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Sunday, March 27, 2005 12:04 PM

New blogs up (slowly) migrating data

http://www.acmebinary.com/blogs/kent for those interested.
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Thursday, March 24, 2005 8:23 PM

Moving this blog -- need opinions

To move the comments, or not to move the comments? Whether tis nobler to leave every URL intact or by moving them break them? I'm pretty certain I can move all the posts without egregious problems, but the comments may be another matter. Would anyone
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Wednesday, March 23, 2005 8:41 PM

Browser Security Test

Run 37 tests to make certain your browser isn't letting anything in you don't want. [via ACMEbinary ]
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Monday, March 21, 2005 8:54 PM

SQL Web Administrator

Even with all of the many powerful resources at my demand to install, I still tend to install SQL Server Developer Edition. I guess it's just that I'm so used to just having that around for testing (and not wasting valuable CALs for testing purposes)
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Monday, March 21, 2005 11:26 AM

Meet the new boss, (not the) same as the old boss...

In an attempt at our ongoing efforts to confuse everyone coming to MSDN balance the knowledge and workload at MSDN , we have shuffled a few of the Developer Centers around. While I will still be working on the ASP.NET Developer Center , I am reliquishing
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Saturday, March 19, 2005 9:59 PM

Transformation status: One

Caterpillar resting. Chrysalis begins to form. Pictures at 11.
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Thursday, March 17, 2005 4:38 PM

A modest proposal: Date/Time considered evil

After documenting some of the problems I had with Date/Time when creating my RSS Aggregator , and reading a Google presentation at ETech, I came up with a noble idea. We all use the same date and time. Whereever we are in the world, whatever time of day.
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Thursday, March 17, 2005 2:17 PM

Ambient dashboard

Pretty cool -- I used to want an Ambient Orb , but I like the retro/analog feel of these gauges better. I just hope they will also allow your own data channels .
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Wednesday, March 16, 2005 4:16 PM

TechEd, will I be there?

I haven't a clue. Last I heard I'd be able to go if I ride my bike there. Still, Scott & Rory will be there (along with a lot of other Really Smart Folk), and you'll even be able to get them to explain this in person...
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Tuesday, March 15, 2005 9:48 AM

Early to bed, early to rise

A while back, Karl asked me to discuss "Early Adoption" here (or somewhere). I said I would, then let it bubble for a while, as I was conflicted. I decided to let my internal debate finally boil over here, though. I'll let you decide which feels better
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Sunday, March 13, 2005 6:20 PM

Exit, dexter

Well, perhaps only "contemplating" leaving. Since some recent changes (to my URL), I'm thinking of migrating this blog elsewhere. No big whoop, I guess, as there are only about three of you that read this, but it's a fairly big decision for me, and those
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Thursday, March 10, 2005 9:11 PM

aspnetPRO Readers' Choice Awards

aspnetPRO magazine is now accepting votes for the products of the year in a number of categories. While I'm a little saddened that the ASP.NET Developer Center wasn't nominated as an Online Resource, I'll move on. Remember, if you don't vote, they win
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Thursday, March 10, 2005 10:03 AM

Tracing in 2.0, soon.... soon....

I try not to push 2.0 information too much, as there are many others out there with far more knowledge on it than me. Having said that, I saw this new setting this morning. <trace enabled =" true | false " localOnly =" true | false " pageOutput ="
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Wednesday, March 09, 2005 10:20 AM

Real Stories of Mental Deterioration

Hello, I'm Deputy Marshall Tucker of the King County Department of Mental Acuity, and welcome to another episode of "Real Stories of Mental Deterioration". As always, we tell you true events showing what happens as your brain gets old and thaws and resolves
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Tuesday, March 08, 2005 3:20 PM

Custom Entity Classes

It's been a while since I mentioned any new content on the ASP.NET Developer Center , and there's a reason -- I've been remiss, and haven't scratched any out lately. Well, I think the drought is over, I hope (I passed two more articles on to the editors
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Friday, March 04, 2005 12:54 PM

Querying RSS

During my early (OK, post 8am) reading this morning I saw this on Jon Udell's blog . Like much of Jon's writing and "little apps", it blew me away, and got me thinking of how I could use it for myself. Maybe not using XQuery (likely too much for my head),
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Thursday, March 03, 2005 3:40 PM

... but who will manage the Managers?

I know my blog is in serious danger of turning into a recruiting site or even (heaven forbid) a recruiters' blog , but I have another job offer for you. Our Site Management team (the good folk who keep MSDN and TechNet running tickety-boo to the tune
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Thursday, March 03, 2005 8:59 AM

February CTP now available

In honour of March 2, we now present {insert ta da here} The February Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Visual Studio 2005. This month, we have new versions of Visual Studio 2005 Professional (for MSDN Subscribers) and the fabulous Express products:
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