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.NET (11)

.NET Tools Updates.

I have pointed out in the past various tools I use for .NET development as they are upgraded and such....

RubyCLR - Ruby meets .NET

My day job dictates most of my work be in .NET using C#, for the most part it works well....

New C# 3.0 Features Announced

In case you are like me and NOT at the PDC, Microsoft has obviously been making some big announcements. One...

AJAX (8)

AJAX Resources

I have been doing a lot of research with regards to AJAX technologies lately. I figured I would share some...

Starting to use AJAX

The current project I am working on is an ASP.NET (C# 2.0) application that is a specialized eCommerce system.

Atlas Project Site Opened

Microsoft has opened up a new web site for the Atlas Project. In case you haven’t heard the Atlas Project...

Microsoft announces Atlas Project

Microsoft announced today information about an initiative for supporting Asynchronous JavaScript (AJAX) in ASP.NET 2.0. AJAX is not a new...

ASP.NET (9)

ELMAH - Google Code

I have blogged in the past about using ELMAH (Error Logging Modules and Handlers) for error logging in my ASP.NET...

ELMAH for ASP.NET 2.0 Available

I have been using a module for Error Logging and Notification released on GotDotNet, called ELMAH.? ELMAH is a great...

ASP.NET MVC (7)

Apple (50)

The Future is the Apple Watch

I?ve been anticipating the official announcement of the Apple Watch since rumors surfaced many months ago. ?I?ve spent much time...

31 Great Days of iOS

It’s been a while since I had the time to post anything but I wanted to share this great summary...

My Top 10 iPad Applications

I know more and more people who are buying iPads almost daily. I get asked what applications I recommend for...

Time Capsule Up and Running

I found some time this weekend to unpack the Time Capsule, set it up and perform my first back up....

Setting up MySQL on Leopard

I just upgraded my MacBook Pro from Tiger to Leopard this weekend. No, Tiger was working fine but I wanted...

iPhone 1.1.3 Ready and Installed

Apple announced the release of firmware for the iPhone, version 1.1.3, at MacWorld yesterday. The release was rumored but now...

My New Apple Mac Mini

I decided the Apple MacBook Pro was not meant to be at this time. Apple has put them on backorder...

Apple' (1)

Book Reviews (4)

Reworking It.

I finished reading the newly released book, Rework, by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson not long after it was...

Bootstrapping (3)

Business (10)

Farewell to Stack Exchange

I posted recently about having priorities straight in your profession and Jeff Atwood, founder of Stack Exchange, comes to the...

Less is More, Enjoying Startup Life

Interesting, thought provoking and true post by David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) of 37Signals about how people seem to feel obligated...

Bootstrapping Your Ideas

As an individual entrepreneur it is sometimes hard to get things done with our limited time in a day and...

C# (2)

Great C# String.Format Resource

I came across a great C# String.Format resource from Steve Tibbett and figured I would share it.? I can never...

Clojure (1)

Code Camp (1)

CustomerFu (1)

Entrepreneurship (13)

Product + Support - Hiten Shaw

I discovered a new series of interviews with entrepreneurs called Product + Support. It?s created by Ian Landsman?founder of UserScape....

Reading List

Here is a great list of business book from Jonathan Stark. I’ve read many of these but found some I...

How Not To Provide Customer Support

I recently had an interesting interaction with a company?s support team and the results were less than spectacular. Originally, I...

Yep, paid apps are dead ? Tapity

Jeremy over at Tapity had a great post yesterday talking about the very same topic I blogged about; paid apps....

General (36)

Subscribe to Posts Via Email

It seems more and more web sites are offering users to subscribe to updates delivered by email. ?If you would...

No More R?sum?s Please

I’m sure like so many people I used to keep a r?sum? up-to-date but no longer. ?I don’t think with...

Homebrew Upgrade Woes

I ran into an interesting problem recently after updating my installation of Homebrew on my Mac Pro. ? Starting with...

2011 Conference Season

I mentioned in my review post of 2010 that I planned to spend more time networking, in particular attending conferences....

2010 - The Year Ahead

2009 was a very interesting year, a year of some realization and a year which helped lay the foundation for...

43

Today is my 43rd birthday. I have since my late 30?s, really disliked thinking about being another year older, I...

Fear of the Start

I attended Nathaniel Talbott’s talk titled Fear of Programming at acts_as_conference 2009 in Orlando a few weeks ago. Nathaniel’s talk...

I Need to Stop Volunteering

I have a really bad habit, I have friends and organizations who need help and I volunteer to help but...

