Blogs in United States 
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Published on 17 Apr 2008 from Charlie Barker
I was having difficulty getting to sleep last night and started wondering what happens to a persons blog when they die. Currently this blog lives on my server at home so I wouldn't reckon on it lasting too long after my passing should I be struck down by a Bus or Psyclist in london. Most folks who b 
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Published on 17 Apr 2008 from Charlie Barker
Every now and then I have a half baked idea for a new kind of Gizmo, today I was staring at the mess of cables on my desk and thought up this. A device that replaces the multitude of cables that inhabit the back of your desk with one single fat cable for neatness. Could also develop a wirless versio
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Published on 12 Apr 2008 from Charlie Barker
So I am relatively new to using merge tools. I have been developing with them for about a year. Merge tools become a necessity if you are developing in a team, or working on branches in your source control system. You do have to be ultra careful when you are merging against another developers change
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Published on 02 Apr 2008 from Better .NET
I'm going to come right out and say it, I love LINQ to SQL. I love it, I love it, I love it. Not only does it save us time by eliminating plumbing code, but it gives us new tools to write better code.One thing that has always bothered me was I never found an elegent way to do multi-field searching.
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Published on 27 Mar 2008 from Charlie Barker
I always try and avoid using these keywords when naming objects in SQL Server: ADD EXCEPT PERCENT ALL EXEC PLAN ALTER EXECUTE PRECISION AND EXISTS PRIMARY ANY EXIT PRINT AS FETCH PROC ASC FILE PROCEDURE AUTHORIZATION FILLFACTOR PUBLIC BACKUP FOR RAISERROR BEGIN FOREIGN READ BETWEEN FREETEXT READTEXT
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Published on 28 Feb 2008 from Nevron News
Nevron Software team is pleased to announce the new Q4 2007 release of Nevron .NET Vision - the professional data visualization component suite for Windows Forms and ASP.NET development. This release introduces Visual Studio 2008 support, major improvements in the AJAX support of the Chart and
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Published on 28 Feb 2008 from Charlie Barker
Model Name : Vigor2820 series Firmware Version : 3.1.1 Build Date/Time : Nov 8 2007 11:10:43 ADSL Firmware : 211801_A Annex A Price: £135 inc VAT I have just bought one of these to use
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Published on 24 Feb 2008 from Charlie Barker
This has to be the funniest most original game reviewer on the web. He is also very knowledgable
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Published on 22 Feb 2008 from Charlie Barker
This will r0x0r your b0x0r's! http://lifehacker.com/357869/use-your-wii-as-a-media-center The article explains in several easy steps how to turn your wii into a media center. I tried it and could not believe how well it works! Some things you will need: A Wii with wireless access to the internet The
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Published on 06 Feb 2008 from Charlie Barker
The HM22W is a nice TV for a bedroom, the picture is good with no ghosting and a wide viewing angle. The built in speakers are a bit limp so don't expect high volume. The remote control is easy to use if a little more complicated that is necessary. The unit only has an analogue tuner so if you want
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Published on 05 Feb 2008 from Charlie Barker
A few weeks ago one of the devs in the trading system team hit a performance issue, running four threads on a multicore machine ran slower than running when processor affinity was turned on. Turning on processor affinity basically was limiting his application to one core so he expected a performance
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Published on 22 Jan 2008 from Charlie Barker
One of my new year's resolutions was to upgrade to the latest version of dasblog and host it on ASP.NET 2.0. Well this is probably the only resolution I will keep. I chose the MadsSimple theme I really liked the business theme but the blog post font was a little small and this is a personal blog so
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Published on 22 Jan 2008 from Charlie Barker
When I google for "FileSystemObject OpenTextFile ReadLine" Firefox stops responding. Try it yourself here
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Published on 10 Jan 2008 from Charlie Barker
What is wikimapia ? Well it seem's appropriate to quote Wikipedia... "WikiMapia is an online map and satellite imaging resource that combines Google Maps with a wiki system, allowing users to add information (in the form of a note) to any location on earth.[2] It is one of the top 1000 websites visi
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Published on 07 Jan 2008 from Charlie Barker
At last a car manufacturer has realised it is about time they put some computer technology into their vehicles. I am a fully paid up member of the geek club, I have often toyed with the idea of installing a pc in my car but worried that my wife might kill me if I did. With the advent of 3G networks
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Published on 07 Jan 2008 from Charlie Barker
This is a very sad story, a blogging soldier who was killed in Iraq had made arrangements with a friend to put up a final blog post in the event of his death. http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2008/01/andy-olmsted.html
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Published on 30 Nov 2007 from Charlie Barker
The sterophonics have got it spot on, and this applies equally to software development when it comes to architecture. I went to the last DNUG meeting where Ian Cooper gave a great one hour presentation on Monorail one of the points he emphasised during the talk is to employ "Just enough architecture
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Published on 13 Nov 2007 from Nevron News
Nevron .NET Vision is the ultimate suite for creating unique and powerful data presentation applications with spectacular data visualization capabilities. Flexible and extensible, it delivers powerful Charting, Diagramming and User Interface components for Windows Forms and ASP.NET with rich functio
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In this article we’ll be creating a class to generate CAPTCHA graphics that you can use on web sites to help authenticate users as being human and not an automated process. What Is CAPTCHA CAPTCHA is an abbreviation for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans
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As a follow-up to my previous article, How To Create Application Plug-ins In VB.NET, Karl Stoney asked for a more complete example. Hopefully this update will help. Tips and Tricks One trick you can use to make your development of these plugins easier is to have multiple projects in your solution.