blambert's blog
Developer blog of Brian Lambert
For the last 4 months, Matt Augustine and myself, along with Raman Narayanan, Richard Speyer, and...
Date: 04/23/2010
I’ve been working with Azure’s new CloudDrive capability, and today I ran into a problem with...
Date: 03/11/2010
Well, it’s official -- I am moving to Redmond to work for Microsoft. I’m very excited about...
Date: 03/09/2010
Have you gotten the error: InvalidInput One of the request inputs is not valid when performing an...
Date: 01/06/2010
It’s been months since I had anything interesting to blog about. Mostly because I was working...
Date: 01/06/2010
Paul Graham writes very useful stuff. I respect his mind. Read his Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s...
Date: 07/30/2009
Given 10 million iterations: object y = new object(); const int iterations = 10000000; Which is...
Date: 07/24/2009
A simple and totally thread-safe implementation of IDisposable, with improved semantics over the...
Date: 07/24/2009
An invariant version of the same… /// <summary> /// Extends StringBuilder so that it has an...
Date: 07/21/2009
StringBuilder is so useful. Does it all. But it’s missing a method. Here it is:...
Date: 07/20/2009
Here’s a useful extension method for the object type: /// <summary> /// Extends object to have...
Date: 07/20/2009
I’ve been BUSY! I travelled to New York to take some training (Jeffrey Richter, C# Threading), to...
Date: 06/12/2009
Azure Ninja Part 2! (空色の忍者) In my last posting I showed you how to run an Azure Worker Role outside...
Date: 03/10/2009
In this posting I am going to show you how to run an Azure Worker Role outside the Development...
Date: 03/07/2009
Azure Table Storage is a “typeless” entity storage system. If you’re an RDBMS person, and learned...
Date: 02/27/2009
blambert/codesnip – Better copy public properties between two objects implementing the same interface, CACHED.
You have some interface, IFoo. It is implemented by two concrete classes: Foo : IFoo (what you...
Date: 02/27/2009
Today I was working with the ADO.NET Data Services Client, performing queries against Azure Table...
Date: 02/26/2009
You have some interface, IFoo. It is implemented by two concrete classes: Foo : IFoo (what you...
Date: 02/26/2009
Got a tight loop where you convert an array of bytes into a hex string? Here’s an updated...
Date: 02/23/2009
blambert/codesnip – string extension method for validating that a string parameter is not null or empty.
I love extension methods. Here’s a simple little string extension method: /// <summary>...
Date: 02/22/2009
Got a tight loop where you convert an array of bytes into a hex string? Here’s a...
Date: 02/22/2009
I’m a PC!!!
Date: 02/18/2009
So I bike everywhere. Most places, in fact. My current weapon of choice is my Specialized Langster....
Date: 02/18/2009
In my previous two posts I showed how to setup your system for Azure and ASP.NET MVC Development and...
Date: 02/17/2009
You've installed all the software you need to build an ASP.NET MVC application and run it on Azure....
Date: 02/13/2009
Windows Vista From the Start menu, choose Settings | Control Panel | Programs | Programs and...
Date: 02/13/2009
I've started working on an Azure cloud application using ASP.NET MVC, and I'm going to blog about it...
Date: 02/13/2009
Since creating this blog, I have been working on all sorts of things, but none if it was bloggable...
Date: 10/13/2008
Hi. Just created this blog, and this is my first post. Here's me at a local watering hole: Brian
Date: 08/16/2008