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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 same line as the declaration or control statement...

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 08-06-2008
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 first, but I will say that it is about a special project...

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 07-22-2008
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 Subscriptions to give away, and he is having a...

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 06-26-2008
.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 Framework, but, if my limited understanding is...

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 04-17-2008
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 don't want something that costs a fortune, but...

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 10-03-2007
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 a network share. Each of these folders contains information...

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 08-31-2007
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 under some pretty heavy time constraints, I...

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 08-25-2007
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 of the way I've grown to work over the last...

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 08-24-2007
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 on messages sent to the e-mail alias on the job...

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 06-04-2007
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, depending on what I was trying to do. This one...

Posted to Tap My Mind - Scott Isaacs (Weblog) by sisaacs on 04-12-2007

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