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Sunday, July 31, 2005 2:43 PM

Design For Performance

So this weekend I decided to do a little reading (he he) and downloaded "Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability" at http://msdn.microsoft.com/practices/EngPrac/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnpag/html/scalenet.asp.  This is a really
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Sunday, July 31, 2005 2:39 PM

Microsoft On Demand Web Casts

MSDN is organized into sections.  For example, there is a whole section for Practices which list information for Patterns and Best Practices.  Most of these sections have links to web casts on relevant subject matter.  Well this link http://www.microsoft.com/events/webcasts/ondemand.mspx takes
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Friday, July 29, 2005 3:09 PM

Still Room At Jacksonville Code Camp

Our Jacksonville, FL Code Camp (http://codecamp.jaxdug.com) is nearly a month away but things are really coming together. We are going to set the standard for Florida Code Camps!  We have Clearwire providing free Internet to check email and blogs
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Friday, July 29, 2005 3:04 PM

Top 5 Best Things About Jax Code Camp

Joe Healy and Dennis Bottjer Dressed as MSN Butterflies Great Presentations FREE Internet From Clearwire FREE FOOD & Pub Clubs FREE BOOKS & SOFTWARE    
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Wednesday, July 27, 2005 10:10 PM

Videoloom

http://videoloom.com/ This site has an interesting story about how small software company came to be.  Very interesting for anyone who ever dreamed of owning there own software business.
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Wednesday, July 27, 2005 9:31 PM

Countersoft Gemini

I was first introduced to Countersoft's Gemini, Project Issue Tracking Software, by members of the www.DotNetNuke.com community.  I have been quite impressed with the software for several reasons such as: It is well documented Easy to install
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Wednesday, July 27, 2005 9:24 PM

Slick Run

I heard about Slick Run http://www.bayden.com/SlickRun/ on DotNetRocks so I thought I would check it out and have been impressed.  Slick Run is a free floating command line utility.  You can position anywhere on your Windows desktop where
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Wednesday, July 27, 2005 9:16 PM

DotNetRocks on Tour

DotNetRocks is taking the show on the road.  They are driving cross country spreading .NET goodness across the land.  Well after a little persuading guess what Florida city is there only stop in FL.  Yep! Good old JAX!  So look for
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Tuesday, July 26, 2005 10:21 PM

Power of Properties

As Microsoft Developers we are familar with properties. Properties have been part of popular MS development tools such as Visual Basic for several version.  The tradition has continued in .NET with Win and Web Forms controls exposing properties
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Tuesday, July 26, 2005 6:28 PM

Interfaces Defined

It seems possible to write .NET applications an never write interfaces.  It seems less likely to write .NET application and not use interfaces.  So what are interfaces and how can they improve your code.  Essentially, interfaces
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Tuesday, July 26, 2005 6:04 PM

.NET Exceptions

Microsoft has so great online self assessment test http://www.microsoft.com/learning/assessment/default.asp  I was going through one of the ASP.NET tests and there was a question regarding exceptions.  Basically, there was a series of catch
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Monday, July 25, 2005 11:30 AM

JaxDug on DotNetRocks

DotNetRocks read my email about Code Camp, on their latest show.  They also linked to us. Much thanks Carl and Richard! www.dotnetrocks.com  
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Wednesday, July 20, 2005 11:17 PM

New Comparison Shopping Search Site

http://www.become.com/ neat site.  Reminds me of Google but customized for shopping.  Very responsive UI.  They are using AJAX.
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Tuesday, July 19, 2005 3:59 PM

Help Bring Eric Sink to Jacksonville Code Camp

http://cs.jaxdug.com/forums/807/ShowPost.aspx Please view and reply to the above post.
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Tuesday, July 19, 2005 3:50 PM

Real Examples of Smart Clients

.NET 2.0 holds a lot of promise for Smart Clients b/c of "Click Once Deployment."  Click Once should ease deployment and update issues with desktop applications.  But there are examples of Smart Client application in use today.  For Example,
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Monday, July 18, 2005 11:49 AM

Tampa Code Camp Rocked

So David Strommer Andrew Connell and I reprented www.jaxdug.com at Tampa's Code Camp this weekend and had a fantastic time.  Each of us presented at Tampa's Code Camp.  The event drew about 350 people.  We got to meet people like Microsoft's
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Thursday, July 14, 2005 1:17 AM

Florida Code Camps

As a reminder to all .NET Geeks there are some incredible! Can't miss events coming up. http://www.tampacodecamp.com/ is happening this Saturday.  I will be presenting how DotNetNuke can connect to multiple data sources
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Tuesday, July 12, 2005 10:40 PM

The Uproar Over SharePoint

Tonight at our www.jaxdug.com meeting our local MVP Andrew Connell mentioned an article describing 5 things wrong with Share Point and how completely off base the article was.  I'm no stranger to portal solutions, DotNetNuke being my flavor. 
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Thursday, July 07, 2005 12:21 AM

What are Design Patterns?

Today in a meeting I needed to explain what design patterns were to some of the non-developer members of my team.  Here is a good definition: design patterns are standard solutions to common problems in software design. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_pattern_%28computer_science%29)
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Wednesday, July 06, 2005 11:59 PM

DotNetNuke: Portal or Framework?

DotNetNuke is most often described as a portal and content management system.  I would argue that DotNetNuke began life as just an open source Portal but is now more of a web application framework implemented as a portal.  Frameworks are
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Wednesday, July 06, 2005 11:46 PM

DotNetNuke 3.1.0 Features

As with every release major release of DNN several intresting features have been added to the project.  In version 3.1.0 support for Web Server Farms has been added which is a huge step forward.  Furthermore, all the modules such as the links
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Wednesday, July 06, 2005 11:31 PM

Define Pseudo

Lately I've been encountering the word "Pseudo" too much.  Being a developer the first use I think of for the word is "Pseudo Code."  What is "Pseudo Code?"  Well it is basically directions written in a language such as English,
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