Midwest Madness
I’ve been away from the blog for a few days taking some time off from work. In a couple of hours I catch a flight to St. Louis–the first stop […]
How to Write Unmaintainable Code
Found a link to this funny article in Bill Evjen’s blog: http://mindprod.com/unmain.html One of the gems I picked up from the article is “Pass all data as a void * […]
Obfuscated URLs
While killing time waiting for epoxy to dry (I’m repairing one of the landing gear mounts in the wing of my P-51), I came across this document, which provides a […]
747 Trivia
Anybody know why the 747 has a hump on the front? I had an aerospace professor in college who worked for Boeing before becoming a professor. He participated in the design of […]
The Right Way to Search MSDN
While we’re on the subject of e-mails seeking answers to technical questions, you’d be surprised at the number of e-mails I receive that could be answered by spending 10 seconds […]
Why We Write Books
Everyone who writes books and magazine articles, speaks at conferences, and teaches classes gets a lot of unsolicited e-mail from developers needing help and wanting questions answered. I try to […]
There’s No Place Like Home
I’m enjoying a week at home following several hectic weeks of travel. Last week I was in Atlanta with Jeffrey Richter, John Robbins, Peter DeBetta, Jason Clark, and several folks […]
Beta Burps
Wouldn’t you know it? Tomorrow I begin a 3-day speaking tour through the Northeast and I’ll be demoing lots of ASP.NET 2.0 code. But suddenly the Visual Studio 2005 beta is […]
Airworthy
I finally test-flew the Corsair today. It flew great, and with full flaps, it lands nice and slow and remains responsive even at low speeds. Only tricky part is that […]