Category Archives: Other

It took about five hours all-in to move from .Text to Das Blog. Thanks to Michael Earls for his part in dottext2dasblog. I had to make a change to their codebase so my comments would import (I simply made the tool … Continue reading →

Let’s start by saying that I loved this book. While in a speakers lounge once I picked it up from the sky-high give-away pile, started reading, got engrossed and well… it ended up travelling the 500 miles back home with me! … Continue reading →

This is super simple but amazingly few developers know CDATA exists. About a year ago I asked Burr Sutter what was all this CDATA garbage in messages we were receiving from an (IBM) MQ feed. He told me and I … Continue reading →

Roughly 24 hours after arriving at Atlanta airport Saturday morning Richard Rubin and I arrived ready to begin at our client site tomorrow. The view from my hotel window is rather good and I though y’all might appreciate it: We … Continue reading →

On my current project we wished to impersonate a WebService for test purposes and decided to record live messages using XmlSerialization. For the first few messages I manually implemented code to serialize to a file. This cut-and-paste reuse obviously had … Continue reading →

Just a heads-up. Love or hate certifications we will likely be hearing that next year for any senior .Net position. Even if you are already MC*.* you don’t have this one which is coming next year: I stumbled across this while researching … Continue reading →