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	<title>My Portal Project</title>
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	<description>Nowadays it's all about portals; portals and ball bearings</description>
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		<title>My Virtualized Ubuntu Experience (VirtualPC vs VMWare)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is time for the perennial &#8220;try-out-linux&#8221; experience, and this year I decided to not waste the effort on a crappy machine, but to try it out in a virtual environment on my more up to date laptop.  

So the first decision is what distribution to test.  This time I found a Linux [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.crossedconnections.org/w/index.php/2009/04/05/my-virtualized-ubuntu-experience-virtualpc-vs-vmware/</link>
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		<title>How to easily get rid of Vista and install XP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I gave it a chance, but my patience wore out.  Vista is no more on my laptop, back to XP pro, but the trip was bumpy and filled with alot of pinched foreheads.

In my scenario, I had an XP Pro ISO which when I made bootable, and attempted to boot and install, was missing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.crossedconnections.org/w/index.php/2008/12/30/how-to-easily-get-rid-of-vista-and-install-xp/</link>
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		<title>ASP.NET Web Services from Javascript with jQuery (without the ScriptManager)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How to get AJAX functionality out of your ASP.NET web pages, without the javascript bloat of the ScriptManager / Ajax.NET.

Calling web services from javascript with ASP.NET was made easy with the ScriptManager object, but that has the nasty habit of adding over 100k of javascript just by its mere inclusion. Such a price to pay [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.crossedconnections.org/w/index.php/2008/11/28/aspnet-web-services-from-javascript-with-jquery-without-the-scriptmanager/</link>
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		<title>UI Clients for back-end business processes; Can they be avoided?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although I have been guilty of such in the past, I have to come to the point where I will avoid creating a UI client for a business process if it is at all possible.

Back in February and March I was in the process of developing a back-end process to manage a certain subset of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.crossedconnections.org/w/index.php/2008/08/10/ui-clients-for-back-end-business-processes-can-they-be-avoided/</link>
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		<title>Sharepoint is the new Lotus Notes.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Could their ever be a more flame-worthy title? Yet, what makes Sharepoint the new Notes is not only what is does well, but also what it does not do well.

Those that have read my work over the past few years know that I am an ex-IBM Lotus Notes consultant/developer that has had alot of recent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.crossedconnections.org/w/index.php/2008/04/28/sharepoint-is-the-new-notes/</link>
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		<title>A cure for the common user who does not read warning prompts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The warning prompt; the last ditch effort to make a user aware of an action they are about to take.  Yet over the years we, as developers, have thrown up so many warnings, cautions, and advisories, that users really do not take notice. So how do you secure an application button from inadvertent clicking? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.crossedconnections.org/w/index.php/2007/11/08/a-cure-for-the-common-user-who-does-not-read-warning-prompts/</link>
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		<title>Drag and Drop Data Entry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent need at work was to find a way for assist users in data entry tasks so as to help eliminate common data entry mistakes (transposition, wrong data, etc..).  Although copying and pasting was the first thought, we eventually decided to use drag and drop technology.

The scenario is something like this; we get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.crossedconnections.org/w/index.php/2007/11/06/drag-and-drop-data-entry/</link>
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		<title>Walter Zorn to the rescue again!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[His vector graphics Javascript library is one of the easiest to work with and now Walter has surpassed himself with the easiest Tooltip / Help bubble javascript library.

I first used Walter&#8217;s Work with my Javascript AJAX testing application where his vector graphics module made client-side charting a piece of cake.  Recently when I was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.crossedconnections.org/w/index.php/2007/10/17/walter-zorn-to-the-rescue-again/</link>
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		<title>Passing values to SQL server Triggers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Database triggers are a great thing, and using them to create an audit trail is pretty simple. Yet when you want to pass some custom values to the triggers, like user name when you are using a single DB login for your application, things get tricky.

In the process of building a robust audit trail for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.crossedconnections.org/w/index.php/2007/10/01/passing-values-to-sql-server-triggers/</link>
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		<title>Connecting to SQL server using different NT domain credentials</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ASP.NET has a nice Impersonation feature that allows server-based web applications to use alternate credentials to perform network activities. Unfortunately, it does not extend into Windows &#8220;thick&#8221; clients; until now.

My scenario was to read an Excel file from a local and/or shared folder with one set of credentials, and then a Sql Server with a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.crossedconnections.org/w/index.php/2007/08/21/connecting-to-sql-server-using-nt-domain-credentials/</link>
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