Why Not Here?
This story about getting customers to dig their own trenches for fiber-optic installations is great. In my neighborhood they don't dig trenches but install on telephone poles (FiOS), it would be great fun watching people climb up the poles. I can't even imagine what the liability costs for Verizon would be if they did something like this.
Dynamically Creating LINQ Expression Predicates From a String
I'm working on a WPF application that has an explorer like interface, where the left side (the TreeView) controls what is displayed on the right side (DataGrid). The small prototype used typed DataSets, but now that I'm implementing the application, I'm using ObservableCollections<TArg> of data model objects. One part of the prototype used the DataView.RowFilter property to control the display in the grid by filtering the results from the master collection, something like this:
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