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		<title>Don&#8217;t be a Dick Public License</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Bender</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just had to breath some life back into this classic from Phil Sturgeon. You can see the original post in its entirety at philsturgeon.co.uk. And here we go the full license in its entirety! &#160; License text DON'T BE A DICK PUBLIC LICENSE Version 1, December 2009 Copyright (C) 2009 Philip Sturgeon Everyone is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Half of U.S. Households Own At Least One Apple Device</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 16:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Bender</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the turn of the 21st century, Apple was in rough shape. It had narrowly avoided bankruptcy, and Steve Jobs’ return as CEO a few years earlier was turning the company around, but the market share of its products — then almost exclusively Mac computers — was dismal, at about 2% worldwide.]]></description>
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		<title>Day 2: Windows 8 not ready for the masses</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 01:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Bender</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Preview]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have to say that I was very excited to finally get a chance to play with the new Windows 8 Consumer Preview bits this past week. I pulled down the ISO the morning of the release and installed it on an old Vista laptop I had. The install went great and the machine performed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows 8 Consumer Preview Available For Download</title>
		<link>http://itsmikebender.com/2012/02/windows-8-consumer-preview-available-for-download/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Bender</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes you read correctly you can now download the ISO for the Windows 8 Consumer Preview at http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/iso. I will be doing some write-ups on it as I begin to explore it. I would love to hear your initial thoughts and opinions on this beta build. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Windows 8 Consumer Preview bits today</title>
		<link>http://itsmikebender.com/2012/02/windows-8-consumer-preview-bits-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Bender</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NUI]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We should be getting bits for the Windows 8 Consumer Preview (aka beta) today. I have heard many good things with the features build out and stability and am quite excited to play with it on my tablet and an old laptop. As soon I hear of the release I will be providing a link [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fixing MVC 3 Html.DropDownListFor selected item</title>
		<link>http://itsmikebender.com/2012/02/fixing-mvc-3-html-dropdownlistfor-selected-item/</link>
		<comments>http://itsmikebender.com/2012/02/fixing-mvc-3-html-dropdownlistfor-selected-item/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Bender</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[.NET]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[C#]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Entity Framework 4]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linq]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently ran into an issue with when using the <a title="SqlFunctions.StringConvert()" href=" @Html.DropDownListFor(m=&#62;m.Category.ParentID, Model.Categories)" target="_blank">SqlFunctions.StringConvert</a> function (as required by LINQ to cast scalars to a string). What I didn't realize at first is that the StringConvert function pads the string that it casts to. As it turns out this causes some issues with defining a selected item in the list.]]></description>
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		<title>EF 4.2 Update POCO with ObjectContext</title>
		<link>http://itsmikebender.com/2012/02/ef-4-2-update-poco-with-objectcontext/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Bender</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[.NET]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently worked on a project that used the Entity Framework and T4 POCO generation. I ran into a little snag during the implementation of the Repository pattern that took a few minutes for me to figure so I thought that I would save someone else the time and share here. I resolved this with one line.]]></description>
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		<title>Windows 8 Consumer Preview February 29</title>
		<link>http://itsmikebender.com/2012/02/windows-8-consumer-preview-february-29/</link>
		<comments>http://itsmikebender.com/2012/02/windows-8-consumer-preview-february-29/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Bender</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Windows 8]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows On Arm (WOA)]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent post on Building Windows 8 Blog, Microsoft in a video showcased many apps for Windows 8 on Arm (WOA). The results appear to be pretty impressive. What is even more exciting is the demo of Office 15 on ARM]]></description>
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		<title>Kinect for Windows is here!</title>
		<link>http://itsmikebender.com/2012/02/kinect-for-windows-is-here/</link>
		<comments>http://itsmikebender.com/2012/02/kinect-for-windows-is-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Bender</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[.NET]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Computer Vision]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kinect]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NUI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sdk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[YES it is here! Today Microsoft announced they have officially released the Kinect for Windows SDK and Hardware and yes it is commercial friendly. Check out this quote from the Kinect for Windows FAQS. The Beta license was restrictive and did not allow for distribution of commercial applications. How does the license work with this release? The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kinect for Windows big event February 1, 2012</title>
		<link>http://itsmikebender.com/2012/01/kinect-for-windows-big-event-february-1-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://itsmikebender.com/2012/01/kinect-for-windows-big-event-february-1-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Bender</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Kinect]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[New Kinect hardware, near-mode, new SDK. We find out Wednesday, February 1, 2012...]]></description>
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