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• Two things worth noting today

  1.) [Serious] Rob Conery (of SubSonic fame, and oh yeah I think he works at Microsoft or something, too :)) has posted his FIFTEENTH screencast in his series on building an e-ecommerce app using ASP.NET MVC and exploring and learning lots of things along... Posted Jun 28 2008, 01:23 PM by chadmyers with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Misc, ASP.NET MVC

• I'm not a real world developer

  I made the mistake recently of reading some of the responses to the 'Entity Framework Vote of No Confidence' letter which I'm sure you've heard about already. Granted, I haven't read them all, but so far only one has been of any real... Posted Jun 26 2008, 07:44 AM by chadmyers with | with 31 comment(s) Filed under: Misc

• Why Microsoft Won't/Can't/Shouldn't Lead

  That's a rather sensationalistic headline, I admit, but it's true and here's why: Any sufficiently large service-based organization is a pure reflection upon its constituency. That is, any sub-optimization, moral bankruptcy, intellectual dishonesty... Posted Jun 04 2008, 11:00 PM by chadmyers with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: Misc, ALT.NET, Self-examination

• A New Start

  Today was my first day back with Dovetail Software . It was good to be back with a familiar crew. For those that don't know, I used to work for Dovetail under it's former name (First Choice Software) with Gary Sherman , Kevin Miller , Sam Tyson... Posted Jun 02 2008, 08:13 PM by chadmyers with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Misc

• Los Techies Welcomes John Teague to the group

  We are happy to announce a new member joining the Los Techies group: John Teague. John is an active member of the Austin .NET users community. He helps out with the Austin .NET User's Group (ADNUG) including the recent Code Camp '08. He's... Posted Jun 02 2008, 08:03 PM by chadmyers with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Misc

• Tying up loose ends

  Blogging Stuff Just in case anyone was following/caring, I had started a few multi-part series posts that kind of fizzled out and I felt I owed the 3 of you who cared an explanation: Agile Arguments: No one seemed to pick up or care about this one. I... Posted May 04 2008, 09:53 PM by chadmyers with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Misc

• Dear JetBrains, RE: Resharper 4 EAP Nightlies

  Dear JetBrains, Thank you for putting it all on the line and having the stones to do public nightly builds as part of your ReSharper 4.0 EAP. It takes a lot to hang it all out there like that and risk suffering public humiliation from some of the most... Posted Apr 07 2008, 04:21 PM by chadmyers with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: Misc, .NET, ReSharper

• If you suddenly had a week of free time...

  I'm gonna take a minute away from my regularly scheduled blog posts (GoF patterns, Agile Arguments, etc) and seek wisdom from the Collective. Aside from spending more time with the family and the kids, doing some networking and career building, there's... Posted Apr 06 2008, 12:02 PM by chadmyers with | with 18 comment(s) Filed under: Misc

• Interesting (good) Behavior of Closures

  For some reason, I didn't think this would work, but it does: Customer c = null ; Func < string > func = ()=>c.LookupName; c = new Customer {LookupName = "First" }; System.Diagnostics. Debug .WriteLine(func()); I would've expected... Posted Mar 08 2008, 10:42 PM by chadmyers with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Misc, .NET

• Ping-pong Pairing, it's not just for breakfast anymore

  Yesterday was my first day working at my new employer, Bayern Software , with (name drop alert!) Jeremy Miller . We started right off with an easy story doing ping-pong pairing. I really dig this method of doing development (not to mention pairing, not... Posted Mar 03 2008, 05:00 PM by chadmyers with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Misc, Programming

• SQL is the assembly language of the modern world

  This isn't a new idea, it's been mentioned before , so I'm not taking credit for it, but it's still worth pointing out... again... for the umpteenth time. So I'm gonna pick up the baton-of-flames and try the argument again: I really... Posted Feb 21 2008, 07:55 PM by chadmyers with | with 36 comment(s) Filed under: Misc, SQL is evil

• What would an Apple gaming console look like?

  While pondering my navel, it occurred to me that there is a potential GUI-heavy lickable touchable poke-able consumer electronic device that Apple has not yet touched: Gaming Consoles. What would an Apple iGameStation look like? What would the iController... Posted Jan 10 2008, 09:30 PM by chadmyers with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Misc

• Joining the Donkey Side

  The wonderful folks over at Los Techies invited me to join the list of their notable and venerable bloggers and I humbly accepted. If you have subscribed to my Feedburner RSS feed, you should have to do nothing to migrate with me. The new Web URL will... Posted Jan 04 2008, 07:35 AM by chadmyers with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Misc