I recently came across this thing called a “coderetreat” that Corey Haines puts on. The gist is that it’s a free full-day event where a small group of dedicated-but-busy software developers can come together and work on honing the skill or art of writing software, away from the usual pressures of business. I thought it sounded [...]
Today’s post is written by my guest and fellow Indianapolis-ite, Jared Brown. I asked Jared to guest post here because he has created an application using Ruby on Rails, Heroku, and a host of other bits and services that I’ve also been using to bootstrap my new business, beautifulsavings.com which I’ll post more about in [...]
Every now and then we like to have some fun with our boss. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again – he’s a fun-loving guy and we all love working together. Usually when you go on vacation for a week you can expect something to happen by the time you get back. Not [...]
Thanks to everybody who came to the PowerShell talk that Matt Hester and I did at Codemash! If you haven’t heard of Codemash or attended it, it’s an extremely well-done conference in Sandusky, Ohio at a huge indoor waterpark. I brought my whole family (including in-laws) along with to enjoy a vacation. The conference itself [...]
Any desktop application I write from now on will contain these two interfaces. They’re useful enough I thought I should share. Also note, with upcoming improvements in .NET 4.0 (or higher) they might be rendered moot. So far, I don’t think they are, as it’s still difficult to test the code itself that performs asynchronous [...]
No, that’s not a bash command or a regular expression. #3 will be joining #2 and #1, and we are pumped. Well, I’m pumped, my wife is just trying not to feel too sick. She’ll be pumped later, like in 5 years.
It’s amazing how the process of making an application localizable can be both simple and confusing at the same time. At a basic level, the Visual Studio designer makes it very easy. Set the "Localizable" property on your form to True and you’re good to go. It’s very convenient. On the other hand, there are [...]
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I was going to post more on some neat tips that John Robbins showed us in a Mastering .NET Debugging class, but when I did some searching to see what was out there I came across Jim Gries’ helpful blog. He’s posted about pretty much every item I had on my list, so just subscribe [...]
In the movie The Talented Mr. Ripley, Matt Damon plays Tom Ripley, “a young underachiever”. Ripley is gifted at improvisation and impersonation, but he takes an obsession too far. Apparently our Visual Studio friend the “Go To Find Combo” (weird name, I know–from this point on I’m just going to call the dang thing the [...]
