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Tuesday, March 18, 2008 12:07 AM

Castle ActiveRecord

Lately, I’ve been playing around with Castle ActiveRecord tolearn about this particular technology. For those of you who are unaware, Castle ActiveRecord is an open sourceimplementation of the ActiveRecord pattern written in .NET and built onNHibernate.
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Monday, September 11, 2006 6:42 PM

Housing prices

When I moved to the Seattle area over eight years ago, I knew I wanted to make this place my home. Since it was clear my residence would be permanent, it seemed like a good idea to buy something rather than rent. Back then, I found a nice condo for around
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Wednesday, September 06, 2006 2:45 PM

Housing adventures

I must apologize for my recent lack of blogging, but I’ve been most busy attempting to become a home owner. This is a dream I’ve had for years now, but it was put on hold for a few years due to the most rediculous litigation surrounding my condo assocation.
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Friday, July 28, 2006 2:56 PM

Yay! Higher gas prices!

Now that I've caught your attention with my post title, let me explain. Unlike most people, I'm a fan of high gas prices. I'm sure there's a point where I'd start walking to work, but the extra 50 cents per gallon costs me maybe $20 dollars per month.
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Wednesday, June 28, 2006 5:25 PM

Great ASP.NET site

Here’s a great site for developers that aggregates a bunch of other ASP.NET blogs, making it easy to find new information all on a single site. Check it out! http://www.dotnetslackers.com/
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Monday, June 26, 2006 6:50 PM

Question of the day...

Here’s a hypothetical situation; you’re sucked into a worm hole and transported back to the year 1300 A .D. in Medieval Europe. You didn’t bring back your cell phone, or laptop, or any “more recent” invention. What advantages would you have over society
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Tuesday, May 30, 2006 4:18 PM

More about type descriptors

The other day, one of my readers posed a question regarding my recent post “ Data Binding to Custom Objects ” – The question was essentially “Why are you writing all this code? There’s much simpler ways to do the same thing.” Well, the reader is correct.
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Friday, April 28, 2006 1:32 AM

My thoughts on Monad, the new Windows command line shell

Today I decided to install Monad, the new command shell for Windows and I gotta say - this thing is awesome! It's pretty much the most confusing shell I've ever seen, but it combined everything I like from DOS, Bash, Amiga, and the Visual Studio "immediate
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Wednesday, April 05, 2006 9:53 PM

Too many tiers? Writing efficient multi-tier web applications.

A while ago, we were all convinced that dividing our applications up into multiple tiers was the way to go. This was great because it allowed you to scale up the parts of your application that might represent a bottleneck, and have more control over what
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Friday, March 31, 2006 7:00 PM

Welcome!

Back in the early days of web development, web pages were simple. They used HTML and “web developers” typed in that HTML using powerful text editing programs such as Notepad. Most of these files were static files stored on a web server, and were rendered
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