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DisposableResource

This post contains some very minor variations of the Dispose pattern implemented in a class that implements IDisposable. A typical example of how to implement the Dispose idiom can be found over...

csharp memory-management design-patterns programming
March 8, 2005
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Media Center Update

Our big screen TV karked it a month back, so I haven't done much with the media center experiment up until recently. We had an extended warrantee on the TV so ended up getting a totally new unit....

media hardware windows
March 8, 2005
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Class Designer C++ Support Cut

Bummer. Given the complexity of C++ reverse engineering compared to the simpler/cleaner languages such as C#, VB.NET and J# this is understandable....

visual-studio cpp class-design microsoft
March 4, 2005
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Blog Marketing

Today I did my usual reading through the blogs I've subscribed to within Newsgator on the web. Two posts (by Jeremy Allaire and Eric Mack) referred to commercial ventures that were new and...

blogging rss business-analysis
February 28, 2005
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Indigo

Mitch Denny asks whether anyone would like to see some Indigo content at Code Camp Oz. I reckon this would be great and am particularly interested in: SOA hype versus reality opinions Is Indigo/SOA...

indigo soa dotnet software-architecture communications scada
February 13, 2005
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MPAA

Got this link via neowin.net. To me it smacks of arrogance and heavy-handedness. I can just imagine the people who are really into content/video piracy getting a feeling of justification that they...

licensing industry-trends disruption
February 13, 2005
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.NET Array Expectations

While creating a mini C# code generator, I discovered that .NET Arrays don't behave the way I expected with respect to the Equals and GetHashCode implementations....

dotnet csharp programming
January 31, 2005
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Wrestling Gold from Today's Software Projects

Here are a few excerpts from "Wrestling Gold from Today's Software Projects" at IT Conversations: Clip 1: Agile Return On Investment[]( Clip 2: Production Line Analogy[]( Clip 3: Empirical...

agile project-management estimation podcasts
January 24, 2005
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MCE 2005

I set up a Windows Media Center 2005 PC today with a standard PC and the following extras: Hauppage PVR 250 Microsoft Remote Control A number of blogs I've read on MCE gave the impression it was a...

windows media hardware microsoft
January 14, 2005
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RSS Audio Convenience

Some of the Internet Radio shows I listen to include Brainbrew and Tech Nation. Last week I was toying with sending an email to each of these web sites asking for an RSS feed....

December 30, 2004
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