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How to Type the OSX "Pretzel" Key in Unicode

Emacs tells you everything that you need to know about it using describe-char:

             position: 927 of 1056 (88%), column: 33

            character: ⌘ (displayed as ⌘) (codepoint 8984, #o21430, #x2318)

    preferred charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))

code point in charset: 0x2318

               script: symbol

               syntax: . 	which means: punctuation

             category: .:Base, j:Japanese

             to input: type "C-x 8 RET HEX-CODEPOINT" or "C-x 8 RET NAME"

          buffer code: #xE2 #x8C #x98

            file code: #xE2 #x8C #x98 (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)

              display: by this font (glyph code)

    mac-ct:-*-Lucida Grande-normal-normal-normal-*-17-*-*-*-p-0-iso10646-1 (#x3B4)

Character code properties: customize what to show

  name: PLACE OF INTEREST SIGN

  old-name: COMMAND KEY

  general-category: So (Symbol, Other)

  decomposition: (8984) ('⌘')

There are text properties here:

  fontified            t

EWS support for Emacs

I use Exchange at work for calendaring. I also use terminal-mode emacsclient when I’m logged in from another machine. In that scenario I can’t easily open a web browser to use Outlook Web Access. It annoyed me that I couldn’t check my schedule from within a terminal Emacs session. Thus, I did the only sensible thing and implemented full Exchange Web Services API support for Emacs.

Of course you did.

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Data Layer Validation with Entity Framework 4.1+

This is a helpful series for when you need to start doing any sort of validations on your entities. I need to dig more into OData and how it integrates nicely with NG and friends using .NET. Personal notes follow.
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Entity Framework 4.1 – DbContext Data Access

Entity Framework 4.1 – DbContext Data Access covers the DbContext object. It is important. The lecture explains why it is important. It might seem abstract if you haven’t touched any of this stuff before. That is OK. You will recall it when you need it.
Personal notes follow.
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