Tim’s Blog
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Community and Interviewing
I’ve been sitting in on more interviews at work with my new role. I’m surprised by the lack of answers when I ask how developers keep up to date with technology, and where they seek answers. “Google”, many reply. “Books”. Maybe I’m asking too much, but here are some creative answers that would imply a…
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New Role
I’ve been promoted at work to what is currently being called “Manager of Development Methodology and Process”. It’s a great feeling, because I had been doing a lot of extra work in the department and this makes it more official. Also, rather than trying to push new technologies and initiatives, I have an easier time…
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Integrating Internet Services on Your Site (Or Mini-Cloud Web Sites)
Something I’ve been increasingly fascinated with over the last year is the reuse of free internet services that I have. On my site, I have widgets that feed the last 4 posts from this wordpress blog, and my twitter feed. I also have an ajax live bing search box that will return results from my…
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ASP.Net Comments
Here’s a strange one I’ve never run into. I was recently helping a developer figure out why some controls were not binding and showing on the page. I noticed they were using html style comments in their page around some controls instead of .net style comments. This was the problem. Server side code still runs,…
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IEnumerable and Linq
I was helping someone on StackOverFlow.com and ran into an interesting issue. The post is here. I explained the issue in my response, but I’ll try to sum up. Newer collection types implement IEnumerable(Of T) as opposed to the original IEnumerable interface. For example, System.Generic.List(Of T) implements IEnumerable(Of T), so the following is valid without…
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