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Wednesday, June 29, 2005 4:31 AM

Throw-away projects in .NET

There are tons of new features in Whidbey. Enough so that I feel that the learning curve going from 1.1 to 2.0 can be easily 50% that of the effort going from <insert> to 2.0 (if not more).  You can spend your time learning generics and predicates
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Wednesday, June 29, 2005 4:09 AM

The Atari 800XL - Old School

The other day, I posted an article about not having any gadgets to play with anymore.  I talked to the wife about it and she agrees that I'm rather gadget-less these days.  She's given me an order to buy more stuff. OK order is a strong word,
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Wednesday, June 29, 2005 4:02 AM

Sleepless in Greenville

For two weeks solid, I've been stuck in some sort of zombie mode.   I've been unable to sleep for more than an hour at a time, or not at all some nights.  I have had some major back pain in the past week and a half too so that may have
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Tuesday, June 28, 2005 2:40 AM

New Article: Fundamentals: Overrides vs. Shadows in VB.NET

OK, so I may get ribbed by some of my friends for writing about VB.NET, but a lot of times, I find its useful to code in another language other than C# or C++.  It gives you perspective and forces you to think about what you are doing again. Without
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Tuesday, June 28, 2005 12:46 AM

SaveToby.com? Unbelievable!

I don't know what's funnier, that some guy made a website threatening to eat a "cute bunny rabbit" if he didn't get $50,000 US before the 30th of this month, or that he's made half of his goal so far in donations!  As the folks at .NET Rocks mentioned,
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Monday, June 27, 2005 2:31 PM

Longhorn is all over RSS

Like it or not, Microsoft is going to start adding a lot of extensions to RSS to produce some cool features for Longhorn.  I have a love-hate relationship with this idea.  What really chaps my hide about this video because the first guy acts
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Monday, June 27, 2005 1:27 PM

John Cleese and BackupTrauma -- Funny Stuff

If you liked Monty Python,  the Life of Brian, Faulty Towers, or any of John Cleese' other works, check this out.
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Saturday, June 25, 2005 1:00 PM

Eric Eicke blogging!

A long time friend and overall coding bad-ass has entered the blogging world. Its my pleasure to introduce you all to Eric Eicke who is my first invited guest on codemilitia.com.  Eric is part-owner and sole architect, designer and developer
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Friday, June 24, 2005 5:26 PM

SecurityMonkey: Looking over the shoulder of an attacker

If you ever thought that it wasn't important to keep that windows update working on schedule, think again. Security Monkey has posted a small blog entry entitled "Looking over the should of an attacker". Its definitely interested and should be a warning.
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Wednesday, June 22, 2005 6:26 PM

Where'd all my 'tech' go?

I'm sitting in my apartment in Greenville, SC looking over the pool, listening to a television that's sitting on the floor, watching commercials for one piece of technology after another.  Suddenly something hit me.  When I was a poor guy
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Sunday, June 19, 2005 4:58 AM

AJAX = Fraud

I've been around long enough in this industry to recognize marketing fraud when I see it.  The buzzword that has become of AJAX is one such instance.  I've about had it with hearing people talk about how its so new and innovative.  I know
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Monday, June 13, 2005 9:21 PM

Where am I?

Only in the blogging world does a subject like "where am I?" get past the most curious of eyes without suspicion of insanity of the author. The truth is I've been asked by a couple of people why I haven't posted anything in the past few days. You can
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Friday, June 10, 2005 11:14 AM

Security Wiki @ Channel 9

The Patterns And Guidance team has added a new wiki on Channel9 for security topics. Check it out, rinse, repeat.
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Thursday, June 09, 2005 12:51 AM

Dockable Tool Window - Vote for this bug please!

VS.NET 2005 introduces a ToolStripContainer control which allows you to develop applications with toolbars that can be docked, undocked, reordered and otherwise rearranged to the edges of a form.   This is an excellent idea, however, what was
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Tuesday, June 07, 2005 10:59 PM

Michael Howard Points to Excellent Series of Papers

Mike Howard has pointed out on his blog that there is an excellent compilation of security white papers in PDF form (image-based PDFs, not Text-based) available for download. Despite their age, these provide the very foundation for some
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Sunday, June 05, 2005 3:06 AM

Thread-Safe Generic Dictionary

The following question was posted on MSDN forums last night and I thought I'd take a little time to answer this considering my apparent threading affinity (*cough*). Here was the question: "Could someone give me a pointer as to how I might implement
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Sunday, June 05, 2005 1:02 AM

Total Immersion touts 'Augmented Reality'

This videio looks way cool.  It's the presentation demo of a company called Total Immersion where they are touting their 'augmented reality' technology.  It allows them to merge animation and objects with real-time video. I watched this demo
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