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Just this morning I was in file explorer and I realized I only had 13.5GB of disk space available. Oops, not the way to start your day with a three month old laptop. A quick Google search pointed me to vssadmin.  Then some general house cleaning...

New development is self fueling. Momentum is rarely a problem early off. The team is hungry to transform their ideas into code. Then as the refactoring and development proceeds design flaws begin to emerge and revisions being to...

Without looking at how so many others have define pair programming. Pair programming with Nikola Here is my authoritative definition, "Combined mind power seated in front of a computer to solve a difficult problem that should not be solved by only one....

I have been on a low blog diet but I think I may give Sara's Visual Studio 2008 Tip of the Day a try for the next few weeks. ...

It is interesting timing that Jason Haley tagged me about career goals. I just finished up a six month project that consumed all my time. The astute will notice my blog has been quite for a similar amount of time. Before I can define my future six...

Lately I have been spending my spare time working with WCF. There are still only pockets of knowledge about WCF (although it is growing every day). Here are the blogs I look to for info. Let me know if you know of a WCF blog I should check out. ...

This is my monthly place holder of the useful articles and links I found/used for the month of January. I spent a majority of my time with WCF, master pages, and a little bit on TDD as my below article reading shows. • Security in Windows...

Here is a list of windows commands I run from the SlickRun prompt without setting a magic word. Many of these work right from the run dialog box as well. logfiles opens IIS log file dir. services.msc opens services mmc span-in. eventvwr...

This is my monthly place holder of the useful articles and links I found/used for the months of October and November.  Most of the articles are SO or WCF oriented. • WCF Services and ASP.NET - breaks down the IIS hosting options for an...

Here are a few resources I found useful to get a quick introduction to IIS 7.0 • A First Look at IIS 7.0 • Taking Advantage of the IIS7 Integrated Pipeline • IIS7 Module Overview - page 4 contains a list of the modules that make up...

This sounds simplier in words than I have seen practiced in code. Working with dynamically created controls that postback events can be tricky. For a lot of applications it is all about timing. On postback the dynamic control must be re-created during...

Just a couple of links to some useful 2.0 functionality • Eric Gunnerson - Nullable Types in C# • Fritz Onion - Using the ?? operator for ViewState properties...

Last week I ran into a problem with a staging server that appeared to be super slow to the user. It was throwing this error: System.Net.WebException: The underlying connection was closed: Unable to connect to the remote server. Since this server is in...

This is my monthly place holder of the useful articles and links I found for the month of July. • Write Maintainable Unit Tests That Will Save You Time And Tears • Composite Unit Testing • Inversion of Control Containers and the Dependency...

This is my monthly place holder of the useful articles I found for the month of June. • Protect Your Web Services Through The Extensible Policy Framework In WSE 3.0 • What's New in Web Services Enhancements 3.0 • Microsoft WS-I Basic...

So today is my 30th birthday. A usual day for the most part. Although work was real quite as many people started their vacations today. Below is a screen shot from an e-card I received from my sister, brother in-law and two nephews. E-cards are the way...

Here is a use case for an enrollment process: Scenario X - Error: No Response to enrollment request 1.  The customer clicks the enroll button. 2.  System X sends the enrollment request to System Y, but there is no response. 3.  The...

Enum.Parse is easy to remember with C# but I always forget the VB.Net syntax because the Enum keyword is a keyword and a class. C#  40     public enum ClickType  41     {  42    ...

Michael Howard/Steve Lipner's book will be available soon. This looks like it will be a must have for all developers. Here are the key book benefits (via Amazon) Key Book Benefits: • Delivers practical, proven advice from the experts for minimizing...

This is my monthly place holder of the useful articles I found for the month of May.  My hope is by having them linked on my blog I can thow out the print out on my coffee table.• .Net Threading Article (Jon Skeet) • TCP/IP Fundamentals for Microsoft...

Scott Allen talks about atomic operations. You forget that operators equate to a method call. Its exactly these kind of coding assumptions that get you in trouble (Who is always saying "Know your CLR?").  When stuff like this happens in my favorite...

Just a couple of SQL Server reminders to keep your database skills sharp. 1. Use Fully Qualified Names. This allows SQL Server to better access the stored procedures execution plan and speed up its performance. EXEC pubs.dbo.reptq1 2. Use SET NOCOUNT...

Mike Gunderloy's latest article Working Smarter With ASP.NET 2.0 has some great tips for developing an ASP.NET 2.0 app quickly. Many ASP.NET projects have extremely short development cycles so it is vital to "hit the ground running". This article is a...

Just read about David Platt's upcoming book Why Software Sucks.  I remember him talking about this book idea in the Fall of 2003 when I took his class. Glad to hear he found a publisher for it. Given the topic and David's humor this will surely be...