Author: Charles Chen

Sad State of Manufacturing in America

Sad State of Manufacturing in America

Over at engadget, a headline caught my eye today: “Chinese workers reportedly toil in the ‘iPod City’“. It’s certainly nothing that we haven’t heard before, overseas labor is so cheap these days, who can compete with American labor and just...

Pure Genious

Pure Genious

Pure Genious: http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3155 Brilliantly simple and intuitive. I’m a firm believer that the simplest, most obvious ideas are the ones that require the most ingenuity to come up with.

Random DevTools Entry: #011

Random DevTools Entry: #011

Web development in IE just got a whole lot better (well, at least for me). Enter Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar (link). This is one area where IE has been just left behind in the dust by FireFox.  But this...

I Feel Terrible…

I Feel Terrible…

It was quite disturbing. I was mowing the lawn and ran over a baby rabbit with the lawn mower.  I didn’t see it in the tallish grass and it didn’t move as I approached. Ironically, I probably saved the life...

So, How’s Married Life?

So, How’s Married Life?

I love this reply from Jerry Brown, the mayor of Oakland, in Time magazine this week: It’s a good thing.  There is a certainty, a finality about it.  I was very conscious that it was a vow, and I liked...

Friday Inspiration

Friday Inspiration

There’s a great story about Gilbert Arenas, the Washington Wizard’s guard, on CNNSI today (I’ll paste because it’s in a long-ish article): It’s a little before midnight when Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas enters the practice facility at Washington’s Verizon Center....

Believe!

Believe!

My eyes just teared up (no, really…I’m still kinda all emotional inside) watching the Nintendo E3 press conference intro video…wow, incredibly moving. Amazing. Update: Man, the tears keep coming…I dunno…such a fanboy I guess.  Glorious day!

Asus W5F == Hawt!

Asus W5F == Hawt!

I’m not going to go into a detailed review with performance specs and what not (they’re floating around the web already, no?), but just a quick take. Purchased the notebook last week from Geared2Play (you can find details in this...

Started Working with the NDoc 2 Alpha Build…

Started Working with the NDoc 2 Alpha Build…

Just started. Turns out that it requires “HTML Help 2 Compiler” or “VSHIK”. Having used the previous version of NDoc, I first turned to my VS2005 install CD to see if the help utilities were included but not installed by...

I’ve Done It….

I’ve Done It….

I was tired of working with tools that used XmlSchemaImporter and XmlCodeExporter (XSD.exe and WSCF) to generate code from XSD files.  I’m sure I’m not the only one, as there are other developers that are awaiting a .Net 2.0 version...