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As I alluded to in my last post , I'm building a new computer this week. The bits did indeed arrive (yesterday) and I've used up quite a lot of my spare time putting it together and installing it. First, here's the hardware that I put together:
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So, as we all know, VS2005 shipped less than 24 hours ago. I've queued all the bits (VS, SQL, VSTO, Visio...) for download before I left for work this morning, knowing that I'd be able to play tonight. I did well. I only called my wife once through the
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About 10 minutes ago I just finished reading a new post on the IE Blog . They describe the way in which the BASE tag has been incorrectly implemented in IE for the last few versions, and that in IE7 it's finally going to be done the right way - only allowed
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Over the last few days I've groaned sympathetically with Frank as he's described his failing hard drive woes. But I should have known. It almost happened to me. *sigh* As I said a couple of days ago, I got me a new hard drive with oodles of space . It's
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This is more a note to myself, but you're welcome to remember this tip for yourself. I read about this last month on someones blog (the solution to this problem) but buggered if I could find it now that I need to remember what to do again. Each month
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Last night I started what ended up being a pretty long discussion on a pretty small piece of code . I talked a bit about things you could do to clean it up a bit, and get it perhaps a little stabler. As a refresher, let's pretend those changes I talked
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A question came up on the aus-dotnet mailing list last night that got my juices going. William Bartholomew was looking at getting a call to a web method to try again a few times if it had trouble making the call. All he (innocently) asked for was if his
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This is something new I learned tonight. It make sense when you think about it I guess, but it bit us at work (luckily, not directly my fault this time :) but something I had to find an answer to since I'm the XMLSerialization expert there. Oh who am
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Today I asked myself a question that I've asked myself many times. Today, however, I actually bothered to find out the answer. Before you jump ahead, let me assure you that no, the question was not 'why do cows look so damn attractive?'. Nor was it 'when
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Recently both David Hayden and Brendan Tompkins discussed some XML Serialization stuff. David talked a bit about what XML Serialization is and gave some examples. Brendan then showed a helper class that he'd written a while ago. Rather than leave comments
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I've been doing some playing with HTML and CSS recently. It's not that I don't know either (I think I do - if I can be told how to make something look, I can certainly do it) but I suck at design - that's why I'm a programmer, not a graphic artist :)
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