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Gotchas and learnings from refactoring to use ASP.NET AJAX
I promise that one of these days soon I'm going to talk a little about where POP Forums v8 is headed, and what you'll be able to do with it. I don't imagine there's a huge demand for the app, but regardless, it will be available.
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You know you've been neglecting a coding project when...
...You realize that it has an SMTP client class that you wrote to be more flexible than the System.Web.Mail classes that wrapped CDONTS back in the day before .NET 2.0, and it's still there. Ouch.
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On science, religion and actually shipping code
Frans had a really good post about some things he has observed in the "alt.net" world. Honestly, with all of the blog posts I see on this "movement" lately, you'd think there was a cure for cancer just around the corner. As if it's that important.
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Valve and Half-Life 2, plus Steam, three years later
It's strange how some posts on this blog get comments even to this day, one of them being a post about how Valve's Steam was a pile of crap that seemed to drag down Half-Life. I remember even later that year, my former wife has many complaints about it.
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Scoble screwed up, and won't man up about it
Robert Scoble annoys me. I used to enjoy reading his blog, but it has gone to a point where he really thinks he has all the answers and is the smartest blogger on the Net, masked thinly by the occasional self-deprecating comment or whatever.
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Why open source won't cure cancer
This essay by Jaron Lanier is one of the smartest things I've read about the open source "movement" and its influence on software design: