On Beyond Unit Testing

Quetzal Bradley is a software development engineer (SDE) on my team with *tons* of experience in all manner of infrastructure stuff including the...

My Favorite Blog: Scott’s computerzen.com

If I have time to read the web, I go to digg.com first, computerzen.com second and very little after that. Just this morning, I enjoyed Six Months...

Programming WPF: “Programming Book of the Decade”

*blush*...

Programming WPF enters 2nd printing!

Wahoo! You love us, you really love us! : ) When a book goes to another printing, 100% of the time, there’s a list of “errata” (aka “mistakes”) that...

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...

.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...

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...

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....