5 Jul
2010

Pluralcast 19 : OData with Matt Milner

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  Listen to this Episode [45:12] What?s all this OData talk? Find out in this episode with Matt Milner, who helps us understand this new way of publishing and consuming data on the web. Matt also tells us about a project he recently did for Pluralsight in which he published his first ?real? OData feed. […]

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2 Jul
2010

Using TransactionScope with SQLite

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Earlier this week I ran into a little quirk with SQLite. Take a look at the following code snippet: using(var transaction = new TransactionScope(TransactionScopeOption.Required)) { using(var connection1 = new SQLiteConnection(_connectionString)) { connection1.Open(); … // Do stuff with the open connection } // Closes the connection (so we think …) using(var connection2 = new SQLiteConnection(_connectionString)) { […]

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2 Jul
2010

Book Review: Switch – How to Change Things When Change is Hard

After hearing about this book in an interview with Mary and Tom Poppendieck, I decided to immediately purchase the audio version on Audible and listen to it during my daily commute to and from work. This book is all about how to enable and inspire change in all kinds of environments, be it at work, […]

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1 Jul
2010

Software Craftsmanship and Giving Back

This spring I had the distinct honor of teaching a .Net programming course at Boise State University.  Going into the course I was definitely unsure of what to expect. From David Starr’s horror stories of burning ERD’s to cautious skepticism from other professors I entered this senior level class half wondering if I’d be teaching […]

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