Why You Shouldn't Be Using a Password Of Any Kind
Robert Hensing, a senior member of Microsoft’s PSS Security Response Team, writes this enlightening post why passwords are so 5 minutes ago.
Read MoreUnit Testing is a Poor Example to Demonstrate a Complaint About Methodologies
Although I agree in spirit with most of Joel’s discussion of methodologies and rock star programmers, I’m in a bit of disagreement over the quote from Tamir he posts.
Read MoreSoccer And Rain
Americans often have a low view
of soccer players (though that is changing in recent years). They don’t
think of the sport as physical as football or even basketball. However
from my experience, soccer players are every bit as tough as their
counterparts in other sports.
An Improved Plugin for Using w.bloggar with RSS Bandit
Recently I received some kind words from Scott Reynolds regarding my “excellent tutorial” on writing IBlogExtensions for RSS Bandit. Using my tutorial, he wrote a plug-in to send items in RSS Bandit to One Note. (There’s another plug-in that does the same thing here).
Read MoreTouched Some Dry Ice Today
Ouch that smarts!
Read MoreIn Toronto Today, Off to New York Tomorrow
I arrived in Toronto today and am staying at a very nice hotel. It’s called the SoHo Metropolitan and it sure beats the Super 8 I stayed in at Tech Ed 2004 (next door to Adam Kinney and Eric Porter). It’s too bad I’m only here one night as I was hoping to have time to check out the well equipped gym.
Read MoreCreating Self Contained NUnit Tests Requiring A Web Server
This is a fabulous post (did I just say “fabulous”?) on how to create self contained NUnit tests when you need a web server.
Read MoreBlogging and Rebuilding Baghdad
My neighbor Chris is in Iraq as the #2 guy overseeing rebuilding projects as part of the Army Corp of Engineer. He’ll be over there for several months helping to rebuild the facilities necessary for providing clean drinking water and electricity.
Read MoreSQL TIP: Connection To SQL via Windows Authentication over VPN
Rating Plug-In for RSS Bandit
NOTE: This plug-in is no longer available or supported
Read MoreHi My Name Is Phil And I'm A Blogaholic
The One Note Metaphor for the Tablet PC May Be Too Good
Today was my first day bringing the Tablet PC to work and I immediately put it to good use. I think that the paper pad metaphor that One Note uses may be implemented too well.
Read MoreDave Winer for President?
Dave claims that inhaling puts him out of the running for President.
Read MoreThis Is Patently Out Of Control!
From the Wintellect blog.
Read MoreOrganizing VS.NET projects and Solutions
Colin asks the question “How do you organize your code?” and then goes on to describe the system in use at his shop.
Read MoreMeta Programming Paradigm
"You have summoned an elemental" The good ol' days of gaming...
It was really just a side question of this
post on Rory’s
blog having nothing to do with the main
topic (some blather about Jury duty bla bla bla). For 50 bonus points,
the question was what game featured the quote “You have summoned an
elemental”?
ASP.NET Function of the Day: SessionId is "Too Legit to Quit".
So I was poking around the source code for how ASP.NET initiates session
state etc… and noticed this method of the SessionId
class. You gotta
love the naming of this one. Steve McConnell (via Code Complete) would
probably have recommended something like “IsValid” but he has no
imagination nor flair.