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Video Conferencing Code of Conduct
My team uses ooVoo for video conferencing our Daily Scrum. It’s been great and very reliable. My only complaint is a lack of whiteboard or desktop sharing, but we’ve overcome these obstacles with other tools (see SharedView). Over the months, I’ve come to acquire an expectation…
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Virtual Property C# Code Snippet
For those of you who use NHibernate you may find this convenient, if you don’t already have your own. Below is a C# code snippet for creating a public virtual property (code and file are both there). Just put it in your <Visual Studio 2005/2008>\Code Snippets\Visual C#\My Code…
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Visitor Pattern with Anonymous Methods
I don’t often have the need to implement the Visitor Pattern, but today I was that day. I looked around really quick for an example of how to do this with Lambda Expressions and Anonymous Methods, which seemed like they were the way to go. It may be that my search skills have…
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Why WPF? This is why...
http://dnrtv.com/default.aspx?showID=115 Just awesome! I didn't see anything far fetched other than they must have a great designer on staff. I wonder if the designer was doing the Blend work?
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Backup Your Site
So last night I was restructuring my hosting infrastructure (read: moving folders around) and managed to delete the folder that hosts most of my sites. I got that nasty sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach. I was able to get things back up, but my hosting provider, which is…
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Jing
http://jing.cromwellhaus.com/2008-07-01_1427.swf
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NHibernate Thinks Your Enum is Dirty
Get your head out of the gutter. It's important to look at your mapping files closely when trying to diagnose unexpected results. One of our developers had recently added two properties to our big honkin' CustomerOrder entity. These both happened to be enumeration values, which…
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SysPrep Your Virtual PC Images
I create a lot of Virtual PC images, be they for demos, testing, or actual work. If you haven’t started using Virtual PC all the time, start. When you do, start syspreping your machines and you’ll save yourself a ton of time and find Virtual PC that much more useful. Here is a…
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MiniMVC for WPF
Tonight I presented for the Dayton.Net Developers Group on WPF. Unlike my previous Lap Around WPF @ CONDG which was meant as a beginners guide to WPF, this time we were skipping the basics and plunging into a framework I've dubbed MiniMVC. MiniMVC is, primarily, a set of…
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Quicky Visual Studio Projects you can Toss to the Curb
When I'm trying to explain things to people or just want to try something out really quick I'll often create myself a temporary Visual Studio projects that I don't intend to keep around. In fact, I have an entire Temp folder full of them. I always loved that in the VB 6.0 IDE you…