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On March 31, 1998, around 10am, my then-manager Alex and I left the office we shared together and headed over to Electronics Boutique. Alex and I were both developers working for the IT department of an up and coming software company called PC DOCS. In those days, we didn’t have a corporate firewall...
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Today I received the following error and thought it summed up my day perfectly. Now the real question is what was I doing to receive this error…… I was trying to copy a single line (w/ 50 characters of text) to the clipboard…DOH Till next time,
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4 Advil later and my head really hurts. Here is a little story about how a simple little typo can really cause major headaches and pain. Yesterday I was in the process of setting up one of our new WCF services to use Jimmy Bogard’s solution to use StructureMap to create our services. At one...
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Inspired by Bullshit Bingo I've created ALT.NET Bingo for you next ALT.NET conference, Twitter conversation, or blog reading session. It's simple: Get your card! http://is.gd/oA0A Every time you hear a word, you mark it off. If you get bingo you stand up and shout, "WATERFALL...
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1 Thessalonians 5:21 "Test everything. Hold on to the good." (NIV) "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." (King James Version)
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Does anyone else have this issue at work. I have 75mb worth of emails within my corporate exchange account and I get emails about 1-2 times a week telling me I am over my limit. WHY. Has corporate IT departments not got the memo that drive space is DIRT CHEAP. I mean this is not...
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class Madness def method_missing(method, *args) nil end end In full disclosure, my ruby is all stinky bad. I solicited this joke from my good friend Jeremy Walworth (founder of the internationally renown website, hairforecast.com .)
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Update: With striking proof that I'm dense and a Developer of Little Brain, Andrew points out that the results are sorted by date added. :- P On at least one torrent search site, our book is the #2 item when you search for WPF. Not searching for "WPF book", just "WPF". Rock on...
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Today started off in a bad, bad way. Because of some issues I had earlier in the week with my source control repository (SCR) I was doing a ton of work offline. Today I was able to regain access to my SCR I decided to do a full get. I was fully expecting SourceOffSite (crappy overlay tool on top of VSS...
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Chris Sutton recently posted his chat with Sarah , Paypal's new automated help assistant. Curious about the service I checked it out and actually found Sarah quit attractive (that's her on the right). Even though we just had met I thought I would take that oh-so-frightful first step...
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I was listening to Episode #8 on DeepfriedBytes today and heard the greatest quote. In this episode Woody and Keith are speaking with Brad and Jim who both work over at Microsoft. The quote goes a little like this: 'We are a Microsoft shop here so we try to use Microsoft products' Sorry, I just...
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I encountered this nugget while signing up to get developer access to a certain high profile web-based service . It turns out that my first choice for a password did not meet the site's policy and I greeted with this: This is puts a big capital S in front of UX .
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I've been working with the eap release of ANTS Performance Profiler from Red Gate. While I don't have a lot of experience with other tools of this nature, I've been pretty impressed. My intention was to hold off and blog a full review after I've had to time to really use the application...
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When C# 3.0/.Net 3.5 was released one of the new features that was included was the 'var' keyword. Now I have to admit that when I first read about this new feature I immediately associated this 'var' with the Variant of VB6 or the var of JScript. But that could not be future from the...
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So today I got an IM from Chris Sutton telling me that my RSS feed for DimeCasts.Net was not working. So being the paranoid guy I am, I immediately started to run in circles like Chicken Little yelling "The Sky is falling, the Sky is falling". It was not till I became horse and...