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  • Matrix Persona

    Saturday, July 19, 2003
    Had to do it! I needed a break! (from Robert McLaws) I'm so glad I can be a female! :P No really, that's actually who I was guessing I'd be. :| You are Trinity, from "The Matrix."Strong, beautiful- you epitomize the ultimateheroine. What Matrix Persona Are You?brought to you by Quizilla
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  • Moody Programmer

    Saturday, July 19, 2003
    Not sure how many of you are like me (probably quite a few), but I'm a "Moody Programmer". I only want to work on what I want, when I want (lucky for me, I quit my job back in December to do independent consulting where this is almost true). Now almost always, i am totally excited about a project or four, but every now and then it's a bit hard to get motivated to do all those things you really don't feel like doing. A friend of mine, Mark Statkus sent me a link to the Media Player Terminator 3
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  • Technical Speaking

    Saturday, July 19, 2003
    I finally got around to reading Don's entry, where he mentions some things about how his presentation went. Since I started speaking, I've found that the bullets on the slides are really only there for people who want a quick glance of what you're talking about. It might be bad, I haven't really gotten any feedback on it yet, but I noticed half the time, I don't even follow the bullets. I just make sure to stay on topic for the current slide and say things, just as if I were talking to someone, doing my best to explain to
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  • Good stuff on DirectCast

    Tuesday, July 15, 2003
    Paul Vick posts up some great stuff for anyone who has ever been confused about DirectCast and when to use it compared to CType. Personally, I tend to go the opposite direction that Paul recommends and use DirectCast all the time, unless I know that the type might possibly be a different type and actually need converted, that way I can never blame it on casting for any performance issues that may arise, although very unlikely. As apposed to Paul's suggestion of using CType more often. There really shouldn't be much of a different, just a "coding preference".
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  • Page Life-cycle in ASP.NET

    Tuesday, July 15, 2003
    This is old news, but it's handy for those doing ASP.NET. joteke posted the event order of the Page life-cycle in ASP.NET and also pointed out this handy link from Paul Wilson. I was pretty familiar with the Page life-cycle, but this is great! Much more detail! Alex Lowe also suggested this good link in the comments for this entry. One more...Brady Gaster posted a great list that goes even beyond the Page, but to the entire Request! Fabrice had another good suggestion for this subject. The official MSDN list. Scott Mitchell suggested this: The ASP.NET Page Object Model This
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  • The End of the American Software Industry?

    Tuesday, July 15, 2003
    Interesting Developer Topic over at GDN Personally, I don't think worrying about what "might" happen ever solves anything. ;) It's fun to have discussions on the possibilities, but still... Also, I posted an approximation of a quote that I saw by Don Box that was absolutely fantastic, but I can't for the life of me find it again to get an exact quote, so if any of you happen to see it somewhere, could you let me know?
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  • Writing Maintainable Code

    Monday, July 14, 2003
    Roy posts some great stuff on writing maintainable code. This one in particular just rocks... <quote> Self-documenting code is the way to go. I cannot stress this enough. I’ve found, going through 1 year old codebase, that I can easily remember and understand what each method and class does just because the names were meaningful enough to “get” it without trying too hard. Even the new guy got some of these things without me having to explain it to him. The stuff I did have to explain was usually either very complicated and logical, or written poorly enough to not
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  • Data Access Application Block v 2

    Thursday, July 10, 2003
    This may be old news, but version 2 is out and has some neato new features One of which I wrote in my own version, but maybe now I can just use theirs. ;) Good stuff! Enjoy! <update> Greg asks in the comments about changes from V1 to V2. I also am using a modified version of V1. Here are the changes: What's new in this release?The 2.0 release of the Data Access Application Block includes the following new features: Support for strongly typed DataSets with the FillDataset method Support for committing updates to a DataSet back to the database
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  • WindowsForms Presentation

    Thursday, July 10, 2003
    For all of you reading this in the North West Ohio Region, I will be giving a "Getting Started with WindowsForms" (tenative title ;)) presentation at the Northwest Ohio .NET User Group Meeting on July 29th. I've been talking with Greg Huber about this and I just noticed he already blogged about it...great! :) He even called me "legendary"...wow! Now I've got a lot to live up to! Looking forward to it...should be fun! :)
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  • Get Bloggin'

    Thursday, July 10, 2003
    Luke points out another of many reasons to blog...Google loves you more! ;)
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