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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...

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November 29, 2004
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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...

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November 25, 2004
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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
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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...

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November 5, 2004
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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...

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October 22, 2004
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