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Tuesday, August 31, 2004 4:55 PM

Good subjects for IR photography?

I recently bought an accessory adapter and a Hoya R72 filter for my Canon G3, so that I could do some infrared photography. This is "near IR" photography, the kind where things look weird not thermal infrared, where you can see how hot things are: The
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Tuesday, August 31, 2004 4:41 PM

NUnit on Whidbey Beta 1 experiences...

I've been having problems getting NUnit to work on Whidbey Beta 1, and I'm curious what experiences you've had, either good or bad. Jim hasn't been having the same trouble, so we're trying to figure out what's what. For him, it works if he updates the
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Tuesday, August 31, 2004 4:39 PM

x+=x++;

Luca , who is taking over for me as C# Compiler PM, wrote this post: x+=x++; I heartily agree with him when he says "DO NOT WRITE THAT CODE".
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Monday, August 30, 2004 4:32 PM

1.1 SP1, 1.0 SP3 released

A few new service packs are now available. .NET Framework 1.1 SP1 for WS03 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AE7EDEF7-2CB7-4864-8623-A1038563DF23 .NET Framework 1.1 SP1 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=A8F5654F-088E-40B2-BBDB-A83353618B38
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Monday, August 30, 2004 4:30 PM

Another career option...

The first time, I thought it was a joke. I'd just written a short link post , and I'd gotten the following comment in my blog: When is the proper time to get up and leave the breakfast lunch or dinner table,whether it be with your spouse and childen and
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Monday, August 30, 2004 1:28 PM

Removing games from a broken XBox

Link...
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Friday, August 27, 2004 1:24 PM

Blog to email gateway?

In talking with my mom a few weeks ago, I realized that readers of my blog know more about what's going on than my family does. Writing individual emails to them isn't going to happen, so I'm looking for a blog to email gateway. It should: Monitor a specific
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Thursday, August 26, 2004 3:12 PM

Museum of Flight - Personal Courage Wing

Yesterday morning Samantha and I went over to the Museum of Flight to check out the new Personal Courage Wing . The Personal Courage wing is a new two-floor exhibit dedicated to aviation during the first two world wars. The museum of flight was able to
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Wednesday, August 25, 2004 9:24 PM

Hydrogen from Sunlight

John Read wrote in this ABlog post (I hate group blogs): The Aussies have done it. And not a moment too soon! Using special titanium oxide ceramics, they can now use sunlight to split water, and produce hydrogen fuel for unlimited energy. The device rivals
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Wednesday, August 25, 2004 8:25 AM

After Careful Deliberation

After careful deliberation, I have decided to withdraw my petition to the IOC to include Ladder Dancing as a demonstration sport in the 2008 Beijing Olympics .
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Sunday, August 22, 2004 9:09 PM

May contain fish or wheat

On the box of frozen breaded cod filets from Trader Joes: "May contain fish or wheat" Yeah, I was kindof hoping that it *would* contain fish.
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Sunday, August 22, 2004 4:12 PM

6 stitches later...

It rained a bit here last night. Something like an inch and a half. The gutter by our outside window got clogged and overflowed all night. This morning, I went out to clean out the drains. Got the first one down (with my 28' extension ladder). Went to
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Friday, August 20, 2004 10:26 AM

Monkey Gallery

Jill Greenberg has turned her talents towards monkeys . from Boing Boing BTW, "Monkey Gallery" is a great name for a band...
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Friday, August 20, 2004 9:43 AM

Best "Improve Your Dev Skills" books...

I've been looking through a few of my "Improve your Dev Skills" books: Refactoring The Pragmatic Programmer Test Driven Development in .NET What are your favorite books in this genre? Why?
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Thursday, August 19, 2004 11:02 AM

Practice your parking

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/pparkgame.html 1:26
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Thursday, August 19, 2004 10:30 AM

SeaStar

Last night, Kim and I took advantage of our temporarily childless state, and went out for dinner at SeaStar in downtown Bellevue. I've been a bit disappointed in the last year or so when we've gone to nice places. We went to Cutters back in May, and while
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Wednesday, August 18, 2004 2:17 PM

Descriptions for my current state...

So, I'm in a weird state at work right now. I'm not really here at my old job - I can't start anything real, and I'm trying to close things down, but neither am I at my new job. I was talking with Matt , trying to come up with good names for this condition.
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Wednesday, August 18, 2004 2:02 PM

Miss manners will help you now...

Etiquette Hell
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Wednesday, August 18, 2004 12:45 PM

Job opportunities in the C# team...

The following is paid commercial advertisement... **** Gus wrote about the open jobs on the C# team. Have you ever thought about working for Microsoft, on a great team that (yes, I'm leaving, but it's still a great team...) creates a product that many
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Tuesday, August 17, 2004 9:39 AM

Be a language designer redux...

Thanks for all the responses to the question that I posed. The reason I posed it is that I've been seeing a lot of language requests coming through the MSDN feedback site, which is a good thing, but some of them are pretty obviously impractical, so I
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Tuesday, August 17, 2004 8:44 AM

List<Employee> or EmployeeList?

