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Tuesday, July 29, 2008 10:47 PM

$33,000,000 Doesn't Buy What It Used To

Like everyone else in techdom I had to see if all the bad hype about Cuil was warranted. I am now torn on whether to pile on or say 'hey it's a beta'. But it doesn't say it's a beta. It should. Like every one else that tried Cuil I had to see what came
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Sunday, July 27, 2008 10:33 AM

Reflection In Software Development: The meditative type not the metadata type

In this post I propose we should do more meditative development and officially begin The Meditative Developer . I was just sitting and reflecting on some programming I had recently done. Specifically I was reflecting on some unit tests I had created as
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Friday, July 25, 2008 12:46 PM

Dr. Randy Pausch Added Much

Dr. Randy Pausch has died. My condolences to his family. I never knew them. I didn't know the man either but he was an inspiration to me nonetheless.
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Friday, July 11, 2008 7:08 AM

How Do You Most Often Interact With Team Build?

I'm working on a new tool around interacting with team builds for my own use and ideally to make available to others. What are the interactions you most often have or desire with team build? Is it queuing a build, checking which builds have run, looking
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Friday, July 11, 2008 6:22 AM

NDepend is Better Than Ever Before

It's been a while since I took a serious look at NDepend . I didn't realize how long it had been until I started evaluating the product again. Wow! is what I have to say. If you have an significant installed code base this is a must have tool. Outside
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Monday, July 07, 2008 8:32 AM

A Silverlight Foray with TFS- Silverlight 2 is Indeed Good Stuff.

I am in the midst of a foray into Silverlight for a new tool for TFS. I have dealt with Silverlight on various occasions and have to say that I continue to be impressed. What pleases me most is that I can take my existing knowledge in C# and really put
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Friday, July 04, 2008 2:34 PM

Connecticut .NET Developers Group (CTDOTNET) First CodeCamp - August 2008

The Connecticut .NET Developers Group is having their first ever CodeCamp in Hartford, CT (USA) on August 16th, 2008 from 9am to 5pm at the New Horizons Computer Learning Center ( directions to the center ) in Bloomfield, CT. If you have never attended
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008 4:59 AM

What would make Apture better?

I recently started taking Apture for a test drive. I twittered a comment on it stating that I liked it but thought it would likely be a lot of work. Apparently, Theresa at Apture monitors twitters as she dropped me a comment on my blog that asked... I
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