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Articles - 2007

• December
  • Testing Exceptions - 12.20.2007 06:24:05 PM CST
  • “Anvil of Stars” - 12.20.2007 08:19:14 AM CST
  • The Incorrect CruiseControl Message - 12.19.2007 08:15:05 AM CST
  • S3 It Is - 12.12.2007 02:52:42 PM CST
  • Massive Storage - 12.12.2007 09:17:20 AM CST
  • BigInteger is Internal - 12.12.2007 07:16:21 AM CST
  • “Snow Angels” - 12.11.2007 08:13:38 AM CST
  • Assert.AreEqual() Gotcha - 12.10.2007 08:21:26 AM CST
  • Write Your Tests First … Because Adding Them Later Sucks - 12.10.2007 07:56:13 AM CST
  • Unit Tests Code Generation in VS 2008 and Automatic Properties - 12.07.2007 04:10:02 PM CST
  • HttpContext.Current Is a Singleton for the Call Context - 12.07.2007 10:32:04 AM CST
  • It’s Illogical! - 12.06.2007 12:54:41 PM CST
  • Night Projects - 12.06.2007 10:07:01 AM CST
  • Holy **, I’m Speaking at VSLive! - 12.04.2007 09:29:54 PM CST
  • “No Country for Old Men” - 12.03.2007 08:45:23 PM CST
• November
  • A Use for Reflection - 11.29.2007 07:52:38 AM CST
  • Christians Boycott “The Golden Compass”? - 11.26.2007 08:50:00 PM CST
  • Merry Cheifmas! - 11.26.2007 08:38:08 PM CST
  • I’m Facebooked - 11.26.2007 08:04:29 PM CST
  • O’Conner and Alzheimer’s - 11.26.2007 07:30:15 AM CST
  • “Portal” From “The Orange Box” - 11.21.2007 06:51:37 AM CST
  • VB 2008 Compiler Bug - 11.20.2007 08:45:19 PM CST
  • An Interesting Cecil Side-Effect - 11.19.2007 09:46:49 PM CST
  • Immutable Objects in C# - 11.11.2007 10:14:31 PM CST
  • Bug With CustomAttribute Collection in Mono.Cecil? - 11.09.2007 03:17:41 PM CST
  • Quixo3D - Part 2: Code Coverage - 11.09.2007 09:27:01 AM CST
  • This is How You Figure Out a Bug - 11.07.2007 10:05:39 AM CST
  • Quixo3D - Part 1: Code Analysis - 11.06.2007 08:22:51 PM CST
  • Interview Questions - 11.06.2007 08:22:51 PM CST
  • WPF Day 1 - 11.02.2007 08:09:05 AM CST
  • Bewildering Code - 11.01.2007 07:50:34 AM CST
• October
  • “The Forge of God” - 10.30.2007 06:45:46 AM CST
  • Implementing the Generic IComparable Isn’t Good Enough - 10.29.2007 01:15:32 PM CST
  • Can You Achieve 100% Test Coverage? Should You?? - 10.29.2007 09:36:56 AM CST
  • Getting Old - 10.29.2007 08:26:43 AM CST
  • Sad News - 10.29.2007 07:33:01 AM CST
  • Playing the Wii - 10.25.2007 07:26:42 AM CST
  • Hi, I’m Jason, and I’m a Developer - 10.23.2007 10:51:52 PM CST
  • Big Drum Sets - 10.19.2007 09:25:48 PM CST
  • “Reversing” - 10.18.2007 10:38:26 PM CST
  • Erlang - 10.18.2007 04:59:20 PM CST
  • Overcoming - 10.18.2007 09:25:12 AM CST
  • Circular Code Analysis - 10.17.2007 08:14:42 PM CST
  • Halo3 Multiplayer - 10.17.2007 07:39:25 AM CST
  • HttpContext: Don’t Mock - 10.16.2007 07:52:28 AM CST
  • “The Departed” - 10.15.2007 06:45:07 AM CST
  • Programming in the Age of Concurrency - 10.12.2007 09:22:20 PM CST
  • Extension Method Abomination - 10.11.2007 02:47:51 PM CST
  • You Can’t Run Tests From More Than One VS 2005 Instance at the Same Time? - 10.11.2007 09:47:33 AM CST
  • Halo 3 Legendary Ending - 10.10.2007 12:16:07 PM CST
  • Halo 3: The Fight is Finished - 10.09.2007 10:44:28 PM CST
