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Monthly Archives: June 2009
Open Source Risk Management
There are some pretty cool things happening in the open source space on the .NET platform these days and new projects are being started every day. However how do you sort the wheat from the chaff? How do you manage … Continue reading
40% off Microsoft Press Books at Books24x7
If you are like me, then you spend hundreds of pounds per year on books, yet at the end I still don’t think I have access to all the books I’d like. I can’t go to my local library because … Continue reading
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Go Directly to Funky
In our office we have a notice board for the development team. It was there when I joined and I suspect its original function has long since been superseded by its new function of displaying any quotes, pearls of wisdom … Continue reading
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How to get a value from a text box into the database
This question was asked on a forum and I took some time to construct a reasonably lengthy reply so I’m copying it to my blog for a bit of permanence. I suspect that many of my regular readers will be … Continue reading
Scot ALT.NET: An Evening of O/RM
O/RMs help us bridge the gap between the database and the code base we love to write. On the night we will be looking at two O/RMs, NHibernate the most mature O/RM in the Alt.Net space and Microsoft’s recently released … Continue reading
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Things I’ve retweeted
I just had this fantastic idea. I share things I like on twitter by “retweeting” it. But I thought I’d spread the link love a bit more by blogging an aggregate of these retweets from time-to-time. The retweets here have … Continue reading
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Granny’s Shortbread
By request from Betsy Weber, I’m revealing my granny’s shortbread recipe (with permission). Ingredients 200g plain flour 100g Butter 50g Castor Sugar (called superfine sugar in the US) Method Mix the flour and sugar together Cut the butter in to … Continue reading
Dynamic Objects in C# 4.0
It seems only very recently that I was posting about this wonderful new feature in C# 3.0 called LINQ and its associated language features such as anonymous types, object initialisers and lambda expressions. Soon C#4.0 will be released and it … Continue reading
Upcoming events
In June Scottish Developers have two evening events with Kathleen Dollard. Kathleen is the Chief Technologist for AppVenture (www.appventure.com) where she leads the application generation efforts. She has been a Microsoft MVP for 11 years and is a member of … Continue reading
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