Turning Down the Social Noise

It was about a month ago and I was sitting here in my home office reading some Twitter tweets and...

CartoonMe and Twitter

Have you ever wondered how some of your Twitter friends have those cool cartoon versions of themselves? I was put...

Dilbert goes Agile

I found this yesterday and thought others might find it amusing.

Grab Some Free TechSmith Tools

I use SnagIt from Techsmith on a regular basis for creating screen shots for some of the posts I publish...

On the Road Again

I have not posted to my blog in a while. I am sitting in a hospital room in Baltimore, MD...

2006 Resolutions

Well, it’s 2006 and I am back to work after a much needed vacation. The holidays were great and I...

Happy New Year 2006

Happy New Year everyone! This is my first post of 2006 and will hopefully be the start of many more...

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I hope everyone is getting some much needed time off and some quality time with family.

Great Service Revisited

I posted recently about my experiences with my blog posting service, Typepad, and how I felt they had done exceptionally...

What is Great Service?

It’s human nature to point out, in a public forum, an example of a bad product or bad service. I...

General' (1)

Go (1)

Hardware (5)

The Dell Mini and 2G RAM

It seems when ordering from Dell, the Dell Mini memory options are limited to 1G RAM. I understand this is...

Hotwire (2)

IIS (3)

InfoQ (27)

InfoQ Gang at RubyFringe

UPDATE: The conference sessions and the interviews will be up on the InfoQ site at www.infoq.com/rubyfringe. Look for them in...

The ALT.NET Podcast

Mike Moore has a new podcast out called the ALT.NET Podcast where he talks with the people following the ALT.NET...

Infrastructure (1)

Instant Rails (9)

Moving Instant Rails Forward

It has been a long time since InstantRails has been brought up-to-date and I had been wondering if the community...

Instant Rails Tutorial

I found this great tutorial on getting started with Instant Rails. I used this tutorial to get started. It is...

Discovering Instant Rails 1.0

Over the last couple months I have been learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails, the Ruby framework from 37Signals.? Searching...

IronRuby (13)

New IronRuby Build Instructions

I started playing with the new drop of the IronRuby source this past Labor Day Weekend but found out quickly...

IronRuby on Rubyforge

IronRuby is now on RubyForge for all to download and build, as reported by John Lam on his blog:

JavaScript (5)

You might not need jQuery

This is a really nice resource for those moving from jQuery to JavaScript ES6. I like the 1:1 comparisons.

Life (1)

Complacency kills.

Matthew Dicks explaining so well, what we should all already know and strive to do:

Linked (1)

Mac (7)

Status Bar in iTerm2

I’m a big fan of iTerm2. I’ve used it since it’s inception and haven’t looked back. Even after all of...

Merb (2)

Microsoft (15)

Hiding User Accounts on Windows 7

I recently needed to create a local user account for a project which involved using the Microsoft Great Plains Dynamics...

Back in the Vista Saddle Again

I have wanted to be a Windows Vista user and developer since before it was released, but there always seemed...

Is the IE7 web site up?

I just found this interesting so I thought I would share. Did anyone notice this little knock at Microsoft? Check...

Windows Live Domains

I recently moved my email domain for wewritesoftware.com to the new Microsoft Windows Live Domains. Microsoft will host your email...

Microsoft PDC 2005

Microsoft’s Professional Developer’s Conference (PDC) is being held September 13-16 2005 in Los Angeles, CA. It looks like a great...

Mobile (11)

PalettePro AppDiction Review

Since the launch of our first company-owned iOS application, PalettePro, ?at the end of May, it has been a bit...

Marco's Love of Android

I have been following an interesting discussion between the Shifty Jelly folks and Marco Arment of Instapaper regarding the merits...

I Want My Content and Consume it Too

When Apple announced the ability of content providers to offer in-app purchases of their goods, newspapers and magazines breathed a...

Making Money on Mobile Applications

Tim Bray had an interesting and timely post recently regarding his view on a developer’s ability to make money creating...

Objective-C (3)

Podcast (12)

Podcatch.com

Dave Winer is always working on something new, something creative and innovative. While running out of something good to listen...

My Updated Developer Podcast List

My appetite for podcasts is always growing but my interests routinely change.? I don?t listen to many .NET-specific podcasts any...

Rubiverse Podcast

I recently discovered a Ruby-focused podcast called Rubiverse Podcast. It is a new podcast, so the number of episodes are...

Podcast : Rubyology

I came across a new Ruby on Rails podcast recently called Rubyology by Chris Matthieu who founded Numly.

