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  • So I received an iPhone last week…

    Published on 28 Aug 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    I have to preface what I am about to say with a couple of things: I have a first generation iPhone I do not have AT&T or any other GSM network I am using this iPhone as a phone mostly as an iPod I use Verizon Wireless as my cell phone provider I have to say I am pretty impressed [...] Read full article

  • Deadlocked!: “read committed snapshot” Explained

    Published on 25 Aug 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    I just recently read Jeff Atwood’s Deadlocked! article. I just wanted to give some more insight in to the read committed snapshot so that it is not perceived as “magic”. It has some definite advantages when dealing with deadlocks, however if your code relies on row level locking yo Read full article

  • Is Stackoverflow.com really a Web 2.0 site?

    Published on 14 Aug 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    I have been lucky enough to be one of the few and many people that have had the chance to preview the beta of stackoverflow.com. It has a very nice look and feel in my opinion and seems to work very well for an early beta. Jeff Atwood deserves major kudos. However [...] Read full article

  • Is Stackoverflow.com really a Web 2.0 site?

    Published on 14 Aug 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    I have been lucky enough to be one of the few and many people that have had the chance to preview the beta of stackoverflow.com. It has a very nice look and feel in my opinion and seems to work very well for an early beta. Jeff Atwood deserves major kudos. However [...] Read full article

  • Creating a default value for ActionMethod Parameter in ASP.NET MVC

    Published on 13 Aug 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    A couple days ago I came across a breaking change in ASP.NET MVC PR4 that wasn’t reported. The breaking change is that defaults from routes are no longer used as defaults for parameters in the action method, if no appropriate parameter is found in the request. Basically what this means is the Read full article

  • Using a Parameter Attribute to set a Default Value in MVC

    Published on 13 Aug 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    A couple days ago I came across a breaking change in ASP.NET MVC PR4 that wasn’t reported. The breaking change is that defaults from routes are no longer used as defaults for parameters in the action method, if no appropriate parameter is found in the request. Basically what this means is the Read full article

  • Using a Parameter Attribute to set a Default Value in MVC

    Published on 13 Aug 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    A couple days ago I came across a breaking change in ASP.NET MVC PR4 that wasn’t reported. The breaking change is that defaults from routes are no longer used as defaults for parameters in the action method, if no appropriate parameter is found in the request. Basically what this means is the Read full article

  • Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Released

    Published on 12 Aug 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Improved WPF designers SQL Server 2008 support ADO.NET Entity Designer Visual Basic and Visual C++ components and tools (including an MFC-based Office 2007 style ‘Ribbon’) Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation Server (TFS) addresses customer feedback on version control usa Read full article

  • Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Released

    Published on 12 Aug 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Improved WPF designers SQL Server 2008 support ADO.NET Entity Designer Visual Basic and Visual C++ components and tools (including an MFC-based Office 2007 style ‘Ribbon’) Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation Server (TFS) addresses customer feedback on version control usa Read full article

  • MySQL Officially Declared Microsoft SQL Server Compeditor

    Published on 11 Aug 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    I have been a huge fan of MySQL for a long time. It is the perfect database for when the budget is tight or you are not working in a Microsoft Environment. It performs well, and has a huge following of dedicated professional programmers that use it day in and day out on some of [...] Read full article

  • MySQL Officially Declared Microsoft SQL Server Compeditor

    Published on 11 Aug 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    I have been a huge fan of MySQL for a long time. It is the perfect database for when the budget is tight or you are not working in a Microsoft Environment. It performs well, and has a huge following of dedicated professional programmers that use it day in and day out on some of [...] Read full article

  • I am ditching Vista for Windows Mojave

    Published on 07 Aug 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    I just can’t take Windows Vista anymore so I am ditching it for Windows Mojave. I have heard great things about it and anything must be better than Windows Vista. Check it out for yourself: http://www.mojaveexperiment.com By the way, I am still alive, just very busy with some cool things that Read full article

  • I am ditching Vista for Windows Mojave

    Published on 07 Aug 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    I just can’t take Windows Vista anymore so I am ditching it for Windows Mojave. I have heard great things about it and anything must be better than Windows Vista. Check it out for yourself: http://www.mojaveexperiment.com By the way, I am still alive, just very busy with some cool things that Read full article

  • X-Files: I Want To Beleive… Meh…

    Published on 26 Jul 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    Last night I saw the new X-Files Movie, I Want To Believe, and as a fan of the original series and movie, I had great expectations for this movie. In the normal series and the first movie, Mulder and Scully were assigned by the FBI to investigate the X-Files, or cases that couldn’t be explaine Read full article

  • X-Files: I Want To Beleive… Meh…

    Published on 26 Jul 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    Last night I saw the new X-Files Movie, I Want To Believe, and as a fan of the original series and movie, I had great expectations for this movie. In the normal series and the first movie, Mulder and Scully were assigned by the FBI to investigate the X-Files, or cases that couldn’t be explaine Read full article

  • Do your self a favor get Opera 9.5 Mobile

    Published on 20 Jul 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    I just downloaded Opera 9.5 Mobile for my Windows Mobile phone. And I have one thing to say. Wow! This brings a more standard compliant browser to your phone to replace the aging Pocket Internet Explorer. Opera 9.5 Mobile event beats the iPhone version of Safari in the ACID 2 and [...] Read full article

  • Do your self a favor get Opera 9.5 Mobile

    Published on 20 Jul 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    I just downloaded Opera 9.5 Mobile for my Windows Mobile phone. And I have one thing to say. Wow! This brings a more standard compliant browser to your phone to replace the aging Pocket Internet Explorer. Opera 9.5 Mobile event beats the iPhone version of Safari in the ACID 2 and [...] Read full article

  • Review of NDepend

    Published on 17 Jul 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    When I was asked to review NDepend I didn’t want to do just another review. Because there are plenty of great reviews and I would just be adding to the noise. So I am going to use this time to give a personal story of how NDepend has helped me restructure some code I have been [...] Read full article

  • Review of NDepend

    Published on 17 Jul 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    When I was asked to review NDepend I didn’t want to do just another review. Because there are plenty of great reviews and I would just be adding to the noise. So I am going to use this time to give a personal story of how NDepend has helped me restructure some code I have been [...] Read full article

  • iTunes 7.7 + Windows Vista x64 == OK

    Published on 11 Jul 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    iTunes 7.7 has been released! Windows Vista x64 I am happy to announce that iTunes 7.7 and Windows Vista x64 work well together. The Apple downloader even chooses the correct 64-bit version of iTunes through every browser that I have tried, so they obviously fixed something where you don’t nee Read full article