August 2005 - Posts
BlogDay, Link Love Day, call it what you will but Hugh's idea is pretty cool. I skipped past it this morning, but Rick reminded me by sending me a big hunk of link love a few minutes ago. Thanks Rick. So, who to promote? I looked through my subscriptions
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The largest and most complicated Dozing Dogs CMS release was finalized today . At 13 weeks since our last release, it certainly went over my initial estimate - mainly because I decided to add unit tests for every single stored procedure. With such extensive
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Because of our plans to move house later this year we've been putting the finishing touches to our house; renovating the last remaining bathroom and repainting the whole house, etc. One thing that came up was the "shed" in the back yard - it has been
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Following my earlier upgrade of Skype to us SkypeIn and SkypeOut I've had to abandon my attempt to use the PCPhoneline VTA1000 adaptor with my wireless phone. Despire them telling me "There are also thousands of other users successfully using
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Talk about not seeing the wood for the trees. My brain is so worn out trying to get the overdue v2.4 out the door that the very last issue has taken me 8 hours to track down. And it was something so stupid, so trivial that I promised the component support
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No, I refuse to link to the same Visual Studio 2005 Update post that everyone else is. Just be patient furchrissakes. In any case, what does "launch date" matter? Everyone waits until the first few dot releases before installing outside of VPC , right?
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My Outlook is groaning under the pressure of me having hundreds of domains with catchall email addresses. I use SpamBayes to detect spam (I love it), but this morning it popped up a message telling me it had to stop because "my outlook folder is full".
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Scott Guthrie published a great article yesterday explaining how Visual Studio 2005's new web projects work . My favorite part? This feature of the Team System integration: Ability to measure and precisely quantify the percentage of code exercised by
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In Http objects and Unit testing I introduced you to my Context class that replaces the HttpContext classes such as Request, Response, Session, etc..allowing me to unit test my class libraries without fear. During some real-world testing on my staging
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As promised; my new glasses. Btw, all the very best of luck to Luke who is leaving programming after working with me for 18 years - to become a Church of England Vicar of all things. It's always good having someone with connections like that on your side
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This is a wow week - this is my second wow post. Yesterday my new Magellan RoadMate 760 was delivered with an instruction sheet that basically said "Turn it on and go™". Ok smartass, I will. I put it in the car, plugged it in and waited for a few minutes
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Funny - Technorati just found a new link to www.DozingDogs.com - from the " Dogs in the News " page of pet-news-reviews.info.
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Wow. (warning, this may sound like a paid advertisement, but it isn't) I quickly needed to send a project that included a database with some test data in it. That's normally a pain to do, but I remembered hearing about red-gate's SQL Packager product.
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If you're into podcasts and ASP.NET, check out Wally's growing ASP.NET Podcast category.. Of course IMO it has peaked already - it's bound to go downhill since Show #5 when I was interviewed. LOL
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Having a second telephone line brought into the house (I work remotely) is crucial if you want to stay sane. I used to have a business line come to the house, but the big problem with business lines is that there are no call blocking features like you
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It's getting better now; I can read this. 10 minutes ago it was all a blur. Let's back up to yesterday at the pediatricians..I was there for my kids booster shots before school starts, and was asked to step outside while the Doctor examined my daughter.
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V.C. Rick has kindly talked about Dozing Dogs and I before, and every time it is followed by a boost in interest; more questions, more downloads and a few more sales. So, how cool is this, Rick's done it again. (Interestingly, even before I get Rick's
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I'm posting this here to widen the reach of my announcement.. embarrasingly I have been sending out corrupt license files to recent customers and with the trial version you can download from www.DozingDogs.com . All customers affected have been updated,
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Last night (Sunday night) just after Dinner the phone rang. You know the drill: "Hi Mr. Shaw, I am Joe from the Vietnam Veterans Association" or somesuch thing. Normally I interrupt at this point and tell them that I will not be donating because I have
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I remember a discussion some years ago at my then current employer that took place (as all great developer discussions do) after our daily pilgrimage to Subway. We even used to make "Woo, woo!" sounds as the "Subway Train" left at precisely 11:30 each
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I don't know why I missed this the first time around - but the other day I came across a strange idea. Post the fifth sentence of page 23 in the book(s) you are reading. For the record, I have quite a few books open at the moment (I dip into the one corresponding
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Ok, so I'm back to blogging. Slight bump in the road successfully negotiated. One interesting thing to come out of it is that we're probably going to move house. Probably . We're in one of the most expensive parts of Atlanta; probably the most desirable
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