Author: Charles Chen

Diplomacy?  What’s That?

Diplomacy? What’s That?

Seems like someone knows the answer. Talking good.  Shooting bad. Why can’t we all just be adults and stop this posturing?  Whatever happened to dialogue (at least give it a try)?  In the end, we’re all human beings sharing the...

EMI Goes DRM Free

EMI Goes DRM Free

So the big news today is that EMI is going DRM free. A few months ago, in a hotel room in King of Prussia, I had a short debate with Brad and Jim (CEO and CTO of the company I...

SharePoint “Feature”: Pain In The Ass…

SharePoint “Feature”: Pain In The Ass…

Just to share some findings on working with SharePoint features: The Elements.xml file that you include with your feature deployment cannot contain XML comments; if it does, you will encounter an error when you try to activate your feature using STSADM.exe. ...

Am I Just Being Compulsive?

Am I Just Being Compulsive?

I waked up this morning with some notices that new code has gone into our main repository. So of course, I perform a checkout to get the new code and what do I get?  Argh!  The commiter added the _svn...

Wait, what?

Wait, what?

So CNN has a video on the mythical Japanese Gyroball. After watching this, I’m more curious about their dubious use of information from the Net.  From YouTube, specifically.  Uh, when did random people commenting on YouTube video logs count as...

Automatic Properties in C# 3.0…Why?

Automatic Properties in C# 3.0…Why?

One of the new features in C# 3.0 makes absolutely no sense to me: automatic properties. I have two issues with this approach. First, Wouldn’t it make more sense to just have VS ask: “Do you want to generate a...

NHibernate Or Bust!

NHibernate Or Bust!

So my interest in NHibernate is picking back up again.  The 1.2 beta release that’s circulating now (the candidate release has been out since February of this year) addresses various issues with NHibernate in my previous time with it. Specifically,...