In current versions of C#, to get a strongly-typed collection, you need to define a separate type for that collection. So if you want to expose a collection of employees, you created an EmployeeCollection class. With generics, it's now possible to just
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Monday, August 16, 2004 3:21 PM

Wahoo

Yesterday afternoon, I drove my daughter over to eastern Washington, 20 miles from the nearest town and left her with a group of people that I'd never seen before. Yes, it's camp time, and my daughter is at "horse camp" for a week, at highly regarded
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Monday, August 16, 2004 3:13 PM

Be a language designer...

I started writing a normal blog post - well, as normal as any blog post of mine ever is - and then I decided to let you do the hard work. So here's the situation. You're part of the C# language design team thinking about the next version of C# (ie the
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Saturday, August 14, 2004 12:15 PM

Zoo Hill

I wimped out on my ride yesterday morning (it's hot and hard to sleep), so this morning I decided to tackle the infamous "Zoo Hill", which climbs up Cougar Mountain near Issaquah. Probably the worst hill that I've normall rode is Juanita Drive, which
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Friday, August 13, 2004 4:52 PM

Any COM interop experts out there?

I've been spending some time trying to get Windows Media Player to work in a remoted mode from C#. There's a C++ example in the WMP9 SDK named WMPML that does it, but it uses some special interfaces. To get it to work, I need to register an IWMPRemoteMediaServices
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Friday, August 13, 2004 8:30 AM

Conditional Attributes

There's an extension to the conditional concept that shows up in Whidbey. It's not in Beta1 (well, to be more correct, it doesn't really work in beta 1), but it will be functional in beta2. If you put a conditional attribute on an attribute definition,
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Friday, August 13, 2004 8:28 AM

Conditional Methods

I saw an internal post today about somebody who wanted to get rid of their #if DEBUG statements in their code, because they were ugly. That made me realize that there's a feature that not everybody knows about, known as conditional methods. Consider the
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Friday, August 13, 2004 7:54 AM

Missing comments and blog problems...

Our blog software got upgraded a few days ago, and that upgrade include comment moderation, as an attempt to deal with comment spam. The upgrade didn't fully work right, so sometimes things are broken. If you see errors, I apologize. The only thing I
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Thursday, August 12, 2004 2:58 PM

New Challenges

From C# Builder to C# User... Dateline: Redmond , Building 41 Eric Gunnerson called me early this morning, asking me to come by to talk with him. When pressed, he would only reveal that he had news to impart that would “Rock the very foundations of society...
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Thursday, August 12, 2004 12:25 PM

Arrays inside of structures

Sometimes when doing interop, you want to have an array embedded inside of a struct. For example, something like: struct data { int header; int values[10]; } that you either used in a call to interop, or with unsafe code to deal with an existing format
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Tuesday, August 10, 2004 2:32 PM

An answer, and a link.

Rachel posted this excellent link that answered my question. Thanks. And Wim posted a site that is one of my favorite sites.
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Tuesday, August 10, 2004 12:38 PM

Wish you were here...

“Wish you were here” has always been one of my favorite Pink Floyd songs, but as I listened to it this morning, I - as I often do - wonder what Waters was referring to. Or, to be more specific, which war was Waters referring to? Though Waters
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Tuesday, August 10, 2004 9:30 AM

"It's only a model"

I mentioned that I bought my wife a trebuchet. Here's a picture of it. And where does one go to buy a trebuchet? Well, duh. http://www.trebuchet.com Kim's is the tabletop version. Oh, and if you don't know what “It's only a model” refers to,
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Monday, August 09, 2004 4:40 PM

Special birthday presents for her...

(Kim, make sure you don't read this, as it will ruin the surprise) My wife's birthday is coming up in a couple of weeks. I generally do a decent job at presents (how many other guys do you know that got their wife a trebuchet?), but I decided I needed
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Sunday, August 08, 2004 9:12 PM

RSVP 2004

Groupthink From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Groupthink is a term coined by psychologist Irving Janis in 1972 to describe one process by which a group can make bad or irrational decisions. In a groupthink situation, each member of the group attempts
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Thursday, August 05, 2004 2:17 PM

Nested Using Statements

I got a comment on the language feature post, asking about an easier way to write: using (StreamWriter w1 = File.CreateText("W1")) { using (StreamWriter w2 = File.CreateText("W2")) { // code here } } You can do this by writing: using (StreamWriter w1
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Tuesday, August 03, 2004 9:43 PM

3 days and counting...

Friday morning at 6:00 AM (!) I leave on my ride to Vancouver, BC. I'll ride about 109 miles on Friday (105 plus 4 miles to my hotel), and then another 82 on Saturday. That will total somewhere around 190 miles total, assuming I don't get lost. I feel
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Tuesday, August 03, 2004 8:41 AM

BikeWriter

Whatever your political leanings, you have to love this application of technology ...
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Monday, August 02, 2004 3:29 PM

Test Junk Post

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Monday, August 02, 2004 2:20 PM

Interview with Alfred's Mother...

Interview
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