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		<title>Keep it DRAFT-y</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Kemp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I was grabbing screenshots from an app I&#8217;m working on. I noticed a huge visual problem with a a list in the product: in a one-column ListView in Details view, each item&#8217;s text was truncated, as though the column&#8217;s width was just left to the default of 20 pixels (this is in [...]<p>© 2008 Jason Kemp. All Rights Reserved. <a href="http://www.ageektrapped.com/blog">A geek trapped in a cool guy's body</a><br/><br/><a href="http://www.ageektrapped.com/blog/keep-it-draft-y/">Keep it DRAFT-y</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The other day I was grabbing screenshots from an app I&#8217;m working on. I noticed a huge visual problem with a a list in the product: in a one-column ListView in Details view, each item&#8217;s text was truncated, as though the column&#8217;s width was just left to the default of 20 pixels (this is in [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Redoing the Options Dialog in BabySmash</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Kemp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scott Hanselman introduced us to BabySmash today. It&#8217;s an app for his kids that he developed using his arcane Win32 knowledge in a WPF app. He did it on purpose, mind you, to teach himself WPF, with us watching. I think this is a fantastic idea. When I was writing the AutoComplete TextBox series, I [...]<p>© 2008 Jason Kemp. All Rights Reserved. <a href="http://www.ageektrapped.com/blog">A geek trapped in a cool guy's body</a><br/><br/><a href="http://www.ageektrapped.com/blog/redoing-the-options-dialog-in-babysmash/">Redoing the Options Dialog in BabySmash</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Scott Hanselman introduced us to BabySmash today. It&#8217;s an app for his kids that he developed using his arcane Win32 knowledge in a WPF app. He did it on purpose, mind you, to teach himself WPF, with us watching.
I think this is a fantastic idea. When I was writing the AutoComplete TextBox series, I thought [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>It&#8217;s in the Framework, Dummy!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Kemp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No one who knows me would describe me as humble. I guess if everyone thinks I&#8217;m not humble, maybe I&#8217;m not, I don&#8217;t know. One thing I do approach with humility is my ability as a programmer. It took some concentration to &#8220;get&#8221; the fancy algorithms in university; I&#8217;d always try to solve the problem [...]<p>© 2008 Jason Kemp. All Rights Reserved. <a href="http://www.ageektrapped.com/blog">A geek trapped in a cool guy's body</a><br/><br/><a href="http://www.ageektrapped.com/blog/its-in-the-framework-dummy/">It&#8217;s in the Framework, Dummy!</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[No one who knows me would describe me as humble. I guess if everyone thinks I&#8217;m not humble, maybe I&#8217;m not, I don&#8217;t know.
One thing I do approach with humility is my ability as a programmer. It took some concentration to &#8220;get&#8221; the fancy algorithms in university; I&#8217;d always try to solve the problem with [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Project Codenames Should Be Fun</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Kemp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, at work, we started using project code names. The theme for the code names is mountains. Gee, I wonder where they got that idea from. What’s the whole point of a codename? I think it’s to refer to a product release without getting all confused about version numbers. There is nothing saying they have [...]<p>© 2008 Jason Kemp. All Rights Reserved. <a href="http://www.ageektrapped.com/blog">A geek trapped in a cool guy's body</a><br/><br/><a href="http://www.ageektrapped.com/blog/project-codenames-should-be-fun/">Project Codenames Should Be Fun</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Recently, at work, we started using project code names. The theme for the code names is mountains.
Gee, I wonder where they got that idea from.
What’s the whole point of a codename? I think it’s to refer to a product release without getting all confused about version numbers. There is nothing saying they have to be [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Why System.Uri sucks, Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Kemp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently reviewed Framework Design Guidelines, the new book by Abrams and Cwalina about designing frameworks for .NET. In the review, I mentioned that I disagreed with their advice of using System.Uri (v.1.1) to represent some URIs. Here&#8217;s why. &#160; The name System.Uri implies, to me, a URI, any URI. If your URI scheme follows [...]<p>© 2008 Jason Kemp. All Rights Reserved. <a href="http://www.ageektrapped.com/blog">A geek trapped in a cool guy's body</a><br/><br/><a href="http://www.ageektrapped.com/blog/why-systemuri-sucks-part-1/">Why System.Uri sucks, Part 1</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I recently reviewed Framework Design Guidelines, the new book by Abrams and Cwalina about designing frameworks for .NET. In the review, I mentioned that I disagreed with their advice of using System.Uri (v.1.1) to represent some URIs. Here&#8217;s why.
