My thoughts on software development, technology and design.

LINQ - I finally get it!

February 23, 2008
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I have been struggling with why LINQ (Language Integrated Query) was even useful for the last few weeks, and then ...

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Zune Games

February 20, 2008
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There was an announcement on the XNA blog that there would be support for Zune games in the next release of the XNA SDK ...

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JavaScript access to your clipboard

February 20, 2008
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I had a fascinating email sent to me the other day that shows how one could develop a web page that could access the ...

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Side-by-Side Execution -bindingRedirect

February 15, 2008
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Over the last year or so I have been working predominantly with ASP.NET and for that reason alone I have tended to not ...

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Array.BinarySearch - What I failed to realize...

February 13, 2008
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I was proposing a solution to a problem today and realized that I had an invalid assumption about the nature of the ...

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CNN Huge Touch Screen - The Magic Wall.

February 12, 2008
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I was glued to the weekends political coverage on CNN, not because I was interested in a winner, but I was very ...

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Enumerators - API Design

February 10, 2008
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I love using enumerators! API developers should do all they can do to include them in method signatures so the API ...

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ValidateRequest - Our XSS Defender

February 07, 2008
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In my line of work I am often given the solution before the problem, that is to suggest, well meaning engineers often ...

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The Changing of the Guard - Bill Gates Last Day

February 06, 2008
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Video: Bill Gates Last Day CES Clip Technorati tags: Bill Gates Last Day ...

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