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Voice chat

Deb — Thu, 10 May 2012 18:47:50 GMT

http://www.downloadc3.com/ventrilo/?gclid=CJCkt8Cw9q8CFQ-AhwodRRKUUw

Storyboarding with Visio

Deb — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 22:35:01 GMT

http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/storyboarding_rich_internet_applications_with_visio

Time data visualization examples

Deb — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:58:06 GMT

Nice color
http://www.miner3d.com/index.php

More line oriented
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/timesearcher/

Circle oriented
http://www.visualisingdata.com/

Very in-depth pdf with a variety of solutions
http://vadl.cc.gatech.edu/documents/36_Yang_class7_time.pdf

Includes a few resources I have run into more than once
http://dailytekk.com/2012/02/27/over-100-incredible-infographic-tools-and-resources/

20 performance tips

Deb — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:30:29 GMT

http://www.realsoftwaredevelopment.com/20-tips-to-improve-aspnet-application-performance/

Spin

Deb — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:09:28 GMT

This morning, while listening to my daily dose of the public media
spinning topics, I heard a commentator say, "They are saying..." at
which point he proceeded to slander the person he was speaking about
in a rather horrendous way. The commentator did not say who 'They'
are, but simply plowed through the statement delivering it with an
attitude that if you disagreed with the statement it was not his fault
but the fault of 'They'. Classic straw man... Or, if you did agree
with the statement, how awesome of that commentator to have
(supposedly) repeated it.

Convincing arguments

Deb — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:03:52 GMT

Just cast your view point as 'good, just and the American way' or 'For
The Children' or ' to save the planet'.

WebException off of a SOAP service

Deb — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:53:20 GMT

HttpWebRequest httpWebRequest;

(HttpWebRequest) =
System.Net.WebRequest.Create("http://localhost/NEVEREVER");

HttpWebResponse httpWebResponse;

try
{
httpWebResponse = (HttpWebResponse)httpWebRequest.GetResponse();
}

catch (WebException ex)
{
WebResponse resp = ex.Response;
((IDisposable) resp).Dispose();
}

Commonly used attributes

Deb — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:10:18 GMT

http://www.devcurry.com/2010/10/attributes-every-net-developer-should.html

Excellent Standards

Deb — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 22:49:26 GMT

http://mikebroberts.com/2005/02/
http://treesurgeon.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=DevelopmentTreePart3&referringTitle=Part2&ProjectName=treesurgeon

csc

Deb — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 22:26:39 GMT

C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework

Pentaho Kettle

Deb — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 03:09:25 GMT

http://www.amazon.com/Pentaho-Kettle-Solutions-Building-Integration/dp/0470635177

Android

Deb — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:09:06 GMT

This fellow knows all about it:
http://www.vogella.de/articles/Android/article.html#overview

Fire up Eclipse, setup a new Android Virtual Device and tear forth...

(Watch how you name your folders when installing the SDK environment.)

svg

Deb — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:06:29 GMT

Some real awesomeness:
http://mbostock.github.com/d3/
http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/svg/bucketful.htm
http://www.netmagazine.com/features/20-svg-uses-will-make-your-jaw-drop

Lambda Expressions

Deb — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:55:43 GMT

C# 2.0 introduced anonymous methods, which are methods defined inside a
method. Incredibly powerful and a nice way to put all kinds of evaluation
logic inside your code they had the drawback that they could be quite hard
to read.

Func mySeniorStaffFilter = delegate(int a) { return a > 35; };

The above method takes an integer as a parameter, and returns a boolean. It
checks if the staff member passed to it is older than 35. If so, it returns
true.

Lamba expressions make things a little easier to read, while being
functionally exactly the same:

Func mySeniorStaffFilter = a => a > 35;

Even better, you can define them anywhere a delegate would have fitted:

var SeniorStaff = Employees.Where(s => s.Age > 35);

Agile

Deb — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:07:18 GMT

The Agile Manifesto reads, in its entirety, as
follows:[1]

We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and
helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value:
*Individuals and interactions* over processes and tools
*Working software* over comprehensive documentation
*Customer collaboration* over contract negotiation
*Responding to change* over following a plan
That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.

Visual Studio Toolbox items greyed out

Deb — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:07:51 GMT

Got a little exuberant using Add-Ins in Visual Studio. Not sure which
add-in caused the probem. To remedy the situation I:
1) shut down Visual Studio
2)went to (on XP) C:\Documents and Settings\dklug\Local
Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0 and deleted the tdb
files.
3)restart VS and right click in the toolbox section> choose Show All

Serialization

Deb — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:36:39 GMT

For many complex objects, such as those that make extensive use of
references ,
this process is not straightforward. Serialization of object-oriented
objects does
not include any of their associated
methodswith
which they were previously inextricably linked. This process of
serializing an object is also called *deflating* or
*marshalling
* an object.

Silverlight graphic

Deb — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:25:04 GMT

http://charlespetzold.com/silverlight/LissajousCurves/LissajousCurves.html

HTML5

Deb — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:36:29 GMT

Tags
http://html5tutorial.net/html-5-reference/html-5-reference.html

C# HTML5

Deb — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:23:16 GMT

"exceeding complexity budget as a language"
http://html5tutorial.net/