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I’m sure that, for the vast majority of the readers of my blog, becoming more productive with your programming tools is a desirable goal. Not all developers go out of their way to advance their skills, but the very fact that you read blogs means that
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My final presentation in my April World Speaking tour was at the Toronto Code Camp this afternoon. As always, the code camp was a huge success. The efforts of many people went into making it so, but the organization was top notch. As part of the lead-up
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I finished presentation four of my April World Tour of the GTA earlier today. It was actually a co-presentation with Deb Forsyth and I was basically code-monkey and the 'developer’ that she could point to with here ‘bad developer’ stories. This was an
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I was asked an unusual question yesterday about cookies, Silverlight and WCF. The scenario was that a Silverlight application was being used in a consumer-facing situation. The application itself communicates with the server using WCF. The service which
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On Wednesday past, I did a Code Contracts presentation to the Toronto Visual Basic User Group . It was a continuation of my whirlwind ‘April Presentation Tour’, in that it was my third presentation in a week and the third of five that I’m doing in April.
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This past Thursday, I had the opportunity to present on Silverlight 3 to the Toronto Silverlight User Group . It was my first time presenting to the group and I was impressed by the number of attendees (I would say 30-40) who managed to hang around on
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While working on one of the demos for my upcoming Toronto Silverlight User Group presentation, I ran into a catastrophic failure. Actually, the starting point for the problem was that when I right-clicked on the Silverlight application and selected the
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