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Self Conscious Development
2008-04-05 04:21:00
Write code as if you care what others think about what you’ve written.
More About: Programming , Development

What I Learned From X That Makes Me a Better Programmer in Y
2007-10-04 05:28:00
Reginald Braithwaite says he’d love to hear stories about how programmers learned concepts from one language that made them better in another. This pretty neatly coincides with a post I’ve been meaning to make for months, so I might as well just get on with it and write something (because as CHart reminded me, I ...
More About: Programming , Programmer , Learned , Gram

Me On Golf
2007-08-04 23:42:00
I finally got around to doing something I’ve wanted to do for months; start blogging about golf. For anyone who’s remotely interested, welcome to The Long Road to Scratch
More About: Life , Golf

Arguments You?ll Almost Never Hear
2007-06-07 05:28:00
Here’s a bit of a cheeky question… You know all those "conversations" us nerds have about scalability and performance where we endlessly debate about where to put business logic and whether scaling the database is easier than scaling the application servers? Well, how come we never end up talking about how to make arguably the most ...
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Obscuring HTTP
2007-06-05 06:08:00
Ayende has tried to explain why he doesn’t like ASP.NET Webforms many times, but based on the comments that pop up on his posts I’m not sure if he’s successfully getting his point across. I’ll try to help him out in this instance, as I think the same way about not just Webforms, but most ...
More About: Programming , Http

Revelation
2007-04-22 01:50:00
Shit. And here I thought I was a Mac guy because I was simply a chump for superficial special effects and had a hate on for virii. Turns out I’m actually just sexy, charming and funny. Too bad I got married before I figured this out.
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Hosting Awesomiality ?
2007-04-22 01:03:00
Not sure if anyone noticed, but my blog was down for almost 24 hours after an utterly botched “urgent maintenance upgrade” by WebHost4Life. Now I’ve been with them for around 3-4 years with only a few outages, but this one was just utterly rad. I put in a help desk ticket this morning at about eight ...
More About: Hosting , Ality

Persistence Ignorance
2007-03-15 03:53:00
People are talking about Microsoft’s Entity framework and how it does not currently allow persistence ignorant domain objects. I’ve been torn about this issue for a while now. On the one hand, having an O/R mapper that is persistent ignorant essentially means that it has to support XML mapping files. The downside to this approach is ...
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For Posterity?s Sake
2007-03-10 20:52:00
It’s March 10th, and I just sat outside in a t-shirt, without socks, drinking a Newcastle Ale (in a delightfully diminutive stubby bottle) for about an hour. WX says it’s only 12 degrees centigrade, but I don’t believe it. God, I can’t wait for summer.
More About: Life , Teri

Timesheet Released
2007-02-25 06:11:00
Several years ago, while I was still working at Kanga, I wrote a timesheet application that was used by the company to track employee hours. Based on ASP.NET and MySQL, the original intent was to have it running on Mono. That never really panned out, but the app was in use for at least a ...
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Why I Prefer C# to Java (The Language)
2006-12-05 06:58:00
The first language I really learned to program in was Java . The first language I actually delivered a product with was C#. It wasn’t hard to move from one to the other, as in most aspects the language was exactly the same. There are some significant differences, though. The most striking difference in my mind ...
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In Search of Stupidity
2006-11-30 21:04:00
A couple choice quotes from Eric Sink’s foreward to In Search of Stupidity 2 by Rick Chapman: The movie industry wants us to buy all our DVDs again so we can see them in “high definition”, but they can’t decide which new format they want. Either way, this comes in the nick of time, because ...

The Consequences of Being an Ass
2006-11-07 21:47:00
My referral logs show me that within the last month, on at least 3 occasions, someone found this site on Google after searching for the following: find picture of a donkey s backend
More About: Sequences , Being , Consequences , Cons , The Con