LINQPad is Totally Awesome at Testing and Writing LINQ Queries
Saturday 20 September 2008 @ 9:25 pm
Google looking for something similar to what I want, then I put it into my application and run it. This has worked pretty well, but it takes a couple iterations to get it right. It occured to me that someone probably has written a LINQ interpreter so I just guessed the name, Ben Albahari, (which [...]

ToLambda Refactor From ReSharper is Just Too Cool!
Tuesday 9 September 2008 @ 11:07 am
  Can hardly contain my excitement.  I was just cleaning up a business object to post in my MVC article and of course was using anonymous delegates to sort lists.  The code was a little tricky, but id did the job.  Here is the old code:   [DataObjectMethod(DataObjectMethodType.Select, true)] public List<BusinessObjectItem> GetMembers() [...]
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Using Google Reader Offline
Sunday 27 July 2008 @ 7:08 am

A review of using Google’s offline news reader. The story of how I switched from Bloglines to Google Reader, then finally to the offline Google Reader

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Refactoring With ReSharper, Some Very Nice C# fixes I often use
Thursday 3 July 2008 @ 6:59 am

One of the really nice features I enjoy using in Resharper 4.0 is the refactoring that converts inefficient (and unpleasant to read) syntax into nice efficient code. In this post, I’ll show some refactorings that Resharper (from JetBrains) gives us. There are lots more, but the ones listed below seem to come up the most in my own c# code.


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Making the RSS Feed From the web site Discoverable
Sunday 29 June 2008 @ 9:09 am

This post shows how to use a cool tool to making a RSS Feed Discoverable on a web page. It involves creating an entry in the header tag of the page.



Use Multiple Monitors? Checkout UltraMon from Realtime Soft.
Sunday 6 January 2008 @ 12:04 pm

A review of a great tool to help you manage multiple monitors, UltraMon.

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