July 2005 - Posts
After ramping up to blogging every day it all stopped suddenly this week. Recent developments (all good, don't worry) need me to concentrate on them for a few weeks, and inevitably it's going to be hard to blog about the mundane for a while. Plus another
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DiscountASP.NET are the first web hosting company to go live with support for Dozing Dogs CMS. Two other very well known companies are soon to follow, but kudos to DiscountASP.NET for being so responsive to my request for support. It bodes well if you
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CMS sales are doing so well, I decided to invest in a little search engine company . via Steve Rubel
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Rick's wondering how to remember that I invited him for fish-n-chips next time he's here in Atlanta. This is actually something I've been thinking of recently after adding the ability to monitor a web site search via RSS . I thought this was pure genius
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FYI, I'm going to try to join everyone at the Atlanta Bloggers Dinner tomorrow night . Scoble is in town if you've never meet him before.
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Great blog from Rick today about preparing for Rude Q&A . I do something similar with my wife believe it or not. She's not afraid to tell me I'm a stupid prick, so whenever I have "a great idea" I always summon up the courage to ask her first. She
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Everyone is putting their cute PDC badges up, so here's mine! PDC , Los Angeles - 9/13 - 9/16. No thanks! MVP Summit, Redmond - 9/28 - 10/1 - Hell yeah! ASP Insiders, Redmond - 10/1 - 10/5 - Hell yeah! Sitting in Building 20 with 30-40 of the best ASP.NET
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I'm installing SQL Server onto my new Windows Server 2003 for testing, and I slipped in my normal DVD - up pops up a window saying that SQL Server SP2 and lower "is not supported on this o/s". Oh, ok. I go through my latest MSDN disks to find the latest
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I came across some C++ today. I didn't realize this, but I miss it. C# is certainly better for writing most code nowadays, but when I saw.. **p++; ..and.. (p->*func)(a); ..or even.. fp p = &A::g; ..I just couldn't help but smile. Aah, the good
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Isn't the aim to get slashdot to link to you, not the other way around? Red Gate Software 's newsletter pointed me at slashdot this morning for a review of Expert .NET Delivery Using NAnt and CruseControl.NET by Marc Holmes. As you know, I've been thinking
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This morning I'm installing Windows Server 2003 for the first time. I always work on XP Pro on my development machine, but a change that good friend Dave Wanta requested can only be tested on Win2k3. I'm using Virtual PC 2004, something that I've meant
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I'm back from a great vacation in St. Augustine, FL where we really did have great weather. A few storms in the evenings but otherwise 90 degrees and sunny on the beach. Today I was inspired to create a new CD so I searched my new and old favorites to
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Yes, more vacation. We decided last year that we preferred many small cheap(er) vacations instead of the traditional blow-out $10,000 trip to Disney World/San Francisco/Tuscany etc. So tomorrow we leave for a week in St. Augustine, FL where it will be
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I don't want to be suckered again , but I'm interested - does anyone readin this own a Herman Miller Aeron chair or similar high-priced "Premium" office chair? Or know someone who does? I value my back as much as the next guy, and sit in this well-worn
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Dozing Dogs CMS uses TripleDES encryption quite often internally, but the latest ASP.NET 2.0 beta has subtly started enforcing some rules that weren't clear to me in 1.0. As a result, we get a new exception being thrown under some versions of 2.0 beta:
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Our thoughts will be with the people of London today as they recover from the terrorist bombs that blew up in the London Underground and on Public Transport buses.
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Chris Frazier made an excellent point about my earlier blog " internal, not private " when he commented "Testing privates bad. Testing public api gooood. Makes refactoring lots easier." He's right of course, but of course I have A Very Good Reason. Well,
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I've meant to say this before, but use internal 1 for your private/protected methods if you can; it will make them available to your unit tests if you ever decide to test them (and of course you should!) 1 I think Friend is the correct term for you VB
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Snippet-of-the-day #2 I find this surprising. A huge 30 foot branch snapped on a tree in our yard a few weeks ago, but remained attached. I decided to pull it off using our Expedition , but I needed a seriously beefy towrope. So I went to Home Depot (spot
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I lost my sunglasses in Home Depot the other day. I think they were $300 Ray-Ban's, but I got them from the Outlet store for $150. Or something like that. They were nice glasses, but I must have been feeling the sun that day - $150? So this time I went
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Unit testing continues; I've added tests for more than half the code now. I'm actually only testing methods containing stored procedure calls since that is the current point of unit testing - I want to exercise every sproc to ensure that my latest unicode
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Wally's podcast features an interview of yours truly.
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Did you realize that Newgator for Outlook doesn't check the blogs directly anymore - it goes to newsgator's cache of the blogs. From the horses mouth: "The way the sync system works is that we download posts from the NewsGator content service instead
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