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November 2004 - Posts

I'm an Amiga.

posted Saturday, November 27, 2004 5:50 PM by brian
Awesome... I loved my Amiga back in the day.Which OS are You? Read More
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Counting Monkeys

posted Monday, November 22, 2004 10:53 PM by brian
Ian made me laugh… Counting Monkeys Read More
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Cropper 1.6 Beta, now fortified with plug-in goodness

posted Monday, November 22, 2004 10:27 PM by brian
I had a lot of request for different output formats. Many of them were interesting, but I did not want to put all of them into the core app. I still want it to remain small and fast. I have done a few other plug-in apps so I thought “Why not?” Then I answered “’cause it’s probably overkill and you are just showing off!” Then I got mad and… Well, just read the release notes…. Read More
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NewsGator + Lookout = Great Development Resource

posted Friday, November 19, 2004 11:46 PM by brian
Using NewsGator to consume all of my RSS subscriptions and Lookout to search through them has turned out to be a very good resource for development questions. I never get to read all the posts when they are posted, or some may not seem relevant at the time, but doing a search in Lookout this evening for a question I had brought back more results, and answers than I expected. Read More
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ReSharper Redux

posted Wednesday, November 10, 2004 2:30 PM by brian
Earlier this year I downloaded and tried ReSharper from JetBrains. Although I liked what it did, It was slow and buggy and caused VS to crash a couple times. I decided to give it another try after seeing Scott Water post about using it. I must say, I really like the new version... Read More
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Don't defrag your iPod

posted Wednesday, November 10, 2004 11:40 AM by brian
Since I'm talking about hard drives and fragging. After I got everything restored and moved back to the single remaining HD, I started defragging all of the partitions. What I didn't realize is that my iPod showed up in the list as a removable HD, and I had included it... Read More
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Do you back up all your data?

posted Wednesday, November 10, 2004 11:31 AM by brian
You should. I just spent the last week digging through restored data files I was able to pull off my brand new SATA 120GB HD... Read More
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A generic sorter for strongly-typed collections

posted Wednesday, November 10, 2004 10:53 AM by brian
I've spent some time hacking out comparers for multiple custom collections in a current project. Never thought about using reflection to write one generic comparer for all the collections. Great job Ian. Read More
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