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Friday, July 21, 2006 - Posts

The real meaning of backing up

In the last week I've had this discussion a couple of times. Something the last two years of work have taught me about infrastructure is people's perception of backup is a little incorrect. Read More
posted Friday, July 21, 2006 10:25 PM by Geoff | (Comments Off)
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Virtual machine loving

No, not some sicko post-appocalyptic robot fantasy, but Microsoft Virtual PC, the newly released (as in liberated) desktop virtualisation software. Read More
posted Friday, July 21, 2006 11:48 AM by Geoff | (Comments Off)
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String manipulation in .NET

It seems to be string week in .NET blog land. I thought I'd plop this link to the API docs and other blog articles in here for my own sake. Read More
posted Friday, July 21, 2006 11:38 AM by Geoff | 2 Comments
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BitVector32 class

Now this is a cool class! It allows you to store 32 bools in one 32bit int. Old hat for the C/C++ veterans, but much nicer for the .NET crowd. I wonder if you can marshal out of Win32 API structs into these?... Read More
posted Friday, July 21, 2006 11:20 AM by Geoff | (Comments Off)
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Naming conventions

Greg picks up on a thread from Jason Haley about UI control naming conventions, then goes on to argue for hungarian notation (i.e, txtFirstName vs. firstNameTextBox). Read More
posted Friday, July 21, 2006 10:42 AM by Geoff | 2 Comments
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