October 2008 - Posts
One of my favorite web development books is Steve Souders High Performance Web Sites from O’Reilly. In fact I created a session I give from time to time at Code Camps and never have enough time! Yesterday’s DotNetRocks episode is an hour long discussion
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So I have been having a problem designing a rather odd LINQ to EF statement the past week and I decided to contact my friend on the Entity Framework team, Erick Thompson. he said oh yah, I created something like what you are looking for in the 101 sample
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What started as a few innocent comments on Twitter has taken on a life of it’s own, NotAtPDC , a virtual gathering of all of us that could not make the journey to LA this week for PDC. This is almost an ad-hoc community driven event with some structure
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I am sure just about any of us that have done any development work against a database, and who hasn’t, has come across this error, ‘String or binary data would be truncated’. This is really a warning more than it is an error, but will
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I love to generate code, I have code templates for Code Smith that are the equivalent of a mold for a machine shop. I use them to create thousands upon thousands of lines of code each week, so I guard them with my life and update them almost as often
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In college I majored in polymer chemistry and I thought I would use some of that chemistry today to demonstrate how to use Dictionary(of TKey, TValue) (VB.NET), Dictionary<TKey, TValue> (C#) class. The generic Dictionary(of TKey, TValue) class is
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If you have not downloaded SP1 for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5, please go ahead and get to it. If you installed the Beta, like me and many other folks you will want to run the prep tool first . I am not going to do one of those here is a list of new
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The year was 1993, I was attending Providence Baptist Church off Glennwood and DurRaleigh Rd. Little did I know that less than a mile away the FBI was conducting a huge raid and arrest of one of the world’s top hackers, Kevin Mitnick . Kevin Mitnick was
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I will be giving my httpHandlers and httpModules presentation next Tuesday night at the Pee Dee area (Florence, SC) .NET user group next week. Every time I give this presentation it is different than any other time because I am always improving my library
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Ok, so I know Visual Studio 2008 is the current version we are all using, right? But I have been a little behind on some of my books and well to be honest really using the cool features of Team System. So I got this book almost a year ago and finally
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I will be presenting an introduction to the Entity Framework and the Beer House this Saturday at the Richmond Code Camp . I have been very busy with the Beer House application, Entity Framework, ASP.NET AJAX, CSS Layouts and much more the past 2 months
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