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 Most Obsessive Blog Comment Recovery Operation…Eric Sink for his post Be My Support Group. After losing a lengthy blog comment due to a random Firefox error, Eric describes his multi-hour [...]
Browsing Posts published in December, 2007
I have a confession to make that will probably seem scandalous to all of you hip technophiles. I just don’t understand the allure of Twitter and other micro-blogging platforms. I definitely see how Twitter could be a formidable weapon in the social networking arsenal of a teenager, but I am just not convinced that it [...]
Ok, maybe not in a bar…but I would definitely listen to DotNetRocks here and there. In fact, I’ve listened to most of the 300 episodes of this popular tech podcast over the last few years. I don’t burn through quite as many shows now that my commute time has been dramatically reduced, but I still [...]
Don’t be jealous, but I finally got an official T-shirt from my favorite political affiliation. I also got a bunch of chocolate covered espresso beans in my stocking interspersed with all the coal, so you can expect those late night blogging sessions to continue for a while. I have to admit that I was a [...]
I just caught up on my Fake Steve Jobs reading and I am now convinced that Microsoft’s approach to the blogger problem completely lacks imagination and style. When faced with the likes of Scott Hanselman, Phil Haack, and Rob Conery, Microsoft takes the sissy approach of hiring them and keeping them so busy on cool [...]
I just sent the following email to the BCL (Base Class Library) Team Blog email address in hopes of getting some insight into a weird problem we’ve been having. I was hoping you could give me some general guidance on how Type.GetProperties() determines the sequence of the PropertyInfo objects it returns. I just ran across [...]
I spent some time last week working with Vil, a free code analysis tool that can be used to locate potential quality issues and high risk areas in your code. While working on it, I learned all about various code metrics such as cyclomatic complexity, eCouplings, and LCOM (Lack of Cohesion in Methods) and experimented [...]
I’ve been playing around with mock objects using Rhino.Mocks for the last few months, but today was the first time that I had an unfettered coding win and became a true convert. I was introduced to NUnit about five years ago from a co-worker (thanks Dewayne) and gradually became a true believer. Unfortunately, I was [...]
This is my 01100100′th post (that’s 0×0064 in hex for you script kiddies). That means that I get free reign to wax nostalgic and talk about deeply philosophical, thought-provoking topics like…monkeys. For those of you who are not well versed in inspirational parables, the hundredth monkey effect refers to how an idea can spread like [...]
I just noticed a reference to yours truly in one of D’Arcy Lussier’s recent posts in which he talks much smack about his plans to overtake Chris Williams (a.k.a Blogus Maximus) for the title of wordiest bastard on GeeksWithBlogs. It was bad enough that his weirdo Knuck references forced me to google both Toque and [...]
