A bit of housekeeping…you may have noticed that the social media buttons look a bit different if you’re not accessing through RSS. The old plugin that I was using seems not to be supported anymore, and the Facebook button vanished for a bit. I tried out a replacement and liked it, so I kept it….
If, in the movie Braveheart, the Scots had been battling a nasty legacy code base instead of the English under Edward Longshanks, the conversation after the battle at Stirling between Wallace and minor Scottish noble MacClannough might have gone like this: Wallace: We have prevented new bugs in the code base by adding new unit…
I anticipate this post being fairly controversial, though that’s not my intention. I imagine that if it wanders its way onto r/programming it will receive a lot of votes and zero points as supporters and detractors engage in a furious, evenly-matched arm-wrestling standoff with upvotes and downvotes. Or maybe three people will read this and…
I was at a users’ group recently here in Chicago, and there were two excellent presenters. There were two very well done presentations: one about Xamarin and one about the C# language entitled “Underestimated C# Language Features” by John Michael Hauck. This was a very polished and appealing talk in which he wove together some…
I think there’s a lot of value to the conservation angle of the green movement. In general, it’s a matter of efficiency–if you can heat/light/whatever your house with the same quality of life, using less energy and fewer resources, that’s a win for everyone. This applies to a whole lot of things beyond just eco-concerns,…
