Month: March, 2005

Shady Hiring Techniques 101

3 March, 2005 (19:06) | General | No comments

Ernest tells how some sub contractors for MS are recruiting by telling candidates that they are interviewing for a job with Microsoft directely. I hope MS cracks down on these guys.
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Monoppix

3 March, 2005 (05:46) | .NET Tools | No comments

Monoppix is a Live CD Linux distribution (based on Knoppix), which means you pop it in your CD drive, reboot, and you’re running Linux. It works without installing a thing on your hard drive - it runs completely off the CD and RAM
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Wilson UIMapper for .NET

2 March, 2005 (21:01) | .NET Tools | No comments

Its funny that Paul should publish this right about the same time when I’m having lengthy discussions with a friend about the idea of creating a rendering provider as a front end to a system. A specific provider per type of UI. Winforms, Webforms, Excel - who cares. In the end many apps share a […]

NASLite v1.x

1 March, 2005 (19:25) | General | No comments

At $25 this looks pretty darn good for my wife’s old P400.
“NASLite+ is a CD-ROM based Network Attached Storage (NAS) Server Operating System designed to transform a basic computer into a dedicated SMB/CIFS, NFS, FTP and HTTP file server. NASLite+ is intended primarily for use in a small business or home office network. It […]

you’ve been HAACKED

1 March, 2005 (19:02) | .NET Tools | No comments

Phil points out that Resharper has a new version. He says “…Recently, I was trying to write some code on a coworker’s computer and kept hitting funky key combinations that had no meaning on his machine since he didn’t have this installed. I had to actually type out a bunch of code that just […]

Source Control HOWTO: Chapter 7: Branches

1 March, 2005 (18:58) | .NET | No comments

Eric Sinks latest installment in an ongoing series. You have no idea how much I appreciate this! And I’m looking forward to the next chapter. read story

Debug vs. Release - The Best of Both Worlds

1 March, 2005 (06:05) | .NET, .NET Code Related | No comments

Scott Hanselman points out that “…You can have the best of both worlds with a rather neat trick. The major differences between the default debug build and default release build are that when doing a default release build, optimization is turned on and debug symbols are not emitted.” read more