From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
March 6, 2010 at 12:41 pm
For everyone who is anxiously waiting for
the new screencasts to get posted, you will have to wait 2 more weeks. Along with
some silverlight publishing issues that I have been ... (
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From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
February 5, 2010 at 8:00 pm
As someone who loves to leverage mouseless computing as often as possible, I thought
I would take the time to share a screencast introducing one of the may tools that
I ... (
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From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
January 27, 2010 at 8:00 pm
One of the great things about being able to teach people from all over the world is
the amazing tricks and techniques that you can pick up that can improve all aspects
of ... (
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From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
January 25, 2010 at 6:00 pm
It's has officially begun!!
The first public (in person) Nothin
But .Net course of 2010 is scheduled for April 26-30. The course is going to be
held ... (
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From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
January 18, 2010 at 10:00 pm
This is a quick post to let people know that Nothin
But .Net will be making its way around the world once again this year. We are
still finalizing the final course ... (
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From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
January 6, 2010 at 4:00 pm
After a lot of thought about what it would be like to run an NBDN course
remotely. I thought that I would just give it a try with a small pilot/beta ... (
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From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
January 4, 2010 at 10:40 pm
This is just a quick post to shed some light on what has transpired in my life over
the last (almost 2 years). By most peoples standards of what ... (
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From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
December 16, 2009 at 4:41 am
Sometimes things are going to happen in your life that will completely turn your world
upside down. During these times it can be very easy to sink to very low places ... (
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From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
November 27, 2009 at 11:47 pm
My amazingly talented sister just released a new single on itunes. It is titled "Wherever
you are".\
A great thing about this single ... (
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From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
September 22, 2009 at 7:03 pm
A couple of weeks ago I installed a copy of Parallels
Desktop for mac. The main driver at the time was that it would allow me to play
typing of the dead!!I have been ... (
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From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
September 18, 2009 at 10:00 am
Just re-reading an article in psychology today on the topic of late
bloomers. The entire article is amazing, if you have an opportunity to read the
whole thing (here) ... (
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From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
September 10, 2009 at 11:59 pm
This is just a quick post to let anyone who has been trying to contact me through
my skype account know that, the reason you have not been able to get through is because
my ... (
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From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
September 9, 2009 at 5:44 am
When doing builds with Ruby and Rake, one of the things I often like to be able to
do is expanding a set of template files to a set of corresponding files with the ... (
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From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
July 29, 2009 at 5:00 pm
As an excuse to play around with a modified audio/visual setup, I thought I would
kill two birds with one stone and do a quick screencast on improving your keyboarding
skills ... (
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From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
July 28, 2009 at 5:00 pm
If you are using extension methods as a way to achieve more language oriented programming,
there are lots of times you will want to be able to run extension methods ... (
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From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
July 27, 2009 at 4:40 pm
During class last week someone had written a piece of code right near the end of the
last evening and I committed to showing them a potential refactoring that could ... (
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From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
July 26, 2009 at 12:31 am
Just got back from another amazing course in London, England. The class was great.
As always I think I learned just as much from the students as I was able to impart
to ... (
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From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
July 13, 2009 at 10:00 pm
The folks at VAN were
kind enough to give me the opportunity to speak on the topic of developer productivity.
We are going to attempt to discuss factors that can ... (
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From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
July 9, 2009 at 6:00 pm
I am just in the process of thinking about a VAN presentation that I am going to be
delivering. The topic is that of developer productivity. One of the things I read
this ... (
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From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
July 6, 2009 at 5:00 pm
The Nothin but .Net course has
been running for just over 2 years now. In that time I have had the amazing opportunity
to share technical and personal information ... (
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From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
July 2, 2009 at 5:00 pm
One of the discussions that comes up with a lot with other developers that I talk
with is the question of "How productive I would be if I were not able to use
the ... (
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From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
July 1, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Since I moved everything over to Windows 7 the last program that I had not yet installed
was RubyMine (JetBrains awesome
IDE for Ruby coders). After I completed my ... (
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From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
June 30, 2009 at 5:00 pm
So you are using git you've done some work on your branch, everything is committed
and you want to do a push to a remote repository. If you have used simple defaults
to ... (
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From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
June 29, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Since I use virtual machines very extensively (thanks Terry)
it is pretty important for me to be able to drop onto a new machine and be able to
launch my main VM's ... (
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From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
June 27, 2009 at 1:51 am
Something that has happened more that I would like for this year is the cancellation
and switching around of courses due to low interest levels in cities that previously
expressed ... (
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