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Big shoes to fill...
Almost 2 years ago a few guys in the Fort Smith area decided we needed a .NET User Group here. We’ve fairly consistently had a good 20 to 30 people show up to every meeting since then. Michael Paladino has done a great job serving as FSDNUG’s president since that time… but earlier this year he moved up to the Northwest Arkansas area. As you might imagine, it’s pretty tough to be the user group president when the group you’re presiding over meets a good 45+ minute drive away. Well, he finally stepped down this month which means someone else has to take the reins.
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Ping, VPN, etc from Windows XP Mode
I just wanted to share a quick tip on something that had been tripping me up. I’ve happily been running Windows 7 x64 for around a month now. At work, our VPN hardware doesn’t support 64-bit (different topic, don’t ask), so I wanted to use the VPN client from within Windows XP Mode. Sounds good, right?
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Simple Sinatra example using IronRuby
My first Ruby application recently went live a month or two back. I’ve been meaning to get some experience with Ruby for quite a while now, but it took a real project to actually get a chance to really do something with it. Of course, “real project” in this case is a project that just as easily could have been coded in static HTML :-).
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Another year, another devLink (part 3)
So, it didn’t occur to me until today that I was creating a trilogy here.
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Another year, another devLink (part 2)
Yesterday, I blogged about the first day of devLink - today, I’ll continue the recap with, you guessed it, day 2.
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Another year, another devLink (part 1)
I’ve now attended devLink three times, with each time getting progressively better. This year marked the first time for devLink to be split across three days (from Thursday, August 13 through Saturday, August 15). Day one included preconference-like sessions that were longer in length with days two and three more closely resembling prior years. Like last year, this year also included Open Spaces, which ran over days two and three.
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Haven't heard about PowerShell yet? And you'll be in the Little Rock area this week, too???
If you seriously still haven’t heard or used PowerShell yet, come to my Little Rock DNUG presentation on the topic on Monday, July 13. Or, if you’re busy Monday night because you’re going to hear Keith Elder speak on Velocity to the Fort Smith DNUG, then come Tuesday night to hear me give my PowerShell presentation to the Conway DNUG instead!
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Find-String.ps1 - ack for PowerShell
Never heard of ack? Well, by ack’s admission, it is “better than grep.” That’s up to you to decide, but it does make searching code easier than grep.
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NHibernate Unit Testing... with Fluent NHibernate!
I’ve been attempting to learn NHibernate lately. One of the big draws for me was the ability to write unit tests that did hit a database, but an in-memory one. Ayende recently posted on how to use SQLite to get in-memory unit tests. His example assumed standard hbm mappings and configuration.
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Finding stuff quickly (or searching through code effectively)
UPDATE - I ended up posting my version of the Find-String script on GitHub. Check out the latest Find-String news at GitHub.
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