Code Smell Summary and Refactoring

I saw this nice Code Smell summary at Berkeley thanks to Diederik Krols’ anti-pattern blog. The Code Smell Summary (or maybe it’s a cheat sheet) gives nice overviews of bad code […]

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New Sandcastle release — December 2006

The December 2006 CTP of Sandcastle, Microsoft”s free casino .NET 2.0 documentation tool, is available. It has some new features and a bunch of fixes.

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MySQL New Releases

A service pack for MySQL Enterprise 5.0 was released, bringing the version number up to 5.0.30 and including changes like: Bug Fix: InnoDB showed substandard performance with multiple queries running […]

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Speed Tests and Troubleshooting Connections

One of my clients has employees across the country at their clients’ offices, and sometimes users at a given location report that their connection to the company web site is […]

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Installing Subversion on Windows

Installing Subversion & TortoiseSVN James Kemp posted a guide to installing Subversion on Windows. Unlike most guides on the net, his is pretty up to date. Note that when it […]

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Article up on CodeProject

I just posted an article up casino online on CodeProject about ASP.NET”s machineKey. Feel free to check it out & comment.

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FireBug — new version

FireBug, that awesome javascript/css/ajax/dom debugger plugin for Firefox, has a new version out. Blurb from their landing page: Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at […]

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