Archives
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My Newest XM Radio station to code to
Channel 80, The Move
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Hats off to Janus
We love the Janus controls. We had to extend their CalendarCombo to handle 'our' default date in sql server, which is 1/1/1800. Overall, our enhancement to their control for our requirement works well.
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The Accord cigarette
OK, I am now pissed. Phillip Morris stole my idea:
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Whats a blog...whats a RSS
Aaron Skonnard has just published a nice article on this:
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DotNetDevs
Brad Wilson has launched a cool new site:
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How is Extreme Programming going so far
We've been having our 5-10 minute stands up. Good.
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5 minute stand up meetings
We started having our 5 minute stand up meetings (Extreme Programming) this week. Wow was this painful and awkward at first.
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Validating controls on a TabPage at one time using the Validating event
How do you Validate all of the controls on a TabPage at one time and set focus to one of the controls that fails validation?
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Brian Noyes WebLog
If you are not listening:
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Wow is it tough being a Project Manager and a full time developer
I have walked these two lines carefully for about 2 years now. Now, we are getting heavy into process. This means my Project Manager time is increasing. Man, its tough doing both. I feel like I am 90 years old at times. My memory is failing me, I am getting tasks confused, I show up to a meeting not even knowing what we are talking about when I called the meeting.
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Reading config files
The CLR will ignore an invalid config file (invalid XML). If the app does have an invalid config file and you try to query for an AppSetting the CLR will throw a ConfigurationException. Consider wrapping queries into your config file with a try catch block. Its quite possible someone can modify the config file without your knowledge and leave it in an invalid state.
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Gathering requirements for a GUI application rewrite
I have struggled with this for years (having been on 4 rewrite projects now) as a rewrite really does not fit into any process I have seen. After much struggling, researching and thinking, I have come up with a plan that is working for me. Many thanks to Ian Griffiths for his input on this:
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Reducing web server roundtrips with a No Touch Deploy application
I was seeing 30+ web server roundtrips for resource files. I reduced this to 10+ by adding
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Should I pay attention to Longhorn?
Nope, I shouldn't. But, if you are a super early adopter, maybe you should. Straight from Chris Sells himself: