26 Dec
2004

Christmas Hiatus with Telerik

I am taking about 2 weeks way from work and the blogs for a good long vacation, but I wanted to quickly drop in a quick note about the Telerik control suites. I am working with the demo versions on a non-Healthwise related project and am quite impressed with their ease of use, ease of […]

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16 Dec
2004

Jock Jackets for Developers

My team has come up with the best idea I have ever heard of.  Varsity letter jackets with the company logo for all developers and testers.  We’ll have patches made for our major projects and the team members involved in them get the patches.  How cool is that?  I may actually get this funded!  Imagine, […]

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14 Dec
2004

The Word by Irving Wallace

The editorial release for The Word as per Amazon reads, “The classic thriller of an ancient manuscript, a secret society committed to hiding an explosive truth, and the man who must uncover that truth–if he can stay alive long enough.” All I can say is that as far as I was concerned, this hero could […]

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10 Dec
2004

Community Server Beta 2

Is available.  Right on!  As soon as I am able to port my current posts to the new version I will change permanently.  I am running Beta 1 on my laptop and it went together very smoothly.  This product has been taken to a truly professional level.  Good work, Scott. http://www.communityserver.org/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=465557

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10 Dec
2004

PDF in XSLT

Within the last 24 hours, I have downloaded, installed, and actually gotten use from the Tall Components’ TallPDF.Net package. My needs are to generate highly formatted PDF documents from XML documents.  This package suits that need perfectly.  I need only run my XML through an XSLT file of my own design that translates the XML into […]

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9 Dec
2004

Refactoring Isa to Hasa

So the natural evolution of a few of my last posts is to put all of the functions together from my base class into a single usable class all it’s own. Aggregating these things into a single class makes the functions portable between web apps so that these things do not need to be rewritten […]

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7 Dec
2004

Channel 9

I love Channel 9.  Here is a little demo on C# Express and some of the refactoring capabilities. http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=14793  This may be whining, but when you are prompted to include a namespace for an unknown type with a smart tag, it kind of bugs me.  Why should I have to click on that teeny little […]

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