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Parenting and Razors I really should NOT find this as funny as I do.  I'm sure if Emmitt had hurt himself I wouldn't hav ... r is a cool library for creating RTF formatted strings; but what's REALLY cool is the ascii art found in the source :)

Check In That F*ckin Code Ugh. So apparently I've dropped the ball on this blog software. I've made some changes that ... t, not just plain jane templates, so they end up being easier and more fun to read. Writing Is Hard But I like it.

Step 1: Balsamiq Mockup Here's a quick stab at a hyperactive config editor using Balsamiq Mockups: Matt Lauer "H ... f! I feel like a huge weight has been lifted. Note to self: If you really don't need to do it, cross it off that list!

Recursion Deep Dive Giles has the easiest way to understanding recursion posted here. perfect. Online Software vs ... write the software that does the backups, it would be a fun side project if nothing else. There. Silence is broken.

Broken Windows From The Pragmatic Programmer: "One broken window, left unrepaired for any substantial length of time, insti ... a customizable amount of time, those comments actually cause the project to start failing to build. Stop the broken windows!

Beer is good, beer is yummy, now pour some more, in my tummy! Yikes, 2007. Time is flying. The list of things to get done s ... hing screencasts, it's fun to see other people code and/or do "stuff" in front of me; so I want to pump out more screencasts.

Recently I've come to the conclusion that any project you download or pull down from source control or get through email, wha ... ather not see thousands of lines of code abuse in a sincle codebehind file that has one class in it that does everything.   

I'm sick of shitty legacy code.  It seems that it's everywhere and some days, like today, it takes over and makes me feel lik ... es that involve complex object models, they make it hard to follow what's actually being tested. Grrrr... I hate legacy code

Today, with a suggestion from the USDA Breakmaster, I completed an amazing hack, that I'm really pretty proud of.  We're tryi ... site'; Anyway, the entire solution is ridiculously stupid, and I successfully made it even more stupid, it was a good day...

24, MbUnit, Margs The title pretty much says it all. I'm drinking margs, watchin an episode from 24 season 2, and check ... Tony Soprano and filled him full of lead, frickin AWESOME. And of course the end was the best, man this movie kicks ass!

Today I was running some batch processes that made it nearly impossible to code up anything while the jobs were running.  Tha ... build script(buildme.cmd), ie a command file that contains the csc.exe commandline with options set.  Download the code here.

Recently I've come to the conclusion that any project you download or pull down from source control or get through email, wha ... ather not see thousands of lines of code abuse in a sincle codebehind file that has one class in it that does everything.   

These REALLY come in handy for simple little things.  I love CodeRush, can't live without it.  I like the mnemonics, ps+space ... y to go method generated for me, complete with connection string.  Here are the files:   CSharpSelectFromMethod.zip (7.85 KB)

Lenovo sucks.  I've spent several 30 minute plus episodes waiting for someone to pick up the customer service line and no one ... great the product is, Lenovo should work on PICKING UP THE PHONE!!!!!!!!!! I think I'll find me some more blogs to post to...

I dug up the code I wrote for DNAP(Dot Net And Prototype) awhile back and decided that it is a useful idea afterall.  What is ... rendered that explains how to call whatever code you have set up in codebehind.  Download  Here is the code, DNAP.zip(133K).

Today I was running some batch processes that made it nearly impossible to code up anything while the jobs were running.  Tha ... uild script(buildme.cmd), ie a command file that contains the csc.exe commandline with options set.  Download the code here.

Lenovo sucks.  I've spent several 30 minute plus episodes waiting for someone to pick up the customer service line and no one ... great the product is, Lenovo should work on PICKING UP THE PHONE!!!!!!!!!! I think I'll find me some more blogs to post to...

Today I was running some batch processes that made it nearly impossible to code up anything while the jobs were running.  Tha ... build script(buildme.cmd), ie a command file that contains the csc.exe commandline with options set.  Download the code here.

Trek to Hello World OK.  I started in on MonoRail today, very minimal code, but it's a start.  The hardest part for me was se ... on the hello world example. Get the code for this post here. It includes the needed Castle assemblies so it's about 1.2 mb.

Here are some of the things I'm looking forward to in 2009. This Blog I wrote the code for this blog, but it's not great.  Wh ... 7pm any night of the week.  I've taken on the The Power of Less challenge, and you can follow my progress at the forum here.