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October 2006 - Posts

Google Trends - C# vs VB.NET

So at last the debate is set to rest! C# is in fact better than VB.NET. Well ok, maybe not better, but definitely more popular. Google released a new tool called Google Trends in May this year. Somehow it managed to slip under my radar until last week. Read More...
Posted Friday, October 13, 2006 8:54 PM by jonathanparker | 0 Comments
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Why IE7 sucks

I've been using IE7 for a while now. Mostly because it's installed on my work computer and I don't want to uninstall it because it will probably stuff up IE6 etc. Anyway one of the things I do all day is search on websites for information about the problems Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 12, 2006 7:58 PM by jonathanparker | 1 Comments
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Hit 100 podcasts downloaded. But that's not all...

Just this week I hit 100 podcast downloads in iTunes. Of course that's not all. I also have the archive of 173 .NET Rocks! podcasts that I downloaded before the iTunes podcast directory was around. These total around 8.5GB! And that doesn't include the Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 07, 2006 5:12 AM by jonathanparker | 0 Comments
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VIM Plugin for Visual Studio

Don't get me wrong I love Visual Studio but when it comes to just simple code editing I think VS could do a lot better. For example. Cutting and pasting code is difficult to do with the keyboard. There are shortcuts like CTRL+L for deleting a line etc, Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 05, 2006 5:44 AM by jonathanparker | 0 Comments

To install or not to install? That is the question.

iTunes has been bugging me for a while now about upgrading to version 7. Finally I came to accept that I needed to make a decision. So I did a little research and found version 7 was not all that great according to Dan Sandler . However I've been playing Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 03, 2006 3:32 AM by jonathanparker | 0 Comments
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