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Curly Brace Placement
I've been writing code with curly braces for a dozen years or so, starting with C++ in college, then JavaScript for many, many years, and for the last few years, C#.  In all that time, I have been a fan of putting the opening curly brace on the...
I Am Excited About... A Conference Call?
For the first time since -- ummm -- since ever, I am looking forward to an upcoming conference call.  And I'm really looking forward to it.  I don't want to say too much, yet, because I want to get some very basic details ironed out...
Community Coding Contest
This is pretty exciting.  Chris Pietschmann , an MVP, a friend of mine, a committee member of the WI .NET Users Group , developer of Virtual Earth controls , and an independent consultant I have worked with in the recent past, has three MSDN Premium...
.NET Micro Framework
Just got a book in the mail from Amazon: Embedded Programming with the Microsoft .NET Micro Framework .  It was only about $6 from the "Used and New" section of alternate sellers. An upcoming project at work is currently planned for Compact...
Issue Tracking and Help Desk
What software do you use for issue tracking (feature requests, bugs, etc.) and help desk? I'm looking for something here at work. Has anyone used Axosoft OnTime ? I don't want something hosted as a service (I want to install it here). Also, I...
New Tool: Folder Finder
I'm on a roll here with the little utilities... My dad called the other day as he was leaving his office (in California). Due to the nature of his business and the way their network is setup, he and his team work with a large number of folders on...
Interop Issue With Winsock
Error: Method '~' of object '~' failed So yesterday at work , I was working with a sample app from one of our product vendors. The app was a VB6 Windows EXE showing how to interact with their equipment using sockets -- Winsock. Since I'm...
New Tool: App Dashboard
Many times I find myself with way too many files, folders and shortcuts on the desktop for things that I am currently working on and/or testing. That's in addition, of course, to the things I have on the desktop because I use them all the time. Because...
Seeking .NET Developer
I don't often specifically mention my company when I blog, but we're looking for a developer. Short description: "VB 2005, SQL 2005, RFID". Slightly longer description here . For even more info, please contact me directly -- I get copied...
CodePlex TFS Down?
I went to CodePlex to see what's been going on with a couple projects since the last time I was there, and it seems that the Team Foundation Server is down. I noticed it last night and it still seems to be down now. I got a couple different error screens...
Update #2: More IE Stuff
Early this year I posted a ZIP of stuff for IE context menus. I just wrote and added another menu item for checking or unchecking any checkboxes in the current text selection. The file is attached to this post. Download and use at your own risk. See readme...
Update: Image Converter
A couple weeks ago, I posted a " slightly useful piece of software " which could be used to convert a bunch of BMP files to JPG. We'll I just updated it to allow you to select the source and destination file types. I've replaced the...
Update: More IE Stuff
A couple weeks ago, I posted about a ZIP of stuff for IE context menus. I just updated the ZIP file to include a context menu item for getting a map for a highlighted address from Google Maps . Here is the updated ZIP . Download and use at your own risk...
More IE Stuff
Some time back, I posted a little thing I hacked out to let me open un-linked URLs in a new window (in IE). Well, I actually have a few very similar, ummm, things. There are five parts in this ZIP. You can pick and choose which ones you want to use. Here...
Another (Slightly) Useful Piece of Software
OK, so this one may only be useful to one other person on the planet, but here it is. (If you're a .NET developer, then this is a trivial application.) Anyway, my wife had a need to convert a bunch of BMP files into JPGs, and she doesn't have Photoshop...
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