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  Software is hard, handle with care Jay Kimble recently put up a great post about 'Git R Done' coding (great title) to call elitist shenanigans on the TDD/Agile/ALT.NET crowd (with whom I'd have to side with on most arguments) for a lot of recent preaching and Mort-bashing. I must... 06-22-2007, 10:36 PM by chad to Chad's blog

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  Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Projects install failure with Windows Vista I recently installed Vista RC1 on my tablet and couldn't get the Web Application Project MSI to install properly.It turns out it needs to run as admin and the Vista 'allow privliged action' dialog apparently didn't fully take care of the problem.I found... 09-17-2006, 11:26 PM by chad to Chad's blog

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  What if the rest of the world used Hungarian Notation? I was just working on a project that had run-away Hungarian Notation.  And I thought to myself, what if the rest of the world used Hungarian Notation?"wfHoney, could you vrbPass me the tmtTomatoes so I can vrbPut them in this sldSalad I'm vrbMaking?... 08-06-2006, 10:17 PM by chad to Chad's blog

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  Strategy Pattern vs. the Switch Statement Code Smell I was working with some colleagues the other day and we stumbled across some old code that exhibited the switch statement code smell. It was a particularly concerning one since it existed inside a service-type class (i.e. NotificationService, SomeExternalSystemWeDontCareAboutService,... 07-02-2006, 9:16 PM by chad to Chad's blog

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  Adnug Code Camp Presentations We really enjoyed being presenters and attendees at the Adnug Code Camp. Jeffrey Palermo did an awesome job of organizing the event!You can download the presentations that Chad and I gave here: http://community.hdri.net/files/4/adnug_code_camp_presentations/default.asp... 03-05-2006, 9:24 AM by ray to Ray's blog

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  JavaScript String.format() Here's a little bit of javascript that I came up with to aid in formatting strings. String.prototype.format = function() {     var str = this;       for(var i=0;i<arguments.length;i++)    ... 02-27-2006, 12:36 PM by ray to Ray's blog

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  Serving Fillable PDF Forms Recently had a requirement to have a web application serve up a Fillable PDF Form that was to be filled in using data from a database. I found that this could be done by sending data in Adobe’s XDP format to the client browser. XDP is an XML version of... 02-24-2006, 10:53 AM by ray to Ray's blog

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  Where is my WebUIValidationjs? So I was writing a 1.1 ASP.NET app, and I kept getting this pop-up/alert (from client-side JS) in the browser:"Unable to find script library '/aspnet_client/system_web/1_1_4322/WebUIValidation.js'. Try placing this file manually, or reinstall by running... 02-22-2006, 5:52 PM by chad to Chad's blog

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  Linking directly to a SQL Reporting Services 2000 Report One of the frustrating things about dealing with SQL Reporting Services is the fact that they're hard to use from your own app. There is the ReportViewer control which is handy, but still cumbersome if your users just want to get a quick PDF dump of some... 02-15-2006, 9:55 AM by chad to Chad's blog