July 2008 - Posts
Recently I have been confronted with a movement that seems to hate using #Regions in source code files. Personally I really like using regions and I absolutely like the ability to collapse sections of code I am not directly working with. The opposing
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This week I am coming to you from the Microsoft Campus. So as you would expect I have a lot of energy going this week and lots of great links to share. I even tried to organize them somewhat. Special thanks to all who were at the ASP Insiders this week.
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I have been Blogging for over two and a half years. I have almost 400 entries on my Blog. So I got to looking at my stats from some of my earliest posts and thought I would build a list of 10 of my most popular early post. I found this exercise very interesting
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So I got called out by my friends Rachel Appel and Kevin Hazzard to tell the world how I got started programming. How old were you when you first started programming? I was 12 I think, it was Christmas of 1982 when I got my first computer a Timex
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So many good articles and resources I have found over the last month or so. Here is a good sampling of them. Less Than Dot Net – New site loaded with code snippets for common tasks in .NET. It is a community Wiki that anyone can post helpful code for
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Dealing with Null values (nothing in VB.NET) is a common problem for programmers of any stripe. Null dates stored in the database seem to be a common issue developers experience when they start dealing with null values. Null values in the database for
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So I like VB better than C# for many reasons. Primarily because development experience in VB is built to help productivity. The Development experience in C# is built around being proud of the language rather than solving problems quickly. I could point
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