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Pragmatic Programmer

Pragmatic programming at it's best. The book is a light read and worth the time

Essential WPF

Thus far the best book I've read on WPF. Gets right down to working with WPF and the goals/history.

Purely Functional Data Structures

Reading this book makes me feel like I'm back in college. It will really get your mind going and is best read with a whiteboard handy.


February 2007 - Posts

Readonly TextBox that doesn't look funny
When you make a WinForm TextBox ReadOnly, it aquires a distinctive look because it changes the background. Users often want the appearance of the TextBox to stay the same, they just don't want it to be mutable. Here's a snippet to make a TextBox ReadOnly Read More...

Posted Monday, February 12, 2007 4:31 PM by Jared Parsons | 1 Comments

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Blogging about Code
It's somewhat frustrating to try and post code to the internet for your blog. Getting the color scheme right isn't easy if you're like me and don't use a standard color scheme for coding. I prefer a very dark coding environment (inkpot) and most people Read More...

Posted Friday, February 09, 2007 6:43 PM by Jared Parsons | 0 Comments

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PowerShell and SVN
I often delete versioned files from Visual Studio without great care for the source control impact. However I eventually have to go through and clean up the mess I made by not properly deleting the files from svn as well as on disk. When you delete a Read More...

Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 1:00 AM by Jared Parsons | 0 Comments

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