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  • Why are we so cheap with software?

    On twitter today, Ayende asked the question : should I offer a personal edition for NH Prof? If so, at what cost? If you're not familiar with NHibernate Profiler , it's Ayende's for-profit, non-OSS NHibernate profiling tool. Honestly, it looks...
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  • 10 things to embrace in 2009

    With 2008 behind us, what better way to kick off the new year than another cheesy top 10 list.  This time, with more bold! Rather than focus on the negative, here are a few things I’d like to see continued and embraced in the year ahead. 1) Open...
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  • Ten things to retire in 2009

    This year, 2008, was a year that saw many a new term or expression get ingrained in the minds of us .NET developers.  Quite a few I’d rather not see in the next year, as they’ve overstayed their welcome.  Some are catch-phrases, some are misapplied...
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  • Boycotting Flash

    I’ve had it.  I’m done with Flash and Silverlight and any other bogus “Rich Internet Application” technology used to deliver what should be normal websites on the WWW.  Now, internal websites/applications are something entirely different. But...
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  • Worst Visual Studio message ever

    This is about the worst Visual Studio message, ever: This happens to me about once every two weeks, when I do an SVN Update from Tortoise.  I forget to Save All, and my Project changes weren’t saved.  Instead, SVN overwrote my changes, and no...
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  • Continuous Integration Tip of the Day

    We wasted quite a bit of time not following this rule today: If the CI build fails, roll back the previous revision. The build failed, and from the exception we assumed it was an environmental issue.  Well, a few commits later, and the build kept...
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  • One of those days

    I had one of those days the other day. Not quite a case of the Mondays, but one where I thought maybe I should just go home and start over. If you're trying to get this test to pass: [ Test ] public void Good_times() { Regex .IsMatch( @"^\d*...
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  • Adios, Netflix profiles

    It was a good run. But it looks like your creators are giving you the axe, judging by the email I received today: We wanted to let you know we will be eliminating Profiles, the feature that allowed you to set up separate DVD Queues under one account,...
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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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  • Dear software tool vendors, RE: I'm breaking up with you

    Dear software tool vendors, Reading Chad's ReSharper love letter reminded me we need to talk. I'm breaking up with you. Your solutions seemed so enticing. It seemed my excitement had no bounds, as I waited longingly for each press release and...
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  • Moving past stored procedures

    On Chad's recent SQL-assembly comparison post , a few interesting comments caught my eye proclaiming the glory of stored procedures. From tom (no link): [Stored procedures] are not only useful for speed but also for ACID and to keep business logic...

  • Stop the Flash insanity

    More and more it seems high-profile websites are using Flash as a mechanism to deliver essential content. In extreme cases, such as mycokerewards , the entire site is built on Flash. Ads in websites, which you used to be able to ignore, now use Flash...
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  • Upgrading to Windows XP SP2

    After months of soul-searching, I made the gut-wrenching decision today to upgrade my home PC to Windows XP SP2. Upgrade from Vista, that is. I'm completely convinced that Vista is not designed to run on single-core/processor machines. I've run...
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  • Dead Google Calendar gadget

    This morning I received an interesting yet disturbing message on the Google Calendar gadget on my iGoogle home page: Great gadget that it was, I think I might be a little more discerning about what gadgets I put on the home page. Word of warning, you...
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  • Time is running out

    I popped open Windows Live Writer today and got a fun message: I thought this product was free, and I never paid for anything, so I'm a little confused how a free product can expire. Live Writer isn't supported on Server 2003, which is what I...
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