Fixing bugs

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

Thinking in code

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 [...]

Going Mobile

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, [...]

Restoration

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 Apparently, this site, along with the as-yet-unpublished main site were deleted from my hosting service.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 [...]

Development Resumes

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 [...]