Behold the new look of CaffeinatedCoder.com. I realize it’s beyond surreal to show a screenshot of the site on the site, but we’re living in a google-reader world so I figured it was fair game. I spent days…er…hours…ok, maybe about 15 minutes on this new look, so enjoy. I’ve been meaning to change the look [...]
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I was just debating whether I should try to sweet talk my wife and bribe my boss into letting me go to the upcoming ALT.NET conference in Houston. I went to the first one in Austin a couple of years ago and just came across this satirical post that I wrote shortly afterwards. It is [...]
I presented a session on ReSharper at the Kansas City Day of Dot Net conference this last Saturday. Kudos to Lee Brandt for organizing the event, which seemed to be a big success based on the attendance and the number of interesting topics being presented. A few attendees requested that I post the slide deck, [...]
…and I’m not just talking about my recent eBay exploits or that million dollar lottery in Ghana that I keep getting notified about via email. Jurgen Apello, Dutch blogger extraordinaire, just notified me that I won his $100 Book Contest for my Driving Forces Behind My Coding Compulsion post, which I submitted a couple of [...]
My deepest apologies. I just noticed that I inadvertently spammed everyone subscribed via feedburner with a half dozen del.icio.us feed entries. The rogue link barrage began when I activated the Feedburner LinkSplicer feature under the false assumption that I would be able to filter saved links based on tags as well as control the start [...]
It’s been over 2 months since my last post. I haven’t been blogging very long compared to blogging veterans like Scott Hanselman, Phil Hack, or Jeff Atwood, but I’ve managed to establish just enough of a pattern in the last year (about 150 posts) to be plagued by blogger’s guilt and get peppered with the [...]
Congratulations to Peter Christensen for winning my first-ever Battle of the Technorati-Challenged contest with his excellent post Lisp: The Golden Age Isn’t Coming Back, Let’s Welcome a Bright Future. Without the support of Rory’s minions, the voting turnout was about what you would expect for Municipal elections for the Assistant Sanitation Engineer (a.k.a Janitor in [...]
I mentioned at the end of my last post that I decided to take a slightly different approach for my contest that JetBrains was gracious enough to sponsor. I had originally planned on having readers vote for their favorite Caffeinated Codey award and then giving the prize license to the author of the post with [...]
Just a reminder, I’ll be accepting guest Caffeinated Codey submissions until midnight on Wednesday. Just email it to me at rt_ball@yahoo.com. If I pick it for Friday’s Caffeinated Codey post, then you’ll win a free ReSharper 4.0 license. See here for full details. I’m feeling generous, so I’ll even offer up a few inspirational freebies [...]
I just got an email from a reader letting me know that the comment page was throwing an error. After delivering a brutal caning to everyone on the QA staff, I fixed it. Sorry about that… Many thanks to Christopher Boyle for bringing this to my attention.
