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In 1846 it wasn't a required practice for medical professionals to wash their hands or equipment when treating a patient. In 1847, Ignaz Semmelweis experimented and discovered that incidences of maternal death from Puerperal fever at Vienna General Hospital were drastically reduced simply by requiring...
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I suppose it's time for the obligatory weigh-in on the latest bit o' reckless software advice from Joel Spolsky on the merits of the "Duct Tape Programmer". I think being a duct tape programmer is a bit like being an alcoholic. Once you become one, you are one, and when you want to stop, you have to...
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Today in a meeting I heard: “We can provide a workaround for you” and immediately wrote down the title of this post in my notepad. Obviously, workaround is not a four-letter word in reality, but does have nearly the same meaning as the actual four letter word “hack”. If anybody...
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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 like it could save Ayende probably 10 support...
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This is a rant. I’m stating it up front. You have been warned :) Leave a comment if you disagree, but if it’s more than a paragraph or two, please post your response on your own blog and let us know in a comment. Currently, on the ALT.NET mailing list, there is a still-active thread about Lean...
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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 spaces Open spaces, coupled with targeted workshops...
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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 concepts, and others fall into the “make my...
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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 relying on Flash to deliver information guarantees...
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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 matter what, it’s a long road to get back to sanity...
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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 failing. We couldn’t tell if it was the original...
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I've been wanting to get this off my chest for a while now, and in a way that is more than a handful of tweetbursts. So here goes. Some of you may have heard or seen me tweet about my saga with my MacBook Pro over the last several weeks. Long story short, I came to work, set down my coffee, opened...
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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*$" , "123456" ).ShouldBeTrue(); } Then...
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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, effective September 1, 2008. Each additional Profile...
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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 to compare which languages and frameworks are the...
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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 blog post detailing your new features. How did I ever...