I am going to Microsoft. When Peter left for the PAG group at Microsoft, I confidentially told him that he had to let me know when the next opening came around. I had to leave the startup I’d been working at for 2 years right around that time. I took a contract with NewsGator, and set about to start finding something that was in line with my career goals. I talked to a few places about getting into corporate developer…
Welcome to my social experiment. I hope you don’t regret your visit. 🙂 WHO: Me, of course. Just me. Well, and there’s you, but I can’t see you, so try not to make too much noise while you’re crawling around the site, okay? I keep odd hours. WHAT: Pretty much just whatever I feel like. As you can guess by the site title, I’ll often be talking about technical topics, especially those related to .NET…
So, I get the “hot off the presses news” that Reflector 4.0 was released yesterday. I download, and of course, it’s an excellent upgrade. What I didn’t realize, though, is that there’s a Visual Studio .NET plugin for Reflector, which makes it all the more useful to me now. Here you can see Reflector embedded into Visual Studio, with not only the .NET 1.1 libraries loaded, but also a good number of the 3rd party components that I…
…if blog tools suck, or RSS sucks, or NewzCrawler sucks. I might even lean to a combination of the three. Since upgrading to NewzCrawler 1.5, there is a constant stream of RSS feeds that are broken. For the moment, it’s Ethan Brown’s feed and Chris Pirillo’s feed. Elizabeth Griggjust fixed hers yesterday, and Mike Gunderloy (of Larkware News) and I exchanged a few e-mail messages dealing with things in his feed. Radio Userland — as always — is the…
Wil Wheaton posts about giving your Gmail invites to overseas troops, who are stuck with lesser (slower and smaller space) free web mail accounts. Since disk space is especially the key to being able to send pictures and videos both ways, it’s a huge win to get able to give them 1GB of free drive space. Sounds good to me. I have 1 left to give away, and when I get more, I’ll go looking for…
I’ve given this some off-and-on thought, but after reading this thread, I’ve decided that I’m not going to do performance reviews. 1. Communication is too important. If I’m not communicating to you so that you know whether you’re doing a good job or not, then you should yell at me to talk to you more. A forced annual review is not going to solve a bad communication problem. 2. Self-reviews are insulting. Asking a person to…
Joel posted a pair of essays about why programming is harder. Primarily, he cites the number of technologies one had to be fluent in to be a good programmer as the metric for difficulty. Jason responds by saying that programming isn’t harder, just different. Whereas before you used to twiddle bits and move bytes, today you get to work on a higher level. They’re both right. I think what Jason is forgetting is that most people aren’t as smart as…
Comment spam is infecting the blog world, because blogs have high page rank. People will embed URLs in their comments, when allowed (either via HTML or auto-linking) as well as with their name. So, in the interest of cutting down the abusers of blogs, until the point in time in which I can REALLY fix this with new software, I have done the following: Some posts will be set to “no comments”, at my discretion…
I’ve set about categorizing the blog. It’s going to take a while (650 back posts to categorize), but all new posts will go into the new categories as appropriate. A new set of category based archives will be online shortly as well. As promised, I made new RSS feeds, which are: All posts: New posts and comments (unified feed) New posts New comments Technology posts: New posts The “All posts” feeds will contain posts in every category.…
I got CruiseControl.NET working this weekend. Although we don’t use NAnt as our primary build tool at work, it was trivial to hack together a .build file that used the <solution> task to build all our project files. It doesn’t even rely on having Visual Studio on the box, which is a nice bonus (just needs the SDK). You have to sort of twist your brain until you get it right. Watching Kris Syverstad give a demo of it…