Somehow, I got into a heated discussion at work today regarding the suckitude of ASP.NET web forms development model. As a preface, I wrote Java for four years in a college, ASP in VBScript and JScript all throughout college, ASP...
As I was watching Diary of the Dead last night (I don’t know why…I just have this thing for zombie movies), about half ways through the movie, it suddenly dawned upon me that none of the characters had uttered the...
So can we stop the bitter tears for a bit? Just a little? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30232095 U.S. president signals he won’t seek reinstatement of assault weapons ban MEXICO CITY – Acknowledging a Mexican drug war that is “sowing chaos in our communities,”...
This recent phenomenon of “teabaggin” (lol) amongst conservatives has been humorous on many fronts. But it’s gotten me thinking: are there people really this stupid? I mean, that’s a lot of stupid. Some of the signs I’ve seen are pretty...
One of my favorite all time sports quotes: You PLAY to win the game. — Herm Edwards It’s so simple and so obvious, and yet, so easy to lose sight of. Herm is right, but it doesn’t just apply to...
This one comes courtesy of Andrew Sorkin of the New York Times: Do we really have to foot the bill for those bonuses at the American International Group? Fittingly, he provides a stupid answer as well: So here is a...
Nikhil Kothari has been blogging furiously about Visual Studio 2010 and C# 4.0. One of his posts covering the dynamic programming features in C# 4.0 raised some interesting discussion in the comments. Some like Francois Ward: I heavily dislike this....
An interesting story (with some heated comments) with regards to a recent move by Spansion: While Spansion Inc. was cutting 35 percent of its workforce, or 3,000 jobs on Monday, the company’s board was restoring full pay to its top...
I recently finished up Eric Brechner’s I.M. Wright’s Hard Code. One of the more interesting aspects of development and project management that he brings up is the concept of working depth first as opposed to breadth first. Too often, I...
There’s a pretty fascinating article over at Portfolio.com by Michael Lewis fittingly titled The End which gives insight into the grimey details of how the collapse of our seemingly infallible financial markets came to be. Contrary to the right-wing nuttery that...