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Ward Cunningham Interview
Check out the Ward Cunningham interview on The ServerSide.net. I identify somewhat with the following quote: I do know that a lot of times if the programmer gets good, while he is getting good, he...
community professional-development agile programming
December 2, 2004
Read More Whitepages Search
I had another one of those "aren't web searches amazing" moments today. In the process of trying to find the phone number of a school, I eventually gave up on www.whitepages.com.au and used the...
November 10, 2004
Read More Icon Experience
I purchased an icon set for use in software development from Icon Experience around six months ago. This is a great snappy looking Windows XP style icon collection that makes my winforms software...
October 13, 2004
Read More Media Player City
After a couple of years of swearing not to install Real Networks software because of it's intrusiveness in previous versions, its now back on my PC....
October 3, 2004
Read More Real Techno
Over the last year or so, I've been heavily into listening and viewing audio and video content from the Internet. Mostly it's technology oriented but there's also a mix of other subject areas....
podcasts audio video productivity-tools community dotnet
September 30, 2004
Read More Intrusive Software
I hate software that's intrusive or attempts to make decisions for me or "guide" me to a decision favouring the software vendor....
August 23, 2004
Read More Overly Pedantic
Today my brain had a situation where it looped continuously making a decision whether to email a customer on their wording in an email....
July 20, 2004
Read More Paste Special
Just a thought: I seem to use "Paste Special ..." and then select "Unformatted Text" so often it really should be as much of a standard keystroke as Ctrl-C for Copy and Ctrl-V for Paste....
July 12, 2004
Read More DiffDebugging
Martin Fowler is one of my favourite technical authors. Recently he wrote a bliki entry titled DiffDebugging. I got the same sense of deja vu with this piece as a I did when first reading the Design...
June 26, 2004
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