Archive for May, 2007

The Blog has a New Look

Posted May 26th @ 8:28 pm by aaron

I’ve updated the template for my blog - I’m starting with this, and will be tweaking it over time. Thanks to styleshout for posting some good free templates! It makes a world of difference to me to have a good starting point vs. starting from scratch. Especially in terms of the amount of time it […]

.NET 2.0 WinForms multithreading and a few long days

Posted May 19th @ 12:37 am by aaron

The .NET 2.0 SynchronizationContext class and its prominant children, WindowsFormsSynchronizationContext and AspNetSynchronizationContext (no docs), are used to encapsulate the marshalling of code execution back into an appropriate thread context. In the case of the SynchronizationContext class, it simply posts a job to the ThreadPool because there really isn’t a specific threading context that requires […]

Vista “Quick Launch” Hotkeys

Posted May 17th @ 4:37 pm by aaron

My friend and coworker Chris Hubbard (blog coming soon? it’s here!) showed me a cool Vista feature. I typically keep my Taskbar 2 rows tall. One for my applications, and one for my Quick Launch toolbar. Many people think I’m nuts, since even I can’t always remember what all the icons are, but […]

Interactive Intelligence is the best tech place to work in Indiana

Posted May 7th @ 12:51 pm by aaron

Don’t believe me? We just won an award, so it’s official. Yeah. We came up 7th overall for large companies in Indiana, and 1st for technical companies.
But I honestly do believe it, this is a great company to work for. Here’s some portions of the press release that I believe are relevant. (And […]

Type Extensions

Posted May 7th @ 12:03 pm by aaron

You’d think from all of my posts on PowerShell that I was a system admin, or worked in a job that required a lot of scripting/automation. Well, the second one is partly true, I’m a .NET developer, primarily working on WinForms based applications, soon to include WPF (and hopefully Silverlight!). I think any […]

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