Month: <span>April 2009</span>

Link Roundup for Apr. 27, 2009

Two weeks, then school is out.  Sadly I’m going to miss my thesis defense deadline, but not by much.  By the end of May, I should still be a free man, which means more posts (maybe).  In the mean time, here are links that I missed over the last week: Windows 7 RC The release…

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I’ve been called out!

My lack of posting and failure to follow through on promised posts has been noted by Sol over on Federated Search Blog.  I wish I had a good excuse, but I really don’t (aside from my usual excuses: school, work, baby).  So… sorry about that. 😐 Things are going to be hectic for the next…

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How to build an MVC application WITH 200% MORE SUCK

Obligatory apology for lack of posting: yeah, life is sucking pretty hard right now.  I have a paper due in two weeks, a 40-minute presentation on deep web crawling to give on Wednesday, a new .NET information retrieval application that has to be complete in about three weeks, a thesis that has to be defended…

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Link Roundup for Apr. 13, 2009

Some of these links are late since I was in meetings the entire second half of last week, but all are still worth a look if you missed them: WPF Glass Effect Want the Aero glass look in your WPF application?  Well, now you can get it with just a few lines of XAML. 9…

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A (much) more informed view of Infer.NET

In response to my naive impression of Infer.NET, John Winn has supplied a wealth of insight into its design and implementation: Many thanks for taking the time to look at Infer.NET and post your comments. As one of the researchers behind Infer.NET, I would like to explain a bit more about the project which may…

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Link Roundup for Apr. 8, 2009

Despite buggy designers, I’m digging WPF.  There are a few things that feel obtuse, where I think a more web-like approach to XAML would have been better, but it’s light years beyond WinForms.  Anyway, a couple of WPF links for you today: WPF/Silverlight and MVVM Edward has a link roundup (with screenshots) of tutorials to…

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Link Roundup for Apr. 6, 2009

More ASP.NET MVC “Recommendations” Again, I think it’s still a little early to be claiming anything as a best-practice yet, but here are some more ideas you might want to consider. ASP.NET MVC Ninjas on Fire Black Belt Tips Phil Haack did a session at MIX this year with that title.  I haven’t finished the…

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Link Roundup for Apr. 3, 2009

ASP.NET MVC Goes Open-Source The source has always been available, but now it’s MS-PL, which means you can take it, modify it, redistribute it, whatever you want.  That’s good news for the Mono crew! ASP.NET MVC Futures Maarten has a nice write-up summarizing some of the things that are available in ASP.NET MVC Futures.  None…

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Link Roundup for Apr. 1, 2009

Oh crap it’s April Fools Day.  The gimmick articles are out in force! Internet Explorer Stops Sucking! Ok, that one is pretty obvious.  I mean, Internet Explorer *not* suck?  Impossible, I say! .NET 4.1 Features Thankfully we don’t have to worry about this coming true. Ayende has forsaken us! Abandon ship!  Everyone out of the…

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