  • Multiple Enumerators - 10.09.2007 08:21:37 AM CST
  • Reverse Code Analysis in Visual Studio - 10.08.2007 09:09:34 PM CST
  • Ow! My Back! - 10.06.2007 08:28:03 AM CST
  • Know What I Hate? - 10.06.2007 07:36:46 AM CST
  • PGR4 - 10.05.2007 08:10:48 AM CST
  • Immutable Data Structures - 10.04.2007 12:08:28 PM CST
  • Architect - 10.03.2007 07:53:36 AM CST
• September
  • Halo3 Single-Player Observations - 09.28.2007 07:59:00 AM CST
  • Halo3 Event - 09.25.2007 12:00:00 AM CST
  • Subliminal Inspiration - 09.24.2007 11:54:27 PM CST
  • Good Bye, Simon - R.I.P. - 09.22.2007 02:07:49 PM CST
  • 10 Years Today - 09.20.2007 07:20:46 AM CST
  • Constructors Returning Null (?) - 09.19.2007 11:48:34 AM CST
  • Tests and Disposable Fields - 09.18.2007 08:32:38 PM CST
  • Terrace - Beating Mike…Again - 09.13.2007 08:41:06 PM CST
  • Rush in St. Paul - 09.10.2007 07:32:05 AM CST
  • Terrace Trouncing - 09.06.2007 09:16:44 PM CST
  • Ketchup Chips - 09.06.2007 09:12:36 PM CST
  • Changes - 09.04.2007 06:59:51 AM CST
  • More Hayden Conversations - 09.03.2007 08:28:44 PM CST
• August
  • More Coding Oddities - 08.29.2007 09:55:06 AM CST
  • Nature’s Rolling In - 08.27.2007 11:05:23 PM CST
  • R-Rated AVP2 Trailer - 08.27.2007 01:07:23 PM CST
  • PGR4 On Oct. 2nd - 08.23.2007 11:46:52 AM CST
  • Delegates, Nested Classes and Refactoring … What Could Go Wrong? - 08.23.2007 11:24:43 AM CST
  • Fun With Photos in Forza 2 - 08.22.2007 09:51:42 PM CST
  • When A String Isn’t Good Enough - 08.22.2007 09:19:02 AM CST
  • Why I Hate Interviews - 08.20.2007 07:48:01 AM CST
  • Book Reviews - 08.20.2007 07:08:00 AM CST
  • Vacation Plans Scrubbed - 08.20.2007 07:04:58 AM CST
  • Las Vegas - 08.15.2007 08:38:58 PM CST
  • Quick Vacation Notes - 08.07.2007 08:34:37 AM CST
  • Bridge Collapse - We’re OK - 08.01.2007 07:54:05 PM CST
  • Understand the Core - 08.01.2007 11:18:07 AM CST
• July
  • “Stranger Than Fiction” - 07.26.2007 10:34:27 AM CST
  • Rigourous FxCop and XML Comment Adherence - 07.26.2007 08:43:03 AM CST
  • So That’s Where She Went - 07.26.2007 07:32:03 AM CST
  • Release Date - 07.26.2007 06:49:03 AM CST
  • Me? Really? - 07.25.2007 07:29:48 AM CST
  • Coding and the Future - 07.21.2007 10:12:25 AM CST
  • Getting Free Time - 07.21.2007 10:03:58 AM CST
  • Call Extensions in .NET - 07.21.2007 09:42:11 AM CST
  • More Deck Work - 07.21.2007 08:23:05 AM CST
  • Use the TimeSpan Format - 07.20.2007 10:13:14 AM CST
  • Partial Methods in C# - 07.20.2007 07:40:52 AM CST
  • Simple Code Refactoring - 07.18.2007 10:06:28 AM CST
  • Web Services, Timeouts, and Asynchronous Calls - 07.17.2007 08:39:36 PM CST
  • ICloneable<T>? - 07.11.2007 10:16:23 PM CST
  • Yeah, That’s What I’m Listening To - 07.11.2007 01:12:57 PM CST
  • Two Security Rules to Keep In Mind - 07.09.2007 09:56:11 AM CST
  • Transformers - 07.09.2007 06:55:29 AM CST
  • Understanding Tail Calls - 07.03.2007 12:26:23 PM CST
  • Upside-Down Text - 07.03.2007 08:09:09 AM CST
  • Porcupine Tree - “Fear of a Black Planet” - 07.03.2007 08:03:46 AM CST
  • Fireworks … Enough! - 07.03.2007 07:28:03 AM CST
