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Category Archives: Development

A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

16-Oct-07

Today I want to talk about the difference between going to the bathroom and causing armageddon.

Take this Visual Studio build menu. I use it all the time. It has some pretty options:

Build Solution: build any updated code in this solution
Rebuild Solution: completely clean all my built code and rebuild my solution
Clean Solution: completely [...]

That’s what he does. That’s all he does! You can’t stop him.

14-Jun-07

Entirely too funny to pass up posting:

EB: Autonomic Insight, baby. Aww yeah. Ironic that it comes from a Visual Studio Ad, though.
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That’s a great plan, Walter.

24-May-07

Debugging a multithreaded application is not easy task. The best thing to do is avoid bugs.
…maybe I should be reading a different tutorial.
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“Day” is a vestigial mode of time measurement based on solar cycles. It’s not applicable… I didn’t get you anything.

17-Oct-05

Happy birthday, me. 22 years and counting. My parents got me Primer and An Anthropologist On Mars — mad kudos to them. I sent them my Amazon wish list and they picked those off of the list. Was a really sweet way to make it easy for them to get me [...]

New Page Layout

20-Jul-05

I updated the page layout with a new theme that I then hacked up a bit. It’s helping me get my feet wet again with CSS especially. Let me know if I’m butchering it, and if you like the theme. The banner image is one I took while in Boston Common earlier [...]