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The seventh race was at Evergreen High School, which is down in Burien. This usually tends to be a pretty fun course and is pretty spectator friendly. For people racing, the only big thing is a decent (in comparison to the other courses in the series) run up.
I’ve decided to put on […]

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So… this is *super* lame.
I signed up for Skype back in February. I haven’t really had much need to use it, but I may here in the near future.
Back in Feb, I decided to buy $10 of credit just so i could do SkypeOut and such.
Well, upon finding my credit balance at $0.00 […]

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It’s time for another script to put out. This time I thought I’d be fun to see what I could do in an hour, sort of a code jam style effort.
Google Base was released last week so I thought I’d write up a little syncer script that you could just shuffle items into a […]

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Bill Venners: What’s the DRY principle?
Dave Thomas: Don’t Repeat Yourself (or DRY) is probably one of the most misunderstood parts of the book.
Bill Venners: How is DRY misunderstood and what is the correct way to understand it?
Dave Thomas: Most people take DRY to mean you shouldn’t duplicate code. That’s not its intention. […]

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Well that’s right. It’s the week before Thanksgiving and I’ve got 4,211 miles logged for the year.
I verbalized a goal of 5,000 during the 2004 year that I just didn’t make (3,472). With that I figured I’d shoot for it this year but not really saying it as an “official” goal.
With 6 […]

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You’d want to do more than just cycle through the keys in the core method of course, and I do but I’ve cut that bit out and just left the juicy bits.
I’m a big fan of wrapping.

public string GetFullNameForFoo() {
return GetFooData( new string [] {”firstName”, “lastName”} );
}

public string GetUserNameForFoo() {
[…]

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Out of curiousity, I thought I’d see if you could buy caffeine in powder form. Turns out you most definitely can.
“100% Pure White Crystalline Powder Caffeine. This Caffeine is a cut above the rest being of absolute pure quality. Directions: Add 1/16 Teaspoon (105 mg.) caffeine powder to juice or soft drinks. Our […]

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I’ve known about Synergy for awhle, but I haven’t had a real need to get it up and running, until recently.
A bit on what synergy is:

synergy: [noun] a mutually advantageous conjunction of distinct elements
Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, […]

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If you’re the kind of developer who enjoys not using the debugger, and rather appreciates the use of logging statements, here’s a solution path to consider.
When you’re wanting to write things out to your page, you can use Response.Write. However if you’re deep into a class that doesn’t subclass Page you’re sort of stuck. […]

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It’s looking like Microsoft is shifting directions.
Gates:

We will build our strategies around Internet services and we will provide a broad set of service APIs and use them in all of our key applications.
This coming “services wave” will be very disruptive. We have competitors who will seize on these approaches and challenge us – still, the […]

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