  • Collection Madness - 07.02.2007 01:51:18 PM CST
  • “The Mobius Strip” - 07.01.2007 10:16:23 AM CST
  • “The Pursuit of Happyness” - 07.01.2007 10:11:06 AM CST
  • MVP? … MVP! - 07.01.2007 09:34:27 AM CST
• June
  • Deck Progress - 06.29.2007 07:59:13 PM CST
  • WCF: Message Size - 06.29.2007 07:06:27 AM CST
  • Developer Metrics - 06.26.2007 11:43:39 AM CST
  • I Don’t Remember Asking for Commentary at the Grocery Store - 06.26.2007 06:46:34 AM CST
  • Reducing Catch Handlers - 06.22.2007 07:32:27 AM CST
  • “The Fountain” - 06.19.2007 04:03:11 PM CST
  • Back To Work - 06.18.2007 07:47:34 AM CST
  • Halo2 Party - 06.16.2007 08:25:51 AM CST
  • “Empyrion” Mix - 06.13.2007 10:29:21 PM CST
  • Living the Bachelor Life - 06.13.2007 10:26:15 PM CST
  • Dragonlance … The Movie?! - 06.08.2007 06:50:33 AM CST
  • Giving Up On RSS Bandit - 06.06.2007 11:48:03 AM CST
  • Angry at angryCoder - 06.06.2007 06:40:08 AM CST
  • Moving Up - 06.04.2007 10:31:04 AM CST
  • Kids Say The Damndest Things - 06.04.2007 10:13:17 AM CST
  • Sidetracked Mixes - 06.04.2007 07:31:13 AM CST
  • Busy Weekend - 06.03.2007 08:27:50 PM CST
  • Considering a New Web Host - 06.01.2007 07:02:19 AM CST
• May
  • Enhancing the using Statement - 05.30.2007 06:38:14 AM CST
  • Interesting Lawhead Insight - 05.29.2007 08:41:10 PM CST
  • Boys are Sick - 05.29.2007 12:12:40 PM CST
  • It’s Retries … Plus One More - 05.29.2007 09:57:51 AM CST
  • PGR4 - 05.24.2007 02:07:00 PM CST
  • When a Language Would Really Kick-Ass - 05.23.2007 07:55:05 AM CST
  • Spanking Your Wife - 05.22.2007 08:51:28 AM CST
  • The Sarah Conner Chronicles - 05.22.2007 08:39:56 AM CST
  • Security Talk is On - 05.21.2007 01:42:23 PM CST
  • 9/11 Conspiracy Theories - 05.21.2007 06:51:49 AM CST
  • “World Trade Center” - 05.21.2007 06:42:58 AM CST
  • “Eater”, by Gregory Benford - 05.21.2007 06:35:26 AM CST
  • Odd Sick Day - 05.17.2007 09:22:40 PM CST
  • Hudson Bay Gravitational Anomaly - 05.16.2007 12:39:52 PM CST
  • Unexpected PermCalc Behavior - Round 2 - 05.16.2007 06:47:17 AM CST
  • Unexpected PermCalc Behavior - 05.15.2007 09:40:26 PM CST
  • WCF and xs:choice - 05.15.2007 10:26:45 AM CST
  • Two Days of Hell - 05.13.2007 09:10:25 PM CST
  • Just One Test Results Directory, Please - 05.11.2007 08:12:59 AM CST
  • UML? - 05.10.2007 07:52:16 AM CST
  • “Kingdom Coming”, by Michelle Goldberg - 05.10.2007 07:09:52 AM CST
  • Passing Methods Information - 05.09.2007 09:17:00 PM CST
  • Getting to Work Early - 05.08.2007 10:07:04 PM CST
  • Procrastination - 05.08.2007 10:03:13 PM CST
  • I’m Really Trying - 05.08.2007 09:40:17 PM CST
  • Rusty Drumming - 05.08.2007 08:55:22 AM CST
  • “Lost” Has End-Date - 05.07.2007 01:54:12 PM CST
  • Lawn Battles - 05.07.2007 09:40:46 AM CST
  • Pac-Man Patterns - 05.07.2007 07:12:22 AM CST
  • “Snakes And Arrows” - Decision - 05.07.2007 07:12:22 AM CST
  • It’s C#, Not C++ - 05.04.2007 08:55:35 AM CST
  • Rant About Bad Development - 05.04.2007 08:38:53 AM CST
  • Mike … More Recording! - 05.04.2007 07:43:38 AM CST
  • “Sola Scriptura”, by Neal Morse - 05.03.2007 01:25:16 PM CST
