Management vs. Motivation
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to gather wood, divide the work, and give them orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast...
LINQ Has Changed Me
In the old days, the post-colonial, pre-LINQ days of yore, I’d have written a one-way MD5 encryption like so: This implementation is fine and has...
A Function That Forces
At Microsoft, there’s this passive-aggressive cultural thing called a “forcing function,” which, to put it crudely, is an engineering way for us to...
Data at PDC 2010
There are lots of great data talks at PDC 2010, all of which are available for online viewing: Code First Development with Entity Framework Jeff...
Time to check the donuts
One day when I was supposed to be writing, I needed something to do (as often happens). In this particular case, I built a little tray icon app...
The Downside Of Working At Home
I’ve been working at home off and (mostly) on for 16 years… From theoatmeal.com. Recommended...
Why can’t it all just be messages?
My mobile device is driving me crazy. I have an iPhone 4.0. Normally when it’s driving me crazy, it’s standard stuff like the battery life sucks or...
David Ramel Asks About Interviewing at Microsoft
David Ramel from 1105media.com is writing an article that includes the Microsoft interviewing process and he send me some questions: [David] How...
Spurious MachineToApplication Error With VS2010 Deployment
Often when I’m building my MVC 2 application using Visual Studio 2010, I get the following error: It is an error to use a section registered as...
a whole new sellsbrothers.com
The new sellsbrothers.com implementation has been a while in the making. In fact, I’ve had the final art in my hands since August of 2005. I’ve...
Entity Framework 4.0 POCO Classes and Data Services
If you’ve flipped on the POCO (Plain Ol’ CLR Objects) code generation T4 templates for Entity Framework to enable testing or just ’cuz you like...
Working Hard: WhirlyBall
What my team does on an average Wednesday afternoon: It was surprisingly fun...
We’re taking OData on the Road!
We have a series of free, day-long events we’re doing around the world to show off the beauty and wonder that is the Open Data Protocol. In the...
SQL Server Modeling CTP (November 2009 Release 3) for Visual Studio 2010 RTM Now Available
Here’s what Kraig has to say about the November 2010 SQL Server Model CTP that matches the RTM of Visual Studio 2010: A update of the SQL Server...
The performance implications of IEnumerable vs. IQueryable
It all started innocently enough. I was implementing a “Older Posts/Newer Posts” feature for my new web site and was writing code like this: The...