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Format War Is Over!

January 07, 2008
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A fascinating announcement by Warner Brothers should ensure the demise of the HD-DVD format and thereby allowing Sony ...

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Paint.NET Plugin (Creating Icons)

January 03, 2008
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I have been using Paint.NET for several years now it is a better than good for image and photo manipulation, and ...

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Copy vs Clone (DataSet)

January 01, 2008
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I was looking at the DataSet object the other day and realized that there is both a Copy and a Clone methods. They are ...

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Amazon MP3 tracks - Now featuring Warner Brothers artists

December 28, 2007
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I just noticed that Amazons MP3 beta program has received a much need endorsement from Warner Brothers (WB). They are ...

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Gmail a little bigger

December 27, 2007
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I just noticed that I am getting more space on my Gmail account (6 Gig) and while I am grateful I am wondering what ...

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Windows Principal and Principal Permission

December 22, 2007
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After a fielding a few questions about security in some recent projects, I was looking at couple of ways that security ...

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My top blog posts

December 05, 2007
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I often check the statistics of my blog to see what posts garner the most attention. I was hoping for a more technical ...

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.NET 2.0 Generics

December 05, 2007
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The idea behind collections is concurrently convenient and fraught with potential conversion problems. Collections are ...

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Nullable Types (.NET 2.0 and above)

December 03, 2007
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After Robert mentioned that we will be moving to a newer version of the .NET framework, I wanted the opportunity to ...

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