Monthly Archives: March 2011

Paper.li – Read twitter/facebook like a daily newspaper

It takes a long time to catch up when I fall behind on twitter. Not anymore. I started using Paper.li to gather all the urls that are tweeted in a day into one consolidated view that looks like a newspaper. See image. I simply navigated to http://paper.li to sign up, and entered my twitter id […]

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Intro to MongoDb slides and audio from CTXDNUG, March 2011

I presented an updated version of my Introduction to MongoDb talk at the Central Texas .NET User Group back in March. I incorporated a lot of what I leaned from the MongoAustin conference. The target audience is technical people (developers) who have experience with relational databases, but have never looked at MongoDb before. It covers […]

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Extension: ToPrintableString() dynamically print an object and its properties

Have you ever wanted to print out an object and all its property values to a log file or an error message? Have you overridden the ToString() method on all your objects to do this? If you have, you know how tedious it can be, and you will really appreciate this method. What does it […]

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