Although this post doesn’t seem like rocket science, I simply couldn’t find a reference for this technique online so I documented it here. I have an application that a user interacts with primarily as a system tray icon. I want to show the same context menu popup whether the icon is left or right clicked. […]
Read MoreContext switching is rapidly changing from one focused task to another in a short amount of time. Back when we were ignorant of such things, we called this multi-tasking and thought it was good. While multi-tasking is handy in computers, it is not possible in humans. True multitasking looks more like walking and chewing bubblegum than switching quickly between […]
Read MoreScott Gu‘s announcement over the weekend at the Alt.Net conference in Austin fell upon attentive ears. Although I was not at Alt.Net (lamentably) it seems like a collective hush has fallen over the crowd in anxious anticipation of getting to actually fondle this new namespace. According to Jeffery Palermo’s post on the announcement, the implementation […]
Read MoreRob Daigneau, Director of Application Architecture for Monster.com has out together a very nice set of slides for a talk. I wish I could hear the talk that goes with this slide deck on Becoming and Architect (the software kind). That’s all, just a link.
Read MoreI went to the Boise MSDN event today at a big movie theater and I learned a few things. LINQ is cool. Wicked cool. Mac Book Pro dual booting to Vista x64 cool. LINQ is more than compile time SQL. It is declarative XML trees without a DOM model. In VB, it is also compile time XML, […]
Read MoreAfter a few weeks in our software development environment, a new co-worker told me, “I feel like I am on an episode of Iron Chef.” He came from a structured, design-up-front environment with prescribed architecture and product line development practices. So, although he was expressing some exasperation with a chaotic Agile development process, I choose to take this […]
Read MoreI had a technical conversation recently that reminded me of what it really means to get back to basics in software development. Frankly, I have been managing people and drawing pictures for so long I was initially stumped by some of these. I am ashamed of myself for not having these answers on the tip […]
Read MoreA crying child is a very common occurrence in my life. My 4 children range in age from 10 to 6. I know. I am better at math now, but back to the crying child. One of the first things I learned when a screaming child comes running to me is exactly how to triage the situation. […]
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