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Vista: Then is the time!
Scott definitely needs a hug, or something. Having said that, I agree with his comments and conclusions 100%. I'm willing to admit that I've really not been interested in Vista throughout its development. Despite my previous love for the "next and most painful", it's just not doing anything for me, and trying to bundle WinFx .NET 3.0 and/or Visual Studio to it just isn't working either. VS (actually more like VWD) and ASP.NET are the only things really keeping me from tossing everything and moving to another platform. Or becoming a barrista, even though my current location seems to show...
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The power of the slashes
Oh, the people I'd like to do this to...
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ETags and HTTP Handlers
A few days ago, I was going to write a complaint about people not putting the Last-Modified and ETag headers on their HTTP Handlers, and/or not putting something rational in their Last-Modified. I was hitting a bunch of RSS and WeblogAPI endpoints with Fiddler, and noticed that many people would put the request time in the Last-Modified header, or that it wouldn't be there at all. If you've done this, you've basically asked for bandwidth problems. It means that the only way for a client app to determine if you've changed anything is for it to re-request everything from that API.
It's...
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Fear the Devil Woman!
Based on the recent discussion of the "merits" of SourceSafe, I'd say that the hero graphic on the VSS page is highly appropriate:
via dzone.
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AlexBarn has left the building
When I first saw that Alex was moving his blog off of blogs.msdn.com, I was thinking of posting my own rationalle, but decided against it as I was sour on blogging. Then Brian mentioned that he had similar reasons as Alex, so I decided I had to comment.
I first started blogging on my "old company site". It was a home-grown solution. Pretty cheesy, what Eric Sink calls a "MeWare" solution. I stopped that after a stinging side comment from Scott Swigart ("Writing a blog solution is the .NET equivalent of 'Hello World'", or something like that) and moved on to...
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Working virtually, or virtually working?
Darren has an excellent post for virtual workers of all stripes. As my current "job" starts around 7am, and often ends around 11:40, I'm finding I need to relearn how to stop working. The danger in working from home is the inability (for me, at least) to step away from the desk. What I've been experimenting with lately seems to have helped a bit, so in addition to his excellent suggestions, I'll add a few of my own:
If you're really busy, shut off IM (and probably also your e-mail client). Having your IM up, even marked as "busy" seems to...