Tales from the Evil Empire - All Comments

re: PDC week! Panel on OSS + ASP.NET

OmariO — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:08:30 GMT

Bertrand, is it too late to implement in ASP.NET 4 what I call "script descriptors combining"?

omari-o.blogspot.com/.../combining-aspnet-ajax-component.html

re: Metrics in software and physics

Matt — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:10:37 GMT

Excellent article! An exquisite representation of applied physics!

re: A simple ASP.NET photo album

someguy — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:42:13 GMT

Not sure if this has been answered, but a find/replace to replace ".jpg" with ".png" enabled support for png's. So yeah, that can be done.

re: Metrics in software and physics

Bertrand Le Roy — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:20:09 GMT

@Billy, that's a serious accusation you're making here. No, I'm not getting paid to write this. Not by Patrick at least.

re: Metrics in software and physics

Billy Mays — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:16:47 GMT

That's the longest, most scientific, and graph-adorned info-mercial I've read in a long time, leading up to ... a sales pitch for a commercial product.

The more I see on the internet, the more it looks like paid programming on TV. At least TV sets have a "brightness" control. The internet just keeps getting dumber and there's no knob to make it brighter.

Now, isn't the government taking action against paid bloggers, Bernie????

re: Metrics in software and physics

Julien — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:18:03 GMT

Nice post! It kinda sounds like a bait and switch advertising for NDepend at the end there but that made me check it out...

re: Metrics in software and physics

Alessandro — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:12:36 GMT

nicely said. I agree that tools can help reduce the overall maintainence costs one will eventually endure in the long run.

Unfortunately the illusion you mention about one knowing the code they write better than any tool can is a tough challenge to overcome.

Also the learning curve of yet another tool to master is a demotivator and will most certainly hold you back. Thanks for the tip. NDepend indeed looks good. I'll keep a look out for it.

re: Metrics in software and physics

WaltB — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:56:11 GMT

One heck of an article for an early Saturady morning. You made my brain function way before it usally does on the weekend. I especially relate to the lst few paragraphs, thanks

re: Metrics in software and physics

lkempe — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:05:39 GMT

Excellent post Bertrand!

re: Old iPaq and Media Player 11?

mschiv — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:58:23 GMT

I have a Ipaq 3950 and Vista on my computer. I to get that horrible meessage that states my handheld is to old ot sink with the computer. Is there really no way to fix this? I love my Ipaq, and I know it is old, but it works great.