New podcast, HanselMinutes

I subscribe to many podcasts in my iTunes client, subscribing to one here and there and dropping just as many....

TechEd 2005 Podcasts

In case you are like me, you are not attending Tech, but there is a group at the conference that...

Programming (44)

Greener grass

I ran across an interesting post this morning from Frans Bouma, of LLBLGen fame. ?He is a long-time .NET developer...

Where Are We Without Community?

I came across a really interesting blog post yesterday with a recurring theme.? It was by developer Dave Newman titled,...

App Inventor for Android, VB Revisited

Google announced a new product today, App Inventor for Android. This is a development environment for creating applications on Android,...

Picking up some Python

I have been using Ruby and various .NET languages for a long-time but the coming flood of deep architecture changes...

I Am Not a Master but a Solutionist

I stumbled upon an interesting essay by Zed Shaw recently titled “The Master, The Expert, The Programmer” pointed out by...

Why I Use TextMate

I have been using TextMate from MacroMates for the past couple years for Ruby and Rails development on the Mac,...

The Long Tail of Learning

I believe in continuous self-improvement, whether it be in the technology I use, personal relationships or any aspect of life....

Digg the Dzone

I came across a really nice web site recently that is much like Digg but for developers, called Dzone. The...

Great .NET Language List

I have fascination with computer languages as some people do with foreign languages. In searching around for Ruby implementations on...

Third Party Controls

I am not a big fan of third party controls. Our company uses a variety of controls from various vendors...

ComputerZen.com 2005 Tool List

In the event no one knows who Scott Hanselman is, he writes one of the-best technology related blogs on the...

Raspberry Pi (1)

Remote Work (1)

Ruby (55)

Use TinyURL from Ruby

I recently found myself needing to use TinyURL on a client project. ?I did a bit of scouring the web...

Makandra Notes for Rails Developers

The Ruby Rails consulting shop Makandra recently opened their internal knowledge base of how-tos and code snippets for all to...

Interviewed about IronRuby

I was recently interviewed by Mike Pontacooloni of SearchWinDevelopment.com for an article about IronRuby and how it may be used...

Running Rails 2.3.x on IronRuby

There have been some interesting discussions recently on Twitter about IronRuby and Rails. The IronRuby team has been plodding along...

Reflections on Ruby for Projects

Martin Fowler recently published an article recently looking back at projects which ThoughtWorks chose to use Ruby as the programming...

Rails Immaturity Model

Unless you have been living under a rock in the Rails world you have certainly not missed the latest, a...

RubyConf 2007 Videos Available

Confreaks.com has made available much of the recent RubyConf 2007 presentations on their web site in video form.

Ruby East 2007 is Coming...

So, I recently learned about a local Ruby and Rails conference coming in a couple weeks to within driving distance...

Ruby, Ruby Everywhere

On Windows that is….. I have noticed lately that Ruby and in particular, Ruby on Rails development on Windows has...

Exploring Ruby

I started playing around with Ruby back in the fall to see what all the hype was about and learn...

Ruby on Rails (54)

Ruby on Rails Testing Resources

When taking the plunge into Ruby on Rails it’s really easy to get carried away with learning all about the...

Introducing Rails Rescues

Today I?m happy to introduce Rails Rescues. Rails Rescues?is?a service representing years of Ruby on Rails experience organized to help...

Speeding up Heroku Deploys

Anyone who deploys their Rails 3.x or 4.x utilizing the asset pipeline and doesn?t precompile those assets yet deploys to...

Running Rails 3 on Windows

Well, the long-awaited release of Ruby on Rails 3 is now out and all of the Mac and Linux junkies...

RailsConf 2010

RailsConf 2010 was this past week in Baltimore, MD. I decided to make the trip down from CT since it...

acts_as_conference is now history

It’s Saturday night here in Orlando, FL and I just finished listening to Obie Fernandez give the final keynote of...

Rails in a Windows World

My day job consists of writing both Windows applications or web applications that run on Windows web servers.?? Most of...

Ruby on Rails 1.1 Released

Ruby on Rails 1.1 has been released. This is a much anticipated release that touts many new features and a...

Using RadRails

I have been on a frenzy lately trying to find a good development environment for doing Rails development on Windows...

SQL Server (2)

Social Media (1)

Social Media Times Are Changing

It has been interesting to follow the story of Twitter going from public company to being purchased by Elon Musk...

