Is it wrong to jump out and surprise your own kids, say by hiding in their closet when they go to bed, or by shouting BOO as they round a blind corner? It probably is, but 8-5 year olds are so darn gullible and unsuspecting, it is just too easy and funny to pass up. […]
Read MoreI am a voracious reader. As such, I think I will start posting book reviews on my blog. I just finished Band of Brothers which is a definitive work about the 101st Airborne’s activities through WWII, from D-Day at Normandy through German post-war occupation. The book follows the men of Company E, 2nd battalion, 506th […]
Read MoreThe more I think about this, the madder I get. In light of my previous post where SearchBlackBox did nothing to improve upon Lucene.Net in order to take it commercial, I found and downloaded the last available code from the freely available open source space. Here it is. http://lucenedotnet.wz.cz/ If that link ever dies, I […]
Read MoreThis isn’t a post about the philosophical reasoning that lead the Lucene.Net developers to go commercial. It is a post about how they are going about it. I happen to be involved in a project right now that I desperately wanted Lucene.Net for, and was shocked when I found that I could no longer get […]
Read MoreCode Smith 2.6 just shipped. Grab it here: http://www.ericjsmith.net/codesmith/ >> First impressions are that it is more professionally integrated into Visual Studio but my old standby templates for striongly typed collections are still there. I have a feeling I should be doing more with this tool than that, but it is worth the price of admission […]
Read MoreMy posting has gone down considerably after starting my degree program. I have to say that this is taking more work than I anticipated. I suppose that is a good thing as it lends more weight to the credential that I am earning. The experience is interesting. The work tends to be mostly writing papers […]
Read MoreI recently had an occasion to visit Microsoft and talk to a genuinely superb project team. In the conference room that we were using for our discussions, there were several posters on the wall that had data flow type drawings on them along with other things. I looked a little closer at these full color […]
Read MoreI love Netflix. I have been a member for over a year and I think it is just the best thing since peanut butter. These guys are figuring out ways to spend their capital from their IPO and have made some interesting moves lately, but their use of RSS was not one of the better […]
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