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Another Use for C# Using
via DotNetKicks.com by (author unknown) on June 16, 2008
If you are a C# developer you're familiar with the using directive. It appears at the top of every one of your class files informing the compiler what namespaces should be looked at while compiling this code page so that you don't have to fully qualify every object. (This isn't the interesting bit)
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A quote from Steve Yegge
via Simon Willison's Weblog by (author unknown) on June 15, 2008
XML is better if you have more text and fewer tags. And JSON is better if you have more tags and less text. Argh! I mean, come on, it’s that easy. But you know, there’s a big debate about it. - Steve Yegge
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Clinton backs Obama and bows out
via BBC News | In Depth | Vote USA 2008 | UK Edition by (author unknown) on June 07, 2008
Hillary Clinton tells supporters she is suspending her campaign to win the US presidency and is backing Barack Obama.
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Why Clinton lost
via BBC NEWS | Justin Webb's America by Justin Webb (BBC News) on June 07, 2008
Ten reasons. 1. She was a woman. I don't buy the idea that this was the determining factor but it still counts for something - when it started to go wrong there was an extra edge to the nastiness directed...
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More Bad Polls News for Gordon Brown
via Iain Dale's Diary by noreply@blogger.com (Iain Dale) on June 07, 2008
An ICM poll in tomorrow's Sunday Telegraph puts Labour on 26%, only 5 points ahead of the LibDems and 16 behind the Conservatives on 42%. It's Labour's worst ever showing in an ICM poll.
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Have some HASHes with your Shell – HashTab, the File Hash Explorer Shell Extension (a new “Much Have” Shell Extension?)
via Greg's Cool [Insert Clever Name] of the Day by Greg on June 07, 2008
Beeblebrox.org - HashTab Windows Shell Extension“HashTab is a Windows shell extension which adds a tab called "File Hashes" to the Windows Explorer file properties. The tab contains the MD5, SHA1 and CRC-32 file hashes. These are common hashes that are used to verify the integrity and authenticity of files. Many download sites list the MD5 hash along with the download link. The HashTab makes it...
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Microsoft Web Deployment Tool Beta
via MSDN Blogs by JoeStagner on June 07, 2008
The IIS team has released the Beta 1 (Go Live) release of the Microsoft Web Deployment Tool! The tool provides deployment and migration support for IIS 6.0 and 7.0. It incorporates many features that enable web server administrators to deploy, sync and migrate sites, including configuration, content, SSL certificates and other types of content associated with a Web server. This tool can be used...
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Design for testability - Transparent and opaque dependencies (part 8)
via VusCode - Coding dreams since 1998! by malovicn on June 07, 2008
... recommend you to subscribe to Alt.NET mail list where you have daily top notch discussions about various ultra interesting subjects. One of April subjects was Are Opaque Depencies Bad? (Mockist TDD's effect on design) where you can see that some of very smart people were stating that Opaque dependencies are sometime acceptable compromise because they encapsulate complexity and the component ...
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Britain, America and YouGov
via CentreRight by Matthew Sinclair on June 07, 2008
... Sigh.We are a lot more pro-free trade. This isn't particularly a surprise but its always nice to see. A majority of Britons think it is a good thing, despite concerns about globalisation.In both countries three quarters of the population support the death penalty for murderers. This surprised me. I thought that in Britain there now wasn't a majority in either direction.
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My issues with the term "Scrum Master"
via AgileJoe by agilejoe on June 07, 2008
... PowerPoint presentation with lots of slides telling you how great Scrum is and different scenarios where Scrum has been applied. Still no epiphany. The day goes on and we get to do hands on Sprint planning meetings, we emphasize the importance of the Daily Scrum. OK been there already, understand the importance feedback, still nothing ground breaking. Next we talk about value stream prio...
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