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A pet project I’ve been working on (on and off, time permitting) has been in need of some serious refactoring, so I finally sat down to eliminate some redundancy, and work on some design pattern work. A common problem in software design is making sure base class implementation is always called from overrides, but also deferring finer grained details to subclasses without changing the base class implementation, without having to always specify base.<implementation> in every single override in...

Time to fire this site back up after sporadic posting over the past couple of years. I’m back in Charlotte after my tenure in NYC, and am happy to be back home with my friends and family. I’ve also made my (re)debut into the IT realm after completing my studies at Columbia University. Coding for me is like riding a bike, and I feel as comfortable as ever sitting behind the wheel of Visual Studio, and I’m also ramping up on Sharepoint 2010 (it’s a different beast than MOSS 2007). Outside of Microsoft...

Microsoft is having an MSDN event here in Charlotte on the 16th of August with topics on Silverlight, LINQ and WCF, all of which are pretty exciting technologies coming down the pipe for the Visual Studio 2008/.Net Framework 3.5 release later this year. I know I'm pretty excited about them! Our group at Skanska has been given the thumbs up to attend, so if any readers will be in attendance feel free to drop me a line and perhaps we can meet up for some lunch beforehand. In other news... The first...

I've got a pretty firm grasp on generics such as when to use them, why they are useful, etc. I'm with the rest of the .Net camp when I echo how extremely useful they are. I've also learned that if you're fighting the compiler on generics for more than a few minutes, there is a reason as to why what you are doing is wrong. The above held true until earlier today when I was left scratching my head over some code that IMO should have compiled just fine. Nothing explains coding problems...

Got home from work today and found a pleasant surprise waiting for me: My copy of Professional Community Server arrived today! First thing to do is snap a shot of me with said book and send it over to Jose to be posted on ProfessionalCommunityServer.com . Then it'll take a tour around the country (and possibly England and Iran as well) to be signed by as many Telligenti/MVPs as possible. Cheesy? Perhaps. But in all seriousness, having been involved with CS since the early early betas, and then getting...