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		<title>Dialog boxes can be evil</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 16:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Believe it or not, there&#8217;s a common yet useless dialog in Windows XP: I&#8217;ve never seen it work, and I don&#8217;t know anyone who has. If you want to get rid of this annoyance, a quick and easy registry hack exists to make your life easier. Using regedit or your favorite registry editor, navigate to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigtunatim.wordpress.com&amp;blog=778086&amp;post=80&amp;subd=bigtunatim&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the files of the &#8220;never stop learning&#8221; department comes a cautionary lesson in performance, courtesy of this blogger. Often times when you&#8217;re comparing strings you want to eliminate case differences from consideration. Some people use ToUpper(), some use ToLower(), and both are equally valid for that goal. So what&#8217;s wrong with the following code [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigtunatim.wordpress.com&amp;blog=778086&amp;post=79&amp;subd=bigtunatim&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Foundations of Programming IV</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Karl&#8217;s back with part 4 of the series. Today we learn all about the evils of coupling and we&#8217;re introduced to Dependency Injection &#8211; the slayer of improper coupling.  Proper use of DI allows for cleaner separation of responsibilities which, in turn, creates more resilient and less brittle code. Most importantly it makes unit testing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigtunatim.wordpress.com&amp;blog=778086&amp;post=75&amp;subd=bigtunatim&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Foundations of Programming III</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part 3 of Karl Seguin&#8217;s Foundations of Programming series is now online. This time it&#8217;s all about persistence, mapping between object graphs and relational databases (O/R Mapping), and impedance mismatch.  Read, learn, and never again get bogged down in stored procedure-based hell! Share this post: digg it &#124; Email it &#124;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigtunatim.wordpress.com&amp;blog=778086&amp;post=74&amp;subd=bigtunatim&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
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