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Free Microsoft Events
Microsoft is planning a full-day of free presentations at it's Southfield, Michigan office on March 31st.
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The Essence of Open Source
While doing catch-up reading on the Rhino.Mocks group on Google, I came across this thread about a problem someone was having with Rhino.Mocks. What I thought was cool was the responsiveness of Ayende (the creator of Rhino.Mocks). And I'm not singling him out (I hear he hates being put on a pedestal), but I'm highlighting the generic responsiveness that you are more likely to get with an open source project. Here's a breakdown of the timeline:
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Getting Func-y with Lambdas
Let's say we've got some information stored somewhere (database, XML, file – it doesn't matter) about individuals. For simplicity, let's look at a class that represents this data:
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SRT: "Best of Best of Michigan Award"
Right now, SRT co-founders Bill Wagner and Dianne Marsh are in Troy at an awards breakfast. SRT (along with a bunch of other companies) has received Corp! Magazine's "Best of the Best Michigan Business" award.
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ASP.NET MVC Goodness!
Last week at AADND, I gave a presentation on MonoRail, the Castle Project's MVC implementation on ASP.NET. The MVC pattern is so popular (and productive!) among web developers, I'm sure you're aware that Microsoft is working on ASP.NET MVC – which is now up to RC1.
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Silverlight: Checking Checkboxes
I was playing around with Silverlight a little bit today and noticed something with the Checkbox UI element. It has both a "Checked" and "Unchecked" event. These obviously correspond to when the checkbox becomes checked or unchecked. This is in contrast to the WinForms checkbox which simply has a CheckChanged event. Interesting…
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LINQ: Grabbing a single element
Since I've seen code like this before and am also guilty of writing code like this, I thought I'd blog about an easier way to grab a single element from a LINQ query that Bill Wagner told me about at last night's AADND meeting.
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Jay Harris: Macro Sleuth
Jay Harris came to speak at GANG last month (great CI talk, by the way!). After plugging in his laptop to the projector he glanced at the screen – he was checking if the font size was okay. Seemingly not pleased, I saw him tap a few keys on the keyboard and the font just grew! It was like zoom-in/zoom-out in Firefox. He didn't mess around deep inside menus – just a couple of keystrokes and the font was bigger!
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Properties vs. Attributes
One of my favorite bloggers, Eric Lippert, has a great post on the "properties vs. attributes" question.