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The IT Crowd

I’m not sure how I missed them all this time, but someone today introduced me to The IT Crowd.  In looking over some YouTube examples, I came across this one which has to be my favorite so far (I think I worked for the Male version of the Head of IT ...[Read More]

Published: Oct-24-09 | 1 Comment | 0 Links to this post

LinqToSql is NOT Dead, thank you so much.

Just got done checking The Morning Brew (an absolutely necessary blog to follow on a daily basis if you are a developer geek like myself), and followed the article about “Myth Busting” misconceptions about VS, which led me to The Visual Studio Myth ...[Read More]

Published: Oct-23-09 | 1 Comment | 0 Links to this post

It’s a Wonderful (.Net 3.5) Life, redux

Continuing in the spirit of yesterday’s blog entry about “if something was tedious to do before, look for new stuff in 3.5”, System.Xml.Linq is our namespace for our newest love. I’m still working on that upgrade utility and one of the things it di ...[Read More]

Published: Oct-07-09 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

BackgroundWorker, where have you been all my .net life

So today I was working on an upgrade utility for one of my clients, and I needed to give people a chance to “search” for a particular type of directory.  Long running process since I had to search the whole drive (needle in an haystack issue, don’t ...[Read More]

Published: Oct-06-09 | 1 Comment | 0 Links to this post