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POSIX Serial Programming
I've been working on a cross platform Modbus communications library and driver over the last month or so. It involved a number of communication transports – tcp/ip, direct serial port and modem...
December 28, 2004
Read More IT Conversations Competition
Doug Kaye posted on Competition Down Under for IT Conversations. Being curious about another source of content I checked it out....
December 10, 2004
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Ward Cunningham Interview
Check out the Ward Cunningham interview on The ServerSide.net. I identify somewhat with the following quote: I do know that a lot of times if the programmer gets good, while he is getting good, he...
community professional-development agile programming
December 2, 2004
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IT Conversations Business Model
Doug Kaye of IT Conversations asked for some feedback on a business model for his site. Here's a copy of my suggestions: I personally find the variety of conferences available throughout the world...
business-analysis podcasts conferences community
November 29, 2004
Read More Tabbed Browsing
Tabbed browsing in Firefox is way useful. Take this post from Sam Gentile: "First this one with this, and then him. Now only if we can have this one go too.!Blog tracking pixel" I didn't have a clue...
firefox browser internet-explorer web-development productivity-tools
November 25, 2004
Read More Whitepages Search
I had another one of those "aren't web searches amazing" moments today. In the process of trying to find the phone number of a school, I eventually gave up on www.whitepages.com.au and used the...
November 10, 2004
Read More VB.NET Refactoring Cut
Sam Gentile is not happy about the cutting of most of the refactoring functionality out of VS.NET 2005. I tend to stay on the C# side of the fence - just because that's the syntax I'm most familiar...
vb-net visual-studio refactoring microsoft development-tools
November 5, 2004
Read More JBoss IDE Demo
I subscribe to the "Enter the JBoss Matrix" feed and got a link to this video from there. Now the JBoss IDE stuff was interesting and the Eclipse IDE looks pretty snazzy (some day I'll get around to...
October 27, 2004
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ObjectDataSource
Check out the MSDN TV episode "Drag Once Databinding for Client Apps". A couple of years ago, I spent some time attempting to get object properties to appear in the data binding selection lists of...
visual-studio data-binding ado-net object-oriented dotnet
October 22, 2004
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