February 20, 2008 spout writing

Bridging object models: the faux-object idiom

My 1997 master’s thesis came online today (he says, trying not to flinch). Here’s the abstract: Microsoft’s Component Object Model (COM) is the...

February 6, 2008 .net

.NET Source Code Mass Downloader

On 1/16/08, Microsoft announced the ability to download some of the .NET Framework source code for debugging. This download process was only...

February 1, 2008 fun

I woke up today and decided to win the lottery

And so I did the only thing I could to do increase my odds — I actually played the lottery. (I blame my inability to apply this strategy for my...

January 30, 2008 fun

Poetry Proclivities

I’m not a big poetry fan in general, but notable exceptions are Poe’s The Raven (especially the Simpson’s version), Dr. Seuss and Shel Silverstein....

January 18, 2008 tools

Configuring VS08 to Debug .NET Framework Source

Shawn Burke has released the details to set up VS08 to debug into the .NET Framework source code, including the following assemblies: mscorlib.DLL...

January 17, 2008 spout writing

Bookscan says “Programming WPF” is #3 .NET book!

Wahoo...

January 8, 2008 spout writing

WPF Book Easter Egg

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January 6, 2008 spout writing

The Annotated Turing!

re-publishing the paper that started computer science and annotating it...