Items Tagged "developer"

XNA 3D Primer Published – Get a free copy!

In June of 2006 I officially became a professional author when ASP.NET Pro published my article “Google Can You Hear Me?”. (So eager was I to be ...

Posted By Mike On Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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Critical Thinking and Dissent is a Requirement

So the fires continue to burn, as Joel Spolsky’s internet access hasn’t been disconnected. For someone who is supposed to be an idiot and irrelevant, ...

Posted By Mike On Thursday, October 08, 2009
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Being a Duct Tape Programmer

Things I’ve said in a session before: “Friends don’t let friends ORM” “ORM is a pattern, not a framework” “I like typed datasets, and I cannot lie” It’s ...

Posted By Mike On Thursday, September 24, 2009
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The Naked Truth of Knoxville GiveCamp 2009

This past weekend was a blowout of charity coding – Ann Arbor MI, Columbus OH, and Knoxville TN all had GiveCamp teams. Nathan Blevins was the lead ...

Posted By Mike On Wednesday, July 22, 2009
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Getting a Recursive FTP File List in .Net

Even though it’s 2009, there are still some dark areas of the internet that haven’t been upgraded to modern standards. FTP is one of them. FTP is ...

Posted By Mike On Monday, May 04, 2009
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An SEO and Usability look at ViNull.com

At the start of this year, I changed the design of ViNull.com. I was tired of the old design, but I also felt the old design was bad on usability. ...

Posted By Mike On Tuesday, April 28, 2009
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You should be using Balsamiq Mockups

I’ve heard many people rave about Balsamiq Mockups, an Adobe AIR app that helps design user interfaces, but until today I had never looked into using it ...

Posted By Mike On Thursday, April 09, 2009
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Game Development going Agile

Game review site Giant Bomb has a great article about Mass Effect 2’s development process. The article is written by one of the review staff, who ...

Posted By Mike On Saturday, March 28, 2009
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TeamCity.CodeBetter.com, A continuous integration server farm for open source projects

CodeBetter – in collaboration with JetBrains, IdeaVine, and Devlicio.us – is proud to announce the launch of TeamCity.CodeBetter.com – a continuous integration ...

Posted By Mike On Tuesday, February 24, 2009
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Avoiding the Anti-Interview

Right now I’m betting a number of you are thinking about interviews. Either you are actively looking, or fear you might be soon; this isn’t a stable ...

Posted By Mike On Monday, January 19, 2009
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Finding the difference between two Arrays, or un-LINQ-ing your code

LINQ is great, up to the point when it's not. Then it's really not great at all. When we trade simplicity of syntax for performance, we have ...

Posted By Mike On Friday, October 03, 2008
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Session, ForEach, and a ShallowCopy walk into a bar...

Before we get started, let's play "questions you only hear during an interview." Are the contestants ready? Good, here is the question: ...

Posted By Mike On Monday, April 14, 2008
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Designed for transport

Most, if not all of the food packaging at our local grocery store was designed for transport. Chip bags include large volumes of air so the chips aren't ...

Posted By Mike On Tuesday, April 08, 2008
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Can you handle power?

As a developer, can you handle power? Are you able to cope with choice? If tasked with a project, right now, can you list 3 or more ways to implement the ...

Posted By Mike On Monday, April 07, 2008
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I think I'm MAIN.NET...

Over the past year, an "ALT.NET movement" has sprung up. They have a wiki meetings. When it started out, it sounded like a good idea. ...

Posted By Mike On Friday, April 04, 2008
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ASP.NET: Things I've Learned

I've learned that web.config will inherit across applications on the same site. I've learned that this is true, even if the child application is a virtual ...

Posted By Mike On Friday, March 21, 2008
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.Net routine file IO best practice

File IO has shaped the computer industry more than any other technology. Doubt me? Consider that in 1978 AT&T decided to no longer share ...

Posted By Mike On Friday, January 25, 2008
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ASP.NET: Working with the Event Log

Some developers have system administrators and never log into a server. Most of us are the system administrators (regardless of how qualified we ...

Posted By Mike On Tuesday, October 16, 2007
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Linking, linking, linking... VS Addin Linking... Rawhide!

With everyone excited over VS 2008, I figure this might be a good time to give some link love to VS 2005 Addins. Web Deployment Projects - Somewhere in ...

Posted By Mike On Monday, August 06, 2007
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.Net Links, all Shiny and New

You know that VS 2008 (aka Orcas) just hit Beta 2 right? No? Well, in that case, this link roundup will help you get with the times! Download ...

Posted By Mike On Monday, July 30, 2007
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.Net Link Roundup

I'm going to steal the link roundup post idea from the blogoshpere for my very own. I plan on doing this weekly, but it may not be the same day every ...

Posted By Mike On Monday, July 16, 2007
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Scratch: Programming for Kids

I am fully willing to admit coding Choose Your Own Adventure books in BASIC is not as appealing to most kids as it was to me. So leave it to the ...

Posted By Mike On Saturday, May 19, 2007
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Refactor! for ASP.NET

Refactor! for ASP.NET is a free Visual Studio 2005 plugin that adds a collection of refactoring tools to your IDE. Mark Miller has a great run down ...

Posted By Mike On Tuesday, May 08, 2007
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public long Strange() { return trip; }

In my life as a programmer, spanning almost 20 years since my BASIC adventures on a Tandy 1000EX, I have worked in either Microsoft languages or OpenSource. ...

Posted By Mike On Friday, April 13, 2007
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Why Web 2.0 Design Could Cost You 75% of the Market

In many ways, the Web is still the wild west. This may never change, the low - almost zero - cost to enter the web breaks down many startup barriers that ...

Posted By Mike On Monday, December 18, 2006
Filed under seo design developer web2.0 | Comments (5)

.NET pays the bills

CNN is running a story on the top jobs to have right now. What is interesting is the responses on slashdot to the fact the .NET is in high demand.First, ...

Posted By Mike On Saturday, February 04, 2006
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About Me

Michael C. Neel, born 1976 in Houston, TX and now live in Knoxvile, TN. Software developer, currently .Net focused. Board member and President of ETNUG, and organizes CodeStock, East Tennessee's annual developers conference. .Net speaker, a Microsoft ASP.NET MVP and ASPInsider. Founder of FuncWorks, LLC and Feel The Func podcast.

Proud father of two amazing girls, Rachel and Hannah.

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