It has been one hell of a week, as the title suggests! After getting back from VSLive I had over 300 emails in my inbox after the spam filter did its job, most of which required much more than just a read and delete. Hopefully this weekend I’ll catch up enough to start posting again. …
I’m back from VSLive
I’m back from VSLive in San Francisco. It was a really good show for us.(unfortunately I was in the exhibit hall or in meetings the entire time so didn’t get to see any sessions…) Since I literally just got back a few hours ago, I’m a bit fried from the trip, so I don’t have …
Why .NET needs the (option of) less strictness
First, I’m honored Paul Vick was willing to read my long-winded essay, and second I’m honored he would blog about it. In this blog post Paul wrote: …Mike also raises the question of strictness. He makes the argument (echoed by Don Box and others) that many programmers would do better with a world that’s more …
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Make MS-Office Programming More Accessible
In a earlier blog I spoke the need for transitionality in development tools. One area of greatest need is in Microsoft Office; Outlook, Word, Excel, et. al. Why Office? Recent versions of Office have provided almost full programmability, a nice object model, a macro recorder, and so on which helps power users automate processes and …
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Optimal Dressing, or A challenge to Eric Lippert
Ah the memories Eric Lippert’s blog post about partial order sorting was, as always, interesting and well written. However, this specific post brought back memories of a project I did for Gateway Foods of Lacrosse Wisconsin back in the early 90’s. (I googled them and they don’t appear to no longer exist.) Though my project …
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My Team is better than yours, therefore you are Stupid
I’ve been programming for over 20 years now, and from the day I started programming I came across of language wars. Hell, I was even involved in many over my years. That is, during the foolish days of my youth… (like I never get caught in them today!) But lately I’ve noticed them and they …
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Cool Free Tool: WebDeploy for ASP.NET
Matt Hawley of eWorld.UI has posted what appears to be a pretty cool tool called Web Deploy for ASP.NET. Check it out.
Woe be it for the Hobbyist Programmer
I just came across a blog entry that disturbed me entitled Should the hobbyist programmer matter to Microsoft? by Rory Blyth of Neopolean.com. It was not so much the blog entry by Rory that really disturbed me, but the tone of the comments he received (over 100 at the time.) As I started writing this …
Annoying bug in Microsoft Access
I use MS Access from time to time, and for what it is, it is a pretty nice tool. However, there are a few things I’d really like to see added (subject of a future blog) and there are a few bugs that I run across from time to time that really frustrate. For example, …
Are Component Resellers Relevent?
Mike Sax mentions my blog today on his blog. However, Mike talks about Component Resellers and, by asking: “How component and tools resellers can re-invent themselves to provide value for developers?” he implies component resellers don’t currently offer value to developers, kind of like the old trick question: “So have you quit beating your wife?” …