Software Architecture (10)

Castle Project 1.0 RC3 is out

The Castle Project has finally released its version 1.0 RC3 today. It has been a long time coming but not...

Microsoft Architecture Podcast

Microsoft seems to be focusing more on architecture these days. There is a new podcast available on the Microsoft Architecture...

Status (6)

1173

Gorgeous reds appearing this past weekend. Fall is my favorite time of year, colors changing daily.

A Nice, Welcome Reminder

I was out trail running with a friend this past weekend when we stopped because we had taken a wrong...

1092

I’m thinking about productized consulting today. The latest episode of TropicalMBA, The One Where a Business Starts on the Show,...

1071

Spending the day using Swift; it’s the future for sure. Swift feels like a cross between Ruby and C#, in...

1070

I really like the idea of microblogging and controlling my own content. I’m going to give it a try. What...

Swift (3)

Technology (116)

Social Media Times Are Changing

It has been interesting to follow the story of Twitter going from public company to being purchased by Elon Musk...

Tell Me My Value Up Front

The hiring process is broken. I hear of people who are looking for work, either as a full-time employee or...

Switched to DuckDuckGo

I finally made the switch to using DuckDuckGo for search, full-time, and I couldn?t be happier. I tried switching from...

Algorithms

I came across a great book on Algorithms?based on a course taught at Berkeley and U.C. San Diego and wanted...

No Love for App.net

There has been a huge buzz around the Kickstarter project, App.net, on the web these days. ?I have no intention...

Joining MarsEdit and Dropbox

I use MarsEdit from Red Sweater Software as my exclusive blogging tool on the Mac and have over the last...

My Perfect Laptop Bag

I have to admit, I am a bit of a laptop bag junkie.? I have had pretty much every type...

2009 Year in Review

Well the past 12 months have gone by really fast, again. It seems I always tell myself this each New...

Dell Mini Resources

Since receiving my Dell Mini back in September I have found some nice resources pop-up over the past couple months...

Google Chrome Auto Updates

I have been running the Google Chrome browser since it came out last week and I am pleasantly surprised how...

Graffiti is now Live

This is a test post from my favorite blog writing tool, Windows Live Writer on my new installation of GraffitiCMS....

links for 2008-02-21

[Ruby on Rails Website Development Blog from Atlantic Dominion Solutions](https://rorblog.techcfl.com/2008/02/20/merborial-up-and-running-with-merb-090-dev/) Latest on getting Merb 0.90 up and running (tags: [merb](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/merb))...

links for 2008-02-20

[High Scalability | Building bigger, faster, more reliable websites.](https://highscalability.com/) Nice site for information on building high availability web sites. (tags:...

links for 2008-02-15

[21 Merb Links, Tutorials and Other Resources](https://www.rubyinside.com/merb-tutorials-and-resources-716.html) Great list of resources for getting a handle on Merb. (tags: [merb](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/merb) [Ruby](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/Ruby))...

links for 2008-02-14

[20 Things I'm Glad Life Taught Me](https://www.dumblittleman.com/2008/02/20-things-im-glad-life-taught-me.html) A good list to remind one of keeping things in perspective. (tags: [inspiration](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/inspiration))...

links for 2008-02-04

[Ruby on Rails Website Development Blog from Atlantic Dominion Solutions](https://rorblog.techcfl.com/2008/02/01/merborial-getting-started-with-merb-and-datamapper/) A nice tutorial on getting started with Merb and DataMapper....

links for 2008-01-29

[Michael.NET: IronRuby Quick Start](https://michaeldotnet.blogspot.com/2008/01/ironruby-quick-start.html) A well-done getting started with IronRuby (tags: [Ruby](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/Ruby) [IronRuby](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/IronRuby))

links for 2008-01-26

[SitePoint Blogs ? Upgrading to Rails 2.0. A Recipe](https://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/01/25/upgrading-to-rails-20-a-recipe/) Good tutorial on updating your Rails 1.2.x apps to 2.0. (tags:...

links for 2008-01-25

[Robby on Rails : Installing Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL on OS X, Third Edition](https://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2008/01/22/installing-ruby-on-rails-and-postgresql-on-os-x-third-edition) Great tutorial on setting up...

links for 2008-01-20

[Installing MySQL on Mac OS X at Hivelogic](https://hivelogic.com/articles/installing-mysql-on-mac-os-x/) Great tutorial on getting MySQL up and running on the Mac with...

links for 2008-01-08

[Andrzej on Software: A Guide to Deploying Rails Applications](https://andrzejonsoftware.blogspot.com/2008/01/guide-to-deploying-rails-applications.html) A good summary of how-to deploy Rails applications using common tools....

