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		<title>Coding in College vs a real job</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just came across this at http://i.imgur.com/Lus4Y.png Ring any bells for you? &#60;g&#62;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darinhiggins.com/coding-in-college-vs-a-real-job/</link>
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		<title>Squiggly Spell Checking in Notepad++</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Notepad++ has been a favorite editor of mine for quite some time. It’s quite capable, flexible, fast, has tons of plugins, and continues to be reasonably maintained. But something that’s been missing is a decent spell checker. Sure there’s the available spell check plugin from the site, but that requires you click a button to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darinhiggins.com/squiggly-spell-checking-in-notepad/</link>
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		<title>Ban SOPA/PIPA!!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you don’t know about it, go here. http://sopastrike.com/strike Basically, SOPA/PIPA is a bill about to go before congress that could dramatically affect your ability to create new web content, as well as use existing sites freely. For instance, do you like Craigslist.com? Under SOPA/PIPA, Monster Cable (the company) could press to shut them down [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darinhiggins.com/ban-sopapipa/</link>
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		<title>BookmarkSave Addin for VB6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If first blogged about this addin back here. Essentially, the idea is to solve a long standing pet-peeve of mine with the VB6 IDE; the fact that it doesn’t save your bookmark or breakpoint locations from one run to the next. Ugh! That functionality wouldn’t have taken more than about 30 minutes for someone to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darinhiggins.com/bookmarksave-addin-for-vb6/</link>
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		<title>Windows Can&#8217;t Acquire IP Address Via DHCP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve run into a situation a few times where, for some unknown reason, a Windows machine will be unable to obtain an IP address via DHCP. Then that happens, the machine is likely to get an APIPA address, such as 169.254.xxx.xxx. This is known as the DHCP failover situation, and generally, it’ll mean that while [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darinhiggins.com/windows-cant-acquire-ip-address-via-dhcp/</link>
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		<title>Authoring VB6 IDE Addins in VB.net</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, Ok, I know what you’re asking yourself right now. WTF would you want to do this? But bare with me. Realistically speaking, VB6 has a very limited shelf life. I have plenty of VB6 apps that run just fine under Win7 (even 64 bit), but Under Win8? Who knows. But, the truth is, there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Determining Whether you&#8217;re in DesignMode in a Windows Phone 7 Project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you’re building usercontrols in a Windows Phone 7 project, it’s often necessary to know whether the code is running in Design Mode (i.e. being invoked by the Visual Studio IDE or by Expression Blend), or whether you’re actually running in the real program. It’s a trivial matter, really, but it can be hard to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darinhiggins.com/determining-whether-youre-in-designmode-in-a-windows-phone-7-project/</link>
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		<title>Back In Business!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looks like I&#8217;ve finally gotten things sorted with WordPress and permalinks, the 404-handler.php and URLRewriting. Ugh. Many thanks to the guys at servergrid for being patient while I worked through all this to get things back online! The Email Me Contact form even works again (finally!).]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darinhiggins.com/back-in-business/</link>
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		<title>Direct integration of ILMerge with VB.net Projects</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been working on a few utility type applications lately (more on them later, once they’re firmed up), but one thing I’ve found incredibly useful for certain projects is ILMerge. If you’re not familiar with it, ILMerge is a utility that essentially can combine two or more .net assemblies into a single assembly, and reducing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darinhiggins.com/direct-integration-of-ilmerge-with-vb-net-projects/</link>
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		<title>VB6 Menus Disabled</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my current job, I have to do some maintenance on some legacy VB6 code. Yeah, its archaic by .net standards, but there’s something….comforting I guess…. about VB6. I spent almost 10 years with that language, so at this point, I know it just about as good as anyone, save maybe Bruce Kenney or Matthew [...]]]></description>
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