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Tue, Oct 7 2008 2:36

Perth gets two (sorry, three) brand new MVPs – Congratulations to the both of you!!

The communities i Perth are thriving – evidence of this is that we now have two (yes, 2) three (i stand corrected, we have 3) new MVPs. The first is Mitch Wheat – everybody knows Mitch as the leader and organiser of the Perth .Net Community...
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Tue, Aug 14 2007 20:30

InnerWorkings steps up and offers free Silverlight training for CSharpZealot.com members

CSharpZealot.com - a C#.Net centric community received good news today - namely, InnerWorkings are offering all of its members FREE Silverlight training. The story about how this came about is quite funny. But, i've been on the Beta test for me.dium...
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Thu, Aug 9 2007 22:58

InnerWorkings - .Net training very much hands-on

I got an email from Brian Finnerty yesterday who runs www.innerworkings.com - a .Net training site with a twist. I've been through quite a few of them over the years..from instructional DVDs, to remote training and onto class-room training and thought...
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Wed, Jul 4 2007 8:13

Compact code, using C# shorthand and coding habits

I've been reprimanded for writing code that's too complex...well, not exactly reprimanded, but told to please make my code less complicated. One of the things i do often is use shorthand..for those that doesn't know what shorthand is, its...
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Sun, Jul 1 2007 0:00

Curtin University - Distributed Applications

Today we had the final session on the Distributed Applications workshop, which was held by Nick Randolph and myself at Curtin University. Regardless of the fact that our first day (tuesday) was a technological disaster, today was pretty great - the VMWare...
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Sun, Jun 24 2007 9:48

Secret heroes...JP on DNR TV

Well, i confess i'm a geek..readily at that..my cubicle at work has pictures of my kids, wife, dog, cat, Bill and Steve and several mutilations from my colleagues which includes a few odd creations with my face photoshopped onto other pictures..hmm...
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Thu, May 3 2007 10:03

Charlie Calvert's Community Blog : Anders Hejlsberg Talks about LINQ at Mix

One of my own "secret" heroes, Anders Hejlsberg talks about LINQ with Charlie Calvert. For some reason, i always enjoy his enthusiasm. He's very energetic in the way he talks and its obvious that he's passionate about what he does. There's...
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Wed, Apr 18 2007 23:13

Perth Central Tafe Presentation - Professional .Net Development

Today I had the longest presentation i've yet to do - nearly 4hrs long - for Perth Central Tafe, a tertiary educational institution. I broke the presentation down into 4 main groups: .Net Framework - Overview of a development platform ASP.Net - Working...
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Tue, Mar 27 2007 14:12

Is this normal, or am i being anal?

One of the tools i use is ReSharper - i love this tool and cannot...live...without...it.. A feature i really like is the code analysis bar on the right hand side of the code window. I especially love seeing the little square go green - and stay that way...
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Tue, Feb 13 2007 22:57

C# Code tips #4, Interfaces

One of the most important aspects of Object-Oriented Development is interfaces. By now, most developers would have touched on them from one time or another, but strangely enough, not many use them that often on a daily basis. So why is that? is it a lack...
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Wed, Jan 31 2007 16:34

ToolStripMenuItem, Event and Delegate problem - help

A small problem has stopped me from progressing on the project i'm currently working on. The problem shows its face when i try to subscribe to an event/delegate from a ToolStripMenuItem. I have a DataGridView which contain (among others) a custom column...
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Mon, Jan 15 2007 19:52

C# Code tips #3, Strings

As most of us has figured out, string comparison is a performance bottleneck - so why do we do it? Well, data is most often in a humanly friendly format (eg. we can read it), and secondly we need to manipulate data to display to an end-user - both cases...
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Fri, Jan 12 2007 5:38

C# Code tips...

it is very common, when coding, that you have to change values of a variable or display one image instead of another. mostly that's done is that you use "if" statements. Code: if (!foo) { bar = fizzle; } else { bar = shizzle; } Now overall that's not...
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