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Thoughts on autonomy, self direction, digital business and life.

• Mobilizing Your/My Blog – mobile.blog.donnfelker.com

  How I used Mofuse to mobile-enable my blog and pointed a custom subdomain at it with a simple CNAME record, no code required at all.

  Donn Felker – July 17, 2008

• Passed the ASP.NET 3.5 Exam

  I passed the ASP.NET 3.5 beta exam at Tech-Ed 2008, which makes me a certified MCTS in both ASP.NET 2.0 and ASP.NET 3.5 now. Woohoo!

  Donn Felker – July 17, 2008

• Calgary ALT.NET Open Space – August 15-17

  Details on the Calgary ALT.NET Open Space, an unconference covering TDD, BDD, DDD, Agile, and Lean, with sessions set by whoever shows up.

  Donn Felker – July 14, 2008

• Tree Surgeon 2.0 Released

  Tree Surgeon 2.0 is out: support for VS 2003/2005/2008, a choice of NUnit or MbUnit, and updated NAnt scripts for .NET 1.1 through 3.5.

  Donn Felker – July 14, 2008

• Virtual Earth – End of Life

  Microsoft is retiring Virtual Earth versions 3, 4, and 5 in the coming months. Here's what it means, and why my MapPoint geocoding class is unaffected.

  Donn Felker – July 2, 2008

• Recommended Reading

  A running list of the software and IT books I actually recommend, from Fowler's enterprise patterns to Hunt's Pragmatic Programmer.

  Donn Felker – June 21, 2008

• GMail = Dog Slow

  Gmail crawling because of all its AJAX and JavaScript? Switch to the Older Version or Standard HTML view for a noticeably faster inbox.

  Donn Felker – June 13, 2008

• I Took The ASP.NET 3.5 Beta Exam, and then the red pill

  I took the ASP.NET 3.5 beta exam with almost no prep -- 70 tough questions covering WCF, AJAX, and mobile, plus tips on surviving Microsoft's exam tricks.

  Donn Felker – June 10, 2008

• Resources from Desert Code Camp

  Slides, source code, and a fix for a Unity DynamicMethod bug from my Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control talk at Desert Code Camp.

  Donn Felker – June 3, 2008

• Intro to Microsoft Unity – Dependency Injection Container

  A hands-on intro to Microsoft's Unity dependency injection container, covering manual and XML-based type registration with a downloadable sample app.

  Donn Felker – May 26, 2008

• TIP: Utilizing Fluent Syntax with the "Is" Keyword in Rhino Mocks and NUnit

  Rhino Mocks and NUnit both use an Is keyword, which collides. Use NUnit's Iz syntax helper instead so both fluent APIs work together.

  Donn Felker – May 23, 2008

• Presenting at the Phoenix Arizona Desert Code Camp

  I'm teaching a course on Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control at the Phoenix Arizona Desert Code Camp on May 31st, 2008. See you there.

  Donn Felker – May 14, 2008