Archives
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Atlas is too hard
Actually, Atlas is relatively easy to use, but the configuration sucks.
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Config versus Database
I was thinking a little about the pros and cons of storing configuration data in config files versus using a database. I have to tell you, that for all of the learning and work I did for POP Forums (like two years ago!) seemed pretty slick at the time, but now I'm not so sure that using config files is the way to go for most things.
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Yet another .NET vs. Java thread
People really get a fire in their panties about this kind of thing. I'm not sure why. Check this one...
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Comment away!
It turns out that anon commenting was turned off on the blog when they upgraded. Boo. I wondered why no one ever commented anymore.
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Missing TechTV
Leo says he'd love to do a TechTV reunion. God do I miss that channel. I sat down to watch The Screen Savers pretty much every weekday for almost three years. I couldn't get enough of it! The personalities on that show were top notch geeks. Over the years we always had Leo and Patrick, then later Kevin, plus Megan, Jessica and Sarah. Yoshi, Roger and Robert contributed good stuff, and even Martin was entertaining to some degree.
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I'm an experimental innovator
You know, the July issue of Wired was just full of really good stuff. It has been ages since I've read nearly every story in a magazine.
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37signals takes money from Jeff Bezos
The company that prides itself on being profitable and not taking money from investors took money from one of the biggest investors period.
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Staggering self-publishing numbers
37singals posted some numbers on their self-published book today. I don't think I need to really add anything, except to say you should look at the numbers versus their dead tree publication.
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A four-hour software challenge
I was thinking about stuff that I need to code for my sites, and was thinking about how I'd like a place for the public to track bugs. Yeah, stuff like that already exists, but it'd be nice to have something more basic.
Then I realized it might be fun to crank something out like that for myself. As fast as humanly possible. Like four hours or less. Could I do it?
I started to ask myself what it is that takes the longest for me. It's almost always the data access code, and more specifically, the test code to make sure it all works. I know that I test wrong by normal standards, in that my data access code is always dependent on the business objects that call it as containers. So a method that gets data from a table of users is called by a User object, and expects a User object from the data call. Most "experts" would say that's bad design.
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Anyone using Visual Studio in Parallels on a MacBook Pro?
Anyone using Visual Studio in Parallels on a MacBook Pro? Right now I'm doing the BootCamp thing, but obviously virtualization would be a better solution.
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No excuse for treating Firefox as second class in Sharepoint 2007
I noticed today that Sharepoint 2007 will treat Firefox as a down-level browser. That means no spiffy AJAX junk or no rich text editing.
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Evolutionary media
When I worked at Penton Media in 2000, the promise the Internet held was obvious to me. Here I was at a business-to-business media company that made its money connecting people who need to buy and sell each others shit. Some of those markets were very vertical, you know, niches. It was expensive as hell to put out those dead trees and do trade shows, but look at how cheap it was to stuff on the Internet!
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Jamie wants your money... get over it
I'm not going to call out any particular blogger on this, but there appears to be a lot of bitching and moaning since Jamie Cansdale announced he was going to begin charging for commercial use of TestDriven.NET. I say, get over it.