links for 2008-01-07

[LinuxHaxor.net | 68 Linux Related Free E-books](https://www.linuxhaxor.net/2007/09/05/68-linux-related-free-e-books/) Great list of free ebooks, mostly Linux related but some good stuff for...

links for 2008-01-03

[Ruby.NET vs. IronRuby: What's The Difference? - O'Reilly Windows DevCenter Blog](https://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2008/01/rubynet_vs_ironruby_whats_the.html) Nice comparison of Ruby.NET and IronRuby (tags: [Ruby](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/Ruby)) [Learning...

links for 2007-12-20

[Heroku](https://heroku.com/) A cool idea for hosting your Rails applications. You can even edit your code on-line. (tags: [rails](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/rails) [hosting](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/hosting)) [Overview](https://geminstaller.rubyforge.org/index.html)...

links for 2007-12-16

[Carl Mercier?s blog ? Blog Archive ? How to fix that Rubygems mess on Leopard](https://blog.carlmercier.com/2007/12/14/how-to-fix-that-rubygems-mess-on-leopard/) Need help with fixing gems...

links for 2007-12-13

[Running Long Background Tasks In Ruby On Rails Made Dead Simple / Ruby On Rails / Blog](https://trix.pl/blog/ruby-on-rails/running-long-background-tasks-in-ruby-on-rails-made-dead-simple) A nice alternative...

What is ALT.NET?

I am searching for answers….what is ALT.NET anyway? I thought I knew what this movement was all about but the...

links for 2007-12-07

[Live Labs : Volta : Download](https://labs.live.com/volta/download/) Microsoft's latest, Volta for creating web applications. (tags: [Volta](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/Volta)) [Confreaks: RubyConf 2007](https://rubyconf2007.confreaks.com/) A bunch...

links for 2007-12-06

[iPhone on Rails - Creating an iPhone optimised version of your Rails site using iUI and Rails 2](https://www.slashdotdash.net/articles/2007/12/04/iphone-on-rails-creating-an-iphone-optimised-version-of-your-rails-site-using-iui-and-rails-2) A great...

links for 2007-12-05

[Inversion of Control Containers and the Dependency Injection pattern](https://martinfowler.com/articles/injection.html) (tags: [IOC](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/IOC) [injection](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/injection))

links for 2007-08-29

[Ask Udi](https://udidahan.weblogs.us/ask-udi) A nice podcast about all things SOA (tags: [soa](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/soa) [podcast](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/podcast)) [NServiceBus - Communications Framework for .NET](https://udidahan.weblogs.us/category/nservicebus/) A framework...

links for 2007-08-24

[InfoQ: A Look at Common Performance Problems in Rails](https://www.infoq.com/articles/Rails-Performance) A nice look at Rails performance issues and how to address...

links for 2007-08-21

[jQuery for JavaScript programmers](https://simonwillison.net/2007/Aug/15/jquery/) A nice introduction to jQuery. This is a good place to start for anyone getting started...

links for 2007-08-16

[The Code Project Browser Add-in for VS 2005 - The Code Project - C# Programming](https://www.codeproject.com/csharp/cpbrowser.asp) Nice Visual Studio add-in to...

links for 2007-07-17

[import this. ? Django on Windows](https://thinkhole.org/wp/django-on-windows/) (tags: [Great](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/Great) [tutorial](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/tutorial) [on](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/on) [getting](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/getting) [Django,](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/Django,) [Python](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/Python) [2.51,](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/2.51,) [Apache](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/Apache) [and](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/and) [mod\_python](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/mod_python) [running](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/running) [Windows](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/Windows))

Dogpile Web Search

I was checking the logs on my server the past couple of weeks and notice and interesting referrer, Dogpile. I...

Serious Geek

I work with smart people everyday but the number of times I meet or hear about a real geek seem...

Find Web Applications Fast

I came across this new search engine recently called Simple Spark. Simple Spark is not yet another Google wannabe but...

Subversion Bridge Coming...

