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Monday, August 28, 2006 9:08 AM

Summits of Bothell 2006

Yesterday I rode the Summits of Bothell . Like its more popular cousin to the south, S (I'm not a big fan of "cute" acronyms so I'm not going to use it...) is a ride focused around hills, originally 7 but now 8 in a bid to outdo the competition. Their
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Thursday, August 24, 2006 10:25 AM

Happy Birthday

Yesterday was my wife's birthday. There were two presents of note. The first was a serotonin necklace from Made With Molecules . If you have a significant other who has a science-related job, this is a nice gift. Assuming he/she likes jewelry. The second
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Thursday, August 24, 2006 9:16 AM

Visual Studio should be part of Windows

My good friend Dan writes a post about why Visual Studio shouldn't be part of Windows , in response to a post by Jeroen. I agree with all the reasons that Dan lists, and would like to add two of my own. The first is that vista is already big enough. Strike
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Monday, August 21, 2006 3:36 PM

Feel the pain...

Dare wrote a post talking about the advisability of making developers do operations. Which is really part of a philosophical question... When you're setting up a software organization, how much specialization should you have, and where you should you
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Monday, August 14, 2006 11:13 AM

Chicken salad d' Italia

Here's an easy-to-make dinner salad, though it does involve a fair amount of chopping... Frozen Chicken Breast 3 slices prosciutto Red bell pepper 4 medium white mushrooms 3 roma tomatoes, ripe 2 green onions 10 spring pea pods 8 Kalamata olives, pitted
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Tuesday, August 08, 2006 10:57 AM

The Morale Marauder

The Morale Marauder ( carpe factum ) (via The Mindset (via Chris' Comments )
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Tuesday, August 08, 2006 10:31 AM

Other views on programming sins...

At the beginning of the sin-tacular, I asked for people to come up with their own lists. And here they are: 7 Deadly Sins of Software Development ( Bill's House O Insomnia ) The Seven Deadly Sins of Programmers ( .NET Data Practices ) Seven Deadly sins
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Tuesday, August 08, 2006 10:18 AM

The implementation of anonymous methods in C# and its consequences

Raymond wrote a really nice series of posts on this: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 He also points out that you might want to read Grant's anonymous method posts ...
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Friday, August 04, 2006 9:46 AM

Carmichael Training Systems "Classic" Review

Carmichael Training Systems "Classic" Review (sorry for the duplicate post. I started this a few weeks ago, so it was a few posts back and didn't appear at the top of the web page as I had planned.)
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Thursday, August 03, 2006 2:24 PM

Seven deadly sins of programming - Sin #1

So, the time has come for the worst sin. Just to recap - and so there is one post that lists them all - here are the ones that I've covered so far: Sin #7 - Excessive Coupling Sin #6 - Inappropriately Clever Code Sin #5 - Deferred Refactoring Sin #4 -
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Tuesday, August 01, 2006 9:35 AM

The Seattle Monorail collision...

Raymond brings up an update on the monorail collision in Seattle. I started adding a comment to his post, but why bore a few people who read his comments when I could bore more people if I wrote my own post... As many Seattleites know, the monorail was
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