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Tuesday, July 29, 2003 5:36 PM

What I have(n't) been doing lately...

“May you live in interesting times” they say :) 1 week away from the last milestone of a .NET (winforms) project which will ultimately be rolled out to over 100K desktops. We have nailed every single milestone so far but this last one is gonna be tight.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2003 5:34 PM

NUnit 2.1 Beta 1 Released

NUnit 2.1 Beta 1 Released From the project page: "At long last, NUnit 2.1 is released in its initial Beta version. Highlights of this release include support for the .NET framework 1.1, the ability to run test suites across multiple assemblies, improvements
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Tuesday, July 22, 2003 3:23 PM

Another item for the VB.NET wishlist

To whoever is still counting: VB.NET doesn't default to separate DEBUG / RELEASE directories? C# does, but in VB.NET both build modes are built to the BIN directory by default. Try as I may, I still can't come up with a reasonable explanation why only
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Saturday, July 19, 2003 12:21 AM

Blogs = $$ ?

A quick peek into a possible blogging business model is up at http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.05/start.html?pg=3 from the guy who created MoreOver.com (remember him?). He also has some great quotes such as "Weblogs are the most meritocratic form
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Wednesday, July 16, 2003 8:24 PM

Can someone clear up the uncertainly regarding CG and the Large Object Heap?

The CLR's GC implementation has "troubles" with large objects. These do not get collected as part of the managed generations and that can cause all sorts of unpleasantness such as memory fragmentation or worse. My app might be impacted by this since it
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Tuesday, July 15, 2003 4:36 PM

Who really needs the PDC?

[Royo] feels left out because he can't make it to PDC. Well I won't be there either, and I'm really not upset about it at all. Dude, the PDC isn't targeted at you. You should feel bummed out only if you miss TechED. THAT is the premiere event for developers.
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Monday, July 14, 2003 10:22 PM

TransparentProxy article - excellent! Now if only I had a clue what he was talking about ;)

Just kidding... I almost made it through the whole article, but my brain bluescreened somewhere around this part: You might imagine that we could virtualize the byref the way we virtualize the implicit property access. In other words, we could generate
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Monday, July 07, 2003 8:32 PM

Total Geek am I

30.76923% - Total Geek http://www.innergeek.us/geek.html Although no geek test should be considered complete without the following questions: 1a. Do you read blogs daily? 1b. Hourly? 1a. Do you post daily? 1c. Hourly? 2a. Have you ever presented at a
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Wednesday, July 02, 2003 10:30 PM

De-Scoble-ized

Yep, I'm taking Scoble out of my OPML. It isn't that he talks to much- just that he says too little. Having an aggregator sort of makes him redundant since 50% of his posts are "[X] says [Y]" and I am usually subscribed to [X] anyway. I'll make sure to
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Wednesday, July 02, 2003 9:12 PM

Code Generation

It seems that everyone agrees that code generation is a potentially usefull tool for certain scenarios. The only problem is that there is no consensus regarding what those scenarios are... personally I would be interested in hearing some opinions on how
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