Fantastic, the EAP for Resharper 2.0 is open for public download. Cannot wait to install this as I've really been missing Resharper in Visual Studio 2005 (writing Using statements is soo 2003). I just hope ctrl-shift-n is in there already (remember, ctrl-shift-n is the new ctrl-n).
Continue ReadingI'm about to go traveling, so I'm figuring out how to geocode my blog so that I can use the data to display where I happen to be when I post the blog entry. Mostly for my reference while I figure it out, here are the references I am using:-Geotagging Web Pages and RSS Feeds article by Andrew TurnerWordKit Users...
Continue ReadingJust a quick sample to see if I can put stuff into IE's clipboard. Click here;>) to copy "Hello World!" into the clipboard. Obviously, if I can put stuff in the clipboard, I can see what you happend to leave in it as well... Uses the window.clipboardData method.
Continue ReadingI'm probably late to the party, but I very rarely bother to update the firmware on my iPod. I'd heard the new iPod Updater (2005-06-26) contains support for podcasts but had not seen any details anywhere. I can confirm it is worth the effort if you listen to podcasts on your iPod.
Continue ReadingI couldn't find this with a quick google, so guessed the answer. If you want to pass login credentials to the Hatteras command line client (h.exe or soon to be renamed tf.exe) then you can use the /login command line parameter. The bit I couldn't find in the helpfile is that the format is /login:username,password.
Continue ReadingBill Caputo has posted an interesting article discussing inheritance in C#, especially when using interfaces. I learned about OO while learning how to write Java, so I still struggle with the fact that methods in C# are not virtual by default.
Continue ReadingAt the risk of prompting someone to ask for them, Dan Fernandez has posted a neat stored procedure utility that inspects your sprocs and can give you come basic code metrics on them as well. If any managers are reading, just remember that code metrics are not a direct measure of productivity.
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[](http://www.woodwardweb.com/images/blog/itunes_podcasts.html)I downloaded version 4.9 of iTunes today that contains support for Podcasts. Overall it seems ok, very easy to use but no support for Bittorrent which means I'll be sticking with nimiq for a while yet to keep up to date with DotNetRocks.
Continue ReadingThanks to a load of great work from Alexis Kartmann, the nDumbster project is now in a state that I would recommend it's use for real world projects. nDumbster is a .Net port of the Dumbster project which is maintained by Jason Kitchen.
Continue ReadingUpdate (Jan 2006): If you would like to use some of the features of VSTS from Eclipse then you might want to take a look at my new employer, Teamprise. They provide an eclipse plugin to access Team Foundation Source Control from Eclipse running on multiple platforms including Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
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