Monthly Archive: July 2008

“Stupid Should Hurt”

“Stupid Should Hurt”

I caught this phrase scrawled on Woody Paige‘s blackboard last night on Around the Horn (one of the few television shows I watch somewhat regularly). I love it. Glenn Campbell on “stupidity”: During our childhood, we are given a certain...

Lessons From The Mythical Man Month

Lessons From The Mythical Man Month

Fred Brooks’ The Mythical Man Month is one of my favorite software engineering books.  I first read it in my senior software engineering class at Rutgers.  From time to time in my daily routine of software implementaion, I flash back...

Deleting ExtensionData From JavaScript

Deleting ExtensionData From JavaScript

WCF DataContracts include an ExtensionData property which is a bit troublesome if you are trying to send a modified object back up to the service if it has no properties in Javascript. So I wrote a little piece of Javascript...

Is There Any Food Sriracha Sauce Can’t Fix?

Is There Any Food Sriracha Sauce Can’t Fix?

While reading his article from the NY Times on The 11 Best Foods You Aren’t Eating, my curiosity regarding sardines was piqued.  Like most people (I’m just guessing here), sardines aren’t on my shopping list…ever.  So I had to google...

More Lotus Notes Suckage

More Lotus Notes Suckage

A colleague emailed me today regarding some information I had sent him previously.  Apparently, Lotus deleted all of his data which wasn’t archived.  Why?  Who knows. Anyways, I suggested that he simply ignore the company email system and use a...

The Impending Death Of Microsoft Office

The Impending Death Of Microsoft Office

Okay, maybe “death” is a bit severe.  But certainly, I think in the next few years (if not months), Office will start to lose marketshare…significantly. Now don’t get me wrong; I love Office (okay, not really, but I work with...