A Blog About a Guy With Too Many Hobbies
Every time I think I’m going to need to write some quick function to do some simple task in a .NET application I shocked to find that the function already exists. Case in point. Today I needed to find the extension of a file and it turns out all you need to do […]
One of the things that I need to do every week is submit a progress report for the past week. It’s really easy to generate this by pulling the commit messages from CVS. That way I just have to copy/paste them into a new Word doc and reformat it. In case you […]
The guys over at .NET rocks have a really interesting interview about user interface design. If you have time I would recommend it. They actually get into some concrete examples and history regarding things like shortcut keys, the design itself, and even how people “see” things on a screen. http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=338
Jeff Atwood at Coding Horror has an interesting post today about how Wordpress can max out the CPU of a server (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001105.html). In the article he discusses how WP is really slowed down by the fact that it generates every page dynamically each time they are accessed (which in hindsight makes sense). But […]
I just started reading Daily WTF and it’s really scary. Occasionally, they publish an article about someone’s experience at some business that handles money (bank, market trader, etc) where they have some mission critical piece of software that barely functions. The current year is hard coded, there are individual tables for each fiscal […]
I started messing around with C# earlier and I thought that I would look at porting some of my VB.net code. It’s actually really easy to just start writing C# code after knowing a little bit of .NET and Java. From what I have seen so far it’s kind of like the bastard […]
One of the things I really like about gamedev.net is their Image of the Day Gallery. The thing I don’t like about it is that there isn’t an RSS feed so I occasionally have to go through the gallery and view what I haven’t seen. But as I become more and more dependent […]
It’s funny how programmers never seem to be done learning. Over the years I have learned a lot of programming languages (BASIC, C++, Perl, PHP, Javascript, Java, etc.) and it doesn’t look like I will ever stop. I might be involved in a project over the summer where I will have to learn […]
I have been trying to come up with side programming project for my “free time” this summer. I have a lot of things that I want to learn how to do and experiment with and I know the best way to learn anything is just start messing around with it to get it working. […]
Google released their list of approved mentoring organizations yesterday (link). I went to a presentation today about it and the program is really interesting. The idea is to get students into the open source community so they can get experience and a paycheck. Different open source programs and organizations allow you to work on an […]
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