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Thursday, January 29, 2009 9:43 PM

Visio/IronPython/Powershell – Part 3 – Shapesheet fun

See my previous posts: post 1: Visio/IronPython/Powershell – How to draw nice diagrams from the command line post 2: Visio/IronPython/Powershell – Part 2 – Drawing Diagrams from Data Launch Visio 2007 and draw some shapes The window opened larger than
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Saturday, January 24, 2009 10:08 AM

Visio/IronPython/Powershell – Part 2 – Drawing Diagrams from Data

See my first post to get started: Visio/IronPython/Powershell – How to draw nice diagrams from the command line In this post, I’ll cover how to generate diagrams from tabular, hierarchical data, and directed graphs   Demo 1 – Simple Shape Drawing
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Friday, January 23, 2009 9:44 PM

Video: A Quick Review of the Creative Vado HD

I bought a Creative Vado HD last week and here are my thoughts about this device. It’s light weight surprised me Good video quality; terrific considering the price No Image Stabilization – not a real annoyance. None of its current competitors offer this
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Thursday, January 22, 2009 8:42 PM

Visio/IronPython/Powershell – How to draw nice diagrams from the command line

In that quiet period between midnight and 3am I write code to relax. Over the holidays I spent a lot of time cleaning-up my Visio Automation project on CodePlex . Bugs were fixed, performance improved, and the API rationalized (Thank you JetBrains Resharper
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Monday, January 19, 2009 9:18 PM

Pixels: Screen Capture and Recording – My completely unbiased recommendations for 2009

After having taken over 1GB of screenshots over the last few years, I thought I’d revisit my first blog post ever and refresh it with based on my experience.   QUICK SUMMARY - MY RECOMMENDATIONS Screen captures: Hyperionics HyperSnap Screen recording:
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Wednesday, January 07, 2009 1:28 PM

Dynamics AX 2009: New White Paper available on deploying OLAP Cubes to enable Role Centers

Early in December I posted about how to prepare to deploy Role Centers for Dynamics AX 2009 . At the time I promised more help was on the way.   Today I happy to announce that we have now published a white paper that provides much more detailed about
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Wednesday, January 07, 2009 11:07 AM

C# and Currying – Looking into Performance

In my previous post, I showed an example of how to use new C# features to simplify your code. In this post I’ll investigate that technique affects the performance of the code. Let’s start from the beginning, there’s a function called f_original static
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 2:29 PM

C# and Currying – a Concrete example with Visio

In a tidy bit of paralipsis , I’m not going to mention “closures”, “currying”, or “partial function application” again. Instead, I will provide a real-world example of what you can do with C# 3.0 and how it can help solve your problems. I will use Visio
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