Remember the days when we used to shoot rubber bands over someone’s cubicle and find it funny. Well, thank to modern technology we now have a USB Rocket Launcher from ThinkGeek. This rocket launcher connects to your Windows 2000, XP or Vista machine via USB. Install the included software, plug in the Rocket Launcher, [...]

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As developers, we are called upon to connect to many different sources of data. Sometimes it is a simple database, sometimes a shopping cart, sometimes and XML file. But in all of these cases we are accessing the data itself and not really affecting the data store. Occasionally, it is necessary to also perform administrative [...]

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One of my clients, the University of Washington (aka The UW), just sent an email to its students and faculty regarding their ability to continue to secure funding for the University. I have to say I am very proud to work at a University of such prestige and honored that their staff continues to challenge [...]

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There are so many add-ins to Visual Studio these days it can be head spinning to try and search through all the 3rd party tools for a diamond in the rough. ReSharper 2.5 is definitely one of those tools you should take a look at. Developed by JetBrains, it offers the ability to help you [...]

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For many of you developers (good developers) you are familiar with the ability to add XML comments to your code in Visual Studio, and are also probably familiar with 3rd party technologies that compile the XML comments into help files. Technologies such as NDoc or Sandcastle are great and converting the standalone XML into Help [...]

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