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Thursday, June 29, 2006 10:04 AM

Improving the user experience...

Most bugs that I fix in the DVDMaker UI are fairly benign, but yesterday I fixed one that could have had more severe consequences, as noted in my checkin mail: Problem Description: Stanley was in his study that night. He knew that he should be getting
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Monday, June 26, 2006 2:38 PM

Seven Deadly Sins of Programming - #4

Our next sin is the one that I've certainly been prone to. Long ago my wife and I owned a house east of Renton, Washington (those who know about Renton at that time can probably understand why one would say "east of Renton"). Like many homes, this one
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Tuesday, June 20, 2006 12:20 PM

MSDN Wiki now open for comments...

I'm happy to be able to announce something that has been in the works for a fair bit of time. MSDN documentation is generally pretty good, but it sometimes misses some important information, and it's hard to get that information where people can see it,
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Tuesday, June 20, 2006 8:23 AM

Microsoft Robotics Studio

Microsoft Robotics Studio . Looks interesting. Uses a CLR 2.0 base, though it's not clear to me yet where the MS part runs on the robot or whether it runs on a separate windows computer.
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Thursday, June 15, 2006 3:29 PM

Seven Deadly Sins of Programming - #5

[Several readers pointed out that I made a mistake in phraseology, and didn't say the thing I meant. Thanks to them for knowing what I wanted to say more tha I did.] Thanks to all who have commented on the previous sins, and to those who have written
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Thursday, June 08, 2006 1:00 PM

A single programming language?

I've been reading Good Math, Bad Math for a while now, and it has a fair number of interesting posts on it. Today I read Why so many languages? Programming languages, Computation, and Math. (a followup to Type Checking in Programming Languages ) As a
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Thursday, June 08, 2006 11:13 AM

FIFA Fussball-Weltmeisterschaft 2006

The World Cup is once more about to commence. During the 1998 World Cup in France, we were in Europe, and the Europeans take their football very seriously. Buildings in the Netherlands are covered with the orange. No matter where you are and who is playing,
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Wednesday, June 07, 2006 9:05 AM

Eric's Tips for a Happy Marriage

As you get on in years, you feel the need to pass on your accumulated wisdom to the younger generation, which they will promptly ignore until they're as old as you are, at which point they'll admit that you were right all along and their lives would have
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Wednesday, June 07, 2006 8:45 AM

Eric's tips for a happy marriage

As you get on in years, you feel the need to pass on your accumulated wisdom to the younger generation, which they will promptly ignore until they're as old as you are, at which point they'll admit that you were right all along and their lives would have
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Tuesday, June 06, 2006 2:22 PM

Rule #1 of Regex debugging

Rule #1 of Regex debugging The regex engine isn't hung. It will finish eventually. However, "eventually" may not until after the heat death of the universe. You either didn't anchor your string, or you didn't think clearly about how the quantifiers "*"
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Monday, June 05, 2006 10:32 AM

Bavarian Sounwerks - Speakers for BMWs

I've been unimpressed with the sound on my 328i since I got it. I have the Harmon-Kardon system, and like many factory "premium" systems, it really doesn't deliver. Which is really putting it mildly. The bass is muddy, and the tweeters don't. This weekend,
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Friday, June 02, 2006 8:53 AM

A close escape, and more on inappropriate cleverness

Monday I went on the 7 hills ride . Wednesday night, I wrote a long and detailed post about it, and hit the "Post" button. In a fit of editorial brilliance, my blog server chose that exact moment to experience a problem, and the post vanished into the
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