Posted by Al Nyveldt on Apr 28, 2006
For the past year, I have been spending more and more of my daily
commuting time listening to podcasts and audio books. In the past few
months, it has been almost 100% of the time. It really is a great way
to regain some value from the time. I’ve been able to listen to books
I’ve wanted to read as well as gain helpful news and information in my
specific areas of focus through podcasts.
Below is the list of podcasts I currently am subscribed to:
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Posted by Al Nyveldt on Apr 19, 2006
I finished reading Eric Sink's new book this weekend, "Eric Sink on the Business of Software". I've been enjoying Eric's weblog for a long time so I figured I'd splurge on this book as I'm a book person at heart.
This
book is actually a printing of 27 articles (or blog posts) from his web
site, many of which were released on MSDN. I believe there might be a
few small changes, but nothing major. I had read many of these
articles pre...
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Posted by Al Nyveldt on Apr 14, 2006
I ran into an oddity while converting an ASP.NET 1.1 project to ASP.NET
2.0 today. The conversion when was going along way too smoothly when I
started testing some Crystal Reports that are processed in the web site.
This
particular site runs reports based on user input, exports them to PDF
format, and then displays the PDF for the users. In running them after
the update, I was getting an argument exception when the program
executed the export method of the Cry...
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Posted by Al Nyveldt on Apr 11, 2006
Since we have started using Visual Studio 2005, all new projects have been placed in Subversion for our version control. We have been very pleased with the switch away from Visual SourceSafe so far.
Today,
we took steps to move all active development to Subversion and I moved
two current 1.1 projects out of SourceSafe and into Subversion. Of
course, we have all old versions in SourceSafe where they will continue
to be for the time being, along with other project...
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Posted by Al Nyveldt on Apr 04, 2006
One of the interesting features of ASP.NET 2.0 is the fact that
the site, by default, is dynamically compiled and managed by the
ASP.NET runtime. The standard method I've read most about for
installing your web site is to just copy your code and assemblies to
your web server and let the runtime handle the rest. If you need to
update a page or class, just update the file and the ASP.NET runtime
will handle the update for you.
However, you can also precompil...
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