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(I’ve returned from my trip a few months ago, but didn’t have enough to blog about; hopefully, this is my returning to a semi-regular posting schedule; also, I’ve decided to veer off .NET in some of my posts, focusing on more issues that I like to talk about and offer my opinions on) ( Update : This...
This is a short, off-topic rant. Please bare with me. In an effort to spark some life into my home laptop (which is about four years old and fighting like a champ), I've gone through the list of services running on my machine to try and stop those that are non-essential to me. To my surprise, I found...
I don't use GMail as my primary address, but it's a very useful service. It's lean, fast (if you use the old UI) and it's portable (duh). My first GMail account was for my personal use, to get notifications about comments to my blog, etc. As I found GMail to be more and more useful, I...
As much as I love the idea behind extension methods , I can't help but start to think about how it could be used for malicious purposes. Take this scenario: You're a disgruntled employee of Evil Inc., the makers of the well known library VeryUsefulAssemblies.NET. I'm a developer at Good & co., using...
"What would you have done if you weren't a computer programmer?" An HR recruiter asked me this today in a job interview. To be perfectly honest, I have never been able to come up with a good answer, not because I haven't tried, but because there's no other profession I'd rather do. [Cross-Posted from...