The spoof blog The Secret Diaries of Steve Jobs has the best news summary of the recent debate over Microsoft’s motivation behind releasing the source code for the 3.5 framework. It’s concise, insightful, and most importantly hilarious. With all the animosity and paranoia constantly floating between Microsoft and the Open Source Community, I almost forgot [...]
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What started out as a simple blogging research effort quickly degenerated into a quest that was part endurance challenge and part existential masochism. I successfully completed a 50 mile ultra-marathon last year, but the mental and physical stamina required for that feat of endurance pales in comparison to this one. I challenge you to read [...]
It looks like I’ll have a chance to test out the10/20/30 rule of PowerPoint by Guy Kawasaki next Tuesday at the next KC .NET User Group meeting where I will be giving a presentation on PowerShell. I was only recently introduced to this rule, which states that PowerPoint presentations should contain only ten slides, last no more than 20 minutes, [...]
I’ve noticed my geek ego being aggravated a few times lately so I figured I’d better work on a more effective personal implementation of IHumbleProgrammer. My current implementation seems to be leading to errors in my thought process and even causing my learning to hang. Please excuse the VB.NET, poor formatting, and lack of a valid unit [...]
I’ve often heard the phrase “seven year itch” in reference to the inclination of people to become unfaithful after seven years of marriage. I guess seven years has some mystical or mathematical significance when it comes to the human attention span. It’s easy to imagine such a milestone leading someone to “climb the stupid tree”, as a [...]
