Author: Charles Chen

NDoc 2 is Officially Dead

NDoc 2 is Officially Dead

So this afternoon, I received an email from Kevin Downs (as I’m on his mailing list), the developer of NDoc with the following: I have decided to discontinue work on NDoc 2.0 and no longer participate in any open-source development...

To Be at a Crossroad…

To Be at a Crossroad…

The way our lives flow through time and the repitition that each of us encounter, day after day, tends to blur the multitude of crossroads that we reach and the different decisions that we make at each of these crossroads....

Big Changes Around the Corner

Big Changes Around the Corner

C# 2.0 has barely been with us and already, the 3.0 spec is shaping up.  While the change from 1.0 to 2.0 was dramatic in the way that it simplified what used to be quite laborious tasks in C#, the...

Modern Day History

Modern Day History

The USA has been around for a little more than a mere two centuries. Admittedly, there isn’t much history to be had in such a short span of time, at least relative to Old World countries in Europe or the...

The Lowest Common Denominator

The Lowest Common Denominator

Came across a great line by Scott Storch, one of the mega-producers in the music industry today while I was flipping through Rolling Stone: “It’s a chore for me to hold back my mind to do this simple shit…People want...

So, Apparently, Teamwork is Counterproductive…

So, Apparently, Teamwork is Counterproductive…

Teamwork is not easy.  It never is.  Whether it’s basketball, football, sales, construction, or software, it’s difficult to instill a sense of team and ensure that everyone operates as a member of a team. There are individual egos to deal...

Late Night Ramblings

Late Night Ramblings

About a week ago, I caught a documentary on the House of Saud on PBS (in HD, too!). It was a riveting program that helped shed a lot of light onto historical relationships between Saudi Arabia and the US.  It...

Say Hi to Quincy

Say Hi to Quincy

That’s Quincy, our new bearded dragon. Interesting little critter…quite aware of us and of the surroundings; extremely inquisitive and quite cute 🙂 But also quite a pain in the ass to take care of.

Fear of Change

Fear of Change

Perhaps one of the most dangerous fears of Man is the fear of change. It is a fear of the new and a desire to remain close to “the old ways”. This occurs on a macro and micro level. On...