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Wizbang Standalone Trackback Pinger

So, Blogger (as you may know) doesn’t have an ability to do trackbacks. Automatic trackbacks are nice — if one of my blog posts references a post from blog A, […]

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Written by Ben Strackany -- March 16, 2005
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Microsoft Enterprise Library Logging Block compared to Log4net

Loren Halvorson has a nice high-level writeup comparing log4net to Microsoft’s new Enterprise Library Logging Block (EntLib) here: Microsoft Enterprise Library Logging Block compared to Log4net. Peter Provost added a […]

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Written by Ben Strackany -- March 16, 2005
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Let's Get that GDN Groove Thang ON!

Korby Parnell wrote a bit up about Groove, a shared workspace application that was recently bought by Microsoft. I work for a company with two offices (Chicago & Seattle) and […]

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Written by Ben Strackany -- March 14, 2005
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Very very tiny computer running linux — gumstix

This isn’t totally development related, but more of the “tool tech stuff” line. Imagine a super duper small computer running Linux. Imagined it? Now, live it! With gumstix.

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Written by Ben Strackany -- March 14, 2005
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Good deals on tech equipment

I bought a laptop the other week, a Dell 600m. I was hoping to scrounge for one of the new latitude 610s, but too much jack. Anyhow, I was able […]

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Written by Ben Strackany -- March 8, 2005
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Flattening Out Data with One of the Coolest SQL Tricks Ever

This is sweet… Return a delimited list of child values in your SQL. For report-loving folks, or others.

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Written by Ben Strackany -- February 28, 2005
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Firefox Speed Tips

From Firefox Tuning – MozillaZine Forums… Type “about:config” in your FireFox address bar, then make the following changes: network.http.pipelining = true network.http.maxrequests = 8 network.http.proxy.pipelining = true browser.turbo.enabled = true […]

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Written by Ben Strackany -- February 15, 2005