Posted by: Rhonda Tipton | July 4, 2009

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Everyone have a Safe & Happy 4th of July holiday.

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Posted by: Rhonda Tipton | June 21, 2009

Weekly Link Post 99

This is is my weekly link post.  It is here that I note the web sites and posts that I have run across that interest me – whether it be related to work or play.

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Posted by: Rhonda Tipton | June 15, 2009

Weekly Link Post 98

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Posted by: Rhonda Tipton | June 7, 2009

Weekly Link Post 97

This is is my weekly link post.  It is here that I note the web sites and posts that I have run across that interest me – whether it be related to work or play.

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Posted by: Rhonda Tipton | June 7, 2009

Stripping the Decimal From a Value in .NET

I am working on a project in which the final output is an EDI file that is translated into claims by the state. I had an issue in which I needed to strip the decimal point from both amount and diagnosis code fields. They also need to be right justified and padded with zeroes. (ie, 123.98 = 00012398)

Coming from a Visual FoxPro background, I knew how to do this in that language, but not in C#. I was able to accomplish my task by using the Replace and PadLeft methods which can be found in String Class.

The Code

The Result

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Until later…

Posted by: Rhonda Tipton | May 31, 2009

Weekly Link Post 96

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Posted by: Rhonda Tipton | May 31, 2009

Austin Code Camp 2009

Yesterday I attended Austin Code Camp 2009. As always it was a great event and you can’t beat the price. There were several great one and two hour sessions to choose from.  Of course, there was the issue of everyone wanting to attend the same session, so it did get rather crowded at times -or- you had to sit in on a session you were not planning for.  Even with that, it was a good day of learning.

Below are the sessions that I attended.

Sneak peek at C# 4.0Jimmy Bogard

There were 50+ in attendance, with several people standing. Looked to be a pretty popular session.

New items in C# 4.0 include

  • Dynamic
  • Named and Optional Parameters
  • Generic Variance

SQL Server Reporting Services: Report Creation and DeploymentAnil Desai

There were about 20 in attendance. I was able to see this presenter last year and he is a great and knowledgeable presenter.

The process of setting up SQL Server Reporting Services was discussed as well as the creation and deployment of the reports. Anil demonstrated creating reports in both the Report Designer and Visual Studio.

Applying Refactoring techniques to prune the legacy code — Mahendra Mavani

There were about 6 in attendance. 

Most of the other attendees were in the Enterprise Architecture Patterns: Presentation, Business Logic, and Persistence session.

Building Business Applications with Silverlight 3.0Todd Anglin

Another pretty crowded session.

Todd did a great job in presenting on the great things that can be done using Silverlight.

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All in all, the Austin Code Camp was a great day of learning and I will be there again next year.

Posted by: Rhonda Tipton | May 25, 2009

Weekly Link Post 95

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Posted by: Rhonda Tipton | May 17, 2009

Weekly Link Post 94

This is is my weekly link post.  It is here that I note the web sites and posts that I have run across that interest me – whether it be related to work or play.

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Posted by: Rhonda Tipton | May 17, 2009

Twitter Services That Are Useful To Me

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Twitter is a social networking service that can be useful to just about anyone if it is used properly.  Even if you don’t want to interact with anyone (which is a major aspect), you can utilize Twitter in other ways. There are several services or bots that you can follow that perform all kinds of functions.  I have listed some of the services that I have used, currently use and would like to use.

News Services

BreakingNewsOn – Good breaking news service
breakingtweets – Good breaking news service
Twitter_Tips – Great tips and tricks for using Twitter
evernote – News, tips and tricks for my favorite note-taking software
googlemaps – News, tips and tricks for Google Maps
google – News, tips and tricks for Google
wordpressdotcom – News, tips and tricks for the WordPress blog platform
echoalert – News and podcast for fans of the series Dollhouse
heroespodcast – News and podcast for fans of the series Heroes

Bots and Tools

trackthis – Very cool service in which you can Direct Message a tracking number.  It will DM you back each time the tracking timeline is updated. I tested this with a UPS package and it worked flawlessly
stackalert – Great service for developers. Interacts with Stackoverflow.com
myen – I like this service so much that I wrote a blog post on it recently. Interacts with Evernote.
timer – Reminder service. Direct message with “45 Call Bob”  and in 45 min you will get a reminder to call Bob. (This service works ok, not quite as well as I had hoped)

Note: Have not tried the following as they have not followed me back, which is required to make the service work. They sound interesting.

gCal – Enables you to add events to your Google Calendar via Twitter
Tipr – Allows you to Direct Message an amount and the percentage you want to tip and it replies to you with the tip amount.
forecast – Allows you to Direct Message a zip code and it replies back with the forecast for that area.

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Until later….

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