May 28, 2007 spout writing

Why do we pick on journalism majors, so?

Here’s another one: For example, if we had had a background in journalism, we might have used one-based indexing instead of zero-based indexing...

May 28, 2007 spout writing

Sometimes I crack myself up

I forgot until the copy edit review process that I’d dropped this gem into a footnote: On August 4th, 1997, the world’s oldest person so far,...

May 19, 2007

Heard in the halls at RailsConf 2007

I was passing a young, blue-haired photographer-ess who said the following to a gentleman she wanted to smile for a picture: “Just think about...

May 11, 2007

Dogfood — it ain’t just for dogs

a new way to format text for online reading...

May 10, 2007

Get your PDC Code Camp On!

*free*Portland Code CampWSU2DXNAWahoo!Register today...

May 6, 2007 .net

Lutz’s Silverlight 1.1 Alpha Samples

some of his .NET code to use the Silverlight 1.1 alpha...

April 29, 2007 spout writing

On becoming an empty nester…

I submitted the final manuscript for Programming WPF, 2nd edition, by Ian Griffiths and Chris Sells to O’Reilly and Associates this morning for...

April 29, 2007 spout writing

Glyn Griffiths: Ian’s Dad and Damn Fine Reviewer

This was an email I sent to Glyn Griffiths, the final external reviewer on the WPF 2ed book before we submitted the final manuscript for copy edit...


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