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In our family I'm the designated "math" person. It isn't because I'm necessarily all that great at math. Oh, I've taken my share of calculus, but I always struggled with math. So one of the things I decided once I had children was to make sure they had a good appreciation for numbers without resorting...

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Summary [this was written against the 1.1 framework] At some point in your use of .NET you are going find that garbage collection, or rather, the lack of garbage collection is causing you a problem. The most likely scenario is that you have some unmanaged resource that you are trying to access and you...

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Last week someone asked me how browsers determine if a CSS file is returned from cache or not. My response was admittedly rather lame... So I went to go look up the full answer. The first place I went was the W3C web site. For an organization that helps establish standards for the web you would think...

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Over the last few weeks the number of rather large holes in my yard has grown. I've suspected that I have a critter living in the woods outback that is causing the problem. A few days ago I noticed a bunch of new dirt that was tossed out from underneath some stairs. A day or so later I saw him. His name...

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Jeff Atwood has yet another great post on developers who tend to lock themselves away and " go dark ". I doubt there is a single developer out there who hasn't experienced this in the extreme. For me, it was when a developer delivered a "complete" feature that was so complex and over...

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I've upgraded Codeverity.com to Graffiti from Community Server 2007. Looks like ServerIntellect saved the day by granting permissions to create folders. That is why I host here! Graffiti can't actually create the directories for new posts, though the db writes work so clicking this link is broken There...

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As developers when we release code we almost always classify it as n amount of features: Announcing Release v4: Auto Login User Profiles Reporting When product management comes to engineering they usually have a list a features they want in the application. Those features may or may not make it into...

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I was driving my daughter to buy her a pet frog (yes, a real frog). She's 5 and I promised that once we moved to the house she could have a pet and she wanted a frog. She likes to watch him eat crickets (LOL). On the way she tells me that if we have a car that was "faster than light and sound"...

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This weekend I bought a Reel Mower otherwise known as a manual push mower. My lawn had not been mowed since last year and the previous owners failed to leave there lawn mower as promised. Home Depot had a couple of styles. I chose the Scott's Elite 16" which got better consumer ratings for the...

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