  • Mike … Recording! - 05.03.2007 08:16:01 AM CST
  • Refactoring JavaScript - 05.03.2007 08:03:24 AM CST
  • “Candy Mountain!” - 05.02.2007 12:56:23 PM CST
  • Loving “Hope” - 05.02.2007 11:29:34 AM CST
  • It’s Just a Matter of Time - 05.02.2007 09:00:21 AM CST
  • Future Web Development - 05.02.2007 07:40:36 AM CST
  • “Snakes And Arrows” - Thoughts - 05.01.2007 08:39:08 AM CST
• April
  • Twin Cities Code Camp Real-Time - 04.28.2007 01:09:52 PM CST
  • Gas is Getting Out of Control Again - 04.27.2007 01:42:19 PM CST
  • Turning KeepAlive Off - 04.26.2007 12:31:08 PM CST
  • Stressed and Excited About TCCC 2 - 04.26.2007 12:11:49 PM CST
  • Louder is Not Better - 04.26.2007 12:06:08 PM CST
  • What? No BigInteger? - 04.25.2007 10:52:17 AM CST
  • An Empty XBox Gaming Experience - 04.25.2007 07:29:40 AM CST
  • 581 c - 04.24.2007 08:40:53 PM CST
  • XBox Tonight and Decks - 04.24.2007 02:39:12 PM CST
  • “The Road”, by Cormac McCarthy - 04.23.2007 08:15:49 AM CST
  • HTML Editing - 04.23.2007 07:56:25 AM CST
  • The Backblog Project - 04.22.2007 01:45:30 PM CST
  • Mail-in Rebates - 04.22.2007 01:07:40 PM CST
  • “Roadshow”, by Neil Peart - 04.19.2007 09:20:19 PM CST
  • RSS Bandit Woes - 04.19.2007 11:38:12 AM CST
  • Way Too Enterprisey - 04.16.2007 11:19:33 AM CST
  • Terrace at Lunch - 04.12.2007 11:57:00 AM CST
  • When Logging Statements Bring Down the House - 04.12.2007 06:43:34 AM CST
  • I Hate Regions - 04.11.2007 07:26:40 AM CST
  • It’s a Far Cry From My House - 04.10.2007 11:57:16 AM CST
  • One Minor CSLA Glitch - 04.10.2007 11:08:54 AM CST
  • “The Darkness That Comes Before” - 04.07.2007 08:15:34 PM CST
  • I Love Floating-Point Arithmetic - 04.03.2007 01:11:07 PM CST
• March
  • StackOverflowException - 03.29.2007 01:29:45 PM CST
  • Roy Zimmerman - 03.29.2007 07:06:16 AM CST
  • Attaching Dynamic Methods - 03.27.2007 08:30:24 PM CST
  • Enumerations and Dynamic Methods - 03.26.2007 12:35:08 PM CST
  • TypeConverter Doesn’t Convert To Types - 03.26.2007 09:43:50 AM CST
  • Battlestar Galatica: Season Finale - 03.26.2007 09:21:28 AM CST
  • Finished Taxes - 03.26.2007 06:49:07 AM CST
  • Henry Rollins: “Shock and Awe” - 03.26.2007 06:16:56 AM CST
  • Ugh - 03.23.2007 02:23:11 PM CST
  • The 15-Second Delay Cause - 03.21.2007 10:51:07 AM CST
  • A Great E-Mail Title - 03.16.2007 02:40:23 PM CST
  • No, Really, Stop It - 03.16.2007 06:35:25 AM CST
  • Henry Rollins - “Think Tank” - 03.14.2007 01:22:55 PM CST
  • Parents, Children, and Naming - 03.14.2007 10:30:38 AM CST
  • More Conversion Strategeryisms - 03.14.2007 06:56:15 AM CST
  • We’ll Always Need Ditch-Diggers - 03.13.2007 02:01:11 PM CST
  • “Far Cry” Review - 03.12.2007 10:34:26 AM CST
  • Daylight Savings Time Change - 03.10.2007 07:30:57 AM CST
  • Slogging Away at Web Site Changes - 03.10.2007 07:22:17 AM CST
  • I Apologize - 03.09.2007 11:14:39 AM CST
  • Log Computer Information Yourself - 03.09.2007 09:51:34 AM CST
  • Divorce - 03.05.2007 10:51:41 AM CST
  • Cash? - 03.05.2007 10:46:34 AM CST
  • Annoying VS 2005 Test View Issue - 03.02.2007 07:38:46 AM CST
  • How To Program … In That Order - 03.01.2007 07:12:27 AM CST
