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I’ve reinstalled my machine of last night with Windows 7. I’m very happy with this new platform! Thank you Microsoft. One of the final reasons to start yesterday was that my database integration in Visual Studio was broken. Of course there where many more reasons, but that was the issue which made me do it [...]

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The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.

I wanted to be smart. I tried to use LINQ to XML for parsing an Atom feed. Here’s what I’ve got to read a link:
var urlElement = [...]

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Often, when I meet developers I get the question, what do you read for literature to remain up-to-date. Or, which references do you use? Cleaning up the mess around my desk today brought me to the moment I had to put my books back together. So here’s my ‘desktop-list’ of 10 august 2008:

Laughing at the [...]

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I often hear developers talk polymorphism. Or actually I hear them saying something similar as nobody(inclusive me) seems to have a clue how it should be pronounced. I’ve figured it out for all of us:
polymorphism => Pronounce("PAH-lee-MOR-fih-zum");

Well anyway, back to the title; I want to talk about these 2 often used ground concepts of Object [...]

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