Caffeinated Coder

I’m finally recovered from my 10th marathon in New York this last weekend, which means I’m no longer walking down the stairs like a 90 year old man.

Although I was disappointed that there was no prize money for 15,083rd place (out of 40k runners), I still had a great time at the world’s largest marathon. I even managed to run my second negative split ever, which I attribute to not wanting to run behind Borat anymore (pictured to the right).

You can curse my running partner for capturing Borat in all his bare-butt glory on her camera phone right before we passed him.

1. How Hard Could It Be?: The Unproven Path – An interesting behind-the-scenes look at the making of StackOverflow from Joel Spolsky’s perspective. You can find more interesting tidbits from this Hanselminutes podcast with Jeff Atwood, such as the confession that they are running both the database and web server as well as dev, test, and production environments all on one hosting server! You’ll especially appreciate the shoestring budget, fly-by-the-seat of your pants approach to building this popular site if you’ve currently stuck in some heavily regulated, corporate development hell.
2. Deep Zoom Version of 4.0 .NET Framework -  Even if you know you will be stuck in legacy mode for the rest of your life and therefore don’t give a hoot about the 4.0 framework, you’ll still want to check this site out. I nearly wore my mouse scroller out playing with the zoom feature. It’s mesmerizing.
3. Microsoft kills Linq to SQL – Oren stirs up an interesting discussion on his blog by commenting on ADO.NET teams’ recent announcement that they were basically ditching Linq to SQL in favor of the Entity Framework. I thought at first that he was just reading too much into the post, but then I saw Damien Guard’s follow-up post on the topic, which seemed to confirm Ayende’s interpretation (albeit with slightly more spin control).

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