People make fun of me, but I don’t care. I use Opera. Its faster. I use javascript heavy sites like google mail and bloglines and in Firefox and Internet Explorer these sites are slow to load, slow to use, and make my browsers eat upward of 30% of the 2.5G of ram in my poor [...]
Yes, I am crazy. Why would any programmer want this combination? I think it is a combination of wanting to work with the best tools, in this case Visual Studio 2008 and CodeRush and wanting to target Win32, OSX, and Linux all at once. The very nice part is that thanks to the hard work [...]
Its no secret that I came to C# after doing lots of Perl. I treasure my Perl experience. Many claim that Perl is unreadable, but I argue that the language is as good as the programmers using it. I’ve seen pages of equally unreadable PHP, VB, and yes, even C#. I’ve used Perl libraries as [...]
OK, it isn’t exactly broken, it just doesn’t know about vista’s virtual path features. This means you can run the exe as a non-admin user and it does not get installed properly.
The work around is to not run the installer as a regular use and wait for UAC to invoke itself. It never will. Instead, [...]
I was just reading blogs and stumbled across this gem:
http://codebetter.com/blogs/patricksmacchia/archive/2008/08/26/nhibernate-2-0-changes-overview.aspx
Patrick ran NDepends (an awesome static analysis tool) on the 2.0 release of NHibernate.
Patrick went on to suggest that the NHibernate code base was spaghetti because its internal namespaces are cross dependant. Having looked at the NHibernate code base, I disagree. In fact as a base [...]
I got a new server for my home, more to come on that later. Right now I want to talk about my worthless account management practices. You see, a long time ago (4 years) in a land far far away (2 counties), I was a system administrator. I knew all the best practices. I could [...]
I replied to a blog post by Tosos over here:
The reply was long enough that I thought it warranted posting here too. I expand on why “var” is not dangerous and can go away. I also describe why it isn’t duck or dynamic or anything but strong and static. If you know F# this is [...]
I do not write business applications. Oh sure, I write applications for a business. This business makes money. The applications which I write helps them make more money. However, these applications are in the domain of product engineering. They are not in the domain of running the business. They do not deal with cash flow, [...]
I previously had a list of things I wanted. Yes, I am like a 2-year old. I want. I want. I want.
mdavey posted a link to a channel 9 video which made me rethink my request. Oh I still want all of the original list and… I want more. I want more. I want more.
List [...]
A week ago, on Tuesday, July 1st, I received a strange email. I should have known it was going to be a strange day. I was wearing my Ohio Linux Fest 2006 t-shirt. I had just listened to Java Posse podcast and was listening to Mac Break Weekly. Since I don’t write java code and [...]
Thanks to Jon Paul Davies for quoting the Pragmatic Programmer.
“Critically Analyse What You Read and Hear. Don’t be swayed by vendors, media hype, or dogma. Analyse information in terms of you and your project.”
-The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt & David Thomas
I’ve been living my life that way for so long I’ve given up even [...]
EntLib4 was released recently. My bug is not closed. I can’t use it.
It is just a library. I don’t want your guidance. Just give me the source. Let me change it, build it and use as I see fit. Last time I checked, that is what developers do.
You may be asking, why would [...]
I hate xml.
Now that isn’t to say that sometimes XML is the right technology for a given problem. I respect it for those cases.
However, XML is overused. Its used where it shouldn’t be.
So here is to 10 years of XML.
Thanks to Vikas for pointing it out.
Josh Holmes tagged me.
I must admit I enjoyed reading many of these by people I have met and they have all definitely been in the spirit of what I read at Michael Eaton’s blog when he said “…while I know my tweeps (twitter friends), I don’t really ‘know’ them.”
How old where you when you started [...]
I found this funny. Can it report its own errors?
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