Fixing bugs

Posted on October 2nd, 2008 by Jeff

Brad at 30sleeps writes about Death by a Thousand Service Packs. Well said, Brad and let us know what your itch is.

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Thinking in code

Posted on December 31st, 2007 by Jeff

I was reading the Pickaxe book today, brushing up on my Ruby skills and came across a passage that had me thinking about how our approach to programming affects our job and career. It started simply enough, explaining Ruby boolean expressions Ruby has a simple definition of truth. Any value that is not nil or [...]

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Going Mobile

Posted on August 16th, 2007 by Jeff

I had to rebuild my old Transport ZX (stargazer1) laptop a couple of months ago when I had to replace the failed hard drive. I put XP on it instead of Win2K and though it’s a little slower that it was, all is fine. I’ve kept the install light — no MS Office, no Outlook, [...]

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Restoration

Posted on April 25th, 2005 by Jeff

An alert reader might notice that there are a couple of posts missing from the blog. Apparently, this site, along with the as-yet-unpublished main site were deleted from my hosting service. I hadn’t backed up the site in a couple of months, but what I did have is now restored. Good thing the code wasn’t [...]

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Development Resumes

Posted on January 15th, 2005 by Jeff

It’s been a busy half-year, but I am ready to resume work on VisEmacs.NET. I lost about two months when I upgraded to VS.NET 2003; the options dialogs stopped working. It turned out to be something completely stupid and easily fixed, but in no way was it easy to find. Talk about frustrating! I need [...]

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  • Snow Flakes

    Feature Branches
    Martin Fowler has a good article on cherry picking features to compose a release. Check it out so that the next time your manager wants to pick and choose what to include in a release you’re ready with why it’s not that easy1 (0)

    Finding style as an engineer
    Very interesting article over at Stephano’s blog. Worth a read, and then another. Packed with links to useful tools too. (0)

    Fixing bugs
    Brad at 30sleeps writes about Death by a Thousand Service Packs. Well said, Brad and let us know what your itch is. (0)

    Excellent paper on HTTP Sessions
    Just finished reading a whitepaper on Web Based Session Management, worth a read. It lists the advantages and disadvantages of the three main forms of session management and common attacks. Go forth and read! (0)

    Stretchy Designs
    If you’re afraid of using em-based layouts, or just haven’t got around to using them in your designs, head on over to Jon Tan’s blog and read his great article, The Incredible Em & Elastic Layouts with CSS . He does a great job of demonstrating how easy it is to create an elastic layout in terms even engineers can understand. (1)

    Is Google Evil? Here's Proof!
    Many people wonder if Google is evil, despite their motto. But I have discovered proof that Google is Evil. See for yourself!

    Is Google Evil?

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    What's a Snow Flake?
    There are times when I want to make  a quick point without having to write an essay on the topic. Apparently there’s a whole meme of a blog within a blog, aka a sideblog or “asides”. I found a nice plugin that lets me do the same thing. I needed a name for this feature and since it’s just a little piece of Snowmoon Software, that “Snow Flake” would be a good name. Like it? Hate it? Leave a comment! (0)