Ben Griswold on May 19th, 2008

Resource Refactoring Tool provides developers with a super easy way to extract hard coded strings from your code into resource files. I won’t say this tool has saved me days of time but has certainly saved me hours (especially on those hand-me-down projects which tend to require a good amount of clean up. ) You’ll [...]

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Ben Griswold on February 10th, 2008

This announcement may be yesterday’s news for some, but I just discovered Aaron Lerch’s “Kick It” plugin today and it works like a charm.  If you are using WordPress AND Windows Live Writer is your go-to editor AND your posts tend to be .NET related, give Aaron Lerch’s DotNetKicks “Kick It” Counter Plugin for Windows [...]

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Ben Griswold on November 18th, 2007

This may be yesterday’s news, but if you are looking for a reliable (and free) PDF converter, may I suggest PrimoPDF?  I have been using it for months to convert my Word documents to PDF and it is great.  Here’s a bit more: PrimoPDF is a free tool for high-quality PDF creation, comprising a user-friendly [...]

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Ben Griswold on February 3rd, 2007

Since being turned onto SVN no so long ago, I’ve been looking for hosting.  Per a recommendation spotted here, I picked up an account with SVN Repository about two weeks ago.  So far, it’s been a flawless experience. Here’s what I can tell you:  I purchased their small business plan which gives me 2GB of [...]

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Ben Griswold on October 29th, 2006

What is “Rubber Ducking?” The phrase was made famous by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas in the book The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master.  A book, by the way,  which is required reading for all coders.  In fact, it is time I reread it.  You may already be familiar with this term, but in [...]

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