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I have a little secret. Well, more than one, but there is only one that I'm going to share today. By day, I'm an average (below average some would say) C# coder from the Great White North. Like most Canadians, I'm pretty quiet, and relatively...
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There are a number of reasons I use the nom de guerre that I do. Primarily, it's because I like being self-deprecating. Hard to bruise egos when the one you're mocking is yourself. But it also adds some levity to what appears to be an increasingly...
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Got myself a delicious problem but there is another discussion to be had so I will leave you hanging on that one until a later post. I've already hinted at the software I'm working on for the time being. It's essentially something to help...
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When my daughter was born, and even during the nine months leading up to it, my wife and I read a *LOT* of books. On pregnancy, on child rearing, on labour, on how to cryogenically freeze the blood from the umbilical cord. But when it came down to the...
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Stumbled across this today in my search for build images. Perhaps not as subtle as Bil Simser's broken build handout but I believe people will get the message: Don't forget to check out Agnes's friends at www.buildsonmymachine.com and www...
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I think there are a few "standard" controls that are in serious need of revisiting/refactoring. One of them is the splitter control. Below is an image from Word 2003 with a document on the left and the thesaurus on the right. This is probably...
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The topic of this post is pretty much the polar opposite of what I was hoping to achieve when I came to CodeBetter since it is about as technical as your average Teletubby but it's here by popular demand. So if you aren't interested, this will...
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This is a bit of a departure but what is a blog if not a dumping ground for random thoughts? This isn't really the point of this post but I've never liked Arial. It's too "squished" for my tastes. I prefer the wider letters of Verdana...
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