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Woo-hoo! Stop the Presses

The Hobson and Holtz report has a great podcast that can act as an introduction for a lot of podcast concepts and how it applies to business....

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August 7, 2005
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Security fix headlines

Check out the difference in headlines for Mozilla fixing some security faults compared to a headline for Microsoft fixing security faults: Firefox update squashes security bugs PCs falling victim to...

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July 13, 2005
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Software Patent Insanity

Clemens Vasters has a brilliant post on "Software Patent" Insanity. He suggests using a community collaboration model as a means of practically managing patent office overload when it comes to...

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July 1, 2005
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DataTable Constraints

I'm currently developing an ADO.NET provider for a Scada system called MacroView that was first released back in 1988. Part of that development is a background service that runs on Windows, Linux,...

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June 30, 2005
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TIBCO General Interface

Check out the following Jon Udell screen cast of the General Interface product from TIBCO. This is really impressive stuff....

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May 26, 2005
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Virtual Earth

I suppose this will join the list of "every man and his dog" blogging about MSN Virtual Earth, but this Channel 9 video really impressed me. How the @#&%!...

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May 25, 2005
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VS2005 Office Development Restrictions

While listening to various podcasts and reading blogs on VSTO 2005 I got the distinct impression that there are so many deployment restrictions to the VSTO functionality, it would be difficult to...

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April 1, 2005
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Toshiba M200

I bit the bullet recently and bought a new Toshiba m200 tablet pc. Its an incredible piece of hardware, but I have found a few things that are annoying which will be posted over a period of time....

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March 26, 2005
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Jim Gray on Channel 9

An absolutely fascinating interview with Jim Gray is over at Channel 9. He labels his views as "the lunatic fringe". Huh!? It all made wonderful sense to me....

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March 22, 2005
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Field Name Colors

Eric Gunnerson wrote a post on field name conventions where the conclusion was that having an m_ prefix in front of field names makes it easier to identify fields versus variables....

visual-studio code-quality programming
March 10, 2005
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