Vista Gadget To Monitor Your Build
Simone Chiaretta, a member of the Subtext team (not to mention many other projects), just released a Vista Gadget which allows you to monitor a CruiseControl.NET build within your sidebar.
Read MoreA Strange Parking Ticket
I received a strange delinquency notice for a parking ticket. At first glance, it seemed normal enough. Yep, there’s my license plate number. Yep, the make of the car is correct. But look at this, the color of the car is wrong.
Read MorePlay The Most Influential Amiga Games Now
It wasn’t till 1987 that I experienced my first (and worst) case of technolust ever. The object that inspired such raw feelings of lust, of course, was the Commodore Amiga.
Read MoreGeeksWithBlogs Now Are Geeks With Subtext
The GeeksWithBlogs.net website just switched over its 1442 (and counting) blogs, containing 25,921 blog posts and 39,140 comments over to Subtext. As Jeff Julian reports, it only took them six hours.
Read MoreDatabinding Tips: Nesting Eval Statements
Maybe this is obvious, but it wasn’t obvious to me. I’m binding some data in a repeater that has the following output based on two numeric columns in my database. It doesn’t matter why or what the data represents. It’s just two pieces of data with some formatting:
Read MoreWhere Should You Place Your Labels In Your Form
UPDATE: Luke Wroblewski posted a link in my comments to his Best Practices for Form Design PDF. It is 100+ pages chock full of good usability information concerning forms. Thanks Luke!
Read MoreVoice Your Thoughts At The Mix07 Open Source Panel
Rob Conery is soliciting our feedback for a panel on Open Source that he᾿ll be participating in at Mix07.
Read MoreThank God You're Here
How good are you at thinking on your feet?
Read MoreT-SQL Quiz - Dealing With Trends
I’m not one to post a lot of quizzes on my blog. Let’s face it, while we may create altruistic reasons for posting quizzes such as:
Read MoreSubsonic 2.0 Beta 1
Rob
Conery just announced that
Beta 1 of SubSonic
2.0
is ready for your immediate data access needs. He’s looking for beta
testers (open to anyone and everyone) to make sure this release is rock
solid.
Video Dice Stacking
I think it’s time to start a video collection of amazing talents people acquire when they have too much time on their hands. This one must surely qualify. It’s worth two minutes of your time to check it out.
Read MoreState Of The Blog Report
Technorati recently released their latest State of The Blogosphere report (renamed to something about the Live Web to avoid confusion with the Dead Web) chock full of statistics and pretty graphs.
Read MoreThere Are Only Four Software Licenses
Jeff Atwood writes a great summary of Open Source Licenses. As far as I’m concerned, there’s really only four software licenses to worry about (open source or otherwise).
Read MoreHow to Harvest Emails With Google And Protect Yours From Spammers
Just something I noticed today. A lot of people (I may even be guilty of this) publish their emails on the web using the following format:
Read MoreEstimates And Actuals Are Not Bounded Evenly On Both Sides
A
while ago I read Steve McConnel’s latest book, Software Estimation:
Demystifying the Black Art,
which is a fantastic treatise on the “Black Art” of software estimation.
Rhino Mocks 3.0 Released!
Ayende
just announced the release of Rhino Mocks
3.0.
The downloads are located
here.
If you aren’t subscribed to Ayende’s
blog, I highly recommend it.
This guy never sleeps and churns out code like a tornado.
Doubling Down At Mix 07
Building A Strong Open Source Community Requires Empathy
A recent confrontational thread within the Subtext forums that I shared with Rob Conery got us into a discussion about the challenges of dealing with difficult members of an Open Source community. There are many approaches one can take. Some advocate not engaging disruptive community members. I tend to give everyone the benefit of the doubt at first. Rob often commends me for my paticence in dealing with users in the forums. Neither approach is necessarily better than the other. It’s a matter of style.
Read MoreThread Safety Via Read Only Collections
UPDATE: Made some corrections to the discussion of ReadOnlyCollection’s interface implementations near the bottom. Thanks to Thomas Freudenberg and Damien Guard for pointing out the discrepancy.
Read MoreWindows Live Writer and Html Entities
I’ve been banging my head against a couple of problems with the interaction between Subtext and Windows Live Writer that I thought I’d post on this here blog in the hopes that someone can help.
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