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April 2008 - Posts

Monday, April 28, 2008 11:33 AM

Twitter up!

I've finally been pulled in by the twitter-mass in the Indy dev community (I blame you, Larry). I'm at erwilleke
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Saturday, April 26, 2008 6:22 PM

Speaker's dinner!

I'm sitting at the after-party for today's CodeCamp. I wasn't going to come, but I was asked yesterday if I could speak, so I ran my Branch Management speech for four people (double last time!) that were still around the last session. The good thing is
Posted by willeke | 1 Comments
Friday, April 18, 2008 9:25 AM

And now, the issues past, Silverlife is wonderful!

I've managed to get past the random issues that seem to plague me when adopting new technologies, and I'm digging into the meat of Silverlight 2.0 (Beta 1). This is GREAT! Blend is a great tool, and they've made using resources SO MUCH BETTER! The visual
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008 10:13 PM

Nasty upgrade bug with .NET 3.5...

or silverlight, or visual studio, or something. Anyway, my work is in the Silverlight.net installation forum under a post titled "Silverlight startup error with resources - Summary of fix" The corrected file is attached here, and I hate wasting a full
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Attachment(s): Microsoft.Common.targets
Saturday, April 12, 2008 2:15 PM

The first time

Thursday, after the main IndyNDA event, I performed my first public presentation. I've presented to teams, classrooms, and my company before, but this is the first time I've had the opportunity to present to an uncontrolled group of my professional peers.
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Attachment(s): Rich Branch Management.ppt
Thursday, April 10, 2008 5:11 PM

My first live blog post... April Indianapolis .NET Developers Association

I've never done this before... I'm sitting in the IndyNDA event for this month, and since there's wireless, and I've got my computer, and IndyNDA's got tables, I thought I'd actually give live posting a try. Expect a stream of thought as I (partially)
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Friday, April 04, 2008 2:58 PM

Linq entities and calling Attach()

Back to tech, for now. I like Linq to SQL. A LOT. However, there have been a handful of things that have annoyed me, and one of them is the story around serialization and disconnected entities. They've built a nice engine for it (DataContract-based),
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