Archive for February, 2006

Where is disk number two?

Where oh where is disk two? This isn’t a question you want to ask in the middle of a Visual Studio install.

View from my balcony… a panorama.

Click here for a medium size image And here for an even larger version

Created using AutoStitch in less than 5 minutes, including taking the pictures. Awesome.

Are you writing targeted crawlers? Ever crush a site you’re crawling? Help is here!

Ever piss off the site you were developing the crawler for? If you’ve ever written a targeted crawler, you know you have or could have…

Jobster is developing targeted crawlers for the major employment websites and it looks like they have a great patch for squid that could come in handy for anyone […]

Upgraded and Updated

I’ve updated to WordPress 2.0 and updated my blogroll links. Let me know if anything looks odd or I’ve just plain got your link and/or title incorrect. Thanks!

Interested in being agile? Spend the day with an agile game shop.

Stolen from James Shore:

Noel Llopis has a fascinating article about using Extreme Programming at a game company. I found it interesting because it’s not only an example of picture-perfect XP, it’s also about a team that’s doing game development, not something you see every day.

Great resource for debugging ASP.NET.

Outstanding Blog for Learning how to Debug ASP.NET App Issues (Memory Leaks, Crashes, Deadlocks, etc) Tess is a PSS escalation engineer for Microsoft. . . — ScottGu’s Blog

Scott has a linked to 10-15 articles that I’ve put on my “must read” list.

What does an SDET do?

I’ve been interviewing with a company for an SDET position and everyone keeps asking me, “What is an SDET?” The SDET label seems to have come out of Microsoft…

In it’s most abstract form, an SDET is a developer that writes software with the purpose of testing other software. In ’softie terms, […]

Going long, going strong.

Gapingvoid, oh how I love thee…

this moment will never

How to sell a TV on Craigslist…

This is how to get people to buy your tv from craigslist. Update: Craigslist staff removed the image… basically the woman who took the picture of the television was naked and could fairly clearly be seen in the reflection.

Update: LDB (his blog?) managed to get a screenshot

Functional Programming Links

Everything your professor failed to tell you about functional programming. Monads for functional programming. (pdf.) Wikipedia on Monads Assorted papers by Philip Wadler on Monads