You’ve probably heard the term Impedance Mismatch thrown around when discussing object relational mapping. I’m sure it comes up every morning at the water cooler. Maybe you’ve even thrown it around yoursef a few times. Do you know what the term means?

Quick! What is the definition of the word moot? I’ll use it in a sentence.

I’m right in the middle of reading this book right now and I can’t heap enough praise upon it. This is a worthwhile read.

We’ll be out enjoying the wilderness this weekend at Sequoia National Park. I once worked at a company with Sequoia in its name. This park is not owned by them.

UPDATE: I finally followed up with part 2, only 8 years later.

Wolfgang Puck could not be reached for comment.

Be aware that there is a PayPal scam going around. I received the following email which had a forged from address of “DoNotReply@PayPal.com”. There’s a reason they don’t want you to reply, because it exposes the scam. They’d rather have you run the attached program. DO NOT DO IT! This is a scam. It is easy to forge the headers of an email. It didn’t come from PayPal.

Test First Development, the process of writing unit tests to test the code you are about to write, is one of my favorite software practices that has an impact on producing better written code. However, it’s no a panacea. It is true that I use the debugger much less often because of TDD, but there are still occasions where it’s important to manually step through code line by line.

Typically when you spawn a new thread, you want to give it a name to facilitate debugging. For example:

This is one of the funniest tech support stories I’ve heard in a long time. Even you non-geeks can appreciate this…

Guess he should have remembered to take out the trash… Oh wait, he tried.

I finally decided to quit being a cheap-ass and so I purchased web hosting with WebHost4Life. Now my blog is hosted at https://haacked.com/ rather than that old ugly domain name (https://haacked.com/).

Thanks to the help of the very talented Joel Bernarte, I have a nice new look to the site. He created the logo you see at top. I then spent a bunch of time trying to modify the layout and Css to do the logo justice.

See, this is exactly the type of comment spam I’m hoping to avoid.

Another option is to simply remove the web interface for comments and only allow comments via the Comment API.

I now have a WebHost4Life account. I’ll be moving my site there sometime in the future. If you sign up for webhost4life, be sure to use this link or refer to me. :) http://www.webhost4life.com/default.asp?refid=haacked

In an email to Ian Griffiths I mentioned that I wished he had a comments section because some of his posts are so intriguing I have to reply. ;) His reply relayed a common angst regarding enabling comments on a blog, comment spam