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Friday, August 26, 2005 3:35 PM

Another ASP question...

I've been working on my website a fair bit. Working on it locally works well for some things, but the google maps stuff only works if it's running on my real domain, so I have to get it up to the website. I used "publish" to do that, which turns out to
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Monday, August 22, 2005 7:57 PM

Untempered ambition

Author's Note: I've provided some links to help make my case, but I suggest you read through without them first... It wasn't at all like Archimedes - it didn't happen all at once. It started with a gnawing at the back of the skull, an itch that you can't
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Saturday, August 20, 2005 8:33 PM

Zoo Two

A few weeks ago, Bret, one of my PM friends (well, I call people like Bret friends since they're people that tolerate my presence), told me he was looking at my bicycle climb site and and saw a climb named "The Zoo". One day, he said, "I think I'd like
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Friday, August 19, 2005 3:49 PM

Are you greedy or lazy?

I wrote a "short" explanation of how greedy and non-greedy (aka lazy) work with regular expressions for a mailing list, but it turned into a couple of pages, so I thought I'd record it here. ****** The default regex behavior of something like ".*" is
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Friday, August 19, 2005 10:41 AM

Trivia: What are these the names of?

What are these the names of? Norma Orion Perseus Cygnus There are two answers, one commonplace (ie one that I knew), and one quite a bit more obscure. I'm looking for the obscure one...
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Wednesday, August 17, 2005 8:27 AM

Cycling, diet and weight loss

A post over at the Fat Cyclist (entitled " I Fear My Bathroom Scale ") got me thinking. I first started cycling seriously a few years ago, when 9 months of being a PM and not working out had added about 20 pounds on my frame. The weight came off fairly
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Monday, August 15, 2005 10:25 AM

USS Hornet Museum

Last week we were on vacation at my sister's place in Walnut Creek, CA (a bit to the east of Oakland). Vacation consisted of a few day trips, some sitting by the pool, and a fair amount of work with ASP.net on the website. It's nice when your sister has
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Saturday, August 13, 2005 11:14 AM

UI Updating can be hazardous to your performance...

Dare writes about a perf and memory usage issue in RSS Bandit. I've come across this at least 10 times in my career - developers tend to underestimate the amount of time it takes to update a UI. I've seen cases where 70% of the cpu time is going towards
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Tuesday, August 09, 2005 3:56 PM

Coelacanthe (George Hrab)

I found out about George Hrab from an interview on the Skepticality podcast. George is an interesting fellow. He's the drummer for the Philadelphia Fund Authority . And he writes music and words for his own albums, which has a decidedly skeptical bent.
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Tuesday, August 09, 2005 3:41 PM

Review: Waltham (Waltham)

Last week, I spent some time listening to the Rock and Roll Geek Show Indie Cast . One of the featured bands was Waltham , a band named after their hometown in Massachusetts. Michael, if I recall correctly, played two songs - Cheryl (come and take a ride),
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Tuesday, August 09, 2005 3:07 PM

RSVP 2005 non-trip report

I joined somewhere around 900 other riders on RSVP this past weekend, for my second time in as many years, and I'm now recuperating in sunny Walnut Creek, CA. I had intended to write a general ride report, something like, I did last year . Though restricting
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Thursday, August 04, 2005 10:15 AM

SafeHandle...

I haven't been paying much attention to Whidbey stuff in the past year or so, but today I came across something that I hadn't known about (or, perhaps, hadn't really understood). If you've written code in C#, it's likely that you've done some interop,
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Wednesday, August 03, 2005 4:16 PM

ASP.NET 2.0, NUnit, and TDD

I got my website set up last night and got a real ASP.NET page pulling data from a database and writing it out. I did the bulk of my web programming when web-servers were still steam powered (does the name "EMWAC" mean anything to you?), so my skills
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Tuesday, August 02, 2005 3:09 PM

C# and databases...

I've been "a database guy" for quite a while. Way back in 1989, I left the security and blandness of Boeing for a new project a Microrim (of R:Base fame), which was building a new database solution (by "solution", I mean the whole shebang - server, UI,
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Tuesday, August 02, 2005 2:10 PM

Power Collections for .NET released

Peter Golde, noted C# language designer and original compiler dev lead, has released Power Collections for .NET . If you don't like collections that come with C# 2.0, consider using these as a supplement.
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Monday, August 01, 2005 10:35 AM

Bugfixing mode and checkin email

When we check in changes to our product, it's traditional to send check-in email to the people that are impacted (and, if the emails I get are any indication, a dozen people pulled randomly from the Microsoft address book as well). These emails usually
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