I’ve read and listened to Scott Hanselman sing the praises of SlickRun for a long time, but I just recently got around to using it. For those of you who are as slow to catch on as me, it is essentially just a tricked-out version of the Run window that allows you launch programs much [...]
Browsing Posts published in December, 2007
Last weekend I ran in the WhiteRock marathon in Dallas, Texas and was thus able to check off the tenth state in my quest to run one marathon in each state. This race was much bigger and better supported than my ninth marathon in Iowa earlier this year and my friends and I had a [...]
Today it was decided that a bug fix that I recently added to our production branch in Visual Source Safe would not be included in an upcoming hotfix release as originally planned, so I was asked to remove it. My fix only touched 6 files, so my first thought was just to do it manually. [...]
I just read Don Box’s Languages and Beauty Contests post and was surprised to see him praising the aesthetic value of VB.NET. Am I mistaken or has the collective self-esteem of millions of VB.NET programmers just risen considerably? Perhaps the word ‘just’ is a bit of a stretch since the post was actually written several [...]
I started my developer career on the tail end of the last tech bubble, so I can’t help getting all misty eyed thinking about the Tech Bubble Part Deux. What better way to celebrate this historic event than to pay homage to some soon-to-be classic YouTube satire by the Richter Scales. It’s set to the [...]
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 Likely to Cause My Co-Workers Grief…Jeff Atwood’s post Don’t Forget to Lock Your Computer where he talks about the wonderful world of goating. Don’t get excited, you’ll have to [...]
