I’ve finally been bitten by the Resharper bug and now I want to be a Resharper Jedi when I grow up like Ilya Ryzhenkov on this video. According to the JetBrains .NET Tool Blog, a Resharper Jedi is someone who “can code hella fast with ReSharper and blow productivity levels off the chart”. I haven’t [...]
Browsing Posts published in August, 2007
Last Friday I gave my two weeks notice at the bank that I worked at for the last 5 years. At first it was very difficult to tell people. When I told my boss, I had roughly the same anxiety level that I had when I broke up with my last girlfriend. It actually took [...]
Yesterday I was lucky enough to grab one of the coveted spots for the upcoming ALT.NET Conference in Austin, Texas this October. The registration was capped at one hundred participants and appears to have filled up within the first few days of being announced. The organizers include several of my favorite bloggers (Ayende Rahien, Scott Bellware, Jeremy Miller, [...]
…just do it over there and try to be quiet about it. I’ve got work to do. Anyone who has ever worked with me knows that I am not fond of meetings. I’d like to think that I have improved over the years, so it is not quite as apparent to people who don’t know my [...]
One month ago, I joined the epic struggle of Justice Gray (a.k.a. ”Justin the Metrosexual”) to “change the world” by publically sharing my roadmap to becoming a better developer. Justice’s own dubious plan involved reading one developer book a week for six months while presumably trying to prevent his brains ooze out of multiple orifices, a truly remarkable [...]
I seem to have a morbid fascination with my Vista weather gadget today. Does anyone have eggs they would like me to fry on the sidewalk? Perhaps I’ll start my own version of Badwater Ultra-Marathon…
The heat index was over a hundred today when I ran one of my regular six mile routes. This summer has actually been pretty mild by Kansas standards (last summer we had 14 days that were over one hundred degrees). Having grown up in Michigan, I do my share of complaining about Kansas summers and generally [...]
A co-worker came across this error message in a Microsoft Knowledgebase Article while doing some research on how to implement a password expiration policy using the .NET Membership provider: Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords I’m going to ask Microsoft to please remove this link before they give [...]
I’m a little bit tired today because I stayed up late the last couple of nights working my way through the Boo Primer on codehaus. I think I first heard about this relatively young (2003), open source .NET language through various posts by Ayende and Hanselman. I was intrigued by the some of the adjectives that I commonly heard in relation to this [...]
