I’m feeling a mighty JavaScript kick lately. What’s interesting is that the more C# evolves, the more it starts to resemble JavaScript. What with anonymous methods, type inference (it even uses var), and the LINQ syntax, my JavaScript juices are...
I came across a very good article by Ian Thomsen on SI.com discussing Shawn Marion’s “frustration” towards his role in Phoenix. Marion is averaging career-highs of 21.4 points and 11.9 rebounds, well on his way to a fifth-straight year of...
Having been a consultant for the last few years, I’ve been in many organizations, seen many application architectures, and met many developers. What saddens me is that far too few developers/consultants in the Microsoft space are digging the Patterns &...
I can’t be the only one that think’s Flash based websites suck can I? I’ve never understood the appeal of Flash as a framework for structuring content to be honest. I can understand using it for a few animated portions...
Yesterday, news spread that the Kansas school board passed legislation to include intelligent design into the school curriculum. As expected, there was some colorful discussion on Fark. In an opinion piece in Time this week (11/14/2005), Eric Cornell, the Nobel...
It’s a wonder why you and I are still viewing movies via physical mediums like DVDs. To be honest, I’m really not sure why there’s even such a huge fuss over BluRay vs. HDDVD. About three or four years ago,...
Having worked with BizTalk Server 2004, SQL Server Integration Services (replacement for DTS), and having taken a quick glance at Windows Workflow Foundation, I was kind of confused why Microsoft would create so many competing technologies, especially considering the high...
This pretty much sums up how I’ve been feeling every-freaking-day for the last few weeks/months: I’ve never been more unsure about everything in the entire universe. I no longer comprehend what is important in the essence of everything. All knowledge...
As I was browsing through the forums at Arstechnica, I came across a post titled “Alternatives to outsourcing?“. Being an IT consultant, this immediately caught my attention. I read in Time, a while back, that a few companies were experimenting...
There has to be other people out there like me. I have issues. Many issues. We all do. Perhaps the one that gets to me the most is that I’m a perfectionist when it comes to certain things, like designing...