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Working with Large ADO.NET DataSets

October 23, 2007

Solving pesky “Out of Memory” errors involving large DataSets getting heavy string processing.

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Unexpected Error 0x8ffe2740 Occurred in IIS 5.1

October 17, 2007

It’s a jungle out there, and sometimes it keeps IIS from starting a web site.

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ALT.NET Conference Austin — Day 2: MVC on the CLR using Dynamic Lanuages

October 6, 2007

Following Scott Guthrie’s introduction to Microsoft’s new MVC framwork, Scott Hanselman presented a proof-of-concept he’d worked up showing how Python or Ruby could be used as the language for the MVC framework. It was based on an internal July release of the DLR bits. About all one could really take away from this is that […]

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ALT.NET Conference Austin — Day 2: Introducing Microsoft’s MVC Framework

October 6, 2007

I feel sorry for the people running sessions in the same time slot as Scott Guthrie’s presentation. Someone came into the room from next door and reminded everyone that they were having a session on Java. Someone called out, “thanks for dropping by, Java Guy!” Scott says that the goal of the MVC framwork is […]

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ALT.NET Conference Austin — Day 2: Architecture Trumps TDD

October 6, 2007

I did it again. For the second session of the day I chose to learn about TDD and IoC. This time two other people showed up and the speaker was AWOL. So now I’m sitting in a session entitled “What’s Happening in Architecture?”. It’s a free-wheeling discussion amongst ten people including a moderator, and, in […]

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ALT.NET Conference Austin — Day 2: Ruby Trumps TDD

October 6, 2007

The “Open Conference” format in use here has resulted in a lot of spontaneous last-minute reorganizing of sessions. Scott Guthrie’s much-anticipated talk on Microsoft’s new MVC framework has been pushed to early afternoon, so I decided to take in Roy Osherove’s talk on Test Driven Development. To my surprise I was the only attendee until […]

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