New Contractor Advice: Time Estimation

I got a time estimate from a friend who’s a brand new contractor in the area of home renovation (my wife made me promise to start renovations on our...

The List

Lord keep me off of the list of people that don’t have to go through regular security checks: “The Aug. 5 memo recommends reducing patdowns by...

Cool New IVR Feature

In a (very) past life, I used to write intergrated voice response (IVR) systems aka “voicemail hell.” It may not seem like it, but we spent a *ton*...

Chris does the Half Monty

HereThe one where I shake my booty up on stage in Reno...

Very Cool Nullable Fix

NET 2.0 has the idea of a “nullable” type built right in, e.g. Nullable x = null; // legal This adds nullability to value types as well as...

The Half Monty

I spent last weekend in Reno with Joel, my fraternity brother, wife’s sister’s husband and business partner (we have an investing business). We’d...

What should I do w/ the metadata?

Imagine I’ve got some “metadata” that describes some functionality of my system, e.g. the command line parameters to a tool: Once I have this...

Fight Club Rules 9-16

Fight Clubthe rest of the Fight Club rules...