Jack of all trades; Master of one.
I was having a brainstorming session the other day with a member of my staff and the following question came up “How does one define a ‘Quality .NET Developer‘?” After discussion we realized it was a lot like one of the US Supreme Court Justice’s definition of pornography; when asked he stammered and said “Well, …
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If he were a presidential candidate, they’d call him a "flip-flopper." But don’t let that bother you. I tend to respect people who change their opinions when times change and/or when they learn new things. And so it is with Dan Appleman, owner of Desaware, partner in APress, and author of a slew of excellent books …
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I know I’m the tool man (with Xtras.Net) but I can’t seem to find a T-SQL code formatter and wondered if anyone else knows about one? I’m got someone inhouse who writes his SELECT, INSERT, and UPDATE statements in stored procs as if his monitor were infinitely wide, and only ever uses the tab or enter …
On Monday July 5th, 2004 I blogged about a project on which I was working. That project was a Wiki based on FlexWiki located at www.dotNetInfluencers.org, and it is now live and public on the Internet. Click Purpose and Goals to read what I’m attempting to accomplish with dotNetInfluencers.org. If you are cynical and believe …
Coordinating the Congregation of Co-Equal Cognoscenti for Consorting and Consumption of Comestibles; otherwise known as: www.geekdinner.com :-)
I’m a categorization junkie. I have always been that way. If I’m interested in something I go out and research ad-nauseum, and then create exhaustive categorized and cross-referenced lists. I think that’s why I like databases and XML and data-driven websites. There’s something fundamentally satisfying about having data in a format that it can be …
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Those of you who have paid any attention have noticed that it has been some time since my last post. Ahem. Saturday May 22nd around the time of my last post my left ankle started hurting. For no reason (except I rode my motorcycle that day, but I swear I didn’t do anything that hurt …
Well, I’m off tomorrow morning to San Diego for Microsoft TechEd San Diego May 2004 tomorrow to meet with some vendors and partners, and to say hello to old friends and new. San Diego is one of my favorite cities in the world, so I’m sure I’ll have a great time just being there. However, I …
This past March my company Xtras, Inc. had its ten (10) year birthday. We’ve come to a crossroads of sorts and I thought it would be a good time to document those past ten years, and provide a glimpse of our future. I’ll do my best to describe things as I remember them, but I’ll …
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After much prodding by myself and others, Kathleen Dollard, author of Code Generation in .NET, has finally gotten herself a blog. You go girl!