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Archive for January 2005

Tablet PC Capstone Course

Posted on January 23, 2005, 6:20 PM, by Mark A. Richman, under Uncategorized.

The University of Washington is now offerring a Tablet PC Capstone course in its Computer Science and Engineering Department. The prescribed text is the Jarret & Su book, Building Tablet PC Applications.

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Online Consulting and Value-Based Fees

Posted on January 7, 2005, 2:57 PM, by Mark A. Richman, under Uncategorized.

Conrad Agramont and I debate the “online consulting” model and value-based fees:
http://weblogs.asp.net/conrad/archive/2005/01/06/348180.aspx

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Arbitrary Object Serialization/Deserialization

Posted on January 6, 2005, 10:10 AM, by Mark A. Richman, under Uncategorized.

I frequently need to store and retrieve object state. I’ve found the .NET Framework’s XmlSerializer invaluable in this capacity. To make my life even easier, I’ve come up with a pair of functions that serialize and deserialize an arbitrary object to an XML file.
I’ve stripped out comments, exception handling, etc. for brevity’s sake.
public void Serialize(object [...]

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Want a GMail Account?

Posted on January 6, 2005, 10:03 AM, by Mark A. Richman, under Uncategorized.

I have four (4) GMail invitations left. Drop me a line if you would like to be considered for one.

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