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Jeffrey Palermo | Jeffrey Palermo (.com) | 09 Mar 2010 15:27

Supercharging ASP.NET MVC with MvcContrib (article)Subscribe to Jeffrey Palermo (.com)

Jeffrey Palermo writes "....CoDE Magazine has published a new article from me on MvcContrib.  Here is an excerpt: Hot on the heels of the groundbreaking release of ASP.NET MVC CTP 1 in December of 2007, an open source project called MvcContrib came to life. MvcContrib..."
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Supercharging ASP.NET MVC with MvcContrib (article)
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Scott Mitchell | Scott on Writing | 09 Mar 2010 14:14

Determining Whether a String Is Contained Within a String Array (Case Insensitive)Subscribe to Scott on Writing

Scott Mitchell writes "....About once every couple of months I need to write a bit of code that does one thing if a particular string is found within an array of strings and something else if it is not ignoring differences in case. For whatever reason, I never seem to..."
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Determining Whether a String Is Contained Within a String Array (Case Insensitive)
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 09 Mar 2010 12:12

Hibernate Profiler New Feature: Parameters ValuesSubscribe to Ayende @ Rahien

Oren Eini writes "....One of the annoying things about the Hibernate port of the profiler was that JDBC didn’t provide us with the parameters values. Eric has just fixed and that is now live: Enjoy…"
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 09 Mar 2010 10:00

Cut the abstractions by putting test hooksSubscribe to Ayende @ Rahien

Oren Eini writes "....I have been hearing about testable code for a long time now. It looks somewhat like this, although I had to cut on the number of interfaces along the way. We go through a lot of contortions to be able to do something fairly simple, avoid hitting..."
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Cut the abstractions by putting test hooks
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Scott Hanselman | Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen | 09 Mar 2010 06:23

WPF and Text Blurriness, now with complete ClaritySubscribe to Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen

Scott Hanselman writes "....The #1 complaint I hear about WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) is that many fonts end up looking "blurry." It's a darned shame because really great applications like Evernote get criticized because of this one issue*. The blurriness..."
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WPF and Text Blurriness, now with complete Clarity
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Scott Hanselman | Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen | 09 Mar 2010 01:21

A Trip Down Memory Lane - Presentations over 10 years oldSubscribe to Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen

Scott Hanselman writes "....I've been presenting for a long time. It's great fun, mostly it's stand-up comedy with code and PowerPoint. I also keep everything, always, so earlier today when I was asked by a friend to find some ten year old code, I found a few 10 year old..."
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A Trip Down Memory Lane - Presentations over 10 years old
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Steve Smith | Steve Smith's Blog | 08 Mar 2010 18:51

Fix: Can’t Change or Remove Visual Studio 2008 from DVDSubscribe to Steve Smith's Blog

Steve Smith writes "....If you installed Visual Studio 2008 on a 64-bit operating system, you may have trouble when you try ad add or remove functionality by inserting the disk (or remounting the ISO image).  I believe this is because of the path used to install the..."
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Fix: Can’t Change or Remove Visual Studio 2008 from DVD
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Jeffrey Palermo | Jeffrey Palermo (.com) | 08 Mar 2010 16:32

I am speaking at the Lubbock .Net User Group on March 29thSubscribe to Jeffrey Palermo (.com)

Jeffrey Palermo writes "....If you live in the area, or if you are a student at Texas Tech University, come on out to the Lubbock .Net Users Group.  More details to follow. http://www.ldnug.net/..."
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I am speaking at the Lubbock .Net User Group on March 29th
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 08 Mar 2010 10:00

Lessons learned from building the NHibernate ProfilerSubscribe to Ayende @ Rahien

Oren Eini writes "....Last week I gave a talk about the things I learned from building NH Prof. Skills Matter had recorded the session and made it available. Looking forward for your comments, but I should disclaimer that this was after a full day of teaching and on 50..."
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Lessons learned from building the NHibernate Profiler
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 08 Mar 2010 08:46

Slaying relational hydras (or dating them)Subscribe to Ayende @ Rahien

Oren Eini writes "....Sometimes client confidentiality can be really annoying, because the problem sets & suggested solutions that come up are really interesting. That said, since I am interesting in having future clients, it is pretty much a must have. As such, the..."
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Slaying relational hydras (or dating them)
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Rick Strahl (RickStrahl)

Rick Strahl (RickStrahl) @davidsheardown Yeah I only use it for my static site content - not for anything app related. FTP used to work great - now not so much. about an hour ago from TweetDeck


Scott Hanselman (shanselman)

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Rick Strahl (RickStrahl)

Rick Strahl (RickStrahl) Expression Web's FTP client is really FUBAR. Anybody else seeing extensive hangs before files upload? about 1 hours ago from TweetDeck


Rob Conery (robconery)

Rob Conery (robconery) @brannon Hmmm - well I spose but the driver does the serialization etc. Might be able to reuse the Linq stuff tho. about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck