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Monday, July 21, 2008 5:00 AM

Annual Site Redesign

I don't actually promise to update the design every year but it makes it sound more exciting- as if there's some kind of recurring event that people might look forward to. This year's design focused on improving content readability. I removed some of
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008 5:00 AM

Conversation with the C# Team

Channel 9 posted a video a few days ago with the C# 4.0 design team talking about some of their motivations and ideas for language design. I tend to enjoy the videos like this one that are focused on the people a lot more than the ones that are focused
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Friday, May 23, 2008 5:00 AM

When to Use Workflow

There's more than one way to work with workflow, which is why Windows Workflow Foundation and BizTalk Server are both tools for programming workflow applications. If you've ever wondered why there are two workflow products and which one to use, then read
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Thursday, May 22, 2008 5:00 AM

Common Setup Tasks

I rarely need to set up machines often enough to remember the setup instructions and finding the documentation for setup sadly never seems to help. Lately I've been referring to the appendix on setup in Michele Bustamante's Learning WCF book when I need
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Friday, April 18, 2008 5:00 AM

At the MVP Summit

This week I got to spend two days with the BizTalk and Connected System MVPs as part of the 2008 MVP Summit . I want to thank everyone who came out to join us during the week. We had a great series of talks put together about some of the things that we
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Friday, December 21, 2007 5:00 AM

2007 Year in Review

The year in review comes at the end of December rather than the beginning of January this year. Another year has gone by, with 250 articles posted so far (exactly as many as were posted during all of last year). Counting today and four more to come by
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Thursday, November 29, 2007 5:00 AM

HTML Design Principles

Earlier this week the W3C HTML working group published a list of design principles for working on HTML 5 . HTML isn't strictly relevant for a web services programmer but I figured that there was sufficient overlap that many people would find this work
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007 5:00 AM

Uninstalling Visual Studio Betas

One of the least pleasant chores of getting Orcas everywhere has been cleaning out the old versions of software. If you've just been trying out the framework in the past, then it's not too bad. I've been using Visual Studio 2008 betas everywhere in addition
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007 5:00 AM

What is an ESB?

What does the term ESB- Enterprise Service Bus- actually mean? That question has been the topic of an ongoing debate for several years now that doesn't seem to have any sign of stopping. When I first read about ESBs in 2003, I didn't expect to still be
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Thursday, August 02, 2007 1:30 PM

Jiggling the Handle

Minor technical hangup Wednesday when the normal post ended up not appearing in the RSS feed. I fixed it a few hours later, but if you're still missing Revealing the Hierarchy , then you can get it through the web link. Trackbacks and comments for the
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007 5:00 AM

Four Hundred and First Post

Continuing the series of milestones, Monday marked the 400th post. With the small number of days having multiple posts and the very small number of days having no posts, that has as expected worked out extremely near to exactly one post per weekday for
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Friday, July 20, 2007 5:00 AM

Top Content

I'm thinking about including lists like these in the sidebar, but I wanted to try this out once first. Subscriptions mean that the number of RSS readers is more or less the same for articles posted around the same time. Therefore, I'm defining top content
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007 5:00 AM

A versus B

It's felt like there have been a lot of articles based on answering reader questions lately. And, when I checked the totals, I noticed that the next Answers column would be the 100th. Since I started running answers to questions a little less than a year
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Thursday, July 12, 2007 5:00 AM

Contact

I get quite a few messages through the email contact form- usually at least a dozen per week that ask questions about WCF. For the past year, I've been able to reply to nearly all of these with a wait of no more than about 1-2 weeks. By the way, if you
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007 5:00 AM

Glossary Updates

This year I've added a dozen additional categories to cover the topics that I was writing about most frequently but didn't have any specific label for. You can read about the older categories in the original glossary . Some of these categories go with
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