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Plugin & Extensibility for .Net applications
Right To Left By host on 12/31/2008
If you need to support plugins or extensions to you application (like photoshop, etc. does) then you should look at MEF: http://www.codeplex.com/MEF Microsoft is dog-fooding this and using it in the next Visual Studio release.
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Book Review Tuesday: Fish! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results
Right To Left By host on 12/30/2008
Fish! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results by Stephen C. Lundin (Author), Harry Paul (Author), John Christensen (Author) http://www.charthouse.com/content.aspx?name=home2 Great little book! Easy read. Starts off kind of sad with a couple relocating for a husbands job and then the husband dies. Her description of the problem department on the third floor describes places I have worked eerily exact. The concept of learning from the energy of the Pike fish market is interesting. The biggest take away is that while we cannot control everything we can choose the attitude we bring to work.
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MIME in C++
Right To Left By host on 12/29/2008
MIME in C++ I am finding more info on stack overflow lately! As a began researching MIME in C++ I ran across this helpful post. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/218089/simple-c-mime-parser Here is my research: http://www.vmime.org/ Looks like too much. Contains pop, SMTP, tls, IMAP, could remove this. Posix and windows. http://codesink.org/mimetic_mime_library.html looks promising. Very nice api for reading in and creating messages. Went with this one. Not too heavy. Had to “fix” 2 things. First for multipart the code was just check for the string “multipart” and did not recognize “multipart/mixed” and did not write out the parts. Seccondly, I had to hack the mimeentity write code. It was just writing out the std::deque Field and since these are strings it seem to be doing so alphabetically. This is problem because the MIME-version has to be the first field written out. So I fixed this. I also had to add support for Content-Length. http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/arch/libmime-desc
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Friday Fish Post: Fish strikes back!
Right To Left By host on 12/26/2008
This boy wasn’t even fishing and was hit by a fish and woke up in the hospital! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26604743/?GT1=43001
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More free books!
Right To Left By host on 12/24/2008
For a short time only, there are two great books for free from MSPress. http://blogs.msdn.com/drnick/archive/2008/12/22/limited-time-free-book-offer.aspx
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pgCompare
Right To Left By host on 12/22/2008
I have used Red Gate SQL Compare for a while and like it a lot. Now there is a tool that works with PostgreSQL! (my favorite open source database). http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.1043
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Friday Fish Post: The deepest know fish videoed
Right To Left By host on 12/19/2008
Thanks to modern technology the fish that live in the deepest know location have been videoed! While not very pretty, it is still interesting. http://gizmodo.com/5060158/worlds-deepest-fish-filmed-for-the-first-time
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An Open Source Computer Vision project
Right To Left By host on 12/17/2008
Open Source has a solution for almost anything! There is only one thing that is missing for a corporation wanting to go Open Source. (More on that later). Here is one for manufacturing (computer vision): http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencvlibrary/
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Book Review Tuesday: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
Right To Left By host on 12/15/2008
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins (Author) The on thing that stayed with me from this book was the concept of having one specialty (like the roll up of the Hedgehog Concept). http://www.jimcollins.com/lab/hedgehog/
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Tortoise GIT client
Right To Left By host on 12/15/2008
I love Tortoise. I think once this is stable I may actually try GIT and see how it works for me compared to subversion. http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/
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