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January 2006 - Posts

Debugging Tips and Tricks

posted Monday, January 30, 2006 9:11 AM by mitchell
A nice series of posts by Jim Griesmer on debugging in VS 2005 with special emphasis on the UI. Read More
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Fluent Interface

posted Thursday, January 26, 2006 8:05 AM by mitchell
An interesting post attempting to explain something called a Fluent Interface. It's definitely intriguing and calls for more investigation. Here's an excellent follow-up read to the post above. Read More
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VDH: Iran's President May Be Nuts, But He's a Smart One

posted Tuesday, January 24, 2006 7:18 AM by mitchell
Victor Davis Hanson has another excellent article available for your review. One question I derived from this is: How do we teach our children that Western culture, for its many flaws, has many more redeeming features which outweight those blemishes? Read More
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St. Louis Code Camp

posted Monday, January 23, 2006 7:30 AM by mitchell
A St. Louis MSDN Code Camp is in the process of being organized. Anyone interested should definitely contact Brian Button and let him know. In addition, here are some resources on Code Camps: From Thom Robbins, the Code Camp Manifesto Code Camp Read More
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Death to Cursors - Make Your T-SQL Faster

posted Tuesday, January 17, 2006 8:42 AM by mitchell
Excellent article on SQL Server Central regarding getting rid of cursors. If you don't absolutely need a cursor, kill it, and let this help.Note, registration may be required. Read More
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The Mexicans Are Invading Us?

posted Tuesday, January 17, 2006 6:47 AM by mitchell
And who said the War on Drugs wasn't a war at all? Read More
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If a tree falls in the woods...applying old conundrums to new things (w/ reference to Media Player 10)

posted Monday, January 16, 2006 4:16 PM by mitchell
Here's a sort of silly question and a challenge to all of you out there (if there are any of you):When I take Windows Media Player down to it's Skin Mode, Visualizations are shown in the player (and, for some annoying reason can neither be turned off Read More
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Building A DAL with VS 2005

posted Monday, January 16, 2006 11:31 AM by mitchell
Check out Scott Gu's blog for an excellent tutorial on using the new Data Designer to generate a DAL (Data Access Layer).Note, the ServerSide.Net also has an excellent article on this. Read More
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Quotes: Lou Holtz

posted Thursday, January 12, 2006 2:30 PM by mitchell
"When all is said and done, more is said than done." Read More
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Microsoft WMF Patch Broke My System

posted Friday, January 06, 2006 7:58 PM by mitchell
So...I download the Microsoft patch to one of my systems at home and it BREAKS the video. No more NVidia card drivers on the system. To top that off, the Celeron driver says it's not loading right either! Does System Restore fix it? No, of course not. Read More
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