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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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Thursday, May 24, 2007 2:56 PM

Lowes

I don't really know why I bother buying anything from Lowes anymore. They don't actually install anything they sell. First, I buy a new Bosch tankless water heater. I did all the research online and found the exact unit I wanted, and Lowes had the best
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006 2:12 AM

Writing a simple managed control under IE

Most web developers are aware of various "controls" and "applets" that can be "hosted" by "Internet Explorer" (hmm, not sure why I quoted that last thing, I guess I was on a "roll".) This code is compiled code that runs within the IE process and draws
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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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Friday, July 28, 2006 2:42 PM

JScript Functions

My favorite IE tip/trick of the day has to do with function pointers and anonymous functions. In Jscript, there are two keywords for creating functions. One is “function” with a lower case “f”, and one is “Function” with an upper case “F”. “function”
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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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Tuesday, June 27, 2006 11:03 PM

IE Tips and Tricks - Part 1

It has occurred to me that I haven’t written much about client-side development and all that fun web browsery stuff. Before I get branded a server only guy, I’ve decided to write an n part series (where n is the number of articles I can write before getting
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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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Thursday, June 22, 2006 10:50 PM

Case-sensitivity with IE getAttribute

I ran across an interesting behavior in IE the other day. Some of my script code was misbehaving, and it took me a while to track down the exact problem. In one part of my code I had an onfocusout event that would update an expando property to a certain
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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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Thursday, May 18, 2006 1:28 AM

The Paradox of ViewState Events

I thought I’d write a quick blog about a somewhat “Chicken and Egg” style paradox with viewstate events, and events that cause different controls to be rendered out on the page. As you might know, ViewState events are processed between Page.OnLoad and
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Wednesday, May 17, 2006 11:18 PM

Data Binding to Custom Objects

I’m back! I apologize for my lack of recent blogging, but this post should help make up for that. We’ll be discussing data binding to custom collection objects. After reading my blog on building your own data bound controls , you’ll know that I like to
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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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