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j and d have their suv in the shop, while mine is simultaneously in the shop, so i got a ride home from a coworker today. he's become a work friend, and wanted to see all the hardware i've been bragging about:quad-core with 8gb ram and six monitorsfile se
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1/30/2009 5:44:21 PM
nobody mentioned this spiffy little feature to me. as i mentioned earlier, i created a prototype database with fk relationships to fart around with a bit. it's based on the blog's schema but with the keys in place. honestly, i never saw the benefit in cr
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1/28/2009 9:35:47 PM
wow, today has been an eventful day. i had six hours of meetings, got an electric bill for $1100, and accidentally tripped a security alarm. but i was in the right and won all around. here is the tale. at work, one of the small projects i'm working on as
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1/28/2009 6:04:26 PM
i'm new to linq. sure, i've played around with it a bit, but i've just performed my first insert. it was problematic, because scott guthrie told us an insert was performed by datacontext.tablename.add(linqobject). this information is out of date, as it wa
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1/25/2009 10:50:16 PM
just a quick tip for anyone out there googling for a way to use like clauses in their linq queries. working on one of my many ongoing personal projects, i tried to do this: from a in dc.activities where a.referrer like referrer select a; well,
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1/25/2009 10:28:49 PM
remember back in the days when we had spreadsheets, résumés, and other documents on paper? remember how the file cabinet would get heavier as it got fuller? you know, back in the 20th century when people had printers? when writing was a literal term and n
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1/25/2009 4:35:19 PM
today i got sick of the "shiny new technologies" we use at work. by shiny and new, of course, i'm referring to the .net framework 1.1 and 2.0, and visual studio 2003 and 2005. so i realized that while the blog was written on .net 3.5 and in visual studio
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1/22/2009 11:37:20 PM
ever since kc1 fell victim to esd a month ago, i'd been using the laptop as my only computer. j found an unused evga 680i mobo (which appeared to be open-box oem), so i had him order it for me. the evga x80i's are the only line i've found from a trustwor
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1/19/2009 4:24:01 AM
i've recorded a few videos in the past; but it seems that i'm not very good at presentations. i prepare a very rough outline if any, and i tend to talk one thought at a time. y'see, while my mind is going a mile a minute, it takes a little while to transl
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1/18/2009 12:54:50 AM
i got more than my daily dose of red tape today. as you know, i've been banished to the world of maintaining legacy code until another suitable project comes along. the legacy code team is happy to keep my plate filled with lots of tedious maintenance tas
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1/12/2009 3:43:35 PM
i just reviewed the things that bothered me about the windows vista sp1 beta, brought about when i linked to them from windows 7 initial thoughts. i've found some that have been corrected, and some that have not. here are my updated lists for windows 7, b
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1/9/2009 11:29:45 PM
now that i've been using windows 7 for a while, i've had a few thoughts and opinions on it. while i didn't blog much for the original longhorn/vista beta, i did for sp1. you may recall my three-part series on the vista sp1 beta and all the things that pis
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1/9/2009 10:37:06 PM
last month i tried my hand at baking chicken with shake & bake. the box explains that it takes 20 minutes to cook boneless chicken patties, but it had taken me 40 minutes. i was filled with ire as i rechecked the chicken at 5-minute intervals. today i rep
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1/9/2009 8:15:35 PM
i recently faced an issue whereas an e-mail subject had to be converted to an encoded format per rfc 2047, which covers mime payloads and transmission over tcp. per rfc2047, the encoding is similar to urlencoding, which is what i first thought of. it didn
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1/8/2009 10:16:02 PM
i googled and i googled, and i found that people on the internet have some funny ideas about some keyboard shortcuts. i'll correct them as i go. on with the list (tested in build 7000 / beta 1) keyboard shortcuts new to windows 7shortcutdescriptionwin-upr
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1/8/2009 5:10:16 PM
i pay for 6mbps service. that's 29mbps right there. yeah, i know, comcast's speedburst or whatever they call it bumps my speed up for speed tests and big downloads. it's still impressive; and i have a habit of downloading big files.
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1/8/2009 3:46:44 PM
as you recall, the windows 7 beta has begun. i've installed it, and i'm ready to spill my data on some pretty cool features. i figure if paul thurott can do it, so can i. here's the first feature i noticed, which wasn't build 6801 that we saw from the pd
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1/8/2009 3:20:28 AM
one hour ago, information week announced windows 7 beta release imminent. they weren't kidding! 23 minutes ago, neowin announced windows 7 beta released to testers. according to ign, windows 7 will be available to the public in two days. our day has come.
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1/7/2009 10:34:32 PM
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project rename test may be drawing to a close. at the very least, it's hit its biggest roadblock yet and won't be going anywhere for a while. so i'd like to look back upon the various hoops and hurdles that have been thrown in this project's path
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1/5/2009 6:26:00 PM
as of today, in a blog post i'll write shortly, i'm working in the legacy jungle again. here are a few choice gems i've picked up recently (redacted): in this wonder of software engineering, the developer has chosen to consume memory by instantiating a va
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1/5/2009 4:28:46 PM
they said i was crazy when i plugged a 500w microwave into a power inverter. that was nearly half a decade ago. they said anyone who tried to reheat chicken on the highway must be a total nutjob. well... via mail online ("the daily mail"): "you no longer
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1/5/2009 11:20:47 AM
2-3 weeks ago, kc1 fell victim to esd (electrostatic discharge) when i attempted to plug a peripheral into the front-mounted usb ports on my cooler master stacker case. a stray spark and the system was out like a light. i troubleshot the problem as a frie
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1/5/2009 2:44:57 AM
via raymond chen: ok, so i don't post as many cool videos as i used to. but this one is pretty sweet. have you ever tried to make a slinky out of post-it notes? eepybird's sticky note experiment from eepybird on vimeo.
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