Worst Software Bugs in History
Wired News has a very interesting article on History’s worst software flaws.
Read MoreFaster than Einstein
Ingo Rammer writes about the theoretical limit to reducing latency. Since 1994, we’ve reduced latency by 10 times, but increased bandwidth by millions. We can make the pipes fatter, but we can’t make the data any faster than the speed of light unless, as Ingo points out, “you prove Einstein wrong”.
Read MoreHow Is The Weather?
The title of my post is meant to indicate that this post is not technical in nature, but rather just a bit of small talk, chit-chat, idle conversation. You know, the sort of surface level conversation meant to break the ice and pass the time. How is the weather where you are?
Read MoreGeek Underrepresentation In Hollywood
FogCreek commissioned a documentary about their summer intern project named Aardvark which ended up releasing Copilot, a product to help your mom with her computer woes.
Read MoreGoogle Referals Program
Logged into my ad-sense account and noticed that Google started a referral program. Very cool!
Read MoreWhat Is a Blog Worth?
Or a better question that Jon Galloway asks is “What are many blogs worth?” Specifically he answers this question for every blog in the weblogs.asp.net OPML. Awesome work!
Read MoreNever Scare a Brother
How Not To Please Your Clients
A while ago I wrote
that a client often
often does not know what he wants until he sees it. I was referring to
software development, but this is common across many professional
services organization, such as plumbing for example.
Bird Flu Hits the U.S.
Parents. It is time to have a heart to heart with the kids.
Read MoreWhen to Build a Smart Client Over a Web App
So when should you choose to build a smart client rather than a web application (or in addition to). The typical answer I’ve seen is when extreme usability is required. As AJAX techniques get more mature, I think this will become less of a consideration.
Read MoreWeb Applications and Local Document Storage
Rob Howard asks the question Is “Smart Client” a “Dumb Idea”. Obviously I don’t necessarily think so as I pointed out in my post Overlooked Problem With Web Based Applications.
Read MoreDynamic SQL Is Not Inline SQL
Perhaps there is a better term I could be using when I referred to “dynamic SQL” in my last post. To my defense, I did mention using Prepared Statements.
Read MoreTake Control of Web Service Exceptions
Craig Andera posts a technique for handling exceptions thrown by a webservice. He takes the approach of adding a try catch block to each method.
Read MoreWhere the Provider Model Falls Short
Now that ASP.NET 2.0 is released, a lot of developers will start to really dig into the provider model design pattern and specification and its various implementations. The provider model is really a blending of several design patterns, but most closely resembles the abstract factory.
Read MoreThe Sony Spyware Disincentive to Purchase Legal Music
It seems Sony has overstepped the line with some DRM it used to protect its music CDs.
Read MoreThe Bell Ringer
I just had to post this in its full glory. Great leadup Matt!
Read MoreOverlooked Problem With Web Based Applications
While it may be exciting to see Microsoft jumping aboard the web-based application bandwagon, something that I am experiencing right now reminds me why I think there is still a strong place for rich “smart” clients.
Read MoreWriting to the Asp.Net Bin Directory
I have a question for those of you who host a blog with a hosting provider such as WebHost4Life. Do you make sure to remove write access for the ASPNET user to the bin directory? If so, would you be willing to enable write access for an installation process?
Read MoreWhat Housing Bubble?
The subject of this post is the title of an interesting article on page 58 of this month’s Wired magazine. The author, Patrick Di Justo, shows that compared to 1950 prices, we are paying more of our annual income for houses, but we get a lot more for our dollar.
Read MoreA Minor Redesign for Joel
Software pundit Joel Spolsky finally added titles to his RSS feeds (among other site improvements) and it’s about time. The title “November 5, 2005” tells me nothing about what he’s saying. Love him or hate him (why choose one or the other. Choose both!), Joel is definitely worth reading.
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