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I few months ago, I blogged about my search for a replacement vehicle as my existing lease was about to end. My lament was that I absolutely loved my existing car (a 2004 Volvo XC70) but that the lease buyout price was far too high given its current market...
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In January of this year (2008), I was getting the itch to buy something to replace both my cell phone and my Palm PDA (I used the Palm as my MP3 player). I wanted an all-in-one solution so I wouldn't have to carry around two pieces of technology with...
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The lease on my beloved 2004 Volvo XC70 is up in July and I've been caught up in new car shopping fever for the past few months. Since my current car has been an absolute paragon of reliability and I utterly love it to death, a new 2008 XC70 would...
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UPDATE (Feb. 19, 2008): If you're too busy to read the book, take a look at this 8 minute video - it gives a pretty decent summary! Ars Technica recently began running a series on the history of the Amiga, my favourite computer of all time. From the...
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The golden rule of checking in code is: Don't check in code that will break the build. Nobody likes code that won't compile. Also see Scott Hanselman's First Rule of Software Development . In order to help verify that your pending check-in...
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I had been holding off buying an XBox 360 since I'm really not that much of a gamer and when I do play I totally suck anyway. For us non-gamer types, the XBox Live Marketplace sounds interesting since it offers high-definition movies, but alas as...
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On a recent project we use SQL Server 2005 for development but the product officially supports installation on both SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2000. During development we'll create tables in the database (using SQL 2005) using the GUI tools in...
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The ASP.NET Repeater is one of my favourite controls because it provides total flexibility in the layout of your data. I'll often use it to generate a list of data similar to a DataGrid or DataList. However, if I want to alternate the background colour...
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Whenever I start a new web project, one of the first things I do is create a "Base" class for all my ASPX code-beside ( "code-behind" is so .NET 1.1 ) class declarations to inherit from. This makes it easy to have useful properties such as CurrentUser...
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A couple of weeks ago I got a new laptop (that went along with my new job) and at the urging of some on my co-workers (and against my better judgement) I installed Vista Enterprise 64-bit on it. And that's another story all together. I also installed...
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Well, following up on my complete surprise to learn that AmigaOS was still being developed, it now seems as though the arrival of new Amiga hardware is imminent! Though I'll believe it when I see it, it's nice to see that there are still some die-hard...
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I've been dying to try out Microsoft's latest addition to the Visual Studio Team Suite set of products - Data Dude, or more properly know as Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals . Recently I finally took some time to watch a series...
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Last weekend I was home doing some paperwork and I had to send a fax to my insurance agent. I hadn't sent a fax in several months and not since I had reimaged my computer with Vista and Office 2007. So I opened Word and looked in the templates for a fax...
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As you may recall, several months ago I installed the so-called "Release Candidate 1" version of Microsoft's latest consumer operating system, Vista. You may also recall that it was an absolutely horrid experience and I re-install Windows XP in a matter...
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A couple of years ago I picked up my first DVD writer - a Plextor PX-712A . I was kinda proud of it because Plextor is a premium brand and most do-it-yourselfers in the build-your-own-PC world tend to use more mainstream and budget "OEM"-type brands such...