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For a while I have been wanting to keep a blog of hard lessons I've learned along the way; sort of a braindump, something I can come back to when I need to know it again. These are some recent lessons, compiled from notes I've kept over the last six months or so.

I finally got them on my website. I hope you are able to benefit from them.

Monday
27Jul2009

XML and all his buddies

XML can be a very powerful tool in a developer's arsenal.Add in XML's good buddies XSL, XSLT, XPath, and XDocument and you have an army of awesome on your side.

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Monday
27Jul2009

Lambda Expression Q&A

As I work with lambda expressions in C#.NET 3.5 I have questions and I find answers. I present them here in the hopes my brow sweat means less work for you.

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Monday
27Jul2009

The SQL Pivot Command and Common Table Expressions

In SQL Server 2005/2008 a new command called PIVOT can be used with Common Table Expressions to easily create data sets for cross-tab reports.

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Thursday
23Jul2009

WP-Cumulus for SquareSpace

Roy Tanck wrote an impressive tag cloud for his WordPress site and it was so popular he made the code open source and allowed people to reverse engineer it for their needs. This is my version for the popular blogsite SquareSpace.

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Thursday
23Jul2009

Pop3 coding in C#

This is a Pop3 utility class I have written to access a mailbox.

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