The best-laid plans are in my other pants
Update 2010-02-08: Jonathan Pryor has merged many of my extension methods into Cadenza. I’d strongly suggest checking it out. It’s no secret to my friends that I love to program… even more so as I’ve been developing a FarmVille client in C# and having them test it. (As much as you might hate FarmVille, you…
One of the nice things that .NET 3.5 gives us is LINQ, which gives new life to the often-neglected IEnumerable generic interface. Sequence processing is now a first-class citizen in the C# world, and this is a good thing. However, it can be very tricky to design a usable API around enumerables. Today I present…
I’ve got this idea to code some game servers for a series of cooperative games my brother and I used to play as kids. I get similar ideas all the time… how about a game server for this card game or that board game? The problem I run into is pretty much always exactly the…
I need to get into the habit of blogging more often. I haven’t even been twittering much lately… You’ve probably noticed the visual update to my blog by now. I got tired of the default WordPress theme. I had to tweak this one a bit to get it to behave the way I want, but…
There have been many good changes in my life recently. It’s been almost three months since I graduated college, and nearly two since I got married. Well, now I have another for the list. For two years I’ve been working at Ontario Systems as an intern. The first year and a half were a lot…
First some backstory… I had a public and a private Subversion repository on my web server, and when I started a new project I’d import it into one of them. This is nice because I get versioning and history, plus I get implicit synchronization between my various development boxen. It’s not unusual to have one…
One of the better fails I’ve seen from MS Office:
When this is posted, my wedding ceremony will be underway. It’s been a long wait but it was so worth it. Today I am marrying Deanne, the love of my life. We started dating about two and a half years ago. I can’t say it’s always been an easy road, but it’s been a good…
Grab the nearest book. Open it to page 56. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST. “It is still in dispute whether wars between neighbors occur mainly because they…
Well, the Comcast guy showed up today and dropped off the modem self-installation kit. About two or three hours later and it still wasn’t working quite right. Here is my setup. The modem is plugged into eth0 on a Linux box, and eth1 runs to a switch. Traffic routed out eth0 is masqueraded (also known…