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The newest version of Google Sync adds a great new feature of syncing contacts. Now your Gmail contacts will stay up to date with your Blackberry contacts and vice versa. Very nice! Download page here. Technorati Tags: Google Sync,Blackberry
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TeamBuild is such a powerful tool. We use it to run our unit tests and publish our apps using ClickOnce. Recently we started using it to publish a web service. This code depends on MSBuildTasks from Tigris. <PropertyGroup>
<DeploymentFolder>**SHARED FOLDER ON WEB SERVER**</DeploymentFolder>
<DeployServerName>**WEB SERVER NAME**</DeployServerName>
<ApplicationPoolName>ReportingWS</ApplicationPoolName>
<VirtualDirectory>ReportingWS</VirtualDirectory>
<WebBinariesLocation>$(BuildDirectoryPat... [ read more] |
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This code snippet extends the functionality found in prop code snippet. It will populate the backing field in the property, check for equality in the setter and call PropertyChanged. It assumes you have a base class that handles the implementation of INotifyPropertyChanged. When the snippet is called, it will generate code that looks like this: private int myVar;
public int MyProperty
{
get { return myVar; }
set
{
if (!myVar.Equals(value))
{
myVar = value;
base.OnPropertyC... [ read more] |
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For a while now, one of my goals has been to run a 5K (3.1 miles) in under 20 minutes. This morning I finally broke that number. Technorati Tags: Running,Nike+,5K
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On another personal note, Chels and I are expecting our first child (a strapping young man) on 12-26. My good buddy Matt, who stood at our wedding, and his wife are also expecting a few days before us. I wonder if our kids will ever figure out they were championship babies.
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The show was truly amazing for me and Allie. Me, Allie, Crash and BC hit the Sprint Center for Coldplay 08! They put on a great show across the board, but a sweet moment occurred when they ran up into the croud just 6 rows from me and Allie.... they played 'The Scientist'...which was our first dance at our wedding. It was so so cool... Sorry about the pic quality...but whatever.
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According to my Blogflux search engine results for the last month, Google has not just cornered the market, they have virtually snuffed out the competition. Engine Hits Percentage Google 17596 98 Yahoo 202 1 Ask Jeeves 36 0 AOL 35 0 MSN 18 0 Search.com 6 0 Technorati Tags: SEO,Search Engine,Blogflux
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I prefer to use web-based solutions when possible, but the other day the publish feature of google docs wasn’t working right, so I needed to install Windows Live Writer. I quickly found out that WLW doesn’t play nicely with Windows Server 2008. Since WLW is written in .NET, I just installed it on an XP virtual machine and copied the Program Files folder over to my Server 2008 machine. Simple. Technorati Tags: Windows Live Writer,Server 2008
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I went to the KU game last night with Kyle. We won very easily. On an odd note, the singer of the National Anthem was the daughter of the Emporia State coach, and was wearing a KU shirt. Technorati Tags: Kansas University,KU,Basketball,Emporia State
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Using colors is a simple way make your application less boring. You can change the color of the selected and unselected item in a ListBox by using code like this: <Style TargetType="ListBoxItem">
<Style.Resources>
<SolidColorBrush x:Key="{x:Static SystemColors.HighlightBrushKey}" Color="LightGreen"/>
<SolidColorBrush x:Key="{x:Static SystemColors.ControlBrushKey}" Color="LightBlue"/>
</Style.Resources>
</Style>
This style can be put in the resources of the ListBox to jus... [ read more] |
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BrightKite is a location aware social network. It allows you to post notes and pictures at a specific place. It also will write to your Twitter stream so your friends can keep up with your latest activity.
They also have an API, which I had the chance to play with the other night. Here is some very simple code that will write out a list of all your friends:
public static void ListFriends(string username, string password)
{
string url = "http://brightkite.com/me/friends.xml";
WebRequest WRequest = WebRequest.Create(url) as HttpWebRequest;
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Like most developers, I run SQL on my main work computer. I find that the RAM usage gets quite bloated at times, so I have a handy bat file that I run to restart the SQL service, giving me my RAM back. Here are the simple steps to achieving this:
1) Right click on your desktop and create a new text document.
