I just ordered $100 or so worth of stuff from Amazon, apparently twice, and apparently on my corporate card even though this was a personal order. That single clicky-buy thingy is dangerous. Geeez. I just turned off one-click and I hope I don’t get fired. Also, I can’t figure out fax machines, copiers, or social […]
Read MoreI’m boning up on my LINQ to SQL skills again for a presentation I’m giving for Boise Code Camp. One cool little tool I’ve been exposed to recently is LINQPad. LINQPad is a great little tool for messing around with LINQ to SQL queries and testing ideas. Point LINQPad at a SQL Server database and […]
Read MoreThat’s it, I’ve had it. Remember this: I Just Bought a MacBook Pro? Well, I can’t live with the keyboard anymore. Can’t do it. I love the form factor, and I love the lightness, and I love the display, and I hate the keyboard layout. Guess what? It wans’t made for Windows. Weird, eh? You […]
Read MoreMany developers categorize themselves when describing their areas of passion or specialty. Often this sounds like, “I’m a data guy,” or “I like middleware.” Occasionally you hear a passion for user experience or UI expressed as, “I like making GUIs.” Most of us got into this business because we liked making computers do things we […]
Read MoreAs if we needed more confirmation that we technologists talk funny to nuero-typicals, I give you the following: In a news story about Boise Code Camp, the following paragraphs appeared in this article of the Idaho Statesman. The camp will include: Teaching workers how to use, create and deliver applications that allow computers to download […]
Read MoreFolks are often unaware of a some classes within the Visual Studio unit testing framework that make writing unit tests a bit easier. Instead of simply adding functionality to the base Assert class, the framework declares 2 other specialized assertion classes: CollectionAssert and StringAssert. CollectionAssert is handy for comparing 2 collections or for validating members […]
Read MoreSQL Server 2008 won’t release with the other 2008 products in March as originally planned, according to this article. It would be easy to take a cheap shot at this, but I would instead like to applaud the company’s decision to wait until the dish is fully baked. How many of us work in a […]
Read MoreButters, the wondering dog, is wondering today about her owner’s use of InfoPath 2007. Her owner has spent several days throwing together an InfoPath application for his employer and is quite happy with his work. Butters thinks that he should be ashamed because he is paid to be an “architect” and he has built an […]
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