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Posted by on 22nd September, 2004

Seattle visit next week

Ok, after talking about it for so long, I have made up my mind and have decided to take the steps to move out to the Seattle area. I will be flying out for a few days or so to explore and drive through neighborhoods and see some homes for sale. In the meantime, I will need to start focusing my job/project search to the East Puget Sound area. If a good opportunity comes up, it will be all I need to get out of steamy South Florida… But then again, it has happened before; while waiting for that opportunity 3000 miles away, a good, local project has crept up and kept me here for longer than I really wanted to. We will see what...

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Posted by on 18th September, 2004

C# code snippets

Tired of creating 100's of VS.NET solutions to test small C# code snippets? Snippet compiler allows you to test code without creating individual VS.NET solutions. read more:...

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Posted by on 14th September, 2004

Available again

I know it has been a while since I last posted, but something tells me I will have plenty of time to post more often in the near future. Beckman Coulter, the company I am consulting for, is moving software development from Miami to Indianapolis and are ending my contract this week (Sept 15, 2004) , which will put me in the "looking…" category again. I could use a break of a week or two, but will start looking in the meantime. My wife and I have talked about moving West for the last 5 years or so, and a good job has always been the reason not to, so maybe this is the push in the back that will make us take that...

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Posted by on 5th September, 2004

Microsoft Research

I recently stumbled upon this site of Microsoft that lists all (?) the projects their research teams are working on. You will find some (and some not…) very interesting topics and a great source for inspiration for us developers and for research teams of other companies (MM?) to see what is brewing elsewhere…. Find out what Microsoft is doing to improve their products in the next two to ten years....

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Posted by on 5th September, 2004

Speaking at CFUG on Flash Remoting

I will be speaking at the Coldfusion User Group meeting tomorrow on Flash Remoting. Macromedia Flash Remoting MX provides the connection between Macromedia Flash and your web application server, making it fast and easy to create Rich Internet Applications. Introductory, but with plenty of step-by-step handcoded samples and demonstrations. See more information at the Coldfusion User Group's website:...

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Posted by on 13th August, 2004

Arcade games from the 80s

If you grew up in the 80's, you will love this site. It contains links to some of my favorite video games from the 1980's. Each game takes a few minutes to load, but they are amazingly close to the real thing. Best of all, no tokens required! Play here:...

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Posted by on 8th August, 2004

ASP.NET 2.0 Internals

While 100 percent backward compatible with ASP.NET 1.1, ASP.NET 2.0 brings a number of internal changes to ASP.NET. These include changes to the code model, compilation, page lifecycle, and more. This article outlines those changes. (21 printed pages) Read article here:...

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Posted by on 18th June, 2004

Spyware Removal Tools Compared

Some nice souls over at Flexbeta.net have taken the liberty to compare and review the top anti-spyware programs on the market, namely: AdAware, Spybot S&D, SpySweeper, SpyHunter and SpyRemover. With spyware on the rise they wanted to see which spyware/adware removal tool worked best under an infected machine. We placed 5 spyware/adware scanning and removing applications head-to-head to see which one gave the best results as far as finding the most infected objects. Article...

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