Monthly Archives: March 2007

And we’re off

Posted on March 30, 2007 by Jason Meridth

LosTechies.com is up and running.  This is the central posting grounds for a good number of Agile .NET developers.  We’re hoping to grow and help contribute to the software development community. Post Footer automatically generated by Add Post Footer Plugin … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu Linux offers Windows migration tool.

Posted on March 29, 2007 by Jason Meridth

The newest version of Ubuntu 7.04 BETA is offering a new Windows migration tool.  According to the website, it will recognize and migrate ”Internet Explorer favorites, Firefox favorites, desktop wallpaper, AOL IM contacts, and Yahoo IM contacts” during the install process. … Continue reading →

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For anyone starting to use NHibernate

Posted on March 26, 2007 by Jason Meridth

A good blog entry by Oren (Ayende) about Nullable types and how NHibernate handles them.  I am starting to use NHibernate and will be sharing these jems as I find them. This is also a way for me to centralize … Continue reading →

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Orcas – First try

Posted on March 23, 2007 by Jason Meridth

 After reading a post by Scott Guthrie on the new C# Orcas language features I decided to download Orcas and try them out.  (**excited**) The new features I practiced with and love are: Object initializersExample:Prior to Orcas: Person person = … Continue reading →

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Orcas – Extension Methods

Posted on March 23, 2007 by Jason Meridth

Again, I was reading Guthrie’s blog and found his post on Extension Methods What this allows a developer to do is extend types without needing to create a static service class.It is more like an extension class. Example: You want … Continue reading →

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Some good finds lately

Posted on March 22, 2007 by Jason Meridth

An Open Letter to Scott Guthrie Free ASP.NET 2.0, LINQ, AJAX, etc. Videos Some new people I’ve added to my Google Reader/ Blog Roll: Eli Lopian Scott Guthrie Post Footer automatically generated by Add Post Footer Plugin for wordpress.

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Reminder – How to enable syntax highlighting for HTML files with non-standard extensions

Posted on March 21, 2007 by Jason Meridth

If you are using VS2005, you can also go to Tools->Options->Text Editor->File Extension and associate the file extension with the HTML Editor. This is particularly useful for the Monorail View types [Boo (boo extension) and NVelocity (vm extension)] Post Footer … Continue reading →

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Active Record vs. Repository

Posted on March 11, 2007 by Jason Meridth

I was reading an blog entry by Ayende Rahien (aka Oren Eini) again, “Entities, Services and what goes between them…” and one of his commenters asked the following question:   re: Entities, Services and what goes between them… 2/27/2007 6:44 … Continue reading →

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Google source code hosting

Posted on March 3, 2007 by Jason Meridth

If you don’t want to host your own sourcecode on your own Subversion server like I was doing, check this out. It is Google’s code hosting for subversion.  You are given 100 MB of space and can apply a specific … Continue reading →

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.NET interview questions everyone should know

Posted on March 2, 2007 by Jason Meridth

VERY GOOD READS   Scot Hanselmann Interview questions: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/WhatGreatNETDevelopersOughtToKnowMoreNETInterviewQuestions.aspx   Ayende Answers to Hanselmann questions: http://www.ayende.com/Blog/archive/8756.aspx Post Footer automatically generated by Add Post Footer Plugin for wordpress.

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