I caught a post from Harry Pierson about SVNBridge, a bridge for using Subversion clients as a client for Team...

links for 2007-06-12

[Prototype JavaScript framework: Easy Ajax and DOM manipulation for dynamic web applications](https://www.prototypejs.org/) This is a great library for use with...

links for 2007-03-22

[100% Reflective Class Diagram Creation Tool - The Code Project - C# Programming](https://www.codeproject.com/csharp/AutoDiagrammer.asp) Nice tool to produce a class diagram...

links for 2007-03-07

[The Trac Project - Trac](https://trac.edgewall.org/) (tags: [bugtracking](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/bugtracking)) [BugTracker.NET Home](https://www.ifdefined.com/bugtrackernet.html) Great free and opensource bug tracking system for .net. (tags: [bugtracking](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/bugtracking))...

links for 2007-02-15

[ADO.NET team blog : Entity Data Model 101 - Part 2](https://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2007/02/12/entity-data-model-101-part-2.aspx) (tags: [LINQ](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/LINQ))

links for 2007-02-10

[Enterprise .NET Community: Creating a Custom ASP.NET Profile Provider](https://www.theserverside.net/tt/articles/showarticle.tss?id=CsharpLINQLearningGuide2007) This is a great resource for learning LINQ. It is a...

links for 2007-02-06

West Wind Application Configuration for .NET Great tool for configuring web applications, virtual directories, etc. (tags: .net configuration)

FeedDemon 2.0.0.25 Released

There is an update out to my favorite newsreader, FeedDemon. I have been using 2.0 for a while now and...

Online Database Schema Library

I came across this Library of Free Database Models from Scott Guthrie?s blog recently.? Below is an example of one...

Red-Gate Software Releases SQL Prompt

Red-Gate Software recently acquired a product called SQL Prompt. SQL Prompt gives the SQL developer intellisense in SQL Query Analyzer...

37Signals finally Getting Real

37Signals has finally released their “Getting Real” book in PDF format. I have been waiting for this book since I...

Using ActiveState Komodo IDE

In my continuing effort to find a decent Ruby IDE under Windows or Mac OSX I decided to try the...

I want an Apple MacBook Pro

I watched the Steve Jobs MacWorld keynote on Tuesday from MacWorld after learning several month ago that Apple was moving...

Foxit Software PDF Reader

I recently read a post over on Scott Hanselman’s blog about Foxit Software’s PDF reader. This is a PDF reader...

The Graying Software Industry

Sahil Malik has a great post on the aging of the people in the software industry. The gist of the...

XBOX 360 at Gamestop

I had a chance this weekend, while out Christmas shopping, to stop by my local Gamestop to check out the...

FeedDemon 1.6 RC1

Newsgator has released FeedDemon 1.6 RC1 to their beta download site. I have been using FeedDemon since the early 1.6...

Information Overload

This is a subject that has been haunting me of late. I see so many new technologies that look interesting...

Memorial Day Weekend Tech Fun

Well it’s almost a holiday weekend for us in the U.S. I hope every enjoys the long weekend and remembers...

Technology' (2)

Tips (2)

Tip: Save Typing 'bundle exec'

If you’re a Ruby on Rails developer, you probably type the words bundle exec numerous times a day. I finally...

Uncategorized (1)

About

I am not a technologist totally by accident but close enough to call my blog Accidental Technologist. I started my...

User Experience (3)

Who Here Prefers Non-Stop Flights?

I wonder who designed the user experience at Orbitz? I cannot imagine the design meeting which resulted with this checkbox...

Utilities (1)

Visual Studio (24)

Ruby in Steel 1.1 Released

Version 1.1 of Ruby in Steel has been released. This is a Ruby development environment that is an add-in to...

GhostDoc 1.9.3 Released

Roland Weigelt released an updated version of his product called GhostDoc. If you haven’t used this product it is a...

Losing Intellisense on Visual Studio

An interesting problem one of my fellow developers faced recently was losing Intellisense in Visual Studio 2003. The interesting problem...

More Visual Studio 2005 Stuff

Dan Fernandez pointed out in his blog about a tool from Microsoft to do an Automatic Uninstall of the pre-RTM...

Visual Studio 2005 Released

Well, the title says it all. Finally we have access to Visual Studio 2005 via MSDN Subscriber downloads. I have...

Visual Studio 2005 RTM

I picked up this post from Jeffrey Palermo, it appears the Visual Studio 2005 RTM will be available to MSDN...

Visual Studio 2005 RC1

I downloaded the recent Release Candidate 1 (RC1) from the Microsoft MSDN Universal Subscriber site over the weekend to get...

Visual Studio 2005 Web Projects

There has been much talk and complaining in the blogsphere about how Visual Studio 2005 Web Project now lack a...

Visual Studio 2005 Release Date

In case you haven’t heard, Microsoft announced at Tech’Ed 2005 that Visual Studio will be released Nov. 7th 2005. This...

iOS (1)

iPhone (5)