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Discovered something nice today, Microsoft has built a small tool to convert a XSD file into a code class for you. This is very very useful when need to serialize some information and using a XSD file as a base. Simply open up the Visual Studio Command Prompt and
Ah yes, the life of a developer Being the geek that I am, I am currently reading Illustrated C# 2008 by Daniel Solis. Even though I have been developing in C# for a few years now I still feel the need to read these books as sometimes the
I came across a little known config of ASP.Net applications. We all know about the built-in Garbage Collection system that the .Net Framework uses to recycle “dead” or unused objects from memory and recycle the space. By default the Garbage Collector is set to “Workstation” Mode. That means the
Interesting weekend I must say. Decided to get some food from a well known shopping chain and I got some nasty food poisoning. So I sat on Sunday feeling very very sorry for myself. My wife took very good care of me! But on Sunday afternoon my wife and
I encountered some interesting code today. I got some clarification on it on StackOverFlow.com and its pretty interesting! My Question: I’ve recently started working with JSON and the ExtJs framework and I’ve come across the following code in an example. we retrieve the information from the frontend using this:
A co-worker forwarded this to me this morning and now I’ve learnt from it so I’ll share it! This piece was taken from Joel Spolsky’s entry at: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000068.html We all know that knowledge workers work best by getting into “flow”, also known as being “in the zone”, where they
This caught my attention today. In 4 days, if Sanwild.org do not raise enough funds, 3 prides of Rescue Lions will be put down. These Lions have been rescued by SanWild for various reasons and due to prolonged human interaction they cannot be released into the wild. Please check
As most people know, I haven’t been happy in my current position for a long time. I have written posts about this ( http://www.stevenmcd.net/2008/10/how-ive-almost-destroyed-my-career/ ) and how I’ve tried to work through it using positive thinking. (Post 1, Post 2, Post 3) However, no matter how hard I tried,
This is my entry for the Nerdmag.co.za BlackBerry competition: Dear Editor(s), Let’s talk about my favourite features: 1) I can receive my mail on my 8310 and delegate it to other people immediately 2) I can use it as a GPS for finding cool treasures and stuffs, cause I’m
Previous Entries: back2basics Intro back2basics Types I apologize for the delay between posts, personal matters played a major role in this. I’m not going to go into the depths of explaining exactly what the Stack and the Heap is, for that you can use your friend Google.
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