2) Rename file to restartSQL.bat
3) Click yes on confirmation to change a file name extension. If you did not get this error, you will need uncheck "Hide extensions for known file types" on the View tab of Folder Options.4) Right click restartSQL.bat and select "Edit"5) In t... [ read more] |
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Here is a cool Google Map mashup of Barack's life: http://www.mibazaar.com/obama_igoogle.html
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I missed October somehow, but a lot has been going on. Allie is pregnant!... and I will have some sweet ultrasound pics in 3 weeks. We are due on April 16 09. I also went to the Arkansas Transit trade show by myself for the first time in Little Rock, AR. It was an awesome experience for me because I was the only software vendor at the show and I am also good friends with the regulars. Here is a pic of me and Russ Parish of the ATA.... Russ and I became friends back in 2001, when Carl and I first attended the Arkansas Transit Show. Russ is a trainer for the... [ read more] |
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I generally agree with every Republican philosophy, but I no longer have faith that they can properly deliver it to us. That is pretty much all I need to say on that. This election is historic and exciting...I voted early and here is a pic of the voter line in Johnson County, KS one day before the election...
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On September 8-10, I visited UCATS in Marysville, OH to install ParaPlan Lite. The install and training went very well thanks to Mike Baird. UCATS was the first sale for Anne Richards, our fantastic new Sales & Marketing Director...
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We just got back from a week long install of ParaPlan Pro at KART (Kingman Area Regional Transit). They operate 6 fixed routes and deviate from those routes for paratransit service. I added a new layer to ParaPlan to support this requirement. This process did of course grant me 4 hrs of sleep per night, but it was well worth it and they are happy with the results. They will be going live with the system this week. To get to Kingman, we fly into Vegas and drive down over the Hoover Dam on Hwy93. They are building this awesome new arch bridge over the whole t... [ read more] |
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This post is pretty much just a note for myself, but it might help someone too. When appending rows from an Access Database table to a SQL Server table of the same structure, sometimes SQL will not retain the ID's for AutoNumber fields. This can be a big problem for our ParaPlan application. In Access you can compact and repair to reset your autonumber fields back to 0 or 1 obviously. However, I never really figured out how to do that in SQL 05 until now. To clear a table's records and reset the autonumber in SQL 05, just use the following syntax in a query on SQL db: ... [ read more] |
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I just love it... click here to download
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Currently DateTime.ToShortDateString will not include any "0" prefixes. I think this makes any vertical lists of dates look funky:
Here is a very simple extension method that will append any needed leading "0" to the date:
namespace ParaPlan.Extensions{ public static class DateHelper { public static string ToShortDateEqualLengthString(this DateTime dt) { var rv = new StringBuilder(); if (dt.Month.ToString().Length ==1) { rv.Append("0"); } rv.Append(dt.Month.ToString()); rv.Append("/"); ... [ read more] |
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Allie and I are so far very pleased with our paint color and the work being done here by JB Paint Company. We are using Benjamin Moore Paint from Gragg's and Frank (Allie's Dad) got us a nice deal on top of the internet special. The color we (i mean Allie) chose for pretty much everything is Monroe Bisque. We had several other options but went with this after Allie and I compared them by actually painting samples on our walls. Here are a couple pics of how it looks! The previous owners were K-State'ers so the lavendar you see in the dining room will soon be replac... [ read more] |
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I am gonna play outdoor men's soccer this summer with my good buddy Patrick. I just gotta get my butt off the couch :) http://www.kansasrush.com
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For us 30-'somethings'...this thing rocks for parties... Burgers/Dogs and RockBand in Lenexa Kansas last weekend.... All girls killin' it at Jodi's birthday party... \ Tim Shroba (aka Tommy Lee) Brian, Tim and I had a somewhat video-worthy version of... Weezer's 'Buddy Holly'...whatever
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Rock chalk!
Technorati tags: Mark Mangino, Liberty Mutual, Coach Of the Year, 2007, Kansas football
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After we upgraded our server to Team Foundation Server 2008, our builds were failing. To be more specific, our builds were failing for lots of reasons, but the first problem was that the build server was unavailable. We needed to stop the Team Build Service - the build service for TFS 2005 (and set the startup type to manual), before starting the Visual Studio Team Foundation Build service - the build service for TFS 2008. Technorati tags: TFS, Team Build, upgrade
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