Me and the Star Wars Gang

The boys and I went to ROTS on the 2nd night and our local theater had some auspicious guests that I made stand around while my son took the picture...

Love Reviewers; Hate Reviews

I took a quick glance at some reviewer feedback for the Avalon book and already I’m trying hard not to hate the folks that send it in. Mean, hateful...

Ajax.NET

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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...

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...

Q: What is “funding the clubbing of baby seals?”

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

Career Path for Developers?

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

@this freaked me out

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