Archive of Programming posts
Ian posted a nice writeup outling how to add a global Ajax activity indicator to the bottom of the page. The end result looks a little something like ...
I've been playing around quite a bit lately with Riya lately (and Riya-like technology). In fact, they've just released an API, and I'm in the process...
There's a nice read over at DeveloperDotStar entitled Software Team Turnover: Why Developers Leave (And What You Can Do About It). It's really a topic...
Someone at work today raised an interesting question... Is there a compelling reason NOT to extend the standard Windows Forms controls (textbox, combo...
Ever since moving to GoDaddy's shared hosting, I've had nothing but problems dealing with running in a Partial Trust environment. In fact, it really w...
A couple of weeks ago, I posted about using C# generics to be able to serialize/deserialize objects. That solution was based off an article written ov...
Even though I haven't had a chance to use it yet, I felt I should pass along what looks to be an incredible tool for debugging JavaScript - FireBug. I...
Kathy Sierra posted a great entry the other day (and Jeff Atwood made some additional observations) regarding the concept of "Keeping Up". T...
Note: I've found another solution to this problem, and have posted an update here
I've subscribed to the Joy Of Code blog for a few weeks now, probab...
Since I've switched jobs, I've switched over to using a web-based RSS reader, NewsGator, and have also begun "flagging" good posts that I co...
Ian tipped me off to a site that I'm sure has been posted all over the internet before, but it sure gave me a good laugh tonight. How to Write Unmaint...
Those of you who read my blog on a regular basis know that I quote quite a few other blog entries from time to time. Obviously, I always quote the sou...
Ran across an interesting writeup today about a guy's impressions and experiences working for Microsoft. Really quite an interesting read, though the ...
UPDATE: 5/4/06 - I've posted the code and some more details about my implementation on my PhotoNotes project page. The code is still pretty rough, but...
A few days ago, a new site called Riya lauched. Riya is a photo site, much like Flickr, however Riya does something pretty interesting - It searches t...
In my job search, I recently interviewed with the Gallup Organization. As part of their process, they have you go through a comprehensive be...
I'm probably pretty behind the times on the whole podcasting phenomenon - heck, I dont' even "subscribe" to them or whatever you're supposed...
I've got a buddy that works for a rather large company here in town, doing C++ programming on government projects. The other day I received an email w...
From the SvN Blog, a list of Entrepreneurial Proverbs posted by Marc Hedlund. These things are so relevant to a lot of the stuff I'm reading into...
I just spent the last few hours with my eyes glued to a collection of essays/articles about software development written by an ex-Amazon.com employee....
Note: This is a reprint of a post that I made on the Genesis Systems Blog. See the original post here...
Last night I was digging through some old st...
I have a never-ending fascination with this concept that Eric Sink refers to as "Developers vs. Programmers".
For the purpose of this arti...