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PDC 2008: Day 1

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 1:37 PM by mitchell
So, I opened this up to write about it (even thought it's Day 2 and you've already heard all the good stuff), and I just realized that I left my notes back in the hotel. I had to go old school with the notes (pen and paper) because I forgot to get an Read More
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PDC 2008: Pre-Conference: RIA with Silverlight (Morning)

posted Sunday, October 26, 2008 1:17 PM by mitchell
So, we're finished with the first part of the pre-conference, broken up in to very manageable 2-hour chunks across today. By which I mean, of course, that we got to eat lunch. The only comment I have about lunch is that it seemed to cater rather extensively Read More
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PDC 2008: Pre-Conference: The Beginning

posted Sunday, October 26, 2008 9:31 AM by mitchell
Well, technically, it began yesterday since I flew out on Saturday. I've already managed to lose (and find) my credit card, get ripped off for wireless Internet access at the hotel, eat way too much, and lose a lot of sleep because of the time change. Read More
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FileStream vs. StreamReader

posted Tuesday, October 21, 2008 9:05 AM by mitchell
Just to carry the example a little further and show the code behind the $64 String, I thought I'd share with you the two methods I was using to read the values of the key. First, we have the FileStream method, which, basically, reads each byte in sequence Read More
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The $64 String...

posted Monday, October 20, 2008 2:01 PM by mitchell
With apologies to the game show... I was working on a cryptography project, and, without going into detail (it's SECRET, duh), I was having some issues. The other party sent me their test key in a text file, and it was Base64 encoded. Naturally, being Read More
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Visual Acuity of the Human Eye

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2008 12:46 PM by mitchell
Not sure how accurate or useful it is, but it's certainly fascinating. Read More
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