Today’s entry is on some of the most inconsequential things… and yet, they are so important to so many of us, the Curly Brace and Indentations. More specifically, the placement of curly braces in C#, C++, Java, and other C type languages in relation ...[Read More]

So because I have to keep up with the latest stuff, I took the plunge this weekend and installed Windows 7 beta on top of one of my development machines. I already had it on my laptop and it seemed fairly stable and my dev environment on my laptop w ...[Read More]

So currently I’m reading Inferno by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle ( A very good book that I recommend ).  Its a fun little story about a modern day Science Fiction Writer who dies and wakes up in Dante’s Hell as described in volume 1 of his Divine ...[Read More]

So I have been working with a client for a while (say 3+ years…) on a WCF application.  Yes, you read that correctly 3 years, which of course if you know your WCF history, means I’ve been working with it since release 1.0.  The joy of being a pion ...[Read More]

OK, I still have some work to do on this one, but I think I’m ready to post up version 1.0 for you.  Here is my new Plug-in for Windows Live Writer that allows you to effectively post up restricted tags to a SharePoint Blog.  It will encode the tag, ...[Read More]

TFS upgrade warning. This morning I decided it was time to see about patching and upgrading my TFS installation.  So looking over the requirements I saw we would need .Net Framework 3.5 and SP1 for 3.5.  So off to the Update.Microsoft.com website ...[Read More]

So recursion is one of my favourite programming structures, it’s elegant and fun to think thru.  but I just discovered a little bit of a nasty issue with JavaScript and Recursion.  Global Variables. So here is my example html <div id="o ...[Read More]

If you have read my earlier posts (here and here), you may know that for two days I was working on making it possible to show a specific SharePoint restricted tag in a blog post hosted in SharePoint Blog application (in this case it was the <em ...[Read More]

public class MyTest{ //private member variables int mHowMany = 1; //public properties public int HowMany { get { return mHowMany; } set { mHowMany = value; } } } As you can see from the code snippet above, My code display her ...[Read More]

So, yesterday I decided to get and install all the live framework tools (to go along with my mesh beta and azure beta work), was in the process of downloading the items for that, when I saw that ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTW (that’s a new MS TLA, for Relea ...[Read More]