Category: General

The past 2 weeks have been incredibly hectic. It’s all been leading up to this weekend, when we close on our house tomorrow and move in Saturday. My wife and I were talking last night, and realized that we’ve both averaged 7 moves in 7 years, 5 of which were since we got married at…

For those of you running Visual Studio 2005, Tuesday’s updates pushed out KB937061. If you had installed Crystal Reports as part of your install, everything was probably hunky dory. However, if you don’t have that installed, you may see a problem where Windows Update does not report the patch as being installed. The product team…

Today’s post comes from a tutorial I’m working on for a customer who still does a lot of XML/XSL stuff. One of the more challenging things to do in XSL1.0 (which is what most browsers support) was getting a distinct list of values from a set of nodes. Exslt has a good article on the subject,…

This afternoon I happened across a CodeProject article on creating the Sierpinski Triangle in Silverlight. It looked interesting enough, and I haven’t played much with Silverlight, so it sounded like a match made in heaven. I started first by clicking the demo link, which led me to the “Download Silverlight” icon. The problem? I thought…

I just came across this article on TheRecord about a robot called IvanAnywhere: Meet IvanAnywhere: It’s the next best thing to being there; He’ll write software, attend meetings and even chat with co-workers. Just don’t expect this digital marvel to share a cup of coffee during your next break But the interesting part was this:  …

This morning I was going through my emails and I saw an invite for a service called “Quechup” – which sounds a lot like LinkedIn, which I use and enjoy. Something about the name triggered one of those Spidey Sense flags, and I did some searching. I recommend doing the same. What you’ll find is…

Last week I started trying to get RSpec running on the Alpha drop of IronRuby. Turns out it didn’t implement instance variables. However, this morning I found out that John Lam announced the release of IronRuby on RubyForge which includes support for instance variables. Time to dive into the new release…

Wow. I don’t even know where to begin. This week went by so fast, that I can hardly believe that it is Friday, and also that I got zero chance to blog anything while I was here. So without further ado, here’s a wrapup from the conference: Monday It all started with a Rails talk,…

It’s that time of year again, a time for a big group of agilists to get together, have fun, talk shop, and all that good stuff. This year’s conference is in D.C. which should be a good time. The one thing I’m hoping to get out of this is fuel for the next year. My…

I’ve been following the story about the Brazilian airliner that crashed last month. In this afternoon’s story, they reveal some things from the flight recorder, including an indication that one of the throttles was in the wrong position. When they landed, they couldn’t activate the spoilers, and one reason might be this:   Folha speculated…