November 2004 - Posts

Now This is a Cool Geek Dinner

Published 30 November 4 10:27 PM | William

Wishing in was in WI

Filed under: Humor

RIP Little Guy

Published 30 November 4 12:51 AM | William

Ok, this is just one of those personal blogs I'm writing to/for myself. Eariler today, mom called me up crying. She had some 'terrible' news to tell me and warned me that perhaps I should wait until after work. Can't really code when your mom's freaking...

Filed under: Me

Biting our Game ;-)

Published 29 November 4 10:19 PM | William

Jacek just posted some Great Booth Babe Pics . --- Seems like KC wasn't the first one with the idea.

Filed under: Humor

Darn....

Published 29 November 4 10:7 PM | William

I don't think the world has ever taken such a huge blow to http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=588087 . God knows Trotskyist epitomize Objective reporting, especially when they cover issues like -- oh never mind. This story , again not...

Filed under: Me

Is someone goofing on me?

Published 29 November 4 7:50 PM | William

Perhaps it's just the same name and it's a weird coincidence - but I got a request regarding my Interview questions post that reads the following (normally I wouldn't post it publicly since it has an email address- but he posted it openly - if you have...

Filed under: .NET General

The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint

Published 28 November 4 10:49 PM | William

Tufte really is amazing! . Proving once again that he can say so much in so few words. If you start to cringe in meetings as soon as you see PowerPoint being loaded - you'll love love this . Actually, I mention this b/c of the few VB tidbits and the ensuing...

Filed under: Humor, Life in General

Obviously I'm doing something wrong - any ideas?

Published 28 November 4 10:5 PM | William

Ok, If I have the following xslt: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><?xml:namespace prefix = xsl /> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"> <xsl:output method="text"> </xsl:output>...

Filed under: .NET General

Interesting UI Philosophy

Published 28 November 4 8:52 PM | William

Software that looks like Hardware .

Filed under: Humor

Another great SOA Post by Andres

Published 28 November 4 8:49 PM | William

I don't think I've ever come away from reading one of Andres posts without starting 20 new streams of thought in my head. Always a great place to get you thinking.

Filed under: Data Access

Outsourcing yourself

Published 28 November 4 8:42 PM | William

I too seem to remember reading this a while ago but the comment posted was classic. Although there are quite a few ethical concerns here - it would be kinda cool to outsource yourself. It'd be pretty funny though if this was true to get a big donation...

Filed under: News

Google Groups 2 - BETA

Published 28 November 4 4:54 PM | William

Is anyone using this yet? http://www.google.com/googlegroups/about.html

Filed under: News

They must have helped Electronic Arts 'motivate' their employees

Published 28 November 4 4:44 PM | William

Sahil first posted a link to this company and it sounded like it was going to be interesting.. Just by reading the dress code I realized this was definitely somewhere that probably isn't much fun to work at. This is Anal Retention like you've never seen...

Filed under: Humor

Too good to be true - Written in VB and written by a French guy (Humor)

Published 27 November 4 7:15 PM | William

Before I say another word - please note this is humor. I started my programming career as a number crunching geek at a marketing research firm where I taught myself VBA because I was too lazy to handle the monotomy of what my job entailed. VBA let me...

Filed under: Humor

The new Whidbey XML/HTML Editor

Published 27 November 4 6:22 PM | William

Words could not begin to describe how much more I like the new HTML/XML editor in Whidbey. For one thing, you can expand and collapse regions just like the IDE does with the code windows. You can keep your formatting. It fills in the tags immediately...

Filed under: .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005

.NET Framework-based Google Deskbar Plug-in Development Kit

Published 27 November 4 11:30 AM | William

Damn this is cool

Filed under: .NET General

Flame Bait - thanks to Michael on this one

Published 26 November 4 10:18 PM | William

Michael G just posted this wonderful parody . I'm still laughing my a33 of over it.

Filed under: Humor

A little more on code generation...

Published 26 November 4 7:27 PM | William

Seems that I'm not the only one impressed with Kathleen's book or the virtues of Deklarit... lots of cool stuff here.

Filed under: .NET General

The Boo Programming Language

Published 26 November 4 7:23 PM | William

He's got some Pretty strong opinions on compilers but it's definitely an interesting read.

Filed under: .NET General

Great comment by Andy

Published 26 November 4 7:17 PM | William

If only this guy taught every CS101 course: <<I have a friend that was for many years a professor and his classes started on paper. The assignment was to write a set of instructions that a computer could read and get the contents of a pitcher of...

Filed under: News

Code Readability...

Published 26 November 4 7:1 PM | William

The issue of code readability is one of those that I normally try to avoid. Why? Because if you asked every developer on Earth “Do you write code that is easily 'readable'” You'd probably get a response rate over 95% “Yes”. However...

Filed under: .NET General