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Subtext to WordPress: Converting blog engines

27 February 2008

I think my mom is my only constant reader, but if you used to read jasonkemp.ca when I was writing it more frequently than the last year and a half, you’ll notice a few changes in appearance that only scratch the surface of the changes that I’ve made.
I moved hosts; I moved OSes; and I [...] Read more »

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A Fast Equals() - Remember to Always Measure

8 May 2007

For years, I thought I had the one, true answer to Equals() from seeing something in some MSDN article a long, long time ago - like 2002 or 2003. Or maybe it was on Brad’s or Krystof’s blog and freaked out because I wasn’t doing it. Whatever the case, I’d make sure to point out [...] Read more »

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Using the Command Pattern in Windows Forms clients

17 May 2006

I’ve been doing a lot of research with the Command pattern lately at work. Here’s what I found: You’re doing yourself a disservice – and your team – if you don’t play the hell outta this thing!
It’s a very powerful design for non-trivial Windows Forms clients. What’s non-trivial? Anything that uses a menu, toolbar or [...] Read more »

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PowerShell profile folder is different than Monad

30 April 2006

This week, Microsoft announced Monad’s product name, PowerShell, as well as releasing an RC1 release (The very good user guide can be found here). There are quite a few changes that you can read about on their new blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell. While I think Monad is just fine for a name, I like PowerShell, too. It’s [...] Read more »

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MSBuild Resources

8 April 2006

I promised this post for the talk I gave at the Victoria .NET Developers Association Code Camp. This post is a bunch of pointers to good stuff about MSBuild that I collected for my talk.

Introduction to MSBuild – this is a great introductory article on MSBuild, which covers the main points of my talk very [...] Read more »

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