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 […]
Archive for May, 2007
.NET 2.0 WinForms multithreading and a few long days
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
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
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
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 […]

