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November 2004 - Posts

Project Planning at its Finest

Dave Webster alerted me to these photos showing why a little planning ahead can be a good thing. Reminds me of a few software projects I've been involved in... Read More...
Posted Monday, November 29, 2004 1:03 PM by jprosise | 1 Comments
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Cool ASP.NET 2.0 Programming Trick

I ran into a problem developing an ASP.NET 2.0 app that at first seemed not to have a convenient solution. Then I discovered the SiteMap.SiteMapResolve event and the solution turned out to not be so difficult after all. Here's the problem. SiteMapPath Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 20, 2004 5:07 AM by jprosise | 8 Comments
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And YOU Think Spam is Bad?

John Robbins pointed me to this link about the world's most spammed person . Gee, and I thought sorting through 1,000 pieces of spam a day was awful. I hate spammers. I'm heartened by the fact that some of them are now being put behind bars where they Read More...
Posted Friday, November 19, 2004 4:30 AM by jprosise | 1 Comments
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COM = Crummy Object Model?

I'm in sunny Phoenix, AZ this week teaching a COM class to a longstanding client with whom we've done business for years. I almost feel as if I'm doing them a disservice. But they have a huge installed base of COM software driving their manufacturing Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 18, 2004 5:30 AM by jprosise | 7 Comments
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Back to the Old Stomping Grounds

I'm off to the airport bright and early Thursday morning, headed for San Francisco. Thursday night I speak to the East Bay .NET user group in Pleasanton, CA. Friday morning it's up before dawn again to head home. I lived in the East Bay in the late '80s. Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 11, 2004 3:59 AM by jprosise | 2 Comments
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The Easy Way to Write

To think I've spent countless hours in the last 14 years of my life writing books and magazine articles. Had I only known about the Lipsum Generator , my life would have been so much easier! “Lipsum” is short for lorem ipsum , the Latin-like Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 09, 2004 8:22 PM by jprosise | 2 Comments
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"The Incredibles" is Incredible

I took my wife and kids to see The Incredibles tonight. Wow! Easily the best movie I've seen this year. It makes you want to put on a red super-hero suit and go looking for some action. Speaking of incredible--the weather was just that today. So OF COURSE Read More...
Posted Monday, November 08, 2004 4:15 AM by jprosise | 7 Comments
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Looking Ahead to 2008

I just returned from Redmond after teaching a class at Microsoft this week. John Robbins was there teaching, too. As luck would have it, Richter was teaching somewhere in Connecticut, so we missed a chance for all three of us to be together. The three Read More...
Posted Friday, November 05, 2004 12:23 PM by jprosise | 1 Comments
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