April 2008 - Posts

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T4 Support in VS2008 by jdanforth

Did you know there's T4 ( Text Template Transformation Toolkit ) support inside VS2008 now? Add a file with the .tt or .t4 extension to your project and you got a T4 template which VS2008 will automatically run when you save it. If you're into this and...
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What Happened to the Rails Website? by jdanforth

I was going to look at some of the Ruby on Rails screencasts on www.rubyonrails.org site, but someone must have forgot to pay the right amount of money in time or something :)   I'm sure things will be working fine by the time you read this blog...
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Try Ruby in the Browser by jdanforth

There's a pretty awesome online "Ruby in your browser" tutorial that you could try. It has a built in Ruby console and everything is interactive. It's takes 15-30 minutes or so to go through, and it's good. Someone put a whole lot of effort...
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A .NET Guy Looking at Some Ruby (Part 2) by jdanforth

This is me continuing scribbling down notes as I go along relearning lost Ruby skills and at the same time comparing the Ruby syntax and way of writing code to .NET. In my previous post I very briefly went through the basics of variables, loops, iterators...
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A .NET Guy Looking at Some Ruby by jdanforth

I’m thinking it would be nice to relearn the basics of Ruby (which seems to gain more and more popularity) and compare it to some of the dynamic features .NET 3.5 has been blessed with. I’m also interested in where the Microsoft version of...
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March 2008 TFS/Team Suite Download List by jdanforth

Just what I was looking for - a list of all the URLs to the VPC-parts, easy to add to a download manager. Steve got the links from Martin Danner and I'm passing the links on :) Martin Danner has passed along a list of the URLs to use to download the TFS...
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My Xbox 360 is so D**n Noisy by jdanforth

:rant on I've had the Xbox 360 for almost 2 years now or something like that, and it's a wonderful console to play games on. Last year I configured it as a media extender and hooked it to my Vista Ultimate box sitting in my office with a Tv-tuner so that...
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