Archives
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Performant is still not an adjective
From MSDN...
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Making a business case for Silverlight
I've been thinking a lot about Silverlight lately, for a lot of reasons. What really put me to task was my boss asking me what its impact is and if he should care about it. That certainly changed my approach and purpose for thinking about it.
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Why I hate Windows today
I know there are plenty of excuses that people come up with for Windows, but why does it suck so much? It always seems to get in the way of doing anything.
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Launching QuickTime movies in the player using ASP.NET AJAX framework
As my dearest friends know, I once existed as a broadcast monkey prior to my life as a code monkey. It gives me great joy that it's finally at least somewhat practical to deliver short-form high definition video via the Internet, even if it is only a couple of minutes at a time. That said, the best bang for the buck in terms of compression is easily H.264, encoded by way of QuickTime. Flash can actually play these files, but it's not practical to do it in-browser when you're talking about something that's 1280x720 or 1920x1080. That's probably why Apple spawns the movies in the player itself. It's a pretty seamless experience, and since "everyone" has iTunes, "everyone" has QuickTime. (If you want to get into some stupid religious debate about this, please, do it elsewhere.)
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Three-hour marathon interview
I had three hours of phone interviews today with people from a company I'm very much hoping to work for. That was crazy. It's not any less exhausting doing it by phone. You start to get tired of talking about yourself.
But I think it went pretty well. The last time I had that kind of marathon was in Redmond. This was a lot different, because these guys seemed genuinely interested in what I was about and what I had done. That's a far cry from Microsoft, who seemed more interested in trying to stump me or give me puzzles to solve. I'm more and more convinced that's mostly useless in assessing the ability of your subject. I felt like it was OK to simply say, "I don't know," when there was something I didn't know.
From what I can gather, said company is doing some really cool things in the near future, so I'm crossing my fingers. This is the first time in a long time that I've felt pretty good about what a company does, and what it stands for. I'm crossing my fingers. -
Science project no more: playing with client frameworks
Awhile back I mentioned how sometimes I get sucked into these science projects, and I end up not doing more productive things. That particular science project was me trying to build a drag-and-drop list. Sounds silly, right? Because there are existing solutions. But I had good intentions.
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Those who can't write blogs for washed up magazine's Web sites
First this tool writes about how the London Stock Exchange crashes, and it's all the fault of using Microsoft software. He has no evidence, mind you, but that must be it.
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Waiting for "the" job and not settling for "a" job
I've gotten a little more serious in the last week or two about finding a job, because I think it's about time. Getting CoasterBuzz out last week was kind of like finishing up on a consulting job and looking for the next thing.
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Lessons from the relaunch of CoasterBuzz.com
I flipped the switch to turn CoasterBuzz back on a little after 3 a.m. last night, once I was content with the data conversion and had the basic content up.