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March 2004 - Posts

Tuesday, March 16, 2004 11:06 AM

Long time, no see...

22 years ago. I was in elementary school. Ronald Reagan was president. People cared about who shot J.R. No one had heard of Madonna yet. Cal Ripken was a rookie that hadn't even started his streak of 2,632 consecutive games (as an Oriole fan, I felt compelled
Posted by SandyK | 4 Comments
Tuesday, March 09, 2004 5:23 PM

Time to boil the ocean!

A colleague of mine told me a great allegory today. The shortened version is that a bunch of sailors fell off a boat into the cold, icy waters of the Pacific. The captain, understanding that his men would surely freeze to death, immediately ordered the
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Wednesday, March 03, 2004 11:19 AM

New block -- the cure for "intermittent connectivity"

Here comes another one. We just released the first The Offline Application Block , which is intended to serve as an architectural model for developers who want to add offline capabilities to their smart client applications. The block checks for the presence
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Tuesday, March 02, 2004 5:27 PM

American Idol meets the App Blocks

So, a lot of blogging has been spinning up regarding the application blocks and the community involvement. Ron Jacobs, a fellow patterns & practices man, master webcaster, and all-around good guy, blogged recently about community involvement in the
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