June 9, 2005 spout

Never Give Up, Never Surrender

I was reminiscing today that I’ve been turned away from most decent places in my career: I went to a stupid high school that raised my grades a...

June 9, 2005 tools

Col. Jessup on the .NET Performance Team

This is fabulous! Let me give you a taste: “We use words like L2, swaps, and working set. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent...

June 7, 2005 fun

A: The reason I gave for wanting to cancel an extra credit card. I bet they don’t have that reason in their script! : )...

June 7, 2005 spout

“Pete” email me the following questions: “I’m a senior software developer, age 34, specializing in C# development for Windows Forms / ASP.Net,...

June 6, 2005 tools

I saw code that looked like this today: class Class1 { static void Foo(object @this) { Console.WriteLine(@this); } static void Main(string[]...

June 4, 2005 spout

I was chatting with Mike in Australia today and we pulled up Skype as we usually do, ’cuz it just works, e.g. no connection problems, no...

June 4, 2005 spout

I was chatting today with a friend that complained that he didn’t get any deep technical knowledge from a conference talk. I said that he had...

June 3, 2005 fun

See IanG, my Avalon book co-author in crime, talk with Ted Neward about WinForms, Avalon and .NET. Nicely done...