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New Concurrency Support in .NET 4

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Ben

I’ve been reading about some of the new support for parallelism and concurrency in version 4 of the .NET Framework, and came across a really good paper on parallel design patterns by Steven Toub (most or all of which seems … Continue reading →

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Re: Do I Need To Learn Microsoft Technologies

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Ben

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away (Stackoverflow.com, November 2008), a university junior posted this question: Most jobs speak of C#, Visual C++, .NET, Java, etc etc Where as I am mainly using Java, C++, Perl, Python … Continue reading →

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Happy Pi Day

Posted on March 14, 2010 by Ben
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The Decade IS ending

Posted on December 31, 2009 by Ben

There are some folks out on the internet preening about their realization that “decade” means 10 years, and there was no year zero, thus decades range over the calendar years [xx01 - xx10]. Marc Theisson posts: 2010 is the last … Continue reading →

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VSeWSS: Value does not fall within the expected range.

Posted on December 8, 2009 by Ben

On occasion, particularly if you’re moving files around or working on the structure of your project inside Visual Studio 2008, you’ll try to deploy your SharePoint project using VSeWSS 1.3 (March 2009 CTP) and get the following error: Value does … Continue reading →

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Internet Freelancing

Posted on December 6, 2009 by Ben

In a previous post about an online independent contracting portal, I complained about the quality of the work to be done. In a more general sense, this is really the bottom line when it comes to the difficulties in doing … Continue reading →

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Lambdas in data-binding expressions

Posted on September 22, 2009 by Ben

For a recent project, I wrote a templated web part (similar to the Smart Part) to do a search on a custom list and display the results (all using AJAX updates made available by the UpdatePanel), and I found myself … Continue reading →

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Chrome OS: Much Ado About Nothing

Posted on August 5, 2009 by Ben

Folks, let’s don’t get too excited about Google’s announcement of a “Chrome” operating system. They’ve already said that it’s oriented toward netbooks and other entry-level PC devices, and that most of the interactivity will be web-based. In other words – … Continue reading →

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Sololance

Posted on May 7, 2009 by Ben

I’ve got a full-time job with benefits, and it’s a blessing to me and my family because it allows me to provide for them in full. We want for nothing, really. However, I do someday want to start my own … Continue reading →

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A simple weblocks application

Posted on February 12, 2009 by Ben

Introduction I’ve been following the Weblocks web framework for about a year now, and it’s my opinion that Weblocks is the best Common Lisp web framework available. One of the difficulties with Weblocks right now is a lack of documentation … Continue reading →

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