Some time ago, Packt Publishing sent me a copy of Hacking Vim: A Cookbook to get the Most out of the Latest Vim Editor by Kim Shulz to review. I read through it pretty quickly and I must say I thought it was a good book for the most part. The book is definitely focused at a very niche audience as there...

I've been monitoring the nightly EAP builds of Resharper 4 and the latest ones have been pretty stable. While all of the features are not in yet (most notably full support for LINQ), there is enough in here to really get a sense for how it is evolving. I installed build 767 a few days ago and its...

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I had a chance this week to breeze through a new book titled LINQ Quickly . It is published by Packt Publishing and written by N. Shateesh Kumar. The book is about 225 pages long and is focuses on how to use LINQ with various  targets. First I will review how the chapters flow then I will give my...

[I'm way overdue talking about this one... ] A couple weeks ago I was contacted by a company (SoftTree) because they have a product which is a competitor to the Redgate's SQL Prompt and RoundedPolygons SQLAssist (see this post by me). Basically It does everything that both tools do, intellisense...

When Atlas split and became a CTP and a beta, I was one of the naysayers. I couldn’t believe what had been done; we had essentially been given the UpdatePanel. I was so upset that I decided that it was time to move out and look at other Ajax toolkits. So for last 6 months or so, I sojourned in...

Last week I decided its time to get a new phone. I’ve always had just a “phone”. You couldn’t do anything more with it than dial numbers and talk to people (although my last phone, the Motorola V300 did have a camera). This time I went all out. I didn’t get just a phone...

Writing a blog is not really that difficult (OK, I’ve been really lazy the past few months on this). But I do find that I am often in my email client whether that is on my desktop, laptop or on my SmartPhone. So when I heard that blogmailr existed, I figured it was worth a shot … especially...

I own a Motorola Q Smartphone (which I love) and I wanted to protect it against drops. In the past I have occasionally dropped my cell phones and been pretty lucky that they have not been severely damaged. In fact, 1 week after owning the Q I dropped it in the kitchen on the floor and the case flew off...

A few weeks ago I attended the beta version of Dunn Consulting’s BizTalk Boot Camp . I wanted to write a review on the course and to let others know about it because BizTalk is quickly gaining in popularity and is likely something you will have to deal with in the next few years. The course was taught...