&nbsp;
The name System.Uri implies, to me, a URI, any URI. If your URI scheme follows the &#8220;rules&#8221; [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s take back the fun.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Kemp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few weeks, Microsoft has provided plenty of juicy, new software for us developers: Vista Beta 1, WinFx Beta 1 RC 1. They&#8217;ve also announced quite a few name changes. Longhorn became Windows Vista. Avalon became Windows Presentation Foundation. Indigo became Windows Communication Framework. I don&#8217;t know yet how I feel about the [...]<p>© 2008 Jason Kemp. All Rights Reserved. <a href="http://www.ageektrapped.com/blog">A geek trapped in a cool guy's body</a><br/><br/><a href="http://www.ageektrapped.com/blog/lets-take-back-the-fun/">Let&#8217;s take back the fun.</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Over the past few weeks, Microsoft has provided plenty of juicy, new software for us developers: Vista Beta 1, WinFx Beta 1 RC 1. They&#8217;ve also announced quite a few name changes. Longhorn became Windows Vista. Avalon became Windows Presentation Foundation. Indigo became Windows Communication Framework.
I don&#8217;t know yet how I feel about the name [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>No Best Practices</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Kemp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have expressed my distaste for&#160;dumb expressions before. I was considering deriding those who use &#8220;best practice&#8221; in their conversations with others; since&#160;James Bach has done such a wonderful job, I&#8217;ll just refer you to his post: No Best Practices by James Bach Excellent. © 2008 Jason Kemp. All Rights Reserved. A geek trapped in [...]<p>© 2008 Jason Kemp. All Rights Reserved. <a href="http://www.ageektrapped.com/blog">A geek trapped in a cool guy's body</a><br/><br/><a href="http://www.ageektrapped.com/blog/no-best-practices/">No Best Practices</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I have expressed my distaste for&nbsp;dumb expressions before. I was considering deriding those who use &#8220;best practice&#8221; in their conversations with others; since&nbsp;James Bach has done such a wonderful job, I&#8217;ll just refer you to his post:
No Best Practices by James Bach
Excellent.
© 2008 Jason Kemp. All Rights Reserved. A geek trapped in a cool guy's [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Norton Antivirus is a terrible application.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Kemp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend, my father had a computer problem. Since there&#8217;s a rule about computer nerds being help desk support for everyone they know, he asked me to help him. (To be fair, though, I did build the machine for him. Nor&#160; did I complain: he makes me dinner just about every week, and he&#8217;s my [...]<p>© 2008 Jason Kemp. All Rights Reserved. <a href="http://www.ageektrapped.com/blog">A geek trapped in a cool guy's body</a><br/><br/><a href="http://www.ageektrapped.com/blog/norton-antivirus-is-a-terrible-application/">Norton Antivirus is a terrible application.</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[This weekend, my father had a computer problem. Since there&#8217;s a rule about computer nerds being help desk support for everyone they know, he asked me to help him. (To be fair, though, I did build the machine for him. Nor&nbsp; did I complain: he makes me dinner just about every week, and he&#8217;s my [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>An announcement about MovieTickets.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Kemp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Canada, before every movie, we&#8217;re subjected to really, really lame ads about movietickets.com. Go there if you have to know what they&#8217;re about. Their stupid, STUPID ads repulse me from ever using the damn service. If MovieTickets.com was a person, I&#8217;d kick it in the balls. © 2008 Jason Kemp. All Rights Reserved. A [...]<p>© 2008 Jason Kemp. All Rights Reserved. <a href="http://www.ageektrapped.com/blog">A geek trapped in a cool guy's body</a><br/><br/><a href="http://www.ageektrapped.com/blog/an-announcement-about-movieticketscom/">An announcement about MovieTickets.com</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In Canada, before every movie, we&#8217;re subjected to really, really lame ads about movietickets.com. Go there if you have to know what they&#8217;re about. Their stupid, STUPID ads repulse me from ever using the damn service.
If MovieTickets.com was a person, I&#8217;d kick it in the balls.
© 2008 Jason Kemp. All Rights Reserved. A geek trapped [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Anyone who says &#8220;going forward&#8221; should be beaten.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Kemp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a big George Carlin fan, although he&#8217;s become progressively more crude in lately. His comedy from the early nineties is hilarious. A lot of his material is focused on daily language. Well, if he were computer nerd in the software industry, I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;d freak out on people who use going forward:&#160;a stupid, useless&#160;expression [...]<p>© 2008 Jason Kemp. All Rights Reserved. <a href="http://www.ageektrapped.com/blog">A geek trapped in a cool guy's body</a><br/><br/><a href="http://www.ageektrapped.com/blog/anyone-who-says-going-forward-should-be-beaten/">Anyone who says &#8220;going forward&#8221; should be beaten.</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a big George Carlin fan, although he&#8217;s become progressively more crude in lately. His comedy from the early nineties is hilarious. A lot of his material is focused on daily language. Well, if he were computer nerd in the software industry, I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;d freak out on people who use going forward:&nbsp;a stupid, useless&nbsp;expression [...]]]></content:encoded>
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