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Making Web Requests in Medium Trust

Trust levels in web development can be a pain in the rear. As a developer, I tend to not like them, because when they’re important it means that my options are being restricted. I am often required to perform extra work to complete the same tasks I would
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Jul 30 2010 06:25 AM
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Making Web Requests in Medium Trust

Trust levels in web development can be a pain in the rear. As a developer, I tend to not like them, because when they’re important it means that my options are being restricted. I am often required to perform extra work to complete the same tasks I would
 
Brendan Enrick
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Jul 30 2010 05:32 AM
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Upcoming books on Windows Phone 7 development

Reading a book about Windows Phone 7 development is a great way to get you started. Here is a list of known upcoming books on the subject. Beginning Windows Phone 7 Development by Henry Lee Published by Apress. More info Pro Windows Phone 7 Development
 
insomniacgeek
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Jul 29 2010 10:11 PM
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Kittens?

 
David Booth
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Jul 29 2010 12:26 PM
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understanding ‘using’ block in C#

using block in C# comes very handly while dealing with disposable objects. Disposable objects are those objects that can explicitly release the resources they use when called to dispose. As we know .Net garbage collection is non-deterministic so you
Jul 29 2010 08:13 AM
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2 Buildings, 4 floors and FINALY super wireless internet access !

Verizon sold the territory I live in to Fairpoint. FIOS will never be available where I live (at least not in my life time.) Comcast has always made be pay for two separate broadband accounts. (2 buildings – pay twice.) Well. The company she worked for
 
Joe Stagner
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Jul 28 2010 06:32 AM
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25+ Ways to Fill Your Social Media Calendar

Social media calendars are being created, modified, enhanced and utilized on an ongoing basis to better manage blogs, microblogs and social network content and messaging. As you are looking to fill in the blanks in your social media calendar?
 
Aliza Sherman
Jul 27 2010 09:04 AM
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Decorator Pattern with C#

Decorator pattern achieves a single objective of dynamically adding responsibilities to any object. Consider a case of a pizza shop. In the pizza shop they will sale a few pizza varieties and have toppings that customers can order additionally on top of
Jul 24 2010 09:52 AM
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Improving Tomcat productivity – with JRebel and TCat

Hey folks! Next week we’re happy to be a part of a webinar with the great team over at MuleSoft, and we wanted to extend the invite out to all of you! Using JRebel together with TCat makes life a lot easier for Tomcat users, so take this chance to
 
David Booth
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Jul 24 2010 03:05 AM
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“Copy-on-Iterate” Java Idiom considered broken

This is a story of an interesting support request handled by our guru Lauri Tulmin. The inquiry was about a rare occurring ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException that JRebel seemed to cause in Wicket. After some investigation he discovered that the root
 
Jevgeni Kabanov
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Jul 23 2010 04:30 AM
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Software Engineering 101 Cleveland Slides and Demos

Our Cleveland-based Software Engineering 101 event was modeled after two previous, successful events in Columbus and Nashville. The event was held at the Microsoft office in Independence, Ohio. The event went over very well; we managed to get a great
 
Brendan Enrick
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Jul 19 2010 03:26 PM
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Software Engineering 101 Cleveland Slides and Demos

Our Cleveland-based Software Engineering 101 event was modeled after two previous, successful events in Columbus and Nashville. The event was held at the Microsoft office in Independence, Ohio. The event went over very well; we managed to get a great
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Jul 19 2010 03:26 PM
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Halfwit Hits Version 1!

Last night I released version 1.0.0.0 of Halfwit, my streamlined Twitter client. As of version 1, Halfwit requires the .NET 4 Client Profile, but if you don’t have it it will be downloaded and installed at the same time. The only new feature in v1 is URL
 
mabster
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Jul 15 2010 03:46 PM
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Your Designing Business Needs a Blog

It has become an obvious fact that the usage of Internet and its different applications are not only meant for infotainment but can also be important business promotion tools. To vouch for this fact, we know that some of the most famous blogs are
 
admin
Jul 15 2010 10:15 AM
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CSS3 PIE For Internet Explorer

CSS3 PIE is a .htc plugin that makes Internet Explorer 6-8 capable of rendering several of the most commonly used CSS3 properties such as border-radius, box-shadow, and linear-gradient.
Jul 14 2010 12:13 PM
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MVC in Practice: Designing Models

Existing Examples There are lots of examples online teaching you what is MVC, why it is good and how to develop an application using this pattern. However most of them use a predefined structure with already constructed database and only the connection
 
Stoimen
Jul 13 2010 09:32 AM
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Wordpress SEO Guideline

Search engine traffic (also primarily referred to as organic google traffic) is for most web sites and blogs the most important source. Over the last 30 days Google delivered 38% of the traffic to tripwire magazine. This may be a bit more or less on
Jul 12 2010 05:24 AM
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Active Directory, 4th Ed Available on iPhone and iPad

My book has been available on the iPhone and iPad since September of 2009. It’s quite a bargain too at US$4.99. The neat thing about this is you can search the contents of the book for whatever you’re looking for, plus, you can read it just like you
 
Brian Desmond
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Jul 11 2010 09:42 PM
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Software Engineering 101 in Cleveland

This week I’ll be speaking at a free day-long event for developers to improve their software engineering skills. The event is being held at the Microsoft office in Independence, Ohio. Microsoft is hosting the event being organized by the Hudson Software
 
Brendan Enrick
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Jul 11 2010 04:30 PM
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Software Engineering 101 in Cleveland

