It’s time for the next installment of the monthly Caffeinated Codey awards, where the link love flows for my favorite posts from the month. For Best Software As RoadKill Analalogy…Ben Scheirman on Don’t Make Squirrel Burgers. The next time your boss tries to haggle you over the estimate, just pull out Ben’s squirrel burger story. [...]
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I met a lot of amazing people at the ALT.NET conference, but the one that impressed me the most was Scott Guthrie. Besides being one of the nicest and most unassuming alpha-geeks I’ve ever met, he had an uncanny understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of not only Microsoft technologies, but a vast array of [...]
No, the fact that Rob Conery may or may not be partial to stealing underwear is not the commonality I had in mind . So what is their connection? First a little background for those of you not familiar with either of these characters. For the culturally illiterate among you, the underpants gnomes are characters [...]
May I suggest the Glambo Signature Series “My Little Pony” M4A1 carbine with forward handgrip and AN-PVS4 night vision sight? You might want to also consider the Good Luck Bear Molle-compatible modular armored vest for those urban warfare play dates. For more pure surreal goodness you can visit GlamGuns.com. Start saving your pennies!
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I was working with someone who doesn’t have ReSharper today and I noticed for the first time that I have developed some feature addictions because I actually winced when I watched him fully type out a property and then manually do an “extract method” refactoring. This surprised me since I have only really been consistently [...]
Ayende started a thread in the ALT.NET newsgroup asking participants what practices they deemed absolutely necessary on a project. In other words, if you were to start in a shop that had none of the current “best practices” in place, which ones would you spend your political capital on trying to get into place first. [...]
I’ve played with MbUnit before and was immediately impressed, but I haven’t tried using it on a project until today. I was surprised by how quickly and easily I was able to convert all of my NUnit tests. All I had to do was switch the references from NUnit.Framework to MbUnit.Framework and then do a [...]
Thanks to Dewayne Christensen, I have finally picked a name for Caffeinated Coder Jr. (or Little Miss Caffeinated Coder), who is due to arrive at the end of March. If it is a boy, we were thinking of naming him Alexander, but now I’m going to give my wife the hard sell on naming him [...]
I’ve been spending a little too much time reading blogs over the last several months and am starting to crave some more in-depth study, so I decided that I am going to be “old-school” and try to spend more time reading books instead. What I’m Reading Now Here are the three books that I have [...]
