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Nice list of MSDN content…The topics in this section catalog a number of possible client and service security configurations. Configurations vary according to a number of factors. For example, whether a service or client is on an intranet, or whether the security is provided by Windows or transport (such as HTTPS).

…Who needs to fuss with planting lettuce and spinach when these low-care perennial plants can provide such great salads? Plus, with the exception of patience dock, all these plants are readily available from garden seed companies. We are working with seed companies to add patience dock to their catalogs for 2010. In the meantime, we are offering free seeds to anyone who will sow the seeds (you can plant them in the fall; the harvest will be small from the first-year perennial plants), and then send us a report on how the plants behave and how you like the greens for salads and cooking. To request seeds, send a small padded, self-addressed envelope to the following address:

Should probably refactor our client service code…As consequence of this, we should add some code to handle any possible exception for network errors when a proxy is closed/disposed.
The common pattern for cleaning up a proxy is the following

Best list of wood cooking stoves with pictures.

They still make these?…A hand washer? That sounds like a lot of work. Not with the James Washer. Simply let the clothes soak in hot soapy water, then just a few minutes of swishing the pendulum agitator back and forth does a normal load. Made of high-grade stainless steel with a galvanized lid and pine legs.

Cool…Canadian made, handcrafted piston fan runs off the heat of your woodstove. The secret of the Free Breeze fan is a small stirling engine housed in the square base of the unit. Stirling engines have been around for decades but no one has ever come up with a marketable way to use them. They consist of a sealed chamber that expands quickly when heated and contracts when it cools

Lots of pictures…Featuring Quality Stoves from the following Manufacturers
Jøtul • HearthStone • Harman • Lopi • Scan • Pacific Energy • Vermont Castings

We call it the EVERBURN System and it’s designed to deliver cleaner emissions and longer burn times, similar to a catalytic system. Our state-of-the-art design enables Defiant and Encore stoves to burn more steadily and longer on a single load of wood compared to other non-catalytic stoves. So now you can enjoy all of the beauty and style of a traditional cast iron stove with a new level of convenience and efficiency. Just what you’d expect from Vermont Castings

Morsø offers a wide selection of stoves in terms of design, size, stove type and efficiency. Morsø has 150 years’ experience with cast iron, and we offer a 10-year warranty covering casting and production defects.

Capture the classic warmth of wood with the modern convenience,
efficiency, and versatility of Country Flame stoves and inserts.
Catalytic and non-catalytic models in freestanding or insert
configurations allow you to choose the option that makes the most
of your décor, your budget, and your environment.

Do these work?…Add efficiency, safety, and beauty to your existing fireplace with heavy-duty Country Flame Universal Fireplace Doors. Whether you choose the attractive, versatile 400 Series or the elegant 500 Series, you're sure to appreciate the warmth and extended burn times you'll get from your existing
masonry fireplace.

Looks nice…Margin has made the first Amish cook stove with a glass firebox door that allows you to see the fire!! This is the most popular stove we sell and for good reason. With this option you can watch and enjoy the fire no matter where you need to place the stove in your home!

Looks nice…Flame View Heater – wood stove, several pictures.

Off-grid (cabin) supplies store.

Looks promising…In this issue I will address another form of “free” water pumping. There are many remote applications where a solar-powered water pump is more cost effective than installing a conventional grid-connected AC pump.
I recently designed a solar-powered pumping system for a local farmer wanting to pump water from a lake up to a watering trough for cattle in a distant fenced field. We have also designed larger systems to pump directly from drilled wells up to elevated storage tanks, which provide gravity-fed water back down to remote ranch buildings.

Same info as the other html link.

Nice…Frequently asked questions about driven point water wells

Perfect!…Well Points can be used to installing wells in shallow water tables 25 ft or less.

Installation instructions are presented here.

Need to install a new shallow well system. I would appreciate any advice on driving the well point, and recomendations on which pump and tank to buy. The neighbors have similar systems, and believe they are 20 to 25' deep. Does anyone know of a how-to website for shallow wells?

…In this episode I explain how to break hygiene in Scheme macros by using datum->syntax. I discuss how you can play with the lexical context. Finally, I spend some word on non-hygienic macro systems versus hygienic systems.

Need to get this…Backcountry Research introduces their new Awesome Strap. It allows you to keep a tube, tire levers, and CO2 strapped to your seat post. The idea is to weigh less than a little bag and make your stuff easier to get to; pretty simple… kind’a like the Simple Strap that we reviewed last month.

…JavaScript provides some useful methods for strings, but leaves out some important ones. Fortunately, JavaScript allows us to add new methods to the basic types.
entityify()
entityify() produces a string in which '<', '>', and '&' are replaced with their HTML entity equivalents. This is essential for placing arbitrary strings into HTML texts. So,

…Roots Musik Karamu ("karamu" is the Kiswahili word for "feast) centers on reggae music, but, also brings you the sounds of calypso, soca, blues, jazz, gospel, Juju, and other Afro-centered musical genres.

