MVC Storefront videos; Since April 2008, Rob Conery has been putting together example videos of building a real world ASP.NET MVC app called the MVC Storefront. Through these videos there have been...
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Micro-blogging Challenge by Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR)

Twitter.com is a (now) well known "Micro-blogging" site where users have 140 characters to get down their thoughts and actions for the day. If it really is "Micro-blogging" then for every tweet that I make - I should be able to create a ful blogl post...
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Great Fridays - A new start with ASP.NET MVC by Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR)

For the past 9 months I have been working at Lightmaker Manchester. Since last Friday I am now working at Great Fridays (GFGP Limited) with the same great team from Lightmaker Manchester, with the same enthusiasm and skills from Lightmaker Manchester...
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Oxite - The ASP.NET MVC CMS by Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR)

The guys over at Channel 9 have created the first blogging engine/content management system (CMS) based on the open source ASP.NET MVC framework. It's named Oxite and is avaliable to download now (in a Alpha version) on the Codeplex website . The first...
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DDD7 Grok Talk - Open Source and Microsoft by Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR)

This weekend I attended DDD7 , a free community conference held at the Microsoft Reading Campus. I presented a short Grok talk during the lunch hour on Open Source and Microsoft. Since the event didn't seem to have a internet connectivity, I used Dom...
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Achieving Avoid Highways (Motorways) with Microsoft's Virtual Earth by Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR)

A common problem that many developers face when using the Microsoft Virtual Earth SDK is that out of the box, you cannot generate routes which avoid highways/motorways. This functionality is available on Google Maps but not via the Google Maps API. It...
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