January 29, 2006 fun

IT Crowd: Yesterday’s Jam

Yesterday’s Jam...

January 26, 2006 tools

Calling a Remote Index Server from .NET

I was building some code to access Index Server’s results via .NET and I got this: // Catalog specified in connection stringstring query = “select...

January 25, 2006 spout

Imperative vs. Declarative

Savas showed me this great example from a book he’s reading. Consider this: F = m * v Using an imperative interpretation, this is a expression that,...

January 22, 2006 spout

Netflix for Books?

”I hate books’DVDsgames...

January 19, 2006 fun

Looking for an Xbox 360

I got my first hands on Xbox 360 demo today and I want one! Unfortunately, MS employees aren’t treated specially, i.e. there isn’t a big warehouse...

January 19, 2006 spout

I want a service that “rips” books

Assuming the Sony Reader is cool, I still won’t have all the content I want and I certainly don’t want to repurchase all of my books. In the same...

January 18, 2006 spout

I Hate Books

I hate that indexes suck and that they don’t support full text searching across my entire collection. I hate that I have to guess which ones I’ll...

January 17, 2006 spout

PM Skill #6: Be The Team Mom

In an ideal world, a PM would be able to get together with their team, lead the discussion ’til everyone agrees what they’re going to do and while...