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March 2009 - Posts

• Today's Tweets: Tuesday, March 31, 2009

  Roku Player to Add 10 Sources by Holidays: http://is.gd/pYvb I had forgotten about the great Web Developer Toolbar Firefox add-in: http://tinyurl.com/2ek6ec #webdesign If you need a lightweight screen capture app, check out Cropper. I have been using Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 31, 2009 12:00 AM by Tod Birdsall | 10 Comments Filed under: Tweets

• Today's Tweets: Monday, March 30, 2009

  #reading How to Win Friends and Influence People: insightful study of what motivates people. Enjoying it. http://is.gd/ppz1 Cool! There is an Mario iGoogle theme available: http://tinyurl.com/cdrrjk #games RT @ shanselman : We've been quietly updating Read More... Posted Monday, March 30, 2009 10:53 PM by Tod Birdsall | 7 Comments Filed under: Tweets

• Today's Tweets: Friday, March 27, 2009

  Secrets of Socail Site Success: Recap of talk given by @ codinghorror and @ cshirky at #eclipsecon http://is.gd/peoL Interesting Twitter client disection meeting recorded at #mix09 http://is.gd/pgWI [mp3] via @ dimebrain Monopoly Killer: Perfect German Read More... Posted Friday, March 27, 2009 11:51 PM by Tod Birdsall | 7 Comments Filed under: Tweets

• Today's Tweets: Thursday, March 26, 2009

  Is there a way to access a temp table when calling EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail? http://tinyurl.com/crhodp Save now. Pay later: developing with Ruby on Rails - 5 Question Interview with Twitter Developer Alex Payne: http://is.gd/bhG How could I have lived Read More... Posted Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:23 PM by Tod Birdsall | 7 Comments Filed under: Tweets

• Today's Tweets: Wednesday, March 25, 2009

  If you are in the market for quality anti-virus protection for your home computer and is FREE. Check out avast! http://www.avast.com/ #toread: How to Read a Book http://tinyurl.com/2pkfp4 Follow me on Twitter Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 25, 2009 11:09 PM by Tod Birdsall | 12 Comments Filed under: Tweets

• Today's Tweets: Tuesday, March 24, 2009

  RT @ balexandre : @ tod1d How about LINQ2Twitter ? http://is.gd/eoRa - Thanks for pointer, but will stick w/ TweetSharp for now. New OnLive service could turn the video game world upside down http://bit.ly/TymmA (via @ balexandre ) Trying to remember Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 24, 2009 10:54 PM by Tod Birdsall | 9 Comments Filed under: Tweets

• Today's Tweets: Monday, March 23nd, 2009

  Learning: #aspnet Substitution Web Server Control allows you to specify non-cache portions of a cached page http://is.gd/oxuH Learning: #aspnet MultiView Control for easy change of view based on specified criteria. Helpful for wizard creation? http://is.gd/oxA3 Read More... Posted Monday, March 23, 2009 9:04 PM by Tod Birdsall | 5 Comments Filed under: Tweets

• Today's Tweets: Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

  How-To: JavaScriptSerializer to deserialize JSON to a #csharp managed type http://is.gd/orsZ JSON is now readable thanks to this formatter/ validator http://jsonformatter.curiou... @ balexandre Find #csharp code snippets for tweetsharp here: http://tinyurl.com/cyrtje Read More... Posted Sunday, March 22, 2009 8:37 PM by Tod Birdsall | 4 Comments Filed under: Twitter, Tweets

• Today's Tweets: Friday, March 20th, 2009

  Up to 100MB of free Subversion (SVN) hosting. This could be useful: http://beanstalkapp.com/ Wanna sync your files between multiple computers or maybe just back them up to a server, securely: https://www.getdropbox.com/ I wonder if there is a way to do Read More... Posted Saturday, March 21, 2009 8:02 PM by Tod Birdsall | 5 Comments Filed under: Twitter, Tweets

• Today's Tweets: Thursday, March 19th, 2009

  Learning about the Bridge Pattern. http://is.gd/o5ru #programming The Builder Pattern is very interesting: http://is.gd/o5sh Onto Chain of Responsibility Pattern: http://is.gd/o5u4 #programming The Flyweight Pattern: When one instance of a class can be Read More... Posted Thursday, March 19, 2009 8:46 PM by Tod Birdsall | 7 Comments Filed under: Twitter, Tweets

• Today's Tweets: Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

  Learning: How to import an Excel file into SQL Server 2005 using Integration Services: http://is.gd/nU0v Import Excel into SQL 2k5: In SSMS, right-click on the database you want to be the target...then choose "tasks"...then choose import. Subtext 2.1.1 Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 18, 2009 8:45 PM by Tod Birdsall | 4 Comments Filed under: Twitter, Tweets

• Today's Tweets: Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

  Yahoo! Design Pattern Library: http://is.gd/CTE via @ codinghorror Interesting article by @ codinghorror about embracing game design patterns for community website design: http://is.gd/ny8B Stepping through Putting the Fun in Functional: Applying game Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 18, 2009 4:04 AM by Tod Birdsall | 5 Comments Filed under: Twitter, Tweets

• Today's Tweets: Monday, March 16th, 2009

  RT @matthiasshapiro Huge list of self education resources http://bit.ly/5WmpN Was looking for JSON to #csharp object serializer, found Json.NET. Turns out that twitter# was already using it. Lucky me. http://is.gd/noc1 Picked up Scramble for the #itouch. Read More... Posted Monday, March 16, 2009 9:03 PM by Tod Birdsall | 5 Comments Filed under: Tweets

• Today's Tweets: March 13th, 2009

  RT @matthiasshapiro Huge list of self education resources http://bit.ly/5WmpN Free #aspnetmvc eBook Tutorial from ScottGu: http://is.gd/mMVS How to solve "Client found response content type of 'text/html; charset=utf-8', but expected 'text/xml'" error Read More... Posted Friday, March 13, 2009 8:53 PM by Tod Birdsall | 4 Comments Filed under: Tweets

• Web Service 'content type' error

  Problem When trying to execute something against a web service, you receive the following error message: Client found response content type of 'text/html; charset=utf-8', but expected 'text/xml' In addition to the above error message, you may also receive Read More... Posted Friday, March 13, 2009 9:58 AM by Tod Birdsall | 4 Comments Filed under: knowledge base, web service

• March 2009 BDNUG Meeting

  The next Bloomington IL .NET Users Group meeting is coming up. Here is the official email announcement from Jesse Baird: "Our next meeting will be on March 10th at 6:00pm at the Microsoft office. Dave Weeks from Microsoft will present on Visual Studio Read More... Posted Monday, March 02, 2009 10:04 PM by Tod Birdsall | 5 Comments Filed under: BDNUG

• Design Patterns: Proxy Pattern

  Finished the chapter on the Proxy Pattern and updated the C# Design Patterns Cheat Sheet appropriately . I think I the cheat sheet is almost complete. Read More... Posted Monday, March 02, 2009 4:55 PM by Tod Birdsall | 7 Comments Filed under: Design Patterns