October 2008 - Posts
Earlier this morning we saw some very interesting Keynote talks here. A preview of Windows 7 was shown. We're finally seeing some really great direction from Microsoft. I admit I am very much submerged in all that is Microsoft considering my occupation,
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I've used Python a decent amount in the past. I enjoy the language and I've taught the language to non-computer science students at Kent State University. There are plenty of things that I really love about that language. I could write plenty of blog
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In the past the C# language obtained a new feature allowing it to declare variables as type "var". It didn't really do any dynamic typing though. For the most part the var is just there for developer convenience. Some people have complained about this
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In the recent Keynote here at Microsoft PDC, they just announced what they're calling an operating system for the cloud. Windows Azure is a platform for developers to create applications which are highly scalable. Over a month ago I was at Microsoft's
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So it probably took me 15 seconds to track down this error in my code, and those wasted seconds, while very minor, are exactly why I wish Visual Studio or ReSharper or some program would alert me to what I've mistakenly done. It is easy with some
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Earlier today I read a very interesting blog post from Steve Smith . I use FireBug for all of my debugging purposes in Firefox. I wish that IE had a tool as amazing as FireBug. Sadly, I know of none. I had a similar desire for Firefox, because I use Fiddler
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Just in case you missed the blog post from Scott Guthrie yesterday, I will post this. Scott Guthrie's MVC Beta Announcement ASP.NET MVC Beta Download One of my favorite little added bonuses of using IDEs is that I get a lot of helpers that generate code
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One thing I probably say too often when working on code with other people is, "That's a new error. We're making progress." I take a bit of crap from a coworker of mine because of this. He thinks it is quite funny that new error messages are what I consider
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