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by: Glenn Goodrich This post is the winner of The Great Devlicio.us Giveaway . The story you are about to read is true. The names and identities of the innocent have been changed to protect them and my job. No animals were harmed in the writing of this story. Roughly three to five years ago I was an...
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We've just finished tallying up our votes for the Great Devlicio.us Giveaway and we are pleased to announce that the winner is Glenn Goodrich . We had enough entries to make the contest worthwhile and we decided to give prizes for every story. Everyone got one of the books in the original list and...
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Because there's more than one kind of hero Update: The contest is now closed. We cannot accept any more entries. Wait for the winner announcement is a few days. Thanks for all the great submissions. Here's your chance to win a well-deserved prize for being a good developer — and not just any...
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...at least for the next three days Tomorrow I'm hopping on a plane to Seattle/Redmond, WA to take part in the second ALT.NET Open Spaces Conference . I had the chance to be at the first one last October in Austin, TX and what a great experience that was. My main motivation to attend the event in...
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In the past I have written about the Fail Fast principle. This is a principle I try to live my development life by. I would rather explicitly check for possible failure points then have a runtime error crop up. In the past when writing these failure check we have had to resort to a...
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I just thought I would share a little trick I used today to back in Async web service calls into existing code using anonymous delegates. Here was my problem: I have a library that makes use of an existing web service that I do not control (so I cannot change/up the timeout on this). I have been using...