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Programatically change the identity of an AppPool

posted Friday, September 28, 2007 1:22 PM by rrinaldi
A couple weeks ago we were making some changes to our web servers that required all the Application Pools to be running as a known domain user.  While it’s not hard to change it by hand, I figured it would be smarter for me to have 2 scripts, Read More
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Chicago Area Job Opening: Trading Technologies - Application Administrator

posted Thursday, July 12, 2007 11:22 AM by rrinaldi
Application Administrator (Enterprise Applications) Trading Technologies international inc. (TT) is a cutting edge, profitable software development firm committed to providing robust, reliable trading systems to professional derivatives traders and brokers. Read More
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Never ever catch System.Exception...

posted Friday, June 29, 2007 3:06 PM by rrinaldi
…except when you should. :) Patrick Cauldwell wrote a great post on how to handle exceptions and I agree with everything he says except for this: "If you find yourself arguing for catching Exception, you probably have a design problem." In most cases Read More
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weblogs.asp.net has been upgraded

posted Wednesday, May 16, 2007 2:26 PM by rrinaldi
2 words: Not. Better. Read More
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My new favorite numbers (in hex)

posted Friday, May 04, 2007 2:19 PM by rrinaldi
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 Those are pretty nice numbers. Read More
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Twitter Twitter

posted Tuesday, March 13, 2007 1:56 PM by rrinaldi
I’m twittering.  I’m not sure why, but I am and so should you. Read More
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Using Web Application Projects with Team Build?

posted Monday, August 14, 2006 4:05 PM by rrinaldi
Are you using Web Application Projects with Team Build? Did you upgrade from WAP RC1 to 1.0? Can you not find your Web Application Project under the _PublishedWebsites directory in your drop location? I couldn’t, and after much googling I found Read More
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Show your flair

posted Wednesday, July 19, 2006 3:22 PM by rrinaldi
I posted mine, now where is yours? (Yes, that is a picture of a stuffed monkey.  Donkey Kong to be exact.) Read More
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Blogs that are good and good for you

posted Thursday, July 13, 2006 12:00 PM by rrinaldi
My good friend Rob (who started his own company, Ocular Data Solutions) asked me for some good blogs to read since he is relatively new to .NET.  I figured it would make a good post and give me a chance to send some google juice his way.  Read More
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New Gadgets

posted Wednesday, July 05, 2006 5:18 PM by rrinaldi
Over the past few months I’ve accumulated (and lost) a few new gadgets: Gadget the first: A Motorola RAZR V3 Phone.  This guy replaced my old phone, a V600, which I really liked but the V600 decided he didn’t like hearing me talk any Read More
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TFS postings of note

posted Monday, April 03, 2006 4:06 PM by rrinaldi
Update on the TFS MSSCCI Provider: One step closer to tossing VSS out the window.  *BOOT!* Work Item Type Designer: and I quote “A DSL Tools based Designer (Modeling tool) that allows you to visualize Work Item Type definitions exported from Team Read More
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Links of dubious value

posted Monday, February 06, 2006 7:37 PM by rrinaldi
Random things I’ve found in the past weeks: RoboForm: Freeware of the moment via jkOnTheRun Don’t step on a 20–sided die via Haacked TypOmeter V2 via Oliver Sturm (Oliver is also working on a DXCore plugin that will store your VS.NET Read More
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The Pong clock, for sale! - Engadget

posted Wednesday, January 18, 2006 2:03 PM by rrinaldi
The Pong clock, for sale! - Engadget. A clock that plays pong by itself.  The right side scores every minute and the left side scores every hour.  Time for me to start saving up some cash so I can splurge and pick this baby up! Read More
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I'm I the last person in the world NOT to have a podcast?

posted Wednesday, January 18, 2006 1:49 PM by rrinaldi
Even the Lt. Gov of Illinois has a podcast… Read More
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Chicago Nerd Dinner - Downtown Edition - January 24th

posted Tuesday, January 17, 2006 11:38 AM by rrinaldi
When: Tuesday, January 24, 2006Where: Rock Bottom @ State & GrandWhere: 6PM Live/work near downtown Chicago? Want to join in on some informal .Net and geek conversation... with food and drink? Come to the Rock Bottom.  The Rock Bottom has beer. Read More
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