Posted by Kevin Pang on 6/25/2008 | Comment Comments (3) | Tags:
I found out today that there is a little-known feature that lets you filter the DZone RSS feed.  For example, if you want to filter the feed to only receive top posts for the week, you simply add a "range" parameter to the feed: http://www.dzone.com/links/feed/frontpage/rss.xml... [More]

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Posted by Kevin Pang on 6/22/2008 | Comment Comments (0) | Tags:
Last Christmas one of my coworkers bought everybody on the development team and sales tearm Nerf guns.  It's been surprisingly peaceful so far; they've only been used for firing at targets and performing drill excercises.  However, I fear it's only a matter of time before the... [More]

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Posted by Kevin Pang on 6/22/2008 | Comment Comments (34) | Tags:
There once was a time when men looked good.  We dressed well, groomed regularly, and took pride in it.  It wasn't so long ago that suits, vests, and fedoras dotted the metropolitan landscape.  We styled our hair, shined our shoes, had straight razor shaves, and invested in signa... [More]

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Posted by Kevin Pang on 6/20/2008 | Comment Comments (8) | Tags:
After unpublishing a post that I had accidentally published I noticed that my blog was throwing object reference not found exceptions all over the place.  It turns out the Most Popular Posts Extension I installed has a minor bug in how it handles unpublished and deleted posts that were publis... [More]

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Posted by Kevin Pang on 6/18/2008 | Comment Comments (4) | Tags: ,
Let me preface this by saying that I am pretty biased towards SubSonic.  When I first stumbled across the open source project it was the first ORM that I had ever seen, and to this day I think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. "Having strong typed access to my database w... [More]

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Posted by Kevin Pang on 6/17/2008 | Comment Comments (8) | Tags: , ,
I recently stumbled across Billy McCafferty's new open source project, S#arp Architecture, and I must say that I am quite impressed.  From the S#arp Architecture project description: Pronounced "Sharp Architecture," this is a solid architectural foundation for rapidly ... [More]

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Posted by Kevin Pang on 6/10/2008 | Comment Comments (0) | Tags:
I think the following Penny Arcade comic pretty much sums up my feelings on Twitter: It's not that I don't "get it".  I completely understand the value of a microblogging service when used correctly for things like live coverage of events and quick answers to ques... [More]

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Posted by Kevin Pang on 6/10/2008 | Comment Comments (2) | Tags:
I've been debating for awhile now about what my first post on my development blog should be.  Should I write a brief intro about myself?  Describe some of the projects that I'm working on?  Talk about some of the technology I'm interested in?  After a few months of ... [More]

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