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Mercurial Conversion from Team Foundation Server
17 March 10 05:12 PM | mhawley | with no comments

I’m using Twitter. Follow me @matthawley One of my many (almost) daily tasks when working on the CodePlex platform since releasing Mercurial as a supported version control system, is converting projects from Team Foundation Server (TFS) to Mercurial....

Filed under: .NET, General, Development, Programming, CodePlex, Mercurial

Windows Developer Power Tools
11 January 07 06:36 AM | mhawley | 1 comment(s)

I've been keeping this under wraps for about 6 months now, but since the book has been finally published & I just received my copy, I'm happy to promote the book Windows Developer Power Tools . I was asked by James Avery and Jim Holmes to be a contributor...

Filed under: .NET, General, Unleash It, Development

Beta Day: FogBugz 4.0 and VS.NET 2005
15 December 04 02:18 PM | mhawley | with no comments

So today I decided it was going to be a beta day, well really, I was just going to work in VS.NET 2005’s Nov. CTP distro that was just launched, more on this later. However, prior to lunch I got an email notifying me that I’ve been accepted...

Filed under: .NET, General, Whidbey

Development Intern Available at Integrity Technology Solutions
08 December 04 09:19 AM | mhawley | with no comments

My company, Integrity Technology Solutions , is looking to take on a software development intern . If you attend a local college in Bloomington / Normal / Peoria, I’d sugest you check out and apply! Just as a FYI, our entire development team went...

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Heartland Developers Conference
02 December 04 08:41 AM | mhawley | 7 comment(s)

Like several others have mentioned, I’ll be taking off later today heading to Iowa for the Heartland Developers Conference . I, however, won’t be presenting but enjoying those that are. If you’re attending, make sure you look for me...

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Competing in Google's Top Coder Contest
15 September 04 01:56 PM | mhawley | 4 comment(s)

So I just finished competing in the qualification round for Google's Top Coder contest , and well, damn there are some quick coders out there. You basically had 1 hour to code solutions for 2 problems, 1 being worth 400 points and the other worth being...

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ASP.NET Server Controls Presentation
05 August 04 08:52 AM | mhawley | 3 comment(s)

Yesterday, I stated that I had to prepare a presentation for my .NET User Group, and after 3.5 hours of quickly throwing together a presentation and demos, I was done. Yay! I luckily only had enough time to leave work (yes late), drive to the Microsoft...

Filed under: .NET, General, Central IL Dot Net

Check out Before Find & Replace
14 July 04 11:45 AM | mhawley | 4 comment(s)

So I had to make a change to a demo at work today, which is checked into VSS. This change basically was to modify the color of an element in CSS (which happens to be on every page, thats about 250 demo HTML pages). Ohh, stupid me...I didn't check the...

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My Own WTF
08 July 04 02:30 PM | mhawley | 5 comment(s)

Today I was visiting a client site doing some data mining on a third party product that they own. Ultimately we will be building reports off of their data using SQL Reporting Services. Well, as I was going through the tables, I kept seeing date fields...

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Creating Classes in VS.NET
12 April 04 02:59 PM | mhawley | 10 comment(s)

I'm sitting here at work building an application using TDD (which by itself is another post, and may be coming later), and every time I start a new class for another piece of the puzzle, I'm hating on how I have put the keyword "sealed" class in my declaration...

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