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Monday, May 04, 2009 1:13 PM

Some interesting sessions at the Microsoft Enterprise Developer and Solutions Conference

  There are some interesting sessions at the 2009 EntDevCon .   Three of particular interest to me are are 1. “Coral8 Engine Integrated with Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008”  at 11 on Tuesday. I had a chance to see some of the early bits...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 8:00 PM

Adding var args support to office integration functions with dynamic lambda expressions

Anyone who’s ever done office integration has come across a method definition like so: object Run(object Macro, object Arg1, object Arg2, …, object Arg30); if you're working in VB it’s not such an issue, and rumor has it that it’s that C# 4 will also...
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Tuesday, February 03, 2009 8:22 AM

Catalog of User Experience Patterns

Via Brad Abrams , check out this great site: Quince: a catalog of UX design patterns .
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Saturday, January 03, 2009 8:14 PM

Creating high performance WCF services

I had a WCF service where I wanted to be able to support over a hundred concurrent users, and while most of the service methods had small payloads which returned quickly, the startup sequence needed to pull down 200,000 records. The out of the box WCF...
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Wednesday, December 03, 2008 12:03 AM

Scheduling PowerShell tasks without a console window

Have you every wanted to use Windows Task Scheduler to run a PowerShell script on a frequent schedule, but hated how the console window would flash on the screen every time the script ran? Yeah, me too. Apparently the task scheduler API supports hiding...
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Saturday, October 11, 2008 11:40 AM

F# and CEP

At the last New York .Net Meetup , Luke Hoban presented an overview of F#. Like everyone else who's catching the F# bug I was quite impressed with its succinctness, sequences, forward pipes, and support for asynchronous programming (called workflows)...
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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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Friday, August 22, 2008 3:44 PM

Alternate Database Options

Every once in awhile you wake up and take notice of a trend that's been bubbling on in the background for some time. For me, today, that trend is the mainstreaming of nontraditional databases. When I started out in IT choosing a database was easy, it...
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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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