9 May
2008

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 – BETA

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“With Service Pack 1, Visual Studio 2008 introduces a large assortment of new features for targeting Windows, Office, and the Web. Developers building .NET-based applications will enjoy improved performance in the WPF designer, new components for Visual Basic and Visual C++, as well as an MFC-based Office 2007 Ribbon. Web developers will see continued improvement […]

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9 May
2008

Boise Technical Community

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I recently realized just how vibrant and thriving our local technical community is here in Boise, Idaho. Although I hear things in the ether about events and user groups I have never really stopped to see how many opportunities there are out there for us. Wow. A little surfing and Googling turns up these gems […]

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6 May
2008

Using JQuery DatePicker in ASP.Net

I’ve had a number of uses for a more configurable date picker on my current application.  I needed something that looked good, and I one that I could set constraints for (Min and Max dates).  That last problem basically made the AJAX Toolkit CalendarExtender out of the running. Luckily I found the JQuery DatePicker.  This […]

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5 May
2008

Meet Me at Agile 2008

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I know it is a bit early to be throwing this out there, but I am pretty excited about this one. I have had 2 sessions accepted for presentation at the Agile 2008 conference in Toronto. This year’s Agile conference will be in August and if you haven’t been to one of these conferences, do […]

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2 May
2008

Code Cast 7 – Mike Moore and Darrel Carver

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In this episode of the Elegant Code Cast, we talk with Mike Moore of the Rubiverse podcast and Darrel Carver, our last guest. Mike listened to Darrel’s interview and had some views of his own on the state of software development. This discussion focuses primarily on the familiar question of programming as an art or […]

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1 May
2008

On Persistence

Earlier this week, I managed to convince our very wise decision makers to start using NHibernate for our persistence layer. My team mate on the project describes how it went. While I was reading Jeremy’s train of thoughts, the following four lines made me realize we did the right thing: Why are teams still writing […]

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