Sunday, July 08, 2007 - Posts
From Sunday, March 26th, 2006:
Loren Halvorson's post comparing the two.
Summary: Log4NET is much faster than the Logging Block.
Tom Hollander's - the Enterprise Library PM's - response.
Summary: I concede your point that Log4NET is faster but
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From Saturday, March 25th, 2006:
Please ... for the love of ... do not add code to change the underlying object when overriding ToString().
I was recently in the unfortunate circumstance troubleshooting a problem that acted erractically when I debugged
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From Tuesday, March 14th, 2006:
A friend of mine asked me recently if I had any good books on .NET internals - that he could borrow. He wasn't so much interested in Jeffrey Richter's “CLR via C#” or technical references on the .NET framework, but rather,
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From Thursday, March 9th, 2006:
I had an irritating flicker issue w/ a giant label that gets updated every second or so. It turns out that the fix was as easy as setting the ControlStyle of the control to DoubleBuffer. You may have already known this,
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From Wednesday, March 8th, 2006:
This article is a beautiful poker reference for those passionate individuals who find themselves in the corporate world full of politics and opaqueness.
“Can we ask you an awful question? With all
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From Sunday, March 5th, 2006:
For some reason, using additional delegates and events via remoting doesn't work anymore - anymore, because I went through a similar growing pain a long time ago when transitioning from .NET 1.0 to .NET 1.1. So
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From Sunday, March 4th, 2006:
First thing I did was read through the foreword - like usual - but this time, there was nothing usual about it. The forward was written by neither an acclaimed expert on the subject nor a Microsoft superstar, but rather
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From Monday, February 27th, 2006:
A friend of mine at work lent me the December 2005 edition of “software development” because the cover story is “going it alone in IT - 10 tips for solo consulting.”
A case study in the article of Scott Ambler [w/ Ontario-based
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From Monday, February 27th, 2006:
This video is hilarious, each and every time I see it.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2889527841583480458
If google kills the link again, use this search link: http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Old+Lady+Pwn
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From Monday, February 27th, 2006:
I occasionally google [or hakia] my name - com'on, you do it too. Today I saw that Peter Johnson referenced and/or liked my “Using String.Empty versus “”...” post. The coolest part was this line:
So it makes sense that
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I'm not a big Rolling Stones fan but I really enjoy this song - particularly the following lyrics:
You can't always get what you wantBut if you try sometimes you might findYou get what you need
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From Monday, February 20th, 2006:
Interesting question which I wouldn't think of or consider if I hadn't heard this guy [Ahmed on Fox News' Cavuto] talk on TV. Ahmed said the following [highlight is in bold]:
“These are local, political actors - state
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From Sunday, August 22nd, 2004:
I had one hell of a weekend -- here's the good and the bad.
Bad: 6 guys in 1 room -- not my thing -- especially with my “kempt” friends. Taking a nap while your friends are awake and bored [in 1 room] is a giant mistake.
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From Sunday, August 15th, 2004:
I just caught an awesome Olympics commercial. It showed the “low jump” event where the goal was to jump off the ground as little as possible. Just thought it was an interesting idea. I don't remember what the commercial
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From Saturday, August 14th, 2004:
Jeff Bezos [aka the CEO of Amazon.com] made an interesting point about the workplace and hiring strategy. The “take” as published in the August 2004 edition of FastCompany [page 55] reads:
Hire very carefully -- you're
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From Sunday, October 3rd, 2004:
We make so many mistakes in our lifetime. The question is -- is it good enough to learn from the mistakes that we've made? I'm not talking about those little mistakes that we make every day, brush off, and learn
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