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Orcas and it's framework

For all the RTM versions of Visual Studio that have been produced by Microsoft since the inception of the .NET framework, each has only worked with it’s own version of the .NET framework.  Visual

Getting work done

I’ve decided that my company (who employs one lousy, but good looking programmer) is going to help me get more work done.  I find that when I’m working at home I get distracted easily by things l

Velocity and having your tires shot out

A while back I posted about Velocity being more than just speed.  This week I saw an entire project management team decide to shut the door on velocity.  I’m not going to pretend to understa

Edmug with Bristowe

We Edmontonians were out in fairly large numbers tonight to see John Bristowe, of DNIC and Plumbers fame, talk about stuff.  Sure it wasn’t just stuff, but there was a lot of stuff to be tal

EViL v1.0.4 release

We pushed out a new release of EViL last night.  Looks like we added the following features for this release: Support for validating all types of properties (public, private, etc.) Support for v

Hey ReSharper...Shake your heads!

Maybe it’s the 3 NeoCitroen’s that I’ve had in the last hour.  Maybe it’s the Tylenols too.  Heck, maybe it’s the combination of the two with this craptacular illness as a side dish.  A

EViL Decorating in the Igloo

Update #2:  JP called to tell me that this really isn’t a decorator pattern.  It’s actually the adapter pattern.  Like he said in his training course, identifying patterns in the wild i

My latest continuous integration experience

Last week I spent a lot of time working with people that I’d never worked with before.  Surprisingly, of the eleven people in the class, only about half had worked with any kind of continuous int

A week with JP Boodhoo

Last week I spent five full days under the tutelage of Jean-Paul Boodhoo.  He was offering a course he’s calling Nothin’ But .NET and I was lucky enough to weasel my way into it as one of the 11

ReverseDOS and Community Server error

I got hit by some spammers today and I figured that I’d alter my ReverseDOS.config file so that they wouldn’t get through again.  One of the common things that was in each post was the value [/ur