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Monday, May 12, 2008 11:27 PM

Not leaving, just moving! Look over here!

I decided it was time to create my own blog site , one which contains personal and corporate stuff. Thanks to the Magenic IT staff, I can mirror my Magenic-related content at the Magenic site while keeping all of my own posts at my personal site. This
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008 12:32 PM

Remote Desktop multi-monitor support

Yesterday I ran across the "/span" and "/f" command line switches for the Microsoft remote desktop client (mstsc.exe; I typically use the command line for this) and wanted to pass them along. e.g. to remote desktop into a server named "myServer" from
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Saturday, April 05, 2008 3:41 PM

@ Code Camp IV

Sitting in Neil Iverson's Powershell presentation right now; I need to learn A LOT more about this! My presentation went well (hopefully the attendees agree!). Here is a link to my deck and code . It will also be available at the http://www.twincitiescodecamp.com
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Friday, April 04, 2008 12:49 AM

Rock Band Online Music Store!

I just got a chance to fire up Rock Band tonight for the first time in a couple weeks (getting ready for Code Camp ) and noticed that the online music store is finally integrated into the game! This made it SUPER EASY to go grab a new title (I highly
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008 11:30 PM

CODE CAMP! CODE CAMP! CODE CAMP!

Code Camp Twin Cities 4 is coming to a favorite Twin Cities suburb near you! Ok, seriously, the event is sold out (which is funny as it is free J ) but sold out *is* sold out! I'm taking out 3 minutes of my preparation time to blog about it (no, my presentation
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008 11:22 PM

My new favorite VS.NET 2008 command

The "Organize Usings" -> "Remove and Sort" context menu command. Ok, yes, it is a bit anal and pet peevish of me, but extra code/using directives make me feel 'unclean" J <I did embed a picture but it didn't get
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Thursday, March 06, 2008 12:13 PM

Twin Cities Code Camp 4

Hey All! Spring in Minnesota is a GREAT thing. To celebrate the season, it is time for another Code Camp ! Thanks to the efforts of Mr. Jason Bock here and here the next Twin Cities Code Camp happens on April 5, 2008 at the New Horizons Facility in Edina,
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Monday, February 25, 2008 12:53 PM

And you can quote me on this…

Thought I'd break out of my blogging slump with a pithy quote… J If COM is dead, then I'm a mortician! jk
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Wednesday, January 02, 2008 6:34 PM

SQL Injection comic

My friend Ryan * sent me this comic about SQL Injection today. Here is a link to Wikipedia in case you are not familiar with SQL Injection. Your favorite search engine will also yield many results. While it makes for a funny comic, SQL Injection is no
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Wednesday, January 02, 2008 6:25 PM

Visual Studio 2008/.NET 3.5 installation bug

I'm thrilled that .NET 3.5 and VS.NET 2008 shipped late 2007. I decided to install these shiny new toys on my work computer this morning. In the meantime, all of the WCF services on my local machine (Windows Server 2003 SP2) mysteriously stopped working.
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Monday, December 10, 2007 12:13 PM

ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP released

Check out the ASP.NET homepage "Latest Weblogs" section for info on the new ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP. This is the tool that will help bring some MVC goodness into ASP.NET! Here are some additional links: http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2007/12/09/what-is-new-in-the-asp-net-3-5-extensions-preview.aspx
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Thursday, November 22, 2007 12:57 AM

PNRG is not easy (Security)

PNRG is a Pseudo Number Random Generator. Here are two definitions of PNRG: Wikipedia NIST In case you don't subscribe to the ComputerWorld Security news email, I wanted to put up this post to spread the good word. Reverse engineering cracks Windows encryption
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Wednesday, November 07, 2007 11:06 PM

More web service versioning info

Courtesy of LOBOMINATOR from MSDN forums....more links and posts on service versioning... :), plus i'm in a blogging state of mind tonight...! https://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1989101&SiteID=1 <quote> Service Versioning
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Wednesday, November 07, 2007 10:51 PM

WCF Versioning Flowchart

I ran across this post tonight from Craig McMurtry (author of Microsoft Windows Communication Foundations: Hands-on ) with a flowchart showing how to version WCF services. http://blogs.msdn.com/craigmcmurtry/archive/2006/07/23/676104.aspx Thank you Craig
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Thursday, October 18, 2007 5:54 PM

RESTful maps?

I think it would be really cool if the map providers would support a nicer REST addressing scheme for things like countries, states, counties, cities, etc… all of that data is already hierarchical in nature anyway and maps well to a RESTful addressing
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