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• Sometimes you just have to burn one

  Why I moved my blog's RSS feed to FeedBurner: real subscriber stats, less bandwidth strain, and a feed URL that survives moving your blog.

  Donn Felker – December 30, 2008

• Beginning Programming Audio: ASIO4ALL Is Picky

  Fixing crackly MIDI audio latency in NAudio projects with ASIO4ALL, and the odd fix: closing any browser tab playing YouTube in the background.

  Donn Felker – December 29, 2008

• Prism Drop 8 Breaking Changes

  Prism Drop 8 renames CompositeWpfEvent to CompositePresentationEvent and replaces ModuleCatalog.Groups.Add with a simpler AddModule call.

  Donn Felker – December 23, 2008

• Intro to WCF Screen Cast Now Available

  A new screencast on DimeCasts.net walking through the ABCs of WCF and showing, step by step, how to build and run your very first WCF service.

  Donn Felker – December 16, 2008

• Speaking at the Twin Cities Code Camp 2009

  Speaking on Testing With Mocks at Twin Cities Code Camp 2009 - how mocks let you test interactions and state without building full object graphs.

  Donn Felker – December 10, 2008

• Twin Cities Give Camp – April 26th and 27th 2009

  Twin Cities Give Camp is set for April 26-27, 2009, and we're lining up charities focused on kids, the disabled, elderly, and animals.

  Donn Felker – December 5, 2008

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  How To: REST Services in WCF 3.5 Part 2 – The POST

  Part 2 of the WCF REST series: adding a POST endpoint with WebInvokeAttribute and testing it with Fiddler, using a silly insult service as the demo.

  Donn Felker – December 4, 2008

• Dime Cast on RESTful WCF

  A 10-minute screencast on DimeCasts.net walks through building a WebGet-based RESTful WCF service - part 1 of a series on WCF REST.

  Donn Felker – December 2, 2008

• SVCUtil & VS2008

  Correcting myself: Visual Studio 2008 doesn't actually use SvcUtil under the hood for service references - it has its own internal proxy generator.

  Donn Felker – December 2, 2008

• Technical Timeout 1

  Introducing Technical Timeout: a short break from tech talk for a laugh, starting with the Terry Tate Office Linebacker video (headphones on, PG-13).

  Donn Felker – November 25, 2008

• Store Locator – Moved to Codeplex

  My ASP.NET Store Locator project outgrew its old home, so I moved the source and ongoing development over to CodePlex to manage it more effectively.

  Donn Felker – November 23, 2008

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  Debugging Silverlight Tip

  Silverlight app showing a blank screen with a vague 'Error on page'? Turn on Common Language Runtime Exceptions in Visual Studio to see the real error.

  Donn Felker – November 21, 2008