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28 November 2006
Certification Motivation

Looking to get Microsoft Certified , need some motivation? If a 10 year old kid can pass her Microsoft Certified Application Developer for C# exam it must be child's play ;-) Afra Karim Randhawa is the youngest person known to pass this certification. Most other kids still battle with multiplication... Read More...

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Filed under: General, .NET, Fun Stuff

24 November 2006
del.icio.us - Automatic Blog Post

[ Update : I've updated this post with tag support here ] http://del.icio.us has a very useful feature, the daily blog posting, which creates a daily blog post with all the links you tagged during the previous 24 hours. So instead of trying to memorise links and then post when you get a chance, whenever... Read More...

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Filed under: General, .NET, CS, dotnet.org.za, Fun Stuff, del.icio.us

17 November 2006
Friday .NET Trivia 1

Stumbled across an interesting piece of code yesterday. Considering what we know about .NET reference and value types two questions regarding the snippet below : Would the snippet below compile? If it compiles how would it work and what would the result be? Venture a guess before compiling :-) 1: using... Read More...

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04 July 2006
WCF/WS-MEX/WCS/ClickOnce Sample

Alphabet soup :) I’ve uploaded a sample to my blog illustrating the usage of a WCF client in a ClickOnce environment which I concocted after reading Nigel Watlings very useful post on “ using the MetaDataResolver with Windows CardSpace and WCF ”. The client is bootstrapped through WS-MetaDataExchange... Read More...

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Filed under: .NET, Vista, Fun Stuff

14 June 2006
msdnman & msdn wiki

Two pretty cool MSDN related tools: msdnman A very nifty command line utility for accessing MSDN2 by Craig Andera . Very similar to the *nix man command. It includes the source so you can build your own applications that integrates with the MSDN MTPS Content Service. An example accessing the System.Threading... Read More...

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16 May 2006
CodePlex Beta

Microsoft just launched a Team Foundation Server based online software development environment for open and shared source software projects called CodePlex . There's already some very popular .NET open source projects like NUnit on the site. With the rise of popularity of open source .NET projects on... Read More...

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Filed under: General, .NET, Fun Stuff, Open Source

03 February 2006
Friday afternoon snippet.. Interned Strings Fun

Jon Skeet posted an interesting snippet of code on the DOTNET-CLR newsgroup a couple of days back related to modifying the values of interned strings in the string pool. The .NET CLR always returns a reference to the same string whenever the same literal string is encountered, this reference pointing... Read More...

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Filed under: .NET, Fun Stuff, Mono

27 January 2006
Toolbox.Add()

Some useful links I've been meaning to post in the last couple of days but never got around to... TimeSnapper It's been a while since I first read about TimeSnapper on Leon Bambrick's Secretgeek and it's been getting quite a bit of coverage in the blogosphere lately. I've been using it for a couple of... Read More...

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Filed under: General, .NET, Personal, Fun Stuff, Open Source

29 December 2004
IMHO - WMP Now Playing Formatter

I was looking for a plug-in for Windows Media player to display the currently playing song as part of a blog post and found the Windows Media Player fun pack . It contains a Blogging Plug-in which is also available as a seperate download with support for several blogging tools including w.bloggar etc... Read More...

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