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70-316 Practice Questions : Designing & Implimenting Windows Applications
Saturday, February 28, 2004 5:50 PM

70-316 Practice Questions : Designing & Implimenting Windows Applications Disclaimer: It is against Microsoft's policy to distribute actual certification test questions. To my knowledge these are practice questions and NOT questions from an

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Custom formatting of a TextBox
Saturday, February 28, 2004 5:49 PM

Custom formatting of a TextBox I'm proud (or ashamed) to admit that I never got into Windows developing until Visual Studio.Net 2003 so I have the advantage of beginning my journey via the best tools ever made (for Windows). This is also

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The best deodorant money can buy (and it's cheaper than what you use now)
Saturday, February 28, 2004 5:48 PM

The best deodorant money can buy (and it's cheaper than what you use now) As you probably read in my previous post about health, that aluminum (in most deodorants) is very damaging to brain and nerve cells. So obviously one should switch to a deodorant

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Lack of updates & future posts to come
Saturday, February 28, 2004 5:46 PM

Lack of updates & future posts to comeI've been busy modeling & designing a database for an app I'm coding at work so I haven't had time to experiment with .Net or Visual Studio so no great news/tips this week. Although I am starting to

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Code up a Longhorn app right now
Saturday, February 28, 2004 5:45 PM

Code up a Longhorn app right nowI was browsing the programming shelves in Barnes & Noble when I came across an official MS Press book about WinFX. I can't believe MS is already publishng books about an OS we're not suppose to see for at least

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10 random songs "fad" infects me
Saturday, February 28, 2004 5:44 PM

I hate Internet fads, but this one caught me As seen on .Avery's Blog:Step 1: Open your mp3 player.Step 2: Put all of your music on random.Step 3: List the first ten songs it plays, no matter how embarrassing.Red Hot Chili Peppers [Greatest

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CD Map Antitrust pays off
Saturday, February 28, 2004 5:44 PM

CD Map Antitrust pays offI just got my check from the CD Map Antitrust Litigation which was about consumers being ripped off from the music industry on the price of CD/Tapes/Vinyl and it came to a whopping $13.86. The music industry had to pay off

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The best damn Command Prompt add-on for Windows
Saturday, February 28, 2004 5:44 PM

The best damn Command Prompt add-on for WindowsI'm sure you guys have seen Command Prompt add-ons that let you right click a folder and "Open Command Prompt Here" and that's fine and dandy (and barely useful) but here's a Command Prompt add-on finally

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DotNet naming convention for C#, Visual Basic, etc
Friday, February 27, 2004 10:01 PM

I compiled the MS recommend spec of DotNet naming conventions and this site's suggestions and fit them into a 2 page MS Word document so I can print it up and drool on it. I figure I'd share it with the rest of the world.Note: some of these standards

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Media rich search engine or why google is crap
Friday, February 27, 2004 9:56 PM

About 2 months ago I realized something.... that web search engines haven't changed much since I first started using them back in 1994. While Google is a billion times smarted than WebCrawler or Altavista were, the funny thing is, we're seeing the

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Trav's video game history trivia fact
Friday, February 27, 2004 9:55 PM

Trav's video game history trivia factIf you read my profile you'll see I'm a fan of retro games and video game history. So I figured I'll throw out a little fun fact that's collecting dust in my brain.Did you know Coleco actually stands for Connecticut

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I'll be back soon
Friday, February 27, 2004 9:54 PM

I'll be back soonI've been in my 'XML Web Services' class for the past few days and will be back to work as normal on Thursday. Hopefully I'll have something nerdy & useful for ya'll soon.Personally, I'd like to post something useful every (work)

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Big business says screw the enviroment, we want our $5
Friday, February 27, 2004 9:53 PM

Big business says screw the enviroment, we want our $5Not it's not news that somebody invented disposable DVDs that rot after 48 hours but I'm glad to see someone else get real upset about this.I'm a huge environmentalist and I oppose any technology

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Get more screen room on your WinForms or WebControls
Friday, February 27, 2004 9:51 PM

Get more screen room on your WinForms or WebControlsI've been working on a blotter program for a Police department that needs to enter data about callers, incidents etc. I realized there are two major goals of this application (ok 3 as it needs

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Best NiMH battery out there
Friday, February 27, 2004 9:49 PM

Best NiMH battery out thereI've done some NiMH battery homework and the best NiMH rechargeable batteries on the market are the PowerEx, and as far as I can tell, the best price is at here which is around $15 for a 4 pack, and then shipping is another

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History of Computer Languages on a Chart
Friday, February 27, 2004 9:29 PM

History of Computer Languages on a Chart Once upon a time Wired magazine created and published a chart of "Mother Tongues: Tracing the roots of computer languages through the ages". I came across it as a Jpeg on the net and printed it onto a 11x17

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1 free Chapter of Microsoft's "Inside Indigo" book
Thursday, February 26, 2004 4:15 PM

Inside "Indigo," Chapter 2: The Journey of a MessageMicrosoft has made the 2nd chapter of an upcoming book on Indigo available on their website here. IT's full of juicy bits of code and a good technical run through. In case you don't know

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Browser statistics - what browers are people using now?
Monday, February 23, 2004 10:09 PM

I haven't seen a graph of browser usage stats so I decided to compile my own using the data from TheCounter.com although I had to estimate three of the months as data was missing. So anyways here we are.Conclusion: As you can see IE was obviously

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How to cure an ulcer or why the 'purple pill' (Nexium and Prilosec) is a scam
Monday, February 23, 2004 10:08 PM

Some people think "the purple pill" is the best thing to ever happen to heart burn. Well the truth is, you've been hoodwinked. For starters, you're treating the symptom (stomach pain) and not the cause (acid burn on the stomach/esophagus).

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Best tweaks to speedup Windows
Tuesday, February 10, 2004 8:36 PM

Here is a zip file of all the registry tweaks I have compiled from the net or figured out for myself to improve speed, security and to get rid of generally annoying things.You can grab the 3k zip file from here. I highly recomend you open this file

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Why C sucks
Tuesday, February 10, 2004 3:12 PM

I found this little article that has a humorous (although serious) C bashing. And we're talking about plain vanilla C from 1971, not C++ or C#. There is also a very large flame war taking place in the user comments. People should realize

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Good fonts for programming
Tuesday, February 03, 2004 6:48 PM

Well after trying around 10 fonts meant for programming I still prefer Lucinda Console @ 8pt. Even though a general rule for a programming font is that 0 and O must look different (the zero should have a slash in it) and while Lucinda doesn't follow

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Are you a Linux/Unix nerd stuck using Windows?
Tuesday, February 03, 2004 2:35 PM

I'm not, but if you are, I came across these Linux/Unix fonts ported to windows bitmap fonts (iow not resizable) .FONCurrently I'm on an adventure for the best programming font (in my opinion) for coding. Currently I'm using Lucinda Console at 8pt

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Free DotNet posters from Microsoft
Monday, February 02, 2004 7:41 PM

If you didn't know already, you can download Microsoft's DotNet posters in PDF format from their site.

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