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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 12:30 AM

The WPF ah-ha Moment

In nearly every bit of WPF training material or weblog there is some reference to the "ah-ha" moment. The point at which all the new concepts you've been learning gel into a cohesive unit. For me, that moment was one or two months after I started developing...
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Sunday, August 24, 2008 11:45 PM

Top 5 Secrets of .Net Desktop Deployment Wizards

Deployment is one of the software project taxes that are often neglected or shunted aside to have another team deal with. There are two big downsides when a team does not directly own it's deployment. The first is obvious, if the quality of the deployment...
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Sunday, August 24, 2008 6:00 PM

Dealing with the Configuration Nightmare

Typically during an overview of some new technology they will say " and it's totally configurable " at which point my inner sarcastic voice pipes up in response "great, now we have two problems". Configuration files are getting bigger and more complex...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008 11:50 PM

PowerShell Navigation Provider for Coral8

A couple of months ago I put together a quick PowerShell based stream reader for Coral8 .   While it was fun to write, beyond demos, it didn't see much use - lack of easy discoverability about which streams were available meant that it was easier...
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Friday, June 20, 2008 4:58 PM

Coral8 Stream reader in Powershell

A little something I cooked up last night # ./Get-C8Tuple ccl://localhost:6789/Stream/Default/Proj/outStream param ([string]$curl,[int]$maxRows=-1) function Resolve-Url($url) { $wc = new-object Net.WebClient $urib = [UriBuilder] $url $urib.Scheme = "http...
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Sunday, June 08, 2008 9:34 PM

More than one way to do it, Part I - Powershell

So my coworker , err boss :) seems to have started playing with Powershell, which is great. It looks like his first foray into PowerShell development is a commandlet for tibco ems topics . My initial feeling on this is that the benefits of commandlets...
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Sunday, April 06, 2008 6:21 PM

Fuzzy Task List released to CodePlex

I've added a few more features to the Fuzzy Task List so that it's now approaching the point where it's usable. The code's been cleanup up and released to CodePlex. Fuzzy task lists are useful for kinds of tasks that don't have fixed times, such as: getting...
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008 1:57 PM

Pointers to good concurrent programming information

A coworker asked me if I knew of any good books on .Net multithreaded programming. The only one I knew of was .NET Multithreading which is weak in some areas and getting a little bit long in the tooth.   One of the best sources of info is Joe Duffy...
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Monday, February 18, 2008 9:43 PM

Fuzzy task list in WPF

The software product, Sciral Consistency implements a "fuzzy task list". These are for the tasks that don't have fixed times, such as: getting a hair cut going to dentist keeping in touch with old friends A traditional calendar approach doesn't work for...
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008 11:33 PM

PowerShell talk at NY .Net Meetup

I'll be giving a presentation on PowerShell at the New York .Net Meetup this Tues, Feb 19, concentrating on how PowerShell is a key tool for windows and .net developers.
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