October 2005 - Posts
Here is the latest list of appliances we have settled upon for the new kitchen Refrigerator: Whirlpool GS6NBEXR in Satina. Main criteria: quality, look, and price. Purchased from Lowes. Cooktop: Kitchenaid KECD866RBL in Black. Main criteria: downdraft
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Subflooring A couple weekends back, my father in law and I put down a second layer of 5/8" tongue and groove fir subflooring plywood over the majority of the second floor. I had previously prepped the floor by hammering down all the protuding nails,
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I was surprised I got the questions correct, as I tended to get only the odd questions correct in my homework when I was in 8th grade ;-) You Passed 8th Grade Math Congratulations, you got 10/10 correct! Could You Pass 8th Grade Math?
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As part of my renovation , I'm getting ready to purchase a double wall oven. I figured I'd check out a few of the high-end models to see what they have above and beyond the usual consumer items like Whirlpool and Kitchenaid . The first site I hit was
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I mentioned Parts I and II of Chuck Jazdzewski's excellent A Tour of XAML here . A tour of XAML Part III is now available .
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A new version of Acrylic is now available . Microsoft Expression "Acrylic Graphic Designer" (code name) is a professional illustration, painting, and graphic design product. Visit the Acrylic Graphic Designer Features page for an overview of the main
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The last couple days of the PDC were spent single-tracking through the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF, formerly known as Avalon) and Microsoft Expression sessions. Later in the evening on Thursday, I spent a good chunk of time with Ian Ellison-Taylor
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MSDN Magazine online has a "Wicked Code" article on Asynchronous Pages in ASP.NET 2.0 . This is very cool, and promises to help us eek out that next bit of scalability from our large scale web applications. There's even a bit of helpful information for
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Dinesh has posted some sample DLinq code in his blog. I can't help but get a little excited whenever I see the line between persistent data and their design time class and runtime object representations blurred a bit further. Just over a week ago, we
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Introduction to the Model/View/ViewModel Pattern for Building WPF Apps Model/View/ViewModel is a variation of Model/View/Controller (MVC) that is tailored for modern UI development platforms where the View is the responsibility of a designer rather than
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Today I finally got around to removing a chunk of the wall between the dining room/kitchen and the living room. This was the first major step in our kitchen and overall renovation . For reference, here's the target elevation drawing which also shows
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On Wednesday 10/5 I sat around in the office at the Anne Arundel County Maryland Department of Licenses and Permits down in Annapolis. The permit process was pretty painless, but the wait was three hours. I needed a building permit for the following changes
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