Month: February 2008

This week I realized that I just broke the 100,000 mile mark in my frequent flyer miles. Not bad for a year and a half of working for billg. It’s actually been a lot of fun, but the travel is brutal when you have two little girls and a loving wife just wondering when you…

This evening I had the chance to dive back into some Rails stuff. I came across a problem of which there was surprisingly no straightforward documentation from start to finish, so I wanted to put it here. Let’s say you have 3 tables – restaurants (id, name), categories (id, name), and restaurants_categories (restaurant_id, category_id). You…

This week I happen to be at one of our offices, and we had a ton of MSDN Magazines there. Flipping through one, they had an intro to F#, a functional language that runs on the CLR. I figured it would be fun to see how hard it would be to get it running with…

Esther Schindler recently published an article in CIO magazine entitled Getting Clueful: 7 Things CIOs Should Know About Agile Development. The article starts well enough, but quickly falls into the Agile trap with headers like: Agile Creates Better Software and Agile’s business value comes from organizations’ ability to focus on which projects to do, what…

This afternoon I was on my way up to the local home improvement store when I saw a strange looking car pulling out of a parking lot. Well, the car wasn’t strange, but it had a weird, tall antenna looking thing on top of it. As it turned onto the road, I saw the Google…

On Thursday, Microsoft hosted a day of Patterns and Practices at the Tampa office. We happened to be there for some unrelated meetings, so I ended up staying for the festivities. Besides finally getting to meet David Hayden in person, Ron Jacobs was down from Redmond to do a talk on TDD in the UI…

Here’s something to ponder over your morning coffee: Microsoft bids $45 billion for Yahoo Purty nutty… Update:  Here’s some more interesting details including that the proposal was made directly to the Yahoo! Board of Directors – write after their chairman resigned last night. More Updates: Microsoft is going to hold a conference call at 0830…