December 2007 - Posts

IIS 7.0 and the ASP.NET Integrated Pipeline
27 December 07 09:45 AM

One of the coolest things about working at MSDN Magazine is the exposure I get to all the different technologies coming down the pipe from all over the company.  One of these that recently grabbed my attention was the set of enhancements that the Read More...

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Filed under: Microsoft .NET Programming

When Poor Quality Control is Just Plain Funny...
25 December 07 10:24 AM

Anyone that I went to high school with will find extra humor in this.  This moment of Christmas humor is brought to you by Pottery Barn . Read More...

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Filed under: Miscellaneous

"CLR Inside Out" Needs Your Ideas
19 December 07 06:55 AM

One of the benefits that we at MSDN Magazine are proud to be able to offer readers is access to many of the actual product groups at Microsoft.  For those of you who read the magazine, you know that we run a column called CLR Inside Out - the column Read More...

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Filed under: Microsoft .NET Programming, MSDN Magazine

Random Question...
18 December 07 09:44 AM

Since I discovered that I can keep my laptop powered during the 5 hour flight between Seattle and New York, I've been able to do some programming again!!  And naturally (well, maybe not naturally), that got me thinking about...music. So the question: Read More...

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Filed under: Miscellaneous

The Coolest Thing About Flying First Class
17 December 07 06:24 AM

So I finally earned enough frequent flyer miles to qualify for Medallion status on Delta.  One of the benefits of the program is that you are automatically upgraded from coach to first class if there are available seats.  For my latest trip Read More...

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Filed under: Miscellaneous

On Vacation Today - A Little Blog Maintenance
10 December 07 11:22 AM

Yea - so in answer to your first thought, I agree - I shouldn't be doing this on my vacation day. That said, out of random curiosity, I took a look today at all of the spam comments that were sent but never posted to this blog. In the past month, I had Read More...

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How you know when you don't have a SOA...
09 December 07 10:07 PM

You know that you're probably not living in an SOA world when your definition of application integration looks like a replay attack. Yes, dear friends, that is what I'm having to do at the moment in order to integrate our internal procurement application Read More...

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Filed under: Architecture