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Today I was watching the Twitter stream out the corner of my left eye when I caught Paul Irish chatting with Stefan Hayden about why browsers do not include jQuery natively . As the thread progressed the tweet that caught my attention got me thinking:
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During the Raleigh Code Camp you may have noticed the earth shook for a split second as Brian Hitney announced to the throngs gathered at the closing session for the Code Camp that our very own, and good friend of mine, Jim Duffy has been made a Microsoft
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I came across this interesting reflective post looking back at 1994, The Internet Year in Review - 1994 , which was one of the most definitive years in my life. I found the Internet in 1992 at NC State, Go Wolfpack!, and just could not get away from it.
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It amazes me that in today's high tech world that any legitimate company can not have their caller id display correctly. It amazes me even more that the number can not be displayed. Generally these tatics are used by tele-marketers, so I never answer
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I just found this article about a little hidden application in Windows XP that allows you to create a custom font library .
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I was just checking out the Movers and Shakers at Alexa and noticed the #1 Mover was a new Development Site . I checked out the use graph and it is off the chart , which makes me wonder how it do so much attention in the past two days. I will have to
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Microsoft just released the ASP.NET AJAX Framework Beta, go check it out!
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Lately it seems like Microsoft is really producing some great learning material and sites for all the great new technologies. Today I found out about .NET University.
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Can Google Code Search help hacker be even more efficient?
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I had a great time at the Richmond Code Camp this past weekend. Frank, Andy and the Virginia user group leaders did a pretty good job organizing the event. I gave three presentations, ASP.NET performance, Data Controls and URL ReWriting. The first two I have preseneted to TRINUG in the past year, so it was great to finally get to present the URLRewriting.
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I am always looking for good references on the net and one of the things I tend to have problems with is dealing for date formatting. Katy Kam has a great entry on her blog which should serve as a great reference for Date formatting in .NET.
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Get ready for a long list of large affordable USB drives as well as Window's Vista's Ready Boost feature.
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I like to find sample code ot help me solve my problems, who doesn't? Often I find good C# code and I prefer VB.NET, so going through and rewriting the code can be tedious. I have long used Alex Lowe's converter, but I think it leaves a few holes and may not have been updated for 2.0. I think this was just developed as an example of advance reflection capabilities anyway.
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The Good News is that we have Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio available in Beta (so you are on your own with that :>). The bad news is that Visual Studio 2005 will only work, and then with specific problems. Somasegar expalins this a little bit:
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I am excited to announce that I will be making two presenations at the October 7th Richmond Code camp. I will be talking about how to optimize ASP.NET sites for better peromance and URLRewriting.
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