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Flickr.Net Introduction in Spanish

Discovered a copy of my Flickr.Net beginners article in spanish portuguese on the Brasil microsoft web site today. How cool is that. Execução de Flickr com .NET: Sam Judson BT Edit: OK, so Brazilians speak portuguese, but it is available … Continue reading

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Flickr.Net included in Mono source

Thanks to Nick (heatxsink) the Flickr.Net source code in now included in the latest Mono source code. That means anyone using the latest version of mono will be able to use the Flickr.Net library to interogate Flickr. Wow, its a … Continue reading

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Flickr Mashups Book

Beginning Flickr Mashups, the book I worked on as Technical Editor last year is finally available for publishing. It covers a wide variety of Flickr Mashups including mixing Flickr with RSS, Technorati and Google Maps. Most of the code uses … Continue reading

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Lots of Something You Should Know…

I keep my eye on http://blogs.msn.com every so often, and one of the blogs (who has long ago been added to my blogroll) that has continually produced posts of immediate relevance to me (as  a .Net developer) is Irena Kennedy’s … Continue reading

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How times change…

How times change – the following is taken from some installation notes dating only back to around 2000: “Depending on the features installed on your host server, the e-Work web update could be as large as 20 MB in size. … Continue reading

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Flickr Uploadr for Mobile Devices

OK, I’ve written a Flickr Uploader using the .Net Compact Framework 2.0 (SP1). http://www.wackylabs.net/download.php?file=FlickrUploadCF.CAB I don’t actually have a pocket PC or similar device so if you have any success, or problems then let me know. You can download the … Continue reading

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Invalid Use of Default Parameter

For some unknown reason I’m connecting to a Oracle 10g database via ODBC (from .Net! don’t ask). I was adding some new code to a existing project which I’d manage to get to use IDataReader and such so that if one day I … Continue reading

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Implement “Donut Caching” with the ASP.NET 2.0 Output Cache Substitution Feature

  Scott Guthrie has produced yet another brilliant blog post on a new feature in ASP.Net. To be frank I never used the old ASP.Net 1.1 caching (bad me!) but I fully intent to use this new feature as soon … Continue reading

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Timers and Threads in .Net

I recently came across the following ‘gotcha’ which once you know about it seems really obvious, but was driving me up the wall. Side Note: Timers in .Net In Visual Studio 2003 there are 2 timers availabe from the toolbox, … Continue reading

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Big Developer Announcements from Microsoft

Tim Heuer was the first I’ve spotted of what I’m sure will be quite a few announcements about the final release of .Net Framework 3.0. Apparently they’ve also released a small product call ‘Office 2007′ to go along with  the .Net Framework, but … Continue reading

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