Not sure how many times I’ve pressed the “Show All Files” menu choice on a http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAL16

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  Microsoft’s big developer conference (PDC Dynamic Data Feature built into asp.net.  Basically, what Dynamic Data gives you in a nut shell is the ability to easily make web apps easier for showing all kind of different data types. For example, if you happen to have a picture stored with each user’s profile, [...]

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  The Scrum developer training is happening a week from Monday and I just got a notification that they are offering a 2 for 1 deal.  Pretty amazing.  I know this is a new class and they want to get as much feedback as they can so I assume that is why [...]

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  Not sure why this was hard, but I wanted to make a trivial command file to deploy my database (or any change to it).  For those of you that don’t know the DataDude project, I have to say it’s one of the coolest tools that has come out the Microsoft Visual Studio Team [...]

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  OK, so we all want to be somewhat popular, and it seems that my last article, “To Brace Or Not to Brace”, seems to have gotten a lot of attention, so, here goes my opinion on the popular semi-colon argument.  First, I’m not against any languages in particular, but I have found that [...]

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  In my last post, I found a use for inverting if statements.  That is, I postulated that it is better to have an explicit else when it’s impossible for that code to be executed.  The argument for just falling through the loop with no else is that why have unnecessary code.  [...]

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  Well, now I know.  Here is an example of some code I just wrote: if (doDeficitCalc) { throw new ApplicationException("Need to implement deficit weight rating"); } else { [...]

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  Several years ago, I was invited to a special showing of what was going to be the new SqlServer 2008 database in San Francisco.  I had expected a sales demo but was hugely surprised by the quality of the presenter and his deep understanding of issues facing real developers like us.  Over the [...]

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  This is just going to be a short post, but I bet it’s something I do a large number of times so I thought I’d blog it.  Say you get back from something like a web service an array of objects. In my case this:cmRateResult[] cmRateResults = TransiteUtils.MakeRateRequest(_cmRateRequest); .csharpcode, .csharpcode pre { font-size: small; color: black; font-family: consolas, “Courier [...]

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  Words can’t begin to describe this years

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  We’ve got a huge session line up (147) and a huge attendance (1700+), awesome weather predicted and tons of food coming.  We just printed our final schedule and are ready to go.  Just to print a couple thousand labels tonight, make sure we have not forgot anything, and it’s off to V4 of [...]

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