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The Alphabet Project: D
debated this one back and forth all day, but here goes:
D is for Dingleberry
While not a 'real' word, and meaning other things, a dingleberry is a
'hanger on'. Those who have pets with long hair will know what I mean.
Just sometimes things hang on for too long. People have to solve these
things themselves, because others don't want to (or shouldn't) help
them.
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The Alphabet Project: C
C is for Curmudgeon
A curmudgeon is a "cranky old man", something that I feel old enough to
apply for. With many obvious exceptions, computer science has always
struck me as a young man's business. Yes, I should say, "young person's
business", but the 20% of the industry made up of non-men please
forgive me. One symptom of that, however, is the continual re-invention
of many items. I am reminded of a discussion I had many, many years ago
with a curmudgeon at the time around "Why is OOP any better than
structured programming?" Similar discussions of "Why is C++ any better
than C? Why is C any more...
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The Alphabet Project: B
B is for Bifurcation
A bifurcation is a splitting into two items. Back a few lives ago, I read a lot of biology textbooks, and I still remember an old experiment described therein, but never actually tried it myself. In the experiment, planarians (a flat worm) were bifurcated in assorted ways -- lengthwise, width-wise and whatnot. The end result was that the planarian pieces regrow the appropriate parts. It's a lovely example of just how gruesome scientists can be (remind me to tell you of my second job sometime you're drinking a milkshake), and a lovely life lesson.
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The Alphabet Project: Intro and A
As I sit here, preparing the C# dev center for launch, and listening to KMFDM's "A Drug against war", I have decided on a non-technical (well, as if much I do isn't vagely related in some way to tech stuff) project for this site. So, I introduce to you "The Alphabet Project". Wherein I will attempt to blog once daily for the next 26 days, providing slightly veiled commentary based on a word starting with the letter of the day. Kind of like Sesame Street, but with bitterness and snarkiness. Apologies in advance.
A is for Astigmatism
Astigmatism is when your cornea doesn't have...
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Well, new laptop is here
Seems a little heavier than I was hoping, but I guess it will do. I
called it 'Trebuchet' for the 1/2 of you that were curious. The name
was actually suggested by M (I was originally thinking of Spatha) and
the name struck me as hugely appropriate. "A device that takes a large
amount of worthless material and moves it a great distance." (Inside
joke, to be explained in a few weeks)
Now for the rant. Why are PC laptops so horrid looking and heavy
compared to Powerbooks? Don't get me wrong, I'm not a Mac fanboy (I
think), but this new laptop (Dell 6000 if you're curious)...
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Episode 4, the way it was meant to be seen
Amazing version of Episode 4 [via BoingBoing]
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Learn VWD and ASP.NET 2.0 with Interactive Simulations
Only slightly new as one of these (Data Access) has been live for a while, but now we have both, and in "both official languages". These are neat training videos, that include interactive simulations of the IDE.
http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/vwd/videos/default.aspx
Learn ASP.NET 2.0 with Interactive Computer Training
Simplified Data Access with ASP.NET 2.0This presentation demonstrates the process of creating a database and introduces new ASP.NET 2.0 controls designed for working with data.
Visual Basic version | C# version
Introducing Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition
This interactive demonstration will highlight the many time saving productivity features of Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition.
Visual Basic version |...
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Guns. Lots of guns
For those arguments when you're watching the Matrix DVD collection, learn everything imaginable about the guns used/shown in the Matrix.
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More provider wisdom (and what a coincidence)
Just as we published a whack o' content on providers in ASP.NET, Scott comes out with a great overview article on providers. Must be something in the air.
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The Provider Manifesto
As many of you know, ASP.NET uses the provider model fairly heavily, but there's only been relatively limited information available on the existing providers, and how to create your own. Well, those days are gone. We've just sent out 120 pages on the ASP.NET provider model in all of its forms:
Introduction to the Provider Model
Membership Providers
Role Providers
Site Map Providers
Session State Providers
Profile Providers
Web Event Providers
Web Parts Personalization Providers
Custom Provider-Based Services
Hands-on Custom Providers: The Contoso TimesEnjoy...
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Crash Course on Controls, Part 1
Dino begins his new series on creating ASP.NET 2.0 controls today. Read Crash Course on Control Development: Deriving New Controls from Existing Classes
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The upcoming WoW expansion!
OK, site's not working for me, and could be down, but the URL says it all:
http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/world-of-warcraft/two-new-races-for-wow-expansion-130314.php
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Oh, what shall I call it?
The estimated delivery day for your order is between 10/21/05 and 10/25/05
(For those who don't know me -- I take a lot of pains in naming all my computers: Falchion, Schroedinger, Balisong (now sold), Herald, Janus, Tantalus, etc. Go ahead, hack them... )
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Fourth and inches
Nothing like an analogy that only works in Northern North America. I had debated trying something that worked a bit broader, but stuck with that one as I think it's pretty close to the topic of the three speakers in this video on C9. See how the VPs feel about being so close to shipping Visual Studio 2005 (oh, and the other two -- SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006).
Vice presidents S. “Soma” Somasegar, Ted Kummert, and Andy Lees taped an interview with Channel 9 talking about what it’s like to be in the home stretch of such an...
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Media Share Starter Kit, part 2
UPDATE 10/13: I forgot to give you the URL. Sorry about that.
Part 2 of Bill Evjen's ASP.NET 2.0 Jumpstart series went live today. Find out how the database for the Media Share Starter Kit was designed, and why.
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MS Research Visualization Controls
Old news (new to me), Microsoft Research has released a set of rather interesting data visualization controls that I didn't know about. Sadly, they're for Windows Forms, but they are major league cool in my book. Includes (what I was looking for) a Treemap control, as well as BubbleChart, PianoRoll, Spire, ThreadTree and TimeSeries charts.
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Flair fans unite!
We have our first two (that I know about) people using the Coding4Fun flair on their sites -- thank you, thank you, thank you Jason and Brian.
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Know about Coding4Fun? Let others know you know (not a no-no)
One of the things I learned while standing at the Coding4Fun booth for so long at PDC was just how few people knew abou the site. So, this week we've released the first part of our "Blog Flair" for Coding4Fun: a graphic you can add to your blog, Web page or elsewhere to let others know about the Coding4Fun Web site. I'd (and I think Brian'd and Dan'd, and maybe even John'd and Matt'd) love it if you'd stick it somewhere visible, and let others know about C4F, just like you'll see over on the right hand side of this blog....
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Google RSS reader
Oh, but it's Beta... awwwwwww
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Share your media, and learn about Starter Kits at the same time
We've got the first article in a new series by Bill Evjen. In this series, Bill will show you how to create a starter kit, starting with nothing. In this first article, he looks at the Media Share Library that will be created.
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MSDN Webcast: patterns and practices Guidelines to ASP.NET Security
Check out this webcast on Friday, 7 Oct (1pm Pacific) about ASP.NET Security. Fritz and Keith know both ASP.NET and Security through and through, so you know it will be good. You even have overnight to think of questions.