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  • Congrats to the Los Techies MVPs!

    This morning, I and fellow Los Techies alumni Eric Hexter and Chris Patterson learned that we are MVPs!  Well, technically I learned last night through an IM of a re-tweet of my MVP lead, but hey, close enough, right?  I know it’s cheesy, but...
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  • Meaning of life

    Wolfram Alpha knows all: From OMG to OMFSM , we now move to OMWA.
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  • The Infinite Extensibility Engine

    The biggest issue facing developers today is not lack of OO knowledge, patterns, or guidance.  It’s a sad lack of extensibility in today’s frameworks.  Over the past year or so, getting familiar with ASP.NET MVC, I think I’ve found an answer...
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  • A sign of the times

    From Daniel Cazzulino : A pattern emerges…
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  • What’s in a version name?

    The best AutoMapper feature request I’ve received so far is one I got at the recent ALT.NET conference: “Can you please not call the release ‘Alpha’?” Well, that’s easy. It’s funny how much the name of a release can influence perception of the quality...
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  • Language feature parity and the polyglot programmer

    For the average .NET developer, language features in the other .NET language don’t matter 99% of the time.  Unless of course, you’re using a framework designed for features that don’t exist for the language you’re using. Such is the plight for a...
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  • On symbology and materialism

    In a great article, Scott Bellware talks about the detrimental nature of a fixation of symbology on teaching .  This is especially true in software development, where the justification, shape and application of tools are not quite as clear as other...
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  • Well that’s just precious

    Looks like Gmail has themes: Awesome, even got the little heart over the “i” in “Gmail”.  And I don’t see why that one upside-down ice cream is so happy, it just got a big chunk bitten out of its head.
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  • Programmers are not typists first

    Jeff Atwood had a recent post that coders are typists first, programmers second: Steve [Yegge] and I believe there is nothing more fundamental in programming than the ability to efficiently express yourself through typing. Note that I said "efficiently"...
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  • Transitioning between consulting projects

    Starting at Headspring gave me the first opportunity in my career to do consulting work.  I had previously worked in a startup, a product team and a large IT department.  In each of those cases, I didn’t leave a job until I gave my two weeks...
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  • On passion

    One of my favorite bloggers, JP Boodhoo , has a little saying he puts at the end of every post: Develop with passion! I've only met JP once, and it was quite obvious from that meeting that passion is somewhat of a mantra for him. It's also something...
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  • See you at Austin Code Camp!

    This week I'll be speaking at Austin Code Camp , a technical conference here in Austin that features in-depth code-centric sessions. The sessions I'm doing are: Intro to C# 3.0 - covering practical and pragmatic applications of the new features...
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  • A pointless exercise

    I caught this last night from Scott Hanselman on Twitter: http://www.betterwebapp.com/drupal/?q=screencasts It's a side-by-side comparison of the time to create a simple web app for: Ruby Perl ASP.NET Java The website compares a few other frameworks...
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  • Developers or engineers?

    I've had quite a few job titles where I basically did the same function: Software Engineer, Software Developer, Technical Lead, and so on. In some companies, a Software Developer is a completely different position than Software Engineer, and in others...
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  • Raising the bar

    Continuous improvement is absolutely essential for any serious software developer. Personally, my drive for constant improvement is not so much the next shiny developer toy (though this happens occasionally), but the idea that there is always some way...
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