Filtering for Jobs

This is a method I have used when searching for jobs in previous years that I also found was a good technique for keeping your eye on the local job market when not looking for jobs, which has plenty advantages as well. Essentially this technique is to filter various job posting sites that deliver content via RSS then subscribe to those RSS feeds. In this way can have an ongoing view of job information that you care about.

March 27, 2011 Read
T4 Transformations for ASP.NET paths

T4 is an engine built into Visual Studio for code generation. It has been around since VS 2005 and I have been playing with it for a while. In the past I used it to generate unit tests just after compile time that used the templates and reflection to automatically test a particularly nasty DB persistence layer for one of our company’s products. It ended up uncovering about 4000 inconsistencies and potential bugs.

February 16, 2011 Read
Notifio - Free and easy mail notifications for your iPhone

If you are moving from the blackberry to the iPhone, or just a new iPhone user, you may be disappointed to know that the only real mail notification for the iPhone is the ‘ding’ that you here whenever it comes in. Whereas on the blackberry you get a small flashing light on the top of your phone, and in some models you can customize the color based on the person that sent the email.

February 12, 2011 Read
BizTalk - Importing Bindings with Many Password

If you ever spend much time exporting and importing apps in BizTalk you will quickly learn that doing so does not copy the passwords of your locations, ftp and otherwise along with it. My currently client’s environment uses copious amounts of ftp locations, too many probably, though that is a different story. However I find myself spending too much time copying the passwords to the new environment every time I import an app.

February 6, 2011 Read