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Repost: Technology vs Sexism: I’m reposting about the original that can be found here. Since I’m reposting it, I obviously agree with it, but let me add my own spin/rant to the whole thing. To repeat something I posted previously: “If you are a woman in any industry, and you find yourself going to meetings where the first comment you hear is “Hey babe, nice tits”, run, don’t walk to your HR department. “ Since that could be read as being flippant, let me make clear how serious I was. Like racism, sexism takes different forms. Not every form is...; posted @ Thursday, May 24, 2012 8:57 PM | Feedback (0)

Jesus does not influence the outcome of NFL games: After watching yet another miraculous Tim Tebow led comeback, I began to reconsider my stance that Jesus was not interested in the outcome of NFL games. There are two particular aspects about the Tebow phenomenon that I particularly enjoy. One is the obvious religious aspect. Although it isn’t the only factor, by far one of the largest aspects that drives the Tebow-haters, and drives them nuts, is the fact that Tebow is openly Christian, and unapologetic about it. These same people generally wouldn’t mind thuggish behavior in their athletes, or manslaughter convictions, or what have you, but an occasional mention of Jesus...; posted @ Sunday, December 11, 2011 7:45 PM | Feedback (2)

Comment Spam: I’m not interested in a business loan and neither are any of my readers: Comment spam is a fact of life if you run a blog. It typically takes on a few common aspects. Comment spammers are looking for unmoderated blogs so that they can post a whole bunch of random off-topic comments that contain links to whatever they are spamming about. This blog is moderated, so what happens is I get a bunch of spam comments in-between the few real reader comments. I approve the real reader comments, and then delete the spam comments in a batch whenever my lazy ass gets around to it. Usually, once a particular comment spammer...; posted @ Wednesday, September 21, 2011 6:25 PM | Feedback (0)

Review: Tekpub Webcast - Full Throttle : TDD with Brad Wilson: So, after going through the signup process, I finally gained access to this episode. Leading up to this review, I have watched the episode in total 3 times: the first time I watched straight through while taking quick short hand notes, the second time, I watched portions of it in succession, stopping to take more in-depth notes, the third time, I watched it to fine-tune my comments on specific sections. Since I’ve been ragging on Tekpub, it is only fair to start off with a positive general note. Tekpub’s Production Quality Rob has been doing...; posted @ Tuesday, September 20, 2011 8:07 PM | Feedback (0)

Tilting at Windmills Award of the Week: Reference Architecture Foundation for Service Oriented Architecture Review announced by OASIS: Holy crap.; posted @ Wednesday, August 24, 2011 1:05 PM | Feedback (0)

Craptastic Tekpub Account Setup: One would think one would try to follow even basic practices for this sort of thing. So, I went back through the fantastic process of trying to buy the Full Throttle – TDD Brad Wilson Rocks episode, and managed to do it, though it required emptying out my shopping cart as it initially said I wanted to purchase 4 of them. After setting up my account through the fantastic process, after the purchase, I got an email saying (paraphrasing) “Hey, we setup an account for you based on your email, here’s the bizarre password we created initially, you...; posted @ Tuesday, August 23, 2011 10:06 PM | Feedback (2)

Why do I have to use NuGet?: NuGet is Microsoft’s attempt to copy Ruby gems, as far as I can tell. Great. All for it. But why is it that I have to use it, instead of getting the option to install normally through some MSI or other option? Maybe I’m missing something, but if I want to install, say, EF 4.2 Beta 1, why can’t I have an option to install it globally, as opposed to having to install it within some specific project/solution? I’m using a Microsoft release as an example, but I could just as easily use, e.g. AutoMapper as an example....; posted @ Monday, August 22, 2011 8:53 PM | Feedback (4)

This is a semi-complex query?: Rob posted something about how to implement complex queries using Massive: “Here’s a semi-complex query that is all too common in the business case: var results - DynamicModel.Open(connectionString).Query(@" SELECT Orders.OrderNumber, Categories.Name FROM Products INNER JOIN Categories ON Categories.CategoryID = Products.CategoryID INNER JOIN OrderItems ON OrderItems.ProductID = Products.ID INNER JOIN Orders ON Orders.OrderID = OrderItems.OrderID WHERE Orders.OrderDate > @0 ", DateTime.Now.AddYears(-1)); ...; posted @ Tuesday, August 09, 2011 5:28 PM | Feedback (0)

I didn’t think Apple made buggy products: the new MacBook Air 13”: I bought my first MacBook Air 13” in March because of the extended vacation I was taking, and because my main Dev laptop was approaching its end. I had looked at some of the ultra notebook type things like the Sony Vaio line, but there wasn’t one available, and since I needed to do some IPad/IPhone development soon, I decided to go ahead and take the plunge. Once the new ones were announced, I bought one as I wanted the faster processor, upgraded memory (since I had bought only the 2 GB model), etc. My experience with the...; posted @ Sunday, August 07, 2011 6:29 PM | Feedback (0)

Tip to paying taxes electronically: If you switch from paying taxes ‘manually’ to electronic payment through your accountant, take the extra minute to verify that they are going to try to pay it out of the right account. Merde.; posted @ Monday, April 18, 2011 11:06 PM | Feedback (0)

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