This week I’ll be speaking at a free day-long event for developers to improve their software engineering skills. The event is being held at the Microsoft office in Independence, Ohio. Microsoft is hosting the event being organized by the Hudson
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Jul 11 2010 12:59 PM
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Working with Application Pool Identities

There a new feature of IIS called Application Pool Identities that was apparently introduced with SP2 of Windows Server 2008.  There’s a nice overview of Application Pool Identities here, which is the basis for this post, which is just my notes on
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Jul 10 2010 05:53 AM
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Great tips for better blogging

I believe there is a morale duty for experienced web designers, developers or generally speaking for successful freelancers to share their experience with beginners or with the ones who need valuable tips or good pieces of advice. To be honest I didn’t
Jul 09 2010 11:10 AM
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Yet another Shopping Cart for Classic ASP

Like my previous Paging component, I wrote this shopping cart component during my classic ASP days. Nothing was so easily feasible in classic ASP. Complex applications needed to be developed as COM components and the DLL required to be registered on the
Jul 09 2010 04:55 AM
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Sealed classes as Generic type-constraints

We make heavy use of generics in our projects. Generics are really great deal when it comes to run-time polymorphism. Recently, one of my colleague came up with an idea to use a sealed class as generic type constraint. He wrote a sample code that looks
Jul 09 2010 04:10 AM
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Set Up Build Agents By Project in TeamCity

We’re using TeamCity to manage our continous integration builds for CodeProject.com and LakeQuincy.com.  Before TeamCity, I was using CruiseControl.net, and TeamCity is much easier to get working (and requires far less XML manipulation).  I do
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Jul 08 2010 06:26 AM
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Firewall Requirements for Integrating OCS and OWA

If you follow my directions for integrating Office Communications Server 2007 R2 with Exchange Server 2010 OWA, and you also have either a host firewall on your CAS servers or a firewall between the OCS frontend pool and your CAS servers, you may find
 
Brian Desmond
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Jul 06 2010 01:00 AM
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Chance to win an Apple iPad if you download Free E-book from John Chow

I’m have been a fan of John Chows blog for a long time. He is is one of the few bloggers that managed to build a highly profitable business from blogging. John is starting a new concept called the Blog Profit Camp. I’m really exited about this because
Jul 06 2010 12:56 AM
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40 Fresh and Inspirational Blog Designs

Nowadays Creative Designs is one of the key aspects for improving your website’s traffic and page rank. Getting a site featured in some of the popular Wordpress/CSS galleries can bring thousands of visitors and many valuable inbound links with excellent
Jul 04 2010 09:27 AM
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The Benefits of Guest Bloggers and How to Find One

Opening up your blog to guest bloggers provides a handful of benefits. Alyssa lists a few big ones that should encourage you to start looking for a guest today, and provides some tips for a successful experience. Related PostsUse a Guest Blogger to Ease
 
Alyssa Gregory
Jul 02 2010 10:35 AM
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Budding Versus Festering Code

This is in response to Michael Feathers’ recent post on Festering Code Bases and Budding Code Bases. Certainly the default tooling in the Visual Studio space has, until recently, made it dramatically easier to add code to an existing class than to create
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Jun 29 2010 08:04 PM
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TranslateThis Javascript Button

TranslateThis Button is a lightweight Javascript translation widget that translates any page quickly (up to 52 languages) using Ajax and the Google Language API. It is also available as a WordPress plugin.
Jun 29 2010 07:01 PM
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Happy Birthday – codecentric Blog

Two years ago we started the codecentric Blog. Every codecentric employee can share his or her ideas on this blog. 150 articles by over 20 authors have been published since then. Over 8000 unique readers especially of the German speaking countries read
 
Mirko Novakovic
Jun 29 2010 11:52 AM
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Happy Birthday – codecentric Blog

Two years ago we started the codecentric Blog. Every codecentric employee can share his or her ideas on this blog. 150 articles by over 20 authors have been published since then. Over 8000 unique readers especially of the German speaking countries read
 
Mirko Novakovic
Jun 28 2010 04:26 PM
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Tagging Releases in Source Control

A best practice when you’re using source control is to tag your releases.  What does this mean, exactly?  If you’re following the relatively standard non-distributed source control repository folder structure of having root folders for:
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Jun 23 2010 05:42 PM
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Why is my game not installed in the Windows Phone emulator?

If you’re familiar with the Windows Phone Emulator, one of the great things about it is that you can install apps like you would a phone and run them outside of a debugging session. This is useful for me to show “fancy” demos at a trade show running in
 
Michael Klucher
Jun 23 2010 05:16 PM
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30 Stunning Free Themes for Blogger.com

Blogger is a free blogging platform which is run and maintained by Google. Blogger was probably the first platform which gave people, the freedom of setting up their own blog in a very simple and effective way. Since the starting days of it’s
Jun 22 2010 12:10 AM
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“Hey, You Got XNA Game Studio in my Windows Phone Developer Tools!”

When interacting with users of XNA Game Studio one question that commonly comes up is  “How do I develop for Windows using XNA Game Studio 4.0?”. My quick reply usually points them to http://developer.windowsphone.com however I’ve noticed sometimes
 
Michael Klucher
Jun 20 2010 05:13 PM
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Moving a Certificate Between Web Servers

I’m in the process of moving Lake Quincy Media’s web site from one server to another, and since it uses SSL to secure users’ data, I had to move the certificate to the new server as part of the server move.  Fortunately, this process is quite
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Jun 20 2010 07:07 AM
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Testing Email Sending

Recently I learned a couple of interesting things related to sending emails.  One doesn’t relate to .NET at all, so if you’re a developer and you want to easily be able to test whether or not emails are working correctly in your application without
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Jun 18 2010 10:01 PM