It’s that time of year at Microsoft when managers are busily preparing reviews of their reports and preparing for the big stack ranking. Yesterday, my manager sent out an email asking his reports to email him with their accomplishments in the past year to help jog his memory. This arms him with important information when he goes to the mat for us arguing why we’re more deserving of a higher ranking than some other manager’s sad report. Here was my response. In the past year, I… Escaped from a black hole. Twice. I...
In his Practical Review of ASP.NET MVC, Josh Charles provides a helpful review of ASP.NET MVC from a Rails developer’s perspective. It seemed fair and balanced, and the end result is that there’s room for improvement, which we’re taking to heart. However, that’s not the part that caught my attention. He mentioned that he wrote a cycle method but couldn’t write it as an extension method to HtmlHelper. this was an instance method that would take two strings and return the one that it didn’t return the last time it was called. In my templates,...