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Monthly Archives: May 2004

Visual Studio 2005 Team Tools Demos

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I haven’t watched these yet, as my WMP install was corrupted somehow, but I am very excited about the prospects. Especially:
“Visual Studio Team Foundation, the server component of the Visual Studio 2005 Team System provides integrated source control, work item tracking, reporting, and custom policies that enable teams to [...]

Exception Handling Best Practices

Some colleagues and I have been debating how best to work with exceptions in C# code.
One idea is to catch any exception as early as possible, log it, and then rethrow a “logged exception” so that it isn’t logged twice.
Another idea is to only catch those exceptions that can be properly dealt with, [...]

Friday Night (5/21) Charter was great!

This past Friday some old school chums and I went out on a 12-person charter boat in the Raritan Bay, looking for the king of the bay, the striped bass.
First of all I’d like to thank the captain and mates of the Little Hawk. They did a terrific job, had a well appointed and [...]

Going out on a charter tonight on the Little Hawk

Little Hawk Charters
These guys are based out of the Atlantic Highlands. This is were I went out on that party boat last week, but this trip should be much better for two reasons:
1) It is a charter, and its only 11-12 people.
2) It is a night trip, when the stripers supposedly bite more. [...]

Great resources for basic fishing information

As a NJ coast angler, you would think you’d be able to find an abundance of information on fishing techniques. However, searching popular engines like Google usually leads to commercial sites with little to offer but product, or even worse, links to “fishing info aggregator” sites which are little more than affiliate marketing schemes [...]

Welcome to .NET or Gaff: The strange intersection between .NET development and fishing.

Hello all, this blog is an experiment to record my thoughts, musings, links, and discussions as it relates to two important themes in my life: .NET development and fishing.