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A Grande, Triple Shot, Non-Fat Core Dump by Russell Ball

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Imagine my surprise the other day when I discovered one of my Scott Bellware links was broken. Panic quickly set in when I went to CodeBetter and noticed that his blog was no longer listed on the site. I did notice that my Bellware feed hadn’t been updated in a while, but I figured he [...]

My official “homage to Justice Gray” guest blog post has just been published. Besides providing me with some of the most fun I’ve had in blogging yet, this post also inspired me to finally learn some basic photo editing skills (beyond just cropping and resizing) so that I could provide some appropriate visual aids to [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

I only got 4 out of 10 on the Programmer vs Serial Killer Quiz. I either need to brush up on my profiling skills or else make it a general policy not to hang out with programmers any more.

I met a lot of amazing people at the ALT.NET conference, but the one that impressed me the most was Scott Guthrie. Besides being one of the nicest and most unassuming alpha-geeks I’ve ever met, he had an uncanny understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of not only Microsoft technologies, but a vast array of [...]

No, the fact that Rob Conery may or may not be partial to stealing underwear is not the commonality I had in mind . So what is their connection? First a little background for those of you not familiar with either of these characters. For the culturally illiterate among you, the underpants gnomes are characters [...]

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