General Rants
So I've had this blog for a number of years. Posted to it for a while but then for a variety of reasons I stopped. Figure it's time to start back up. First bit of news is the final edits for the next edition of Professional C# are finished. Seems like with each edition the task gets more and more difficult to get done. I'm undecided if I'll do the next edition.
This whole idea of Morts is really getting out of hand. How insecure in your profession must you be before you need to create a category of developers to put yourself over. I keep seeing comments like I'm teaching a class of Morts today Can Morts enter the new frontier of programming I know what the origins are of Mort, but it seems it has become somewhat of a derogatory term. It seems that of you don't follow the same development methodology of certain "developers" you are classified a Mort. If ......
That's how long since my last post. Main reason was that the company that I worked for "frowned" on blogging, speaking etc. I had to get permission to work on Pro C# books. That is all behind me now. I have been working for Juris by LexisNexis for about 2 months now. Man what a difference. I haven't been excited to go to work in a very long time. I got the word from my CIO today that not only does LexisNexis approve of blogging, speaking, writing etc, they actually encourage it. What a concept. So ......
Well after the NHLPA and the NHL have finally resolved their differences, Bob Goodenow has resigned. Goodenow was the head of the players association. If it wasn;t for his blinders and for his arrogance, thier probably would have been hockey last year. I have the pleasure of knowing a couple of NHL players and for the most part, everyone was willing to except the cap long ago. Bob decided that he knew best and kept pushing back. It's a shame that it took so long for the NHLPA to see that this guy ......
I have been a FireFox user for well over a year now. The number one reason is that I can get the tab functionality to work the way that I want it to work (with the addition of a couple of addins). So far IE7 is falling a little short in tab functionality. The menu, shortcut and standard button bar are linked to each tab. Remove the standard button bar on one tabe, it is still available in other tabs. I understand that this may be nice in some situations, but I would at least like to be able to turn ......
There has been a couple fo posts recently regarding the hiring practices of companies. I have had a couple of interesting experiences with this recently. These experiences I would classify as how *not* to hire someone. First one happend about 4 or 5 months ago. I submitted a resume to consulting firm. The company is fairly well know in the .NET development circles as is the owner. I received a call from one of the developers in the company and we chatted for about 5 or 10 minutes. Very informal, ......
I sent the final edits in for Professional C# 2005 yesterday. Writing a book is (even just the 8 chapters that I did for this one) is a lot of work. So many late nights, frustrations in getting pre-pre-pre-beta software to work, redoing chapters when the pre-beta software is released etc etc etc. I probably will be taking a little time off from writing. Time to enjoy coaching my son's hockey team ......
I'll be working the in the Community Lounge at the Author/Publishers booth. As of now I'll be there Mon during lunch, most of the day on Wed and for a couple of hours on Thurs. I'll also be hosting the Pragmatic Architecture BOF session on Wed night BOF041 in Cabana 2. One other note, the Professional C# 2005 book is getting close. I'm working on the final edits of the Winforms and XML chapters now. It's really tough only having 1 chapter for the Winforms in the book. So many topics to discuss, so ......
I have to vent a little here on something that struck a nerve earlier today. I happened on this post from Eric Sink. Basically it states that they were looking for a developer. Now first I want to say that I actually use Eric's product. This is not a slam on Eric or his product, but in the post there is this one line: You have a bachelor's degree in computer science from a good university. Now I meet all of the other qualifications (other then the part about moving to Illinois, but that's another ......
Spent a week in Redmond at the Publisher and Author Summit. This is a great event. Jan Shanahan and her group did a great job of managing the event (thanks again Jan). The great thing about this event is that it is small in comparison. For example Jack Greenfield gave a talk on software factories and there were 6 or 7 in the room. It's great to be able to ask a question or make a point in situations like this. This is the one thing that I don't like about conferences like TechEd. You don't have the ......
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