Miguel de Icaza and team pulled it off in 21 days! Read more here…
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My favorite Strawberry Tart recipe that I always lose
Every summer, when strawberry season comes around, I have to look through my collection of old Food & Wine magazines for my favorite recipe. Its a Strawberry Tart and I know enough things about it that I should be able to find the recipe on www.foodandwine.com or just by googling. One of the interesting things is that the article was about Katrin Theodoli, then owner of the super luxury yachts Magnum Marine, and recipes she whips up in the little galley of the yacht when she’s cruising the seas with kings and queens. Granted, you could solve a lot of problems in the world for the cost of some of these higher end boats; but still, I’m grateful for the recipe.
[Wendy, I hope you’re reading this one!]
So since I decided I would ensure I could find the recipe more easily by just putting it here on my blog along with the reminder that it’s in the June 1997 issue: “Outdoor Entertaining”.
Ingredients:
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup sugar
- Pinch of salt
- 1 1/2 sticks of cold unsalted butter, cut into 1/2 inch dice
- 1 large egg
- 1 1/2 ounces bittersweet chocolate, melted
- 1/4 cup seedless strawberry jam, melted
- 1 1/2 pints strawberries, hulled and halved lengthwise
STEPS
- In a food processor, pulse together the flour, sugar and salt. Add the butter and pulse until the mixture resembles coarse meal. Add the egg and pulse until incorporated.
- Preheat the oven to 375F. Butter a 10 inch tart pan with a removable bottom. Transfer the dough to a lightly floured surface and pat into a disk. Roll the dough between 2 sheets of wax paper into a 12-inch round. Transfer the dough to a cookie sheet and refrigerate until firm, about 15 minutes. Peel off the top sheet of wax paper, invert the dough into the pan and peel off the other sheet of wax paper. Fit the dough into the pan and chill again for 10 minutes. Prick all over with a fork and bake in the middle of the oven for about 20 minutes or until evenly golden. Let cool on a rack.
- Transfer the tart shell to a platter and brush the bottom with the melted chocolate. Refrigerate until set, about 10 minutes. Brush half of the jam over the chocolate. Arrange the strawberries in the shell, cut side down, overlapping them slightly. Brush the berries with the remaining jam.
Silverlight drawing permanently on the top of my blog page
As my young co-workers at a former job would say: “chickety-check it out”! www.thedatafarm.com/blog
(I’m still trying to work out the issue of it not showing when you are looking at an individual post.)
Convert Windows Journal notes to Silverlight
The Mobile team is at it again. They have written a converter to take Journal notes and convert them into an interactive Silverlight page. You can read about it on the Mobile dev center and download the converter application. There are two live demos of it here on my own website where I have hosted their sample and one of my own. (Click on the images below to go to the samples.) Note that mine seems to have stretched a bit because I created it on a lower resolution computer.
VS2005 Windows Forms DataSource/TableAdapter Wizard wierdness
I recently whipped together a small tool for a client and because it was so small (and for only one person to use), I used some simple drag n’ drop wizardry for the form. I created a datasource pointing to a table in the SQL Server 2005 database on my develpment machine then dragged that datasource onto a form to create a navigation toolbar and a screenfull of text boxes and checkboxes.
When I finished it up and pointed it to the live SQL Server 2000 database I was having some strange issues with inserts and updates. Specifically, SQL Server was throwing this error: “Error converting data type varchar to bit.”
A little digging showed me that the TSQL being sent to the databse was passing “True” and “False” to the bit fields rather than 0 and 1.
SQL Server 2005 didn’t seem to mind this, but SS2000 sure did!
I looked at the dataset that was created by the wizard and the bit fields were properly identified as booleans.
But when I looked at the parameters collections of the Insert and Update statements that the wizard had built, I could see that the properties of my boolean values was set to DbType=AnsiString.
So even though I prefered to know why I was seeing a difference between SS2005 and SS2000, I modified the auto-generated Insert & Update statements to make the DbType “Boolean” which passed 0’s and 1’s up to the database and everyone was happy. Changint the DbType to Boolean automatically changed the ProviderType to “Bit”.
I have seen a few threads where people pointed out this problem but never saw any suggest my solution or provide a reason for SS2000 rejecting it. If this wizard is meant to be used by newbies, I don’t know how they would deal with a problem like this.
Vermont IT Jobs: Full Time Analyst/.NET Programmer Jobs in Montpelier
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Desirable skills and experience include (but are not limited to):
· Strong analysis and communication skills
· Thrives on projects both independently; and in a collaborative team-based environment
· Profession or educational experience developing solutions using:
o Object-oriented analysis and design methodologies
o Microsoft .NET Framework (C# – ASP.NET/Web Services)
o SQL/XPATH query
o Source control (CSV or VSS)
· A passion for learning new skills and languages
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· Project management experience
· Aptitude for web and graphical user interface design
· Knowledge of application development security best practices
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SQL Server Service Broker at VTSQL meeting tomorrow night
VTSQL is having their June meeting tomorrow, June 20th.
Our pal, Jean-Rene Roy is coming down from Montreal to do a presentation on SQL Server Service Broker. This is one of those topics I found myself having to learn so that I could understand how Query Notification works in ADO.NET 2.0. But there’s a whole lot more to leverage from it besides what I’m getting from ADO.NET.
Patterns & Practices: Designing for Operations
INETA sent Keith Pleas to speak to the grateful Vermont.NET User Group last night. Keith presented the Designing for Operations project that PAG is working on. It was eye opening to many of us who have not spent a lot of time thinking about having our applications provide useful information to those who have to keep users happy and a joy for some who have had to write this stuff themselves in the past. Read more here…
[A New DevLife post]
Where’s my Silverlight Pen?
I keep seeing all of these flash ads that have a pen that you can move around with your mouse and draw – similar to all of the inky stuff I’ve been doing except I wanted that pen, too! I finally figured out how to pull it off. Read more here…
[A New DevLife post]
It’s summer? When did that happen?
I think eating lettuce that came from my garden last night really drove it home. Summer is really truly here.
More evidence is that the lupine in field in front of my house is about at it’s peak. It’s pretty hard to share the real view but here is a composite picture and a few others…
click on the composite to see a larger size…
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