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  • So I received an iPhone last week…

    Published on 28 Aug 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    I have to preface what I am about to say with a couple of things: I have a first generation iPhone I do not have AT&T or any other GSM network I am using this iPhone as a phone mostly as an iPod I use Verizon Wireless as my cell phone provider I have to say I am pretty impressed [...] Read full article

  • Deadlocked!: “read committed snapshot” Explained

    Published on 25 Aug 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    I just recently read Jeff Atwood’s Deadlocked! article. I just wanted to give some more insight in to the read committed snapshot so that it is not perceived as “magic”. It has some definite advantages when dealing with deadlocks, however if your code relies on row level locking yo Read full article

  • Nevron .NET Vision Q2 2008 now available

    Published on 20 Aug 2008 from Nevron News

    Nevron Software is pleased to announce the production availability of the new major Q2 2008 release of Nevron .NET Vision - the data visualization components suite for .NET (WinForms and ASP.NET). The new Q2 version introduces new and improved Gauges,...(read more) Read full article

  • Is Stackoverflow.com really a Web 2.0 site?

    Published on 14 Aug 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    I have been lucky enough to be one of the few and many people that have had the chance to preview the beta of stackoverflow.com. It has a very nice look and feel in my opinion and seems to work very well for an early beta. Jeff Atwood deserves major kudos. However [...] Read full article

  • Is Stackoverflow.com really a Web 2.0 site?

    Published on 14 Aug 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    I have been lucky enough to be one of the few and many people that have had the chance to preview the beta of stackoverflow.com. It has a very nice look and feel in my opinion and seems to work very well for an early beta. Jeff Atwood deserves major kudos. However [...] Read full article

  • A little healthy competition for developers

    Published on 13 Aug 2008 from Brian Finnerty's Blog | InnerWorkings

    It’s the opening week of the Beijing Olympics, so competition is on the minds anyone with a sporting bone in their body or a power button on their TV. It’s hard to deny that strong competition brings out the best in us — Rafael Nadal wouldn’t be quite the force he is on the t Read full article

  • Creating a default value for ActionMethod Parameter in ASP.NET MVC

    Published on 13 Aug 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    A couple days ago I came across a breaking change in ASP.NET MVC PR4 that wasn’t reported. The breaking change is that defaults from routes are no longer used as defaults for parameters in the action method, if no appropriate parameter is found in the request. Basically what this means is the Read full article

  • Using a Parameter Attribute to set a Default Value in MVC

    Published on 13 Aug 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    A couple days ago I came across a breaking change in ASP.NET MVC PR4 that wasn’t reported. The breaking change is that defaults from routes are no longer used as defaults for parameters in the action method, if no appropriate parameter is found in the request. Basically what this means is the Read full article

  • Using a Parameter Attribute to set a Default Value in MVC

    Published on 13 Aug 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    A couple days ago I came across a breaking change in ASP.NET MVC PR4 that wasn’t reported. The breaking change is that defaults from routes are no longer used as defaults for parameters in the action method, if no appropriate parameter is found in the request. Basically what this means is the Read full article

  • Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Released

    Published on 12 Aug 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Improved WPF designers SQL Server 2008 support ADO.NET Entity Designer Visual Basic and Visual C++ components and tools (including an MFC-based Office 2007 style ‘Ribbon’) Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation Server (TFS) addresses customer feedback on version control usa Read full article

  • Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Released

    Published on 12 Aug 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Improved WPF designers SQL Server 2008 support ADO.NET Entity Designer Visual Basic and Visual C++ components and tools (including an MFC-based Office 2007 style ‘Ribbon’) Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation Server (TFS) addresses customer feedback on version control usa Read full article

  • Visual Studio 2008 SP1 has just released!

    Published on 11 Aug 2008 from sheltonblog.com

    Great news folks, it looks like the Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 has finally released, although IMHO it's more of a Feature Pack (since new features have been added as well). You'll see some greate new features like The ADO.NET Entity Framework and some new ASP.NET Extensions. Here's the descri Read full article

  • MySQL Officially Declared Microsoft SQL Server Compeditor

    Published on 11 Aug 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    I have been a huge fan of MySQL for a long time. It is the perfect database for when the budget is tight or you are not working in a Microsoft Environment. It performs well, and has a huge following of dedicated professional programmers that use it day in and day out on some of [...] Read full article

  • MySQL Officially Declared Microsoft SQL Server Compeditor

    Published on 11 Aug 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    I have been a huge fan of MySQL for a long time. It is the perfect database for when the budget is tight or you are not working in a Microsoft Environment. It performs well, and has a huge following of dedicated professional programmers that use it day in and day out on some of [...] Read full article

  • I am ditching Vista for Windows Mojave

    Published on 07 Aug 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    I just can’t take Windows Vista anymore so I am ditching it for Windows Mojave. I have heard great things about it and anything must be better than Windows Vista. Check it out for yourself: http://www.mojaveexperiment.com By the way, I am still alive, just very busy with some cool things that Read full article

  • I am ditching Vista for Windows Mojave

    Published on 07 Aug 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    I just can’t take Windows Vista anymore so I am ditching it for Windows Mojave. I have heard great things about it and anything must be better than Windows Vista. Check it out for yourself: http://www.mojaveexperiment.com By the way, I am still alive, just very busy with some cool things that Read full article

  • ToolStripComboBox Drop Down Sizing

    Published on 02 Aug 2008 from Mostly Programming Stuff

    This last night I worked on a bug where I had a ToolStripComboBox in a Visual Studio custom tool window that holds a list of files but would cut off the filenames in the dropdown list if the paths became too long. Easy enough to fix, or so I thought. After trying out about all of [...] Read full article

  • X-Files: I Want To Beleive… Meh…

    Published on 26 Jul 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    Last night I saw the new X-Files Movie, I Want To Believe, and as a fan of the original series and movie, I had great expectations for this movie. In the normal series and the first movie, Mulder and Scully were assigned by the FBI to investigate the X-Files, or cases that couldn’t be explaine Read full article

  • X-Files: I Want To Beleive… Meh…

    Published on 26 Jul 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    Last night I saw the new X-Files Movie, I Want To Believe, and as a fan of the original series and movie, I had great expectations for this movie. In the normal series and the first movie, Mulder and Scully were assigned by the FBI to investigate the X-Files, or cases that couldn’t be explaine Read full article

  • I have a confession: I sort of like Vista

    Published on 25 Jul 2008 from Mostly Programming Stuff

    Apparently Microsoft has revived the marketing tactics of Folder’s Instant Coffee from back in the 80’s. According to this article on cnet news, folks from the MS marketing team have been rounding up Vista skeptics under the guise that they will be shown a new OS code named Mojave. All o Read full article