Warning: massive brain dump ahead… As I was laying down to sleep and having a discussion with my wife – much to her dismay – the topic of her current graduate class came up and she mentioned how much she...
In describing my approach to software development, I like to use the term practical artistry. What does this mean exactly? Well, the practical part of it is that the class libraries, interfaces, and components have to work the way that...
Opening up the newspaper this morning, I came across two terrible rulings recently passed down by the Supreme Court. The first has to do with MSRP. I’m guessing that the majority of American’s who are not filthy rich often go...
Argh! A panel of judges at the Copyright Royalty Board has denied a request from the NPR and a number of other webcasters to reconsider a March ruling that would force Internet radio services to pay crippling royalties. The panel’s...
I have to say, one of my big pet peeves in terms of software development is evangelizing by “senior architects” who haven’t written code in years. I’m not against evangelizing a product or technology in general, but it seems so...
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...
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...
See if you can figure out how much your company’s deployment of MOSS2007 will cost: Feature Matrix (in Excel, no less) Baffling Pricing List “How to Buy“ Mindblowingly convoluted.
So I filed my taxes pretty early this year (this is the first time I’ve ever owed taxes) using TurboTax. At the end of the submission, I was given an option to pay with a credit card, direct debit, or...
You know it’s a slow newsday when the AP decides to run a story on how they didn’t run stories on Paris Hilton. AP: We ignored Paris Hilton NEW YORK (AP) — So you may have heard: Paris Hilton was...