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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...

Posted to Impersonation Failure (Weblog) by Armand du Plessis on 11-28-2006
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...

Posted to Impersonation Failure (Weblog) by Armand du Plessis on 11-24-2006
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...

Posted to Impersonation Failure (Weblog) by Armand du Plessis on 11-17-2006
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...

Posted to Impersonation Failure (Weblog) by Armand du Plessis on 07-04-2006
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...

Posted to Impersonation Failure (Weblog) by Armand du Plessis on 06-14-2006
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...

Posted to Impersonation Failure (Weblog) by Armand du Plessis on 05-16-2006
In the beginning there was the object...

Generics: A Bedtime Story In the beginning there was the object, and it was given unto the Programmers that they might have dominion over the Code. The Programmers loved and nurtured the object, putting it to good use, and they created many, many objects. But the objects had no way of being collected...

Posted to Kevin Trethewey (Weblog) by Kevin Trethewey on 04-12-2006
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...

Posted to Impersonation Failure (Weblog) by Armand du Plessis on 02-03-2006
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...

Posted to Impersonation Failure (Weblog) by Armand du Plessis on 01-27-2006
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...

Posted to Impersonation Failure (Weblog) by Armand du Plessis on 12-29-2004

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