Start++ Is All That And Then Some
Update: I have an even better startlet for stopping and starting services in my comments.
Read MoreTrying Out A New Site Design
Thought I should take advantage of my latest bout of insomnia and do a slight redesign of my website. My goal was to clean it up a bit so it looks less crowded and cluttered.
Read MoreReplacing Recursion With a Stack
In
Jeff Atwood’s infamous
FizzBuzz
post,
he quotes Dan Kegel who mentions.
A Comparison of TFS vs Subversion for Open Source Projects
We’ve been having an internal debate within the Subtext mailing list over the merits of SourceForge vs Google Code Project Hosting vs Codeplex. Much of the discussion hinges around the benefits of Subversion for Open Source projects when compared to Team Foundation System (TFS).
Read MoreHow's This For Tech Support?
Micah Dylan (CEO of VelocIT) writes about a tech support call he had with Comcast, the local cable company.
Read MoreWhy Can't Programmers... Read?
UPDATE: This post was meant to be mostly tongue in cheek. I love programmers. Some of my best friends are programmers. Also, to be fair to the FizzBuzzers, the spec for this question is flawed, as are all specs as I point out in Why Can’t Spec Writers Write Specs.
Read MoreGeek Slap Fight - Get Rid of WWW
Forget flame wars. They’re so USENET. The new way of geek fighting is much more subtle.
Read MoreSeeing Bill Gate's House During Seattle Vacation
I finally got around to uploading pics of our short Seattle vacation to Flickr. Our first full day there, Saturday, benefitted from beautiful weather. We took a nice boat ride on Lake Washington and skipped by BillG᾿s immense house.
Read MoreASP.NET Tip - Use The Label Control Correctly
Scott Watermasysk has a great set of Quick Tips for ASP.NET on his blog. And this is only part one! I’m Looking forward to seeing the subsequent posts of this series.
Read MoreCatch Me On Univision
In Decemember I wrote about a great soccer
camp
I attended. Well one of the other attendees is a Sports Anchor at
Univision and had a camera man in tow taking footage during the camp.
XSD Schema Files For VS.NET
I’m posting this more as a reminder for myself. Where exactly are you supposed to place XSD files to give you intellisense for XML files in Visual Studio.NET?
Read MoreVisiting Seattle Next Week
The wife and I are
headed up to Seattle for President’s day weekend to visit some friends.
New Subtext Release and Notes On Subtext 2.0
Steve Harman just announced the release of Subtext version 1.9.4 Windward Edition. This one comes with a lot of bug fixes, so be sure to upgrade.
Read MoreXFN Link Tool For Windows Live Writer
UPDATE: How could I have overlooked the Plugin Keyvan Nayyeri wrote two months ago. Sorry buddy!
Read MoreSorry For The Apparent Reposts
My feed looks like several items were reposted. This is due to a bug in Subtext when editing an existing post using Windows Live Writer. In any case, we’ll have a fix available in the next release of Subtext soon.
Read MoreApparently I Can't Confirm My Own Employment
Our CEO Discovers Second Life
Micah
Dylan,
co-founder and CEO of VelocIT (you
know, the place I work for my day job), has recently discovered Second
Crack
Life.
He’s been hanging out with some big
wig at
IBM in charge of open source and open standards. And you know how I
loves me that open
source.
Night At The Roxbury With Mr. Subsonic
On
Tuesday night I met Rob
Conery, aka Mr.
Subsonic,
aka Mr. Commerce Starter
Kit. The man
is shifty and goes by many aliases. He was in town visiting family and
was able to pull away for a night to kick it.
Better Programming By Programming Better
Jeff Atwood writes a great post on how to become a better programmer by not programming. For the most part, I totally agree with his premise that to become a better programmer, you need to…
Read MoreRoute Around The Default Gateway On The Remote Network
Steve Harman digs in and solves a longtime mystery for me regarding VPN connections and default gateways on remote networks.
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