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S3 Browser for Windows Live Writer

Posted March 10th @ 9:25 pm by aaron

Tim Heuer announced today the release of “S3 Browser”, a plug-in for Windows Live Writer that enables easy inserting of links or images from your S3 storage. See his announcement on his blog, and on the Code Trip’s blog.
Like Tim, I’ve been using S3 to host my images for the blog, and I wholeheartedly agree […]

Unifying Web "Sites" and Web Services with the ASP.NET MVC Framework

Posted January 1st @ 11:10 pm by aaron

(For those who’d rather just download the code, the link is at the end.)
Lately I’ve been delving into the ASP.NET MVC framework, the timing of which has been interesting as I am about to finish reading RESTful Web Services by Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby. It’s an excellent book that I’d highly recommend to anybody […]

DotNetKicks "Kick It" Counter Plugin for Windows Live Writer

Posted October 21st @ 7:53 pm by aaron

Some people write pretty quality .NET-related blog posts every time. You know, stuff worth posting and kicking on DotNetKicks. Then there’s people, like me, who obscure the occasional “good” post with a mountain of crap. If you don’t know what DotNetKicks is, I encourage you to check it out. It’s a great community-edited feed of […]

Symbol Server Transaction Manager

Posted September 1st @ 12:43 am by aaron

Part of the recent Mastering .NET Debugging course I took covered setting up and using Microsoft’s Symbol Server technology - something that’s been around for a while, but yet many people don’t do it. While it’s incredibly useful to have a symbol server set up to contain operating system symbols (the LAN is faster than […]

Has Scott Hanselman "Jumped the Shark"?

Posted August 26th @ 3:48 pm by aaron

Scott Hanselman has posted his annual “Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows“. This list consistently rocks every year! I can honestly say that incorporating much of what’s on the list has changed my development life for the better. Go check it out right now.
If you read Scott’s blog via Google Reader, like […]

Using Synergy to Link Computers

Posted August 16th @ 5:02 pm by aaron

If you haven’t heard of the open-source project called Synergy, and use more than one computer side-by-side, you need to check it out. In a nutshell, it unifies individual (and often disparate) computers; connecting monitors, keyboards, mice, and “clipboards” via the network.
It claims to support practically any version of Windows (from 95 to XP, […]

Hawkeye

Posted August 31st @ 12:24 pm by aaron

I just installed Hawkeye, and I’m pretty impressed!
What is Hawkeye? From the website:
“Hawkeye is the only .Net tool that allows you to view, edit, analyze and invoke (almost) any object from a .Net application. Whenever you try to debug, test, change or understand an application, Hawkeye can help.”
I haven’t put it through any sort of […]

IDesign

Posted August 22nd @ 4:32 pm by aaron

I’m sure that this is a well known resource to all by now, but in case someone out there doesn’t know, IDesign has some fantastic free downloads of code/design samples for C#/WCF.

Format your source!

Posted September 26th @ 2:27 pm by aaron

http://www.manoli.net/csharpformat/
I’ll be using this in the (near) future to post source code!
Thanks for putting this out there!

I’ve got one word for you.

Posted March 31st @ 11:47 pm by aaron

ORB.
It’s now free! (I learned this via Mike Hall)
I installed this last night, and have already spent the entire day today streaming my music library to my work PC to enjoy some tunes while I work. It’s pretty slick! I streamed videos, checked out some pictures, and oh yeah, did some work.
Check it […]

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