May 2006 - Posts
After months of trying to get the book listed in their search program, finally came up over the weekend on Amazon . Not too sure why it took so long considering the book content was submitted in electronic form. What really frustrates me with Amazon is
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Allright, a little late with the news but still cool!! 1UP Flight Simulator X Preview The Grand Master of flight sims takes us to beautiful vistas. Added On 05/12/2006 1UP Flight Simulator X Feature: 1UP's Best of E3 2006 We pick the best games of this
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Has the Xbox 360 stock crisis finally ended? Seems like the increased production has finally paid off as it has been constantly showing in-stock at several online stores for 1-2 weeks and has also been back online for a few days on Amazon.com. Amazon.com
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I recently had the opportunity to skim-read Practical .NET2 and C#2 by Microsoft MVP Patrick Smacchia. You’ll find the book’s table of contents and examples online at its website (linked from title), along with an impressive list of testimonials. I would
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http://pointerx.net/blogs/glozano/archive/2006/04/10/173.aspx About a week ago I bought the book "Practical .NET2 and C#2". This book has been written by Patrick Smacchia, some of us might know him as the author of NDepend. Patrick is a .NET MVP with
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Online Store Automation - Populating Our Store (Part 2) Going back to my previous post, I wanted to add more details on how webpages can be extracted, especially in the case where no login is required. If there was no need for a web-based login for a
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FSX made it into the Peter Moore/Bill Gates E3 press conference on Tuesday. You can find video on GameSpot: http://www.gamespot.com/e3/e3live.html Click the tab for Tuesday and the link to start the video. If you aren’t terribly patient, skip ahead to
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Our main source of books is Ingram (which is one of the largest book wholesalers in the USA). Since they have access to several hundred of thousands books and they offer drop-shipping capabilities, it makes sense for the Paradoxal Press Online Store to
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MS just released a fixed-pitch font pack specifically for VS that’s optimized for ClearType. It looks very nice on screen (but doesn’t come through Remote Desktop too well.) If you use VS a bunch and don’t care for Courier New or Lucida Console, check
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Mike Taulty has recently posted a review of Practical .NET2 and C#2 on his blog... [...] The main thing that impressed me about the book is its combination of an enormous scope alongside a good level of depth. Just about every .NET topic that you might
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Xboxes are back in stock at BestBuy.com, which likely means that stock is showing up in local stores also. IN STOCK BestBuy.com has the Xbox 360 Console in stock for $400 IN STOCK BestBuy.com has the Xbox 360 - Starter Bundle in stock for $510 IN STOCK
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Larkware.Com has recently posted a review of Practical .NET2 and C#2 Practical .NET2 and C#2 offers a wide-ranging look at the current iteration of the .NET platform. The ideal target reader would already be familiar with computer science concepts and
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To cover some of the inventory issues with Amazon.com (where the book often runs out of stock), we have decided to also sell Practical .NET2 and C#2 on Amazon.com and eBay. On Amazon, we list our titles under " paradoxalpress " And under eBay, we sell
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http://weblogs.asp.net/sjoseph/archive/2006/05/04/445114.aspx NDepend 2.0 released Patrick has released version 2.0 of his absolutely cool code analyzer NDepend .The VisualNDepend tool is looking slick and Code Query Lanaguage looks damn interesting.
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I know the supply is supposed to get better but some of the big names such as Amazon.Com still have been showing out of stock. Seems like it's comming back on Amazon, hopefuly for good... Xbox 360 Video Game System (Fully-Loaded) Price: $399.99
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I know, I have been behind on my Flight Sim related posts. The past 2 weeks have been especially bvusy with various deadlines and E3 Expo comming up. I should get back into a more regular posting habit next week.
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Pretty neat review for Practical .NET2 and C#2 was posted by Peter Bromberg on www.eggheadcafe.com . You can read it here Book Review: Practical .NET2 and C#2 by Patrick Smacchia . And here is a summary: In my short happy life as a .NET developer and
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I sometimes post links to interesting articles, and various similar things including neat online deals. Instead of spreading them over several articles and postings, I decided to reduce the noise by posting a "Mish-Mash" post once or twice weekly. So
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This is the first of several posts which overviews the automation I have started to put in place to deal with book orders placed with Paradoxal Press. If I were to only deal with orders from books I published (that is Practical .NET 2 and C# 2 and The
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