Lots of great music…

Listen Live to WHQR

Seattle NPR public radio.

…A recent comment asked why Haskell programmers sometimes write C# lambdas in this style…

…When I first heard the term Currying, I thought immediately of tasty Thai and Indian food. To my dismay, I found that the conversation was not about wonderful spices but rather about transforming a function that takes n arguments into a function that takes only one argument and returns a curried function of n – 1 arguments. Why in the world would that be useful?

Unlikely Scheme is a rather small, but R5RS-compliant Scheme interpreter. It is written in C++, and released under a liberal license (zlib). Internally, it uses a very high-level virtual machine and a simple, non-optimizing compiler. See the README file for (a little) more information.

…Why is that true? Because there’s a community of co-workers, friends and past colleagues that always have access to the LinkedIn profile, and there’s no such community with constant visibility to a random resume the candidate sends in, and you have no means to circulate the resume to that type of community to fact check.

Excellent list…In this article, we wish to share with you a huge list of fresh and new tools and resources that JavaScript developers will find useful and informative.

Nice listing…Watch Video From Your Favorite PBS Programs

Nice…Hopefully if you're reading this you've noticed that I've started a series of Tips recently. The Tips will mostly apply to Entity Framework.

Might need this…As of right now Enums are not in EF4. Now we will be listening to your feedback about Beta1, and making some adjustments, so you never know, but at the moment it doesn’t look like they will be supported.
Yesterday though I came up with a workaround that, while a bit of work, is pretty interesting.

Possibly useful…Using cleartext username/password is usually not recommended. However it is sometimes required (like with F5's BIG-IP). WCF does not natively allow us to use such scenario. For this reason I have written ClearUsernameBinding – a WCF binding that enables to send cleartext username/password over HTTP.

One more thing to read periodically…I still feel C++ offers some things that can't be beaten. It's not my intention to start a flame war here, please, if you have strong opinions about not liking C++ don't vent them here. I'm interested in hearing from C++ gurus about why they stick with it.
I'm particularly interested in aspects of C++ that are little known, or underutilised.

Still more…I have an interest in msbuild this week. I'm cleaning up a lot of extremely complex build scripts. Digging in surprises me with how much it can do – msbuild is sort of a hidden feature of .NET programming in itself.

Another one to visit often…There are always features that would be useful in fringe scenarios, but for that very reason most people don't know them. I am asking for features that are not typically taught by the text books.

Excellent; return oftenb…We, C# developers, all know the basics of C#. I mean declarations, conditionals, loops, operators, etc.
Some of us even mastered the stuff like Generics, anonymous types, lambdas, linq, …
But what are the most hidden features or tricks of C# that even C# fans, addicts, experts barely know?

Nice…The DebuggerDisplay attribute has a single argument, which is a string to be displayed in the value column for instances of the type. This string can contain braces ({ and }). Text within a pair of braces will be evaluated as a field, property or method.

Might be a worthwhile read…Git is a simple, but extremely powerful system. Most people try to teach Git by demonstrating a few dozen commands and then yelling “tadaaaaa.” I believe this method is flawed. Such a treatment may leave you with the ability to use Git to perform simple tasks, but the Git commands will still feel like magical incantations. Doing anything out of the ordinary will be terrifying. Until you understand the concepts upon which Git is built, you’ll feel like a stranger in a foreign land.

This is in Suamicao, WI…The Mission .of Windjammers Sailing Club is to promote sailboat and boat handling in general, to instruct sailors, and to promote nautical safety, good sportsmanship, and fellowship among boaters.

directions to Shipyard Marine
780 Longtail Beach Rd, Suamico, WI 54173 (920) 434-2000

Not as easy as I was hoping for…this post should also interest anybody who would want to send a header with every request to a WCF service.

…xVal lets you link up your choice of server-side validation mechanism with your choice of client-side validation library. It guides you to fit them both into ASP.NET MVC conventions, so everything plays nicely with model binding and errors registered in ModelState.

…In this post, we’ll look at another feature of the ASP.NET 4.0 AJAX Library, the Observer design pattern for plain JavaScript objects. The pattern is implemented in the client side Sys.Observer class. This feature is used internally within the new version of ASP.NET AJAX for live-binding and the DataView control.

Stuff related to encoding for chinese chars…Where to set the NLS_LANG in Windows

This is the most useful stuff I have yet found for helping with how to use TFS to manage project branching…This is a very special project, because (1) James Pickell fulfilled the requirements of becoming a Core Rangers with the project, (2) its is slowly but surely breaking the Codeplex download records and (3) I was personally involved and will continue to be involved in future editions. Most of the content of this post is pulled from the Codeplex site here.

VSTS Rangers Projects – summary of projects covered on this blog
This post is simply a collection of the various posts that covers VSTS Rangers projects. Last update posted on: 9 June 2009.

…rendering each data type of my model as a form element it was a pretty trivial exercise to take this to the next level and render a default form for the model.