Archive for June 2008
links for 2008-06-28
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We designed and had this broadfork made for us on Orcas Island. Strong tines and peavey handles make this broadfork the ultimate in an aerating tool. 12” 5/8 steel tines with a strong square tubing crossbar. Allows you to step on crossbar easily for de
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This is a very economical pump for shallow wells (20′ deep or less), rain barrels or cisterns.
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…In the past few years I have discovered some really nifty hoe designs that make weeding a lot easier.
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…This article will focus on the old fashioned approach of hoeing weeds. Forget your old memories of chompin’ up the dirt to weed the garden. Forget too the blisters, calluses and back aches of too much time spent stooping over to grub or pull out weeds.
links for 2008-06-26
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Basically it describes a method that I use to allow Screwturn wiki to display thumbnail images by using a simple parameterized snippet. The snippet will automatically point the thumbnail to the larger source image. The link above provides much more in-dep
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Looks like a very useful plug-in if you want to use the wiki as a site framework…The goal is very simple, show or hide some parts of a page in case of the user is logged or not.
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Some guidance on a nice format for a screwturn wiki…I’m going through and changing the formatting of the default template css. I’m using the http://www.saveatclose.com/all/wiki/ layout as my guide. I am using a java script to apply the rounded corner lo
links for 2008-06-25
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I came across an excellent paper that can serve as a template for my current need at mcgclient…This article presents a model for describing the architecture of software-intensive systems, based on the use of multiple, concurrent views. This use of multi
links for 2008-06-23
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Gardeners Supply Co website
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…I have been using my Dutch half moon hoe (D10) for 12 years in a 1/4 acre garden and the wear is hardly measurable.
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…dig into database unit testing, explain how the feature was implemented, and show you how to perform unit testing of your own database projects.
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It is a fact that ASP.NET 2.0 has an excellent localization model for Web applications, and the Microsoft® .NET Framework includes considerable globalization support as well. However, this support is limited to server-side code. ASP.NET AJAX applications
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Visual Studio 2008 automates manual WCF tasks, which includes updating proxy references, and eliminates repetitive tasks such as creating simple host projects. Visual Studio also addresses some tough problems such as cross-targeting and data contract type
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…Security is by far the most intricate area of the Windows® Communication Foundation (WCF). In every WCF operation call on the service side, security is governed by the service contract, the operation contract, the fault contract (if present), the serv
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Cool…
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Todo, of course…
links for 2008-06-22
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…This is Jack Peters’ personal recipe for growing the best tomatoes! Make sure you have a good sunny location if you want to maximize your fruit production and especially the ripening process. Keep some Epsom salts on hand to supply extra Magnesium to
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Peters fertilizer are recommended in several places…Jack Peters gives insights for professional results
links for 2008-06-20
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For using asp.net features outside the default ASPNETDB …Adding the Tables from ASPNETDB to the Northwind Database
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…In the latest release of Microsoft Enterprise Library 3.0 a new application block has been included that will ease the pain in creating and maintain validation rules and routines.
This article will give an introductory look at the new Validation App
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Great summary (brief) of possible approaches…working on finding an object validation method that does not suffer from a number of the issues I have seen with some popular validation methods out there. Here is a list of some of the styles that I have loo
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Cool…The RegExRestrictedString is a class that allow the developer to include simple validation into the type of a string. This restriction and simple validation is often implemented as part of a database implementation for string length or format.
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…I tend to shy away from using nested (inner) clasess, but when asked what guidance exists out there for using inner classes, I came across this post that had the following links:
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…Just a few WCF links that I have found valuable while implementing WCF Services:
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…Recently I’ve helped a few people out who were having an issue with how they had added new Membership, Role, and Profile providers within their web.config file. If you are ever going to add a provider declaration within your web.config file, please re
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…This version of the VAB provides the absolute minimum required for use of the validation functionality for in-memory objects that don’t depend on any external configuration.
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Related to other link, this is the code download…Standalone Validation Application Block 1.2
links for 2008-06-19
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…The Enterprise Library Validation Application Block provides useful features that allow developers to implement structured and easy-to-maintain validation scenarios in their applications.
links for 2008-06-18
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.Worth a try?…Visual Studio 2005 shipped with a very nice feature called debugger visualizers. In accordance with their names,
debugger visualizers allow you to visually view useful information about objects during debug. -
Thinking about this Verizon phone…
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Maybe…The LG Glimmer is a stylish phone with a really smart concept, combining a touch-screen display plus a slider keypad. It has excellent features, including GPS navigation, EV-DO support, and a 2-megapixel camera.
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…And there you go. The connection string in the web.config now contains deployment-specific configuration data.
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One of the great improvements of Visual Studio 2008 brought to developers is the built in support for unit testing. With Unit Testing support, it is very easy for developer to create, execute and repeat unit test cases.
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…The goal of this blog entry was to get a better understanding of how you can use Visual Studio 2008 to write unit tests that can be used for Test-Driven Development. Visual Studio was designed to support many different types of tests and many different
links for 2008-06-17
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Growing strawberries can be fun and rewarding or frustrating. Everyone wants to grow strawberries.
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Excellent tip!…On a given line of code where you want to log the value of a variable, you could do the old fashion way of doing a Console.Writeline() or a PrintF(). But in VS 2008, there’s a new feature called tracepoints.
links for 2008-06-16
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…The SP1 Beta does not include updated documentation for Visual Studio 2008, but it is all online.
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Text Template Transformation Toolkit (T4) is a template-based code generation engine. It is included with Visual Studio 2008
