My thoughts on software development, technology and design.

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After Robert mentioned that we will be moving to a newer version of the .NET framework, I wanted the opportunity to ...

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MSDN documentation

December 03, 2007
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Microsoft's online MSDN documentation has, for some time, offered a very intuitive way of discovering information about ...

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C# - Switch statement

November 30, 2007
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I am always interested in writing one or two lines less and I saw a technique employed quite a lot when using Switch ...

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Got a Zune 80

November 29, 2007
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I was desperate to get a Zune 80, my wife was attempting to get the new iPod, which in principle is fine, but I did not ...

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Basic Reflection

November 28, 2007
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I have been messing with a few of the more basic principles of reflection recently. The main points include pulling out ...

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Zune Wireless Sync\Zune Social

November 13, 2007
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The Zune 2 firmware update was well worth the wait, I actually waited up till midnight to get it but it was not ...

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