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UK .NET bloggers page on MSDN

I'd like to say that I was posting this link as a service to the UK .NET community, but I'm sure you'd all see straight through this and realise it's just 'cos there's an MSDN page that mentions me by name ;) Read More
posted Friday, April 30, 2004 12:03 PM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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XDN Professional membership: free offer for .NET bloggers

Came across this via Mike Gunderloy's ever useful Daily Grind: FREE XDN Professional for .NET Bloggers during May 2004Mike Schinkel, president of Xtras.Net, made an offer on his personal blog of a free XDN Professional membership (http://www.xtras.net/xdn) Read More
posted Friday, April 30, 2004 11:44 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Raymond and the command-line

As I've seem to have developed something of a habit of posting about command-line tips, and of linking to interesting Raymond Chen posts, I couldn't help but link to this. It does strike me as strange in these days of Longhorn, Yukon, Whidbey et al. Read More
posted Friday, April 30, 2004 10:25 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Hashtables, dictionaries, worms and sugar

Brad Abrams looks like he's found out about Zymurgy's First Law of Systems Dynamics with his post on changing from Hashtables to Dictionaries in Whidbey: Once you open a can of worms, the only way to re-can them is to use a bigger can. My Read More
posted Tuesday, April 27, 2004 1:14 PM by pdbartlett | 2 Comments
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Don on the future of remoting...

Don Box has another go at clarifying the future of .NET Remoting now that Indigo is peeking over the horizon. YMMV, of course, but it certainly sorted out a few things in my mind... Read More
posted Tuesday, April 27, 2004 9:07 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Quick Reference Cards

As a complement to my previous post on posters (if that makes sense), here's a link to a number of useful looking "quick reference cards". Apologies for not attributing this to anyone - in the future I must remember to bookmark the referencing posts Read More
posted Monday, April 26, 2004 1:24 PM by pdbartlett | 3 Comments
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Just stumbled across...

... Colin Walker's blog, and I can't believe I've not noticed it before. After all, he subscribes to fellow 'dojo-er Adam's blog, and more importantly seems to be a Saints fan like myself :) I've only had a brief look around his site, Randomelements, Read More
posted Monday, April 26, 2004 1:19 PM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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ClearType tuning "wizard"

Microsoft now have an online "wizard" for tuning your ClearType settings. If you're using WinXP with an LCD display then I can highly recommend it as it's done wonders for me... Read More
posted Thursday, April 22, 2004 10:17 AM by pdbartlett | 3 Comments
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Useful sounding WMI tool

From Yosi, via Roy:Microsoft (R) Management Strongly Typed Class Generator Version 1.1.4322.573 Copyright c Microsoft Corporation 1998-2002. All rights reserved. MgmtClassGen [options] /N WMI namespace containing the class. Read More
posted Wednesday, April 21, 2004 1:14 PM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Security freebies from MS

Well, I'm sure it can't have escaped anyone's notice that MS have released the VC++ 2003 compiler binaries for free download as the Visual C++ 2003 toolkit. Not quite as high profile, but just as useful nevertheless, are the recent security-related offerings. Read More
posted Wednesday, April 21, 2004 12:53 PM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Page 23 meme

Well, this seems to be doing the rounds, and my venerable copy of "ATL Internals" was the closest book to hand, so here goes: "Normally, putting up a custom dialog is kind of a pain." With insight like that you can just see that he was bound for Read More
posted Monday, April 19, 2004 1:00 PM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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Fewer architects and less architecture

In a typically thought-provoking piece, Martin Fowler asks "Who needs an architect?", and in doing so ponders exactly what we mean by the terms "architect" and "architecture" in the software development industry. Read More
posted Friday, April 16, 2004 12:52 PM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Interesting discussions

There are a few interesting discussions going on in the blogosphere at the moment. I've said my piece in the following: Brad Abrams: Software Development -- Engineering or Art Christa Carpentiere: The old (or at least the current) and the new Scott Read More
posted Wednesday, April 14, 2004 1:40 PM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Loaded (as in gun) questions

Everyone knows the principle of "loading" a question to try to elicit the desired result, but what happens when any of these become part of our everyday terminology. The example that sprang to mind was "Make, buy or reuse?". Clearly the intention here Read More
posted Wednesday, April 14, 2004 12:49 PM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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MSDN article on "communication patterns"

The article's full title is: Business Process Decomposition and Service Identification Using Communication Patterns, and in particular it highlights the "business transaction pattern". Perhaps this is one example of what I was alluding to in Read More
posted Wednesday, April 14, 2004 11:26 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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My first Longhorn-related post

Just subscribed to Karsten Januszewski's blog, which seems like it's going to provide good coverage of the "Fundamentals" pillar of Longhorn which many other bloggers are neglecting (and it's got some useful Indigo stuff, which is always nice :). [thanks Read More
posted Wednesday, April 14, 2004 9:26 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Apologies for the temporary loss of service

It's not a hiatus, nor have I been off gatecrashing any MS parties ;) My lack of blogging activity has been due to: my daugther and wife consecutively coming down with a rather nasty virus (of the medical rather than the computer variety, of course) Read More
posted Tuesday, April 13, 2004 4:58 PM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Questions, questions (and a couple of answers)

There have been a few questions buzzing around in my head of recent weeks. I've managed to answer a couple myself, but the others remain a mystery. Perhaps someone out there can help? Can C# static methods be inherited? Obviously they cannot be virtual, Read More
posted Tuesday, April 06, 2004 1:01 PM by pdbartlett | 11 Comments
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PalmOS development pointers

Attentive readers will probably guess from the title of this post that I have resolved my PDA dilemma in favour of the Tungsten T3. Now I just have to wait for it to arrive... In the meantime I've downloaded all the goodies I can from the PalmSource Read More
posted Monday, April 05, 2004 12:40 PM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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TechNet Radio

The first "broadcast" from Microsoft's TechNet radio is entitled "IT Security at Mircosoft". Hopefully "MSDN Radio" is next up, as I suggested a couple of months back... Read More
posted Thursday, April 01, 2004 8:41 AM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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