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Windows Azure and VS 2010

posted Tuesday, September 01, 2009 2:18 PM by mitchell
I’m having some “fun” trying to get the Personal Web Site sample from the Azure SDK up and running. I’m running VS 2010 on a brand new Windows 7 install, and the solution won’t compile because it’s missing the   First, I had to comment out these 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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PDC Registration is Open!

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2008 10:38 AM by mitchell
http://www.microsoftpdc.com/Registration/ Read More
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Coding Blind: Changing the Paradigm from Managing By Bug to Managing by Process

posted Thursday, April 10, 2008 5:47 AM by mitchell
"Driving a project from bug data alone is like driving a car with your eyes closed and only turning the wheel when you hit something." - Sam Guckenheimer I was reading Guckenheimer's book, Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System, Read More
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Butting Heads with the Head Buts: Innovation and Generic Implementations

posted Friday, January 25, 2008 12:09 PM by mitchell
I'd like to coin a new word, genericization, mostly because it's fun to say, but it's hard not to go back and try and correct that red squiggly line. Anyway, I didn't really want to talk about new words and automatic spell-checking. What I really want Read More
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If you're not laughing when you're done reading,

posted Friday, January 04, 2008 12:28 PM by mitchell
then you're not a programmer with relatives... (from the Daily WTF): Best of the Sidebar- Could You Explain Programming Please Read More
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VS2008 Hands-on Lab Nuggets

posted Friday, December 07, 2007 2:03 PM by mitchell
A - Got a chance to play with HALO 3 in the lobby. Wow. Makes me want to get a box. 1 - WCF is the communication platform for Microsoft for the next 10 years at least (right out of the Microsoft mouth) That means that Remoting, ASMX, etc. are all legacy Read More
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MSCONFIG on Steroids

posted Friday, November 30, 2007 6:58 AM by mitchell
Just ran across this little gem: Autoruns Read More
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Pat Helland - Accountants Don't Use Erasers

posted Sunday, July 01, 2007 7:37 PM by mitchell
Pat Helland's got a fascinating post on his blog called "Accountants Don't Use Erasers." It's a must read, and here are the two major points: 1) You don't really ever delete ANYTHING.  As a matter of fact, you don't update anything either... You Read More
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Business and IT Interactions Summed Up: Anxious Anticipation of Failure

posted Sunday, July 01, 2007 7:15 PM by mitchell
In working on my most recent project, I've come to the conclusion that, fundamentally, the business folks on any given project are always operating under the position that they are to 'anxiously anticipate failure.' It seems to me that the business side Read More
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Sequence Diagram Generator

posted Tuesday, April 17, 2007 9:29 AM by mitchell
I don't know about you...but I absolutely dislike drawing out this documentation by hand. So, let me tell you that I was pleasantly surprised to see this Sequence Diagram Generator from Nauman Leghari's blog. After waiting an interminable amount of time Read More
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Is Politics a Four Letter Word?

posted Monday, April 09, 2007 12:21 PM by mitchell
Interesting post on GeekLeaders.com about politics in the workplace, and, specifically, what the IT response to it should be. I've always understood what he's saying, but I've never quite seen it stated so succinctly. I suppose that now we'll have start Read More
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Microsoft Expression Products Added to MSDN

posted Tuesday, April 03, 2007 7:10 PM by mitchell
Looks like Microsoft will be adding their Expression products to the MSDN downloads...finally: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/04/03/expression-added-to-msdn.aspx Read More
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