My boss was on vacation all last week. So when the email arrived with the subject line “I’ve got 800 post-it notes and some spider webbing, who’s in?”, I knew what was up. Names will not be named, of course, since my boss reads this blog, but never-the-less, whoever did this *cough*, must’ve [...]

A day or so ago I ran across a very frustrating bug that I feel compelled to post here to potentially save someone else the pain I went through.
Here’s the scenario:

Install one of our legacy Win32 applications
Install IE7
Open the help–we use HTML Help (.chm files)
Everything’s working great!
Accept updates from the server (we have a custom [...]

It seems there have been a lot of posts recently about the difficulty of finding the right person for software development jobs. Or maybe I’m just tuned in to those posts because there are some openings on my team right now (here is a job listing for one of them) and we’re having difficulty with [...]

Scott’s recent Hanselminutes podcast is an interview with THE Powershell Architect, Jeffrey Snover. I thoroughly enjoyed this one, and would recommend giving it a listen. It’s been a little while since I’ve done anything Powershell-ish (been quite busy at work) but this got me eager to jump back in.
Enjoy!

In Scott Hanselman’s recent Hanselminutes podcast with Chris Sells, he bemoaned the fact that in .NET you can’t just query the keyboard state to say “is this key pressed right now?” Chris answered that you can do it, but that he’d have to look it up to get the exact reference. I got [...]