I’ll keep this post brief: You know Processor technology moves extremely fast with variants like A64, Opteron, A64FX etc. You probably are also aware of different core technologies: Newcastle , Prescott etc. Of course you are aware of difference sockets: 754, 7 etc. Want to tie all these together? Until now I used to spend [...]
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This news is at least two weeks old: The latest MSN Toolbar allows tabbed browsing in IE6. It works great and I have not used Firefox since installing it: http://toolbar.msn.com/ One installed your tabs will look like this (sweet):
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 was stunned I had never heard of it before, I soon said “wow that’ll make my XML [...]
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 are in Zell am See in Austria, speaking mostly German so far with the locals. [...]
Bet you did not expect that! Has Paul given up on technology and turned to the slippery side? Nah of course not; property is vague hobby of mine and the material is fascinating. Plus when flipping houses you save almost 3% on each transaction (less MLS + Broker fees). Recently I worked on Real Estate [...]
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 drop bad comments rather than stop the entire import), but that was about the [...]
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 to be refactored but I was unhappy manually passing in the filename to every call [...]
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: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/architect/ I stumbled across this while researching MCDBA. Apparently if you are an already MCSD, only two more exams are needed [...]
This is a huge thanks to the great folks that attended my presentation yesterday. We had a scream, everyone seemed to be having a good time, with both the audience and me cracking jokes – it was just like hanging out with friends except that over 50% of the faces were new. ‘Pauls tries to Write VB [...]
Hopefully this presentation stirred some interest; especially in log4net. As promised here is the slide deck. http://dotnetworkaholic.com/csharp/downloads/CodeCamp2005.ppt Also here is the log4net cut-’and-paste everywhere’ line: private static readonly log4net.ILog log = log4net.LogManager.GetLogger(System.Reflection.MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod().DeclaringType); For those not at the presentation that line of code uses reflection to determine the Class’s type instead of us modifying GetLogger(typeof (YourClass)) every [...]
