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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

Website Under Maintenance
19 July 06 11:43 PM | mhawley | with no comments

If you’ve visited my site tonight, you may have noticed that it’s currently down for maintenance. What does this mean? Well, nothing bad of course, just migrating from SQL 2000 to SQL 2005 which will hopefully allow me to utilize some fancier...

Filed under: Custom Controls, General, Personal, Website News

Firefox Woes
07 March 06 10:58 PM | mhawley | 12 comment(s)

So I've been running IE7 Beta 2 Preview since it was released, and I've not had the troubles that I've had within the last hour of installing FireFox 1.5.0.1, okay so I can't really compare them - I just gotta put the plug in. I'm currently re-writing...

Filed under: Custom Controls, General

We're apart of the v.Next wave!
07 November 05 04:39 PM | mhawley | 5 comment(s)

Over the last 7 months, I’ve been locked away for countless hours working on the v.Next wave of products for Microsoft’s partners. I’m happy ecstatic to announce that we’re finally shipping v.Next of Microsoft’s Partner Program...

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Making the List
07 November 05 11:43 AM | mhawley | with no comments

So I too ran the cool little tool that calculates your blogs worth, but didn’t feel like spamming my worth. Much to my amazement, I made Roy’s Top 31 list ! Really, I think he was just being nice, and it should have been top 30, but –...

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Where Have I Been?
21 May 05 09:42 AM | mhawley | 2 comment(s)

Boy is that a good question, and I’m sure my fiance would like to know as well. Wow, its been over a month now at my new position within Microsoft, and I’m happy to announce that I’ve been apart of releasing my first build here! It’s...

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Quoted on Apress
21 May 05 09:29 AM | mhawley | with no comments

I was lucky enough to get contacted from Apress concerning my blog post praising the FogBugz book that Mike Gunderloy put together for the release of FogBugz 4.0. I just checked out their site, and it looks like my quotes up . Sweet.

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Becoming A Blue Badge
18 March 05 08:58 AM | mhawley | 14 comment(s)

So today marks my two week notice to my current employer, Integrity Technology Solutions. Over the last two months, I’ve been interviewing with Microsoft and have accepted an offer for an Application Developer position in the SMS&P division...

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Netscape 8 BETA
03 March 05 02:15 PM | mhawley | 10 comment(s)

Get Netscape 8 BETA, or wait FireFox 1.0, no it is Netscape 8 BETA…or is it FireFox 1.0 – hmm, boy, just what I want to do, get Netscape which roots from FireFox…glad they can rebrand their products successfully. Reading the release...

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