You've Been Haacked in the Blog 1 Million.
Many thanks to C|Not for listing the venerable You’ve Been Haacked in their Blog 1,000,000. The recognition is much appreciated.
Read MoreFriendly HaackMan Reminder: Do Not Forget To Blink
Hey you! Yeah I’m talking to you. The one there who has been staring at the screen for several hours straight. Do NOT forget to blink often.
Read MoreCommunity Server 1.2 Live Demo
When it was released, I was quite critical of Community Server. I felt it was a rush job and shouldn’t have even been graced with a “beta” next to its name. That, along with other reasons, spurred me to start the Subtext project.
Read MoreGmail adds Auto Save
Man this would have saved me from tearing out a lot of hair in the past. An excerpt from the announcement:
Read MoreGhostDoc 1.3.0 Released!
Roland released Ghost Doc 1.3.0. I am looking forward to trying the new bits out. Check out his release notes.
Read MoreThe Shining Redux - Feel Good Movie?
Since when was The Shining a feel good movie? Since somebody creatively edited footage to make this promo.
Read MoreTwiggy Meets Ashton Kutcher
My wife can be a real bookworm at times. She took Twiggy to the local Starbucks in the downtown area of Culver City to have a drink and read her Spanish book outside in the beautiful weather. As she studied, she could overhear two guys behind her loudly engaged in annoying guy talk about some hot coworker of theirs and how some other guy got to her first.
Read MoreCoca Cola's Dirty Ad - Why QA Really Matters
Housing Prices in Los Angeles
Just to put housing prices in Los Angeles in perspective, we bought our small 1000 sq foot town house condo a year and a half ago. I just found out this week that our neighbors sold their comparable unit for 30% more than we paid for ours. It boggles my mind.
Read MoreA Critical Look at C# 3.0 Extension Methods
Ian Griffiths takes an in-depth look at C# 3.0 Extension methods and the potential problems with it. Of particular note is his philosophy, which directly follows from the idea that code should be written for humans, which he summarizes whe he say…
Read MoreThunder!
I just heard thunder. I don’t think the weather here in Los Angeles got the memo, but we already had a thunderstorm. To the thunder clounds, go away and come back later when the yearly quota has’t been filled.
Read MoreGoing Into Design Debt
Found this post in the trackbacks section of my post on Mental Laziness. It’s a classic example of where management pressure often leads to mental laziness.
Read MoreSplitting Pascal/Camel Cased Strings
Found this post in RossCode which mentions a blog post that discusses how to bind enumerations to drop downs, something I’ve done quite often.
Read MoreMust We Put Code In Our Blog Titles and Subtitles?
Perhaps it’s a rather innocuous practice, but after seeing one too many I am compelled to rant a bit, if only to be a total jerk. What do I speak of? I was going through the blogs in my blog reader the other day and I started noticing the predilection for geek blogs to have “cute” titles and/or subtitles with code snippets. I know we’re geeks, but must we be THAT geeky? It’s become so trendy that I must start the backlash now.
Read MoreMEME: Top 10 Recent Blogs
Ok, I am looking for some blogging fresh meat, so I thought I’d try my hand at starting a meme. The criteria is purposely vague and very simple. I want you to list ten blogs you’ve really enjoyed reading recently. Especially the underrated, undiscovered, recent finds. They don’t have to be your favorite blogs of all time, just ones that have caught your notice recently.
Read MoreNow Repeat After Me, Var Isn't an Object
Leave it to Ian to cut through
the crap and give a very clear and detailed
account
of what exactly the new var
keyword in C# does.
VisualStudioHacks is alive...
Good to see James revive this. I really need to buy this book.
Read MoreThe Downside to Cool Software Names
Refactoring the Gregorian Calendar
In 1582, the Julian calendar was really starting to show its age. A bunch of brains got together and came up with the Gregorian calendar, which was received by the general population with a big middle finger in the air. Many saw it as an attempt by greedy landlords to cheat tenants out of a week of rent.
Read MoreTickets to Spain
Picked up our airline tickets to Spain today. We’ll be visiting in November, landing in Madrid, travelling through Andalucia and ending up in Barcelona. The main thing I want to visit in Madrid is the area where I used to live called Torrejon de Ardoz.
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