Community blog feed on 06 Oct 2008
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UK MSDN Flash - Pex: Automated testing for .NET
06 Oct 2008 at 10:51 from Ben Hall's Blog
A quick heads up regarding a short Microsoft Pex article I wrote for the UK MSDN Flash newsletter. If you want a quick introduction, or a link to shar...
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Formatting strings
06 Oct 2008 at 10:45 from Jon Skeet's Coding Blog
A while ago I wrote an article about StringBuilder and a reader mailed me to ask about the efficiency of using String.Format instead. This reminded me...
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Win an Xbox Elite Console
06 Oct 2008 at 10:36 from Gary Short
Running until November 28th 2008 Microsoft has a competition to win an Xbox Elite console, all you have to do is to sign up for the MSDN Flash newslet...
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Microblogging for October 5th 2008
06 Oct 2008 at 10:22 from Gary Short
Recently I said http://twitpic.com/eq0d - Sleepy Sunday (View) @DaveSussman you had a day off yesterday (View) Frost on the grass here thi...
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Code Line Length
06 Oct 2008 at 10:11 from Charles Cook
Coding Horror has a piece on Text Columns: How Long is Too Long? The post quotes some research results which probably aren't really all that applicab...
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Interdental Brushes
06 Oct 2008 at 10:11 from Charles Cook
I've been meaning to mention TePe interdental brushes for a while, to do my bit for the dental hygene of the developer geek world which is not renown...
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Free Wifi on Skye
06 Oct 2008 at 10:11 from Charles Cook
Following my recent Skye post Mark Smith at Information Patterns emailed me: You can also get free wifi at the An Tuireann arts centre. They also do ...
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Operation could destabilize the runtime
06 Oct 2008 at 10:11 from Charles Cook
I've just come across mention of an XML-RPC.NET problem on the clyx development blog. They have a Community Server installation and were seeing excep...
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Outsourcing Lowers Expectations?
06 Oct 2008 at 10:10 from Charles Cook
James Robertson discusses a rather provocatively titled piece by James McGovern which describes an anecdote about how outsourcing lowers expectations...
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Postel's Robustness Principle Revisited
06 Oct 2008 at 10:10 from Charles Cook
Right now I'm fixing some code, originally written by someone long departed from our development group, which decodes encoded words in email message ...
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New Release of XML-RPC.NET
06 Oct 2008 at 10:10 from Charles Cook
FYI there is a new release of XML-RPC.NET available. This release fixes the problem I mentioned a couple of weeks ago whereby ASP.NET applications ru...
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The requested FTP command is not supported when using HTTP proxy
06 Oct 2008 at 10:10 from Charles Cook
I was using the FtpUpload task from the MSBuild Community Tasks Project and after moving to a different machine started catching an InvalidOperationE...
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Adding a File to the Compile ItemGroup
06 Oct 2008 at 10:10 from Charles Cook
I've finally got round to switching from NAnt to MSBuild for building XML-RPC.NET so I'm tentatively finding my way around MSBuild at the moment. One...
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The server committed a protocol violation
06 Oct 2008 at 10:10 from Charles Cook
One of the issues involving XML-RPC.NET that turns up fairly frequently is when the library throws an instance of System.Net.WebException with the me...
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DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper 4
06 Oct 2008 at 10:10 from Charles Cook
I've registered for DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper 4 on Saturday 2nd December. I missed DDD3 because I was on vacation but I found the first two were we...
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Functional Style Regex Engine in C#
06 Oct 2008 at 10:10 from Charles Cook
Wesner Moise's recent post Hard Problems, Simple Solutions speculates about implementing regular expression matching using a functional style. He poi...
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Object of Desire
06 Oct 2008 at 10:10 from Charles Cook
The iPhone ????. © David Pham ...
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XML-RPC Server Using HttpListener
06 Oct 2008 at 10:10 from Charles Cook
I've had a handful of requests from people who want to use the .Net System.Net.HttpListener class as the basis for an XML-RPC server implemented usin...
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Contract Name Not Found In List Of Contracts
06 Oct 2008 at 10:10 from Charles Cook
I have just started to dive into ">Windows Communication Foundation. Long overdue I know. One beginner's tip is that if an instance of InvalidOperati...
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Source Analysis for C#
06 Oct 2008 at 10:10 from Neil Cowburn
Remember that I mentioned Microsoft were preparing to release StyleCop to the masses? Well, it's now available for download. ...
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Groovy BOF at Open Source Developers' Conference (OSDC)
Spring Hill, Australia
We are organising a Groovy BOF(Birds of a feather) to be held at the Open Source Developers' Conference in Brisbane. Watch this space for more info. I am told the dinner is on Thursday night - which makes the BOF sessions on Wednesday, preceding all the Groovy/Grails talks on Thursday. Please note - you MUST be registered to attend the conference to attend the BOF. To register please go to
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TechAviv Founders Club Nov '09 Meetup
Herzelia, Israel
Over 150 Israeli startup founders and investors are getting together to see, discuss and help two hot startups, and to hear an inspiring talk by guest speaker Saul Singer co-author of Start-up Nation: The Story of Israels Economic Miracle. November Presenters: 1. Reimage - Zak Dechovich, Founder & CEO (@Reimage) 2. AllRise - Erez Eden, Founder & CEO (@AllRise) 3.
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