• February
  • Gearing Up - 02.27.2007 12:37:03 PM CST
  • A Popular MP3? - 02.27.2007 11:56:32 AM CST
  • Javascript + Web: A Love/Hate Relationship - 02.23.2007 08:36:11 PM CST
  • The Kids - 02.21.2007 06:36:01 AM CST
  • Why Did I Ever Become a Christian? - 02.19.2007 01:15:05 PM CST
  • Mock HttpContext and MapPath - 02.19.2007 07:38:21 AM CST
  • Wow, msdn.microsoft.com Gives a YSOD? - 02.18.2007 02:34:15 PM CST
  • “The Relation of My Imprisonment”, by Russell Banks - 02.16.2007 07:59:12 PM CST
  • Speaking of Rush … - 02.16.2007 02:09:07 PM CST
  • MSTest and TestContext - 02.16.2007 08:29:52 AM CST
  • Playa Del Carmen Pictures - 02.14.2007 07:31:22 PM CST
  • Rush: “Snakes and Arrows” - WOOT!!!! - 02.14.2007 07:16:11 PM CST
  • Insidious Testing Bug - 02.06.2007 01:37:34 PM CST
  • New Coding Idea, and Ripping Music - 02.02.2007 09:36:41 PM CST
  • I Got the Pictures! - 02.02.2007 08:12:53 PM CST
  • Saying Goodbye to HTML + CSS + JavaScript - 02.01.2007 08:16:21 PM CST
  • Where Can I Sign Up? - 02.01.2007 07:36:21 AM CST
• January
  • MockHttpContext for 2.0 - 01.30.2007 06:56:12 PM CST
  • Lyric Recall - 01.30.2007 12:29:50 PM CST
  • This Should Surprise You - 01.29.2007 07:51:19 AM CST
  • Zune! - 01.28.2007 11:47:15 AM CST
  • “Go To Definition” in Intellisense - 01.26.2007 12:55:09 PM CST
  • CodeAnalysis and Automatic Resolution - 01.26.2007 12:44:42 PM CST
  • F# Twisted My Mind Into a Klein Bottle - 01.25.2007 09:23:57 PM CST
  • Value Types and Null - 01.25.2007 08:24:45 AM CST
  • “United 93” Is Not Nominated for Best Picture - 01.24.2007 09:04:36 PM CST
  • New Computer - 01.24.2007 07:19:08 PM CST
  • I Did All That Just To Do This - 01.23.2007 11:59:15 AM CST
  • A Perfect Case For Compiler Extensibility - 01.22.2007 08:17:58 PM CST
  • Spectrum of Abstraction - 01.22.2007 08:17:58 PM CST
  • My First Amazon.com Order - 01.22.2007 07:52:08 PM CST
  • Generics and Constraints - 01.22.2007 07:36:37 PM CST
  • WCF, Client-Side Dynamic Proxies and Configuration - 01.22.2007 11:59:31 AM CST
  • WCF and “Open” Operation Request - 01.22.2007 07:06:54 AM CST
  • WCF, NetMsmqBinding, and “The signature is invalid” - 01.19.2007 01:22:59 PM CST
  • Diving Into WCF - 01.19.2007 07:40:21 AM CST
  • An Unexpected Vacation - 01.19.2007 06:14:54 AM CST
  • “24”: Day 6, First Four Hours - 01.18.2007 06:25:36 AM CST
  • Sometimes, Log Files Are Helpful - 01.17.2007 11:29:42 AM CST
  • Beyond Low - 01.15.2007 07:54:22 AM CST
  • Blown Away by F# - 01.12.2007 01:59:03 PM CST
  • The First Language to Support Generics - 01.10.2007 08:25:12 AM CST
  • What Now? - 01.10.2007 07:18:24 AM CST
  • Back to Work - 01.08.2007 07:01:40 AM CST
  • “The Descent” - 01.06.2007 10:20:06 AM CST
  • Tomorrow Morning == Freedom! - 01.05.2007 07:51:07 PM CST
  • I’m Excited Because … - 01.05.2007 07:33:17 PM CST
  • Late-Night Observations - 01.04.2007 07:09:48 PM CST
  • XNA Market: Little Kid Games - 01.02.2007 10:56:30 AM CST
  • Big Breakthrough With My Dynamic Proxies - 01.01.2007 07:20:56 PM CST

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