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Thursday, July 31, 2003 3:52 AM

Random: Trade Deadline

To date, the effective sum of the Yanks efforts to shore up the club prior to the trade deadline have gone as follows: acquired Karim Garcia, Armando Benitez and Jesse Orosco, dealt Raul Mondesi. Or, in lay terms, basically nothing of any actual import.We'll
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Wednesday, July 30, 2003 3:45 AM

New Mozilla Release - 0.6.1

The little engine that could revs again. Are you using Mozilla yet? If you're not, you might as well be dusting off the old Internet in Box steamer trunk (yes, I'm ashamed to admit, this was my first browser).
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Wednesday, July 30, 2003 1:44 AM

VS Roadmap Comment

There's one thing I haven't seen pop anywhere in the roadmap docs... and it goes under the heading of ASP.NET: Will generate impeccably valid HTML or XHTML without begging. Please people. This is a must have for Whidbey and it's far more compelling
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Thursday, July 24, 2003 6:05 PM

Sealed is Good? Well...

Ingo's unquestionably a brilliant guy. But I find myself disagreeing with the generalization that "Sealed" is good.The scenario Ingo outlines is an illustration of why sealed may be a necessary evil in some instances. Still, there are alternate cases
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Thursday, July 17, 2003 6:29 AM

Seal This

Okay, I can appreciate that there's a time and place for sealed classes. I'm having a harder time appreciating the utility of sealed classes lacking a public ctor. Sure it means there's no way I can misuse something like System.Web.UI.CssStyleCollection
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Friday, July 11, 2003 4:55 AM

Applied XML DevCon Summaries

Rory's writeups are reasonably detailed and worth several snickers.There's a meme I've seen with increasing frequency surrounding the nEcho/RSS debates and Rory reports the Dave Winer repeated it at XmlDevCon: "Developers love complexity."Right. And all
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Thursday, July 10, 2003 6:36 PM

VS.NET Linking with ASP.NET Projects

Nope. Not supported. Silly.This would be an easy yet solid fix for Whidb(e)y. I want linked files for ASP.NET just like I have them for other types of projects. And I want them now. Bleh, duplicate copies vs. extra multiproject solutions, choose your
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Thursday, July 10, 2003 2:04 PM

Random: Pirate in Trouble for Assaulting Sausage

Kudos to MSNBC. Is there a set of conditions under which I don't read an article with the above-captioned description? No, of course there isn't. Simon took a two-handed chop at the Italian sausage character - portrayed by a 20-year-old South Milwaukee
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Wednesday, July 09, 2003 10:19 PM

W.W.M.P.D.

What would Matt Pinfield do? He probably wouldn't spend ten grand on default feed placement with Userland and then claim he did it to support RSS as a format. Um no. Where the hell is J.J. when you need someone to explain the complicated stuff? I ponied
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Thursday, July 03, 2003 11:52 PM

Utterly Random: Televised Professional Darts

It's probably quite common across the pond, but I stumbled on televised darts on Fox World Sports Digital Net or whatever the hell it's called. I haven't laughed that hard since Supermarket Sweeps was on regularly. It's the Iron Chef-esque announcing
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Thursday, July 03, 2003 4:23 PM

Match.com Success Story

Mike Gunderloy posted a link to Jason Alexander's post about the results achieved at after deploying version 5.0 of Match.com. Pretty impressive though not really much of a suprise when you think about it. I knew they canceled Bob Patterson and the KFC
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