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Joel Forman's Blog: August 2009
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NET and some other stuff. Sunday, August 30, 2009. Italy Day 4: Rome. We did not have a ton planned for our final day in Rome, and it ended up being a nice relaxing day. We went to Galleria Borghese. In the morning. The musuem contains several works of Bernini. Bernini's Apollo and Daphne is remarkable, and we circled back to check it out twice. Just before sunset, we headed out to Piazza del Popolo. Tomorrow we are headed north to the Cinque Terra. Should be fantastic. Italy Day 3: Rome. After leaving t...
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Joel Forman's Blog: July 2009
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NET and some other stuff. Saturday, July 25, 2009. Scheduling or Dispatching Work in Windows Azure. I have been developing applications for the cloud on Windows Azure. Was released last fall at PDC. I just recently upgraded to the latest July CTP. Here is a sample of how I can now implement the "Dispatcher Pattern" using multiple worker role types for an application:. My application needs to perform a background task, such as aggregating different pieces of data, very often. Role" in this case, pulls a m...
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Joel Forman's Blog: September 2009
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NET and some other stuff. Friday, September 11, 2009. Italy Day 14: Rome. Our last day of our trip has us heading back to where we started.Rome. With a 7 AM flight back home the next day, we had one last night to live it up before heading back. We ended up in Campo de Fiore for dinner and had a nice time in the lively square. Stephanie wanted to grab her favorite white chocolate gelato one last time, so we headed to Piazza Navona later for that. Seeing all these great places and the backstreets i...The t...
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Joel Forman's Blog: January 2008
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NET and some other stuff. Sunday, January 13, 2008. Enum To Collection: Make Binding Easy. I prefer storing domain data for applications in an Enum, when that data seldom/rarely changes. In doing so, I find that I need to display this data in the form of a DropDownList in the UI. Through a generic "Enum To Collection" method, and the use of ObjectDataSources, this task is very easy. Here is the generic static method to turn an Enum into a Collection:. Array values = Enum.GetValues( typeof. The naming con...
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Joel Forman's Blog: March 2009
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NET and some other stuff. Monday, March 9, 2009. Silverlight, ADO.NET Data Services, and WCF Services. I knew immediately that I wanted to use Silverlight for the user interface for my new WearMyBracket.com. Website. I wanted a simple, slick UI that would be straight to the point, but still leave folks a little impressed. And I felt that I had just enough UI skills to get this done. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Seattle, WA, United States. View my complete profile. Think Forward Web Design.
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Joel Forman's Blog: June 2010
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NET and some other stuff. Friday, June 4, 2010. My blog has moved! My blog has moved to http:/ joelforman.wordpress.com. If you were following, update to follow me there. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Seattle, WA, United States. The Slalom Cloud Solutions blog brings Slalom Consulting's Cloud Community together to discuss the latest developments in the Cloud. View my complete profile. Think Forward Web Design. My blog has moved!
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Joel Forman's Blog: February 2009
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NET and some other stuff. Monday, February 23, 2009. If you know me, then you probably have participated in, or at least about http:/ www.finalforman.net. The site started out as a way to expand a college March Madness pool back in 2001. Today it is a fun way to keep in touch with a lot of people, and enjoy the month of March. After getting denied for tickets for the opening rounds in Boise this year, a large group of us decided to head to Las Vegas instead. Blessing in disguise, maybe? But all of those ...
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Joel Forman's Blog: Italy Day 13: Orvieto
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NET and some other stuff. Friday, September 11, 2009. Italy Day 13: Orvieto. We left Florence and took a train to Orvieto. The town is located in Umbria, in the heart of wine country. We planned to explore a bit of the town of Orvieto, known for wine and olive oil, in the early afternoon before headed to a nearby winery to stay the night. We visted the old part of town of Orvieto. We then headed to our winery, Locanda Palazzone. We relaxed and swam in the pool, walked around the grounds, and had an imima...
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Joel Forman's Blog: Italy Day 11 and 12: Florence
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NET and some other stuff. Thursday, September 10, 2009. Italy Day 11 and 12: Florence. We left Venice on a Sunday morning and arrived in Florence. A couple hours later. Our first reaction when we got to Florence."Whoa.Cars". We had spent the last week in two cities that basically had none:. The Cinque Terre and Venice. Back to reality with speeding cars and motorcycles everywhere in downtown Florence was a trip back to reality a bit. We had reservations at the Uffizi Gallery. And enjoyed some amazing vie...