December 2005 - Posts

i-mate JASJAR

Published Wed, Dec 21 2005 5:25 | girishb

I got one of these when I went to PDC. Its one of those things that has basically removed all need for carrying zaurus , iPod and a Motorola phone in my pocket. I love it. I do have one issue with it though. It seems like it needs a soft-reset every few...

Microsoft "Award for customer excellence", I got one too

Published Wed, Dec 21 2005 5:18 | girishb

By getting Microsoft award for customer excellence , I am joining the illustrious crowd that includes Wallace McClure , Frans Bouma , Anand Narayanaswamy and Sam Gentile . When I saw the email initially, it looked too much like a phishing scheme. Then...

Updated voo2dotray

Published Fri, Dec 16 2005 7:56 | girishb

Voo2dotray has been updated by Robbie Coleman with many cleanups and enhancements. You can read more about it and download it here . Thank you Rob. Also, Shimon has posted his comments on this. It makes me proud to see that something I hacked together...

Martin Fowler on Agile

Published Thu, Dec 15 2005 8:01 | girishb

I found from Sam Gentile's blog about Martin Fowlers updated " The new methodology " article. Its an excellent read. It provides very good measures for going agile or not. If you are uncertain about agile, make sure you read " Should you go agile? " section...

Exceptions and ASP.NET 2.0

Published Wed, Dec 14 2005 13:35 | girishb

Scott, in his usual style, has a blog entry regarding unhandled exceptions in ASP.NET 2.0. The gist of it is that if you have secondary threads in your ASP.NET app and you let an exception leak through, you are going to kill the asp.net worker process...

Using CSBlogger to post

Published Tue, Dec 13 2005 14:34 | girishb

I ditched my attempts at using Zoundry for editing my msmvps.com posts. That and blogjet and other blog editors failed miserably for this. But, I found CSBlogger which works like a charm. Thank god! I cannot bear to edit stuff on web pages. I tend to...

Anyone coming to MS launch on 15th Dec at Boston?

Published Tue, Dec 13 2005 19:14 | girishb

I will be there. Look like it could be fun. I will be at the Pre-launch Architect's council Breakfast as well. Free food is always welcome.

Steve on TDD

Published Tue, Dec 13 2005 19:07 | girishb

Steve Eichert gets TDD. I know its not that hard to say you are doing TDD when you are basically doing upfront design and coming up with fancy UML diagrams and then developing the code with some tests around the code. I will not say that that is not TDD...

Thank you, Susan!

Published Tue, Dec 13 2005 15:33 | girishb

This is great. We are on Community server 1.0. Woohoo, looks good, smells great. I love it.

Snow

Published Fri, Dec 9 2005 13:12 | girishb

Yuck, We are getting pummelled by snow today. I like snow when I can stay home, light up the fireplace and watch the snow from inside. Not today. I am in office and feel like it will be an adventure going back home. Oh well!!

Scott is funny ...

Published Mon, Dec 5 2005 14:48 | girishb

Here is a nice little blog entry by Scott Allen about the kind of interaction he seems to have had during a code camp presentation. Now I know why I like him. :) BTW: It also has some interesting ASP.NET 2.0 links in that entry.

Anybody playing with Ruby or Rails?

Published Thu, Dec 1 2005 22:03 | girishb

I have been having a blast with Ruby and Rails framework. By far, this has been the cleanest experience I have had with languages and frameworks. I have started a blogger site for writing on ruby experiences . I have been mucking with Ruby in Emacs but...

TDD and MS continued

Published Thu, Dec 1 2005 18:46 | girishb

MS seems to have listened to the industry and pulled the paper about TDD from MSDN. I am impressed at the response. That is great!!!! Hopefully we will see better information next time around, may be get Martin Fowler or Michael Feathers to write that...