Jason Mauss' Blog Cabin
Because someone's got to do the dirty work
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angryCoder on installation recommendations...
My friend Jonathan Goodyear (a.k.a. “angryCoder”) posted an article today about some annoyances he encountered while installing MSN Messenger. Working from home for the last 2 years, I have been using IM and video conferencing software more than ever. Having been a user of several different instant messaging clients over the last 7 years or so (starting with ICQ) I'm surprised how it seems that none of them have really “got it right” yet. It seems that each one brings with it both good and bad (or lacking) features. Even a couple of years ago when Trillian came out, it only took a couple of weeks until I went back to using multiple IM clients. I would use a single IM client if it could give me the following:
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ObjectSpaces only supports SQL Server?
Last week I was reading this article by Dino about ObjectSpaces. In it he mentions:
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Security through obscurity...
I was talking with another developer recently about distributed web application architecture - security in particular. He told me about a classic ASP (3.0) web application he had done before. The entire web application consisted of one .asp file and several COM DLL's. The one .asp file had contents like this:
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Since developers usually aren't designers too...
I found this and thought it was just too cool not to share. For those of you out there that want to come up with a clean, visually appealing color scheme for a website (or anything really) this can definitely be helpful. Looking at this, one thought that came to mind was, “Building this as a WinForms app would be a really good way to exercise my GDI+ skills”.
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Hello Blog World
I guess it's official now. I've committed to keeping a blog. I had thought for a while that I didn't need a blog but, I've found the temptation to be too great. Too many great thinkers and developers out there that I'd like to be able to read and comment on my thoughts. So, here it is.