Subtext 2.0 is progressing nicely. The plug-in architecture is pretty much feature complete. The code is still undergoing code review, testing, and tweaking, but it is possible to start building plug-ins for it right away with the understanding that some details might change.

Steve Harman posts a request to nominate Subtext for a SourceForge 2007 Community Choice Award.

A few people mentioned that they had the following compiler error when trying to compile HttpSimulator:

Testing code written for the web is challenging. Especially code that makes use of the ASP.NET intrinsic objects such as the HttpRequest object. My goal is to make testing such code easier.

What would you do if you found out that a project you were working on was going to be used in an unethical or illegal manner?

One praiseworthy aspect of ASP.NET 2.0 is its much improved XHTML compliance. However, there is one particular implementation detail related to this that causes some web designs to break and could have been implemented in a better manner.

With Father’s Day fast approaching (June 17 this year), and now that I have joined the hallowed ranks of fathers, I thought I’d have a little fun writing about something I posted on my blog two years ago, but has recently popped up on my radar.

Most of the time when I’m testing my code, I only test it using the en-US culture since, …well…, I speak English and I live in the U.S. Isn’t the U.S. the only country that matters anyway? ;)

System.IO.Path

In my last post I mentioned that Subkismet is ready to put a thumping on comment SPAM for your web applications. Unfortunately I didn’t have much in the way of demo code.

Update: I’ve created a new NuGet Package for Subkismet (Package Id is “subkismet”) which will make it much easier to include this in your own projects.

A while back I mentioned the beginning of phase 1 of my total world domination plans. This morning at 3:55 AM, phase 1 is officially complete with the birth of our son, Cody Yokoyama Haack, all seven pounds and fourteen ounces of him.

One thing that never gets old is when someone visits me and asks to check some email on my computer.

As I mentioned before, I am the Product Manager for the Koders.com website. I am responsible for the search engine, the source code index, the forums, the blog and the Content Management System.

Microsoft recently released Windows Live Writer Beta 2, the long awaited next version of their blog editing tool. Although there are a few quirks with WLW, I find the user interface and usability to be really nice. They make great use of the right sidebar panel.

I don’t know about you, but every company I’ve ever worked at had a Fort Knox like system in place for deploying code to the production server. Typically, deployment looks something like this (some with more steps, some with less):

Ok, this will be my last post on Twitter for the time being. My last two posts on the subject pointed out flaws with it, so I thought I’d follow up with something positive.

With all this talk of rockstar programmers, I like Ron Evan’s take when he says, “I Would Rather Be A Jazz Programmer”.

I don’t know about you, but I find it a pain to call stored procedures from code. Either I end up writing way too much code to specify each SqlParameter explicitly, or I use a tool like Microsoft’s Data Access Application Block’s SqlHelper classj to pass in the parameter values, which requires me to remember the correct parameter order (it actually supports both methods of calling a stored procedure). What a pain!