Blogs

I've had some comments on the Euler problems, so I'm assuming there is some interest. There's also been interest among other developers in our office. Darrell Hawley has started solving the problems in Python. Marina Fedner has started solving the problems in Ruby. I highly recommend reading...

Earlier this week, Open XML won ISO approval. By any objective measure, it won handily. 86% of the participants voted for the standard. Does that mean that 16% of the voting countries are run by IBM officials? One could make the case that it does. Jan van den Beld's post provides far more evidence...

I kept looking for an updated version of CopySourceAsHTML ( http://www.jtleigh.com/people/colin/software/CopySourceAsHtml/ ) that would work with Visual Studio 2008. (which is why some of my recent code snippets don't look the way I want). While Colin & J.T. Leigh did not release any updates...

My alma mater, The University of Illinois, just announced a joint venture with Microsoft, Intel, and the University of California at Berkeley which will enable commodity computer systems to make use of parallel computing techniques previously in the exclusive realm of super computers. You can read more...

The world-famous Carl Franklin invited be to be on DNR TV again. The episode is live here: http://dnrtv.com/default.aspx?showID=105 We discuss generics in C#, and how you can use generics to create more reusable block of code. We go from fairly obvious generic uses like collections and EventArgs<T>...

Oh happy day. I'm stepping into the .NET Framework source using the VS 2008 debugger. Shawn Burke has the most detailed post on how to get your VS 2008 enviornment setup.

This has been on the net in a few forms, but On10 just posted a high quality version of the Bill Gates' last day video from CES: http://on10.net/blogs/larry/Bills-Last-Day-CES-2008-Keynote-Video/Default.aspx I'm amazed at the number of people he got to put in some cameos

Thanks to Kate Gregory for the reference. This article: http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2007/11/02/password-policy-length-vs-complexity/ points out that increasing password length helps more than increasing password complexity in terms of security. I've been using pass phrases for...

I try to do more original writing here than posting links, but this is too good not to reference. http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=358968 Brian Beckman is one of my favorite experts from Channel 9. He's a real rocket scientist, but that's not why I like hi videos. He's not trying...

A bit out of date, perhaps, but the Coding4Fun blog contains a vista gadget that changes your background wallpaper at regular intervals: http://blogs.msdn.com/coding4fun/archive/2007/07/16/3904885.aspx Point the gadget at a directory containing photos and you're off to the races.