Seriously, ton of freaking value here. My 13 year old self is in heaven.

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The frankenstein project part one

  • Dec. 23rd, 2009 at 4:50 PM
Download now or watch on posterous
VIDEO0004.3gp (3411 KB)

Silverlight app using a wcf service to print. More later...

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Uhhhhh

  • Dec. 18th, 2009 at 11:01 AM

Now, I haven't seen the movie, but I get the distinct impression that the ideals in it are at extreme contrast with those represented by McDonald's (consumerism, Americanism, obesity?).

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Offspray over Arlington

  • Dec. 17th, 2009 at 8:36 AM

Sometimes living in Arlington is pretty cool. Snapped this pic of a V22 offspray taking off from Bell Helicopter.

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Lists in C# versus Java

  • Dec. 7th, 2009 at 1:44 PM
Here's how you create and iterate over a list in C#:

Now, here's that same code in Java:

As you can see, the Java code is a bit more verbose. While C# defines its List class as a strongly typed class, Java treats its own as a very generic collection that requires you to cast elements as you access them. Also, C# does some synaptic sugar with its "foreach" statement that automatically accesses the iterator and loops through the collection.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

  • Nov. 27th, 2009 at 12:30 PM

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I had a really good one, a little something dropped for me. :)

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And one more thing about Apple

  • Nov. 19th, 2009 at 9:13 AM
They suck and are completely, unabashedly, anti-competitive.

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Microsoft is not our worst enemy. We are.

  • Nov. 19th, 2009 at 7:08 AM
It really bothers me when people bash Microsoft for no real good reason. In this case, it's a matter of not understanding how the web works in fundamental ways. What other way are they supposed to quickly deliver video content? Flash? Obviously that's a more open and standard platform right? (sarcasm)

Really I think it has to do with our need as human beings to tear down the winners in our society. Some sort of instinctual urge to keep everyone on the same pecking level leads us to abhor companies that make it big (like 98% of the desktop market big). In modern day terms, it just means it's fashionable to bash Microsoft without any regards to how far the company has come in regards to openness and standardization. People that bash Microsoft usually have the thought of 1990s MS in their heads I think, not the company of today who bundles fucking jQuery with ASP.

I also find it ironic that while these individuals poke their fingers at imaginary dragons, Uncle Steve is trying to end open competition and make you do as he says. Of course the hipsters love Apple despite the fact that they are a large American company doing the same work of anti-competition Microsoft back in the 90s. But hey, at least they're fashionable right?

The point is, I love using Microsoft products. Visual Studio is perhaps the BEST IDE on the market and the .NET framework is fantastic. Apple may give away their IDE, but Cocoa works generally in the same way that .NET does but is not an open platform. I also love Python and Ruby and some of the stuff that has come out of the open source camp, and I don't find that ironic at all like some folks. I believe people should use what makes them happy and productive and stop worrying about what the hipsters think. Developers tend to be some of the most obnoxious, self righteous people on the planet, and a lot of times they are just WRONG. 

Hey, here's an idea: think different. Use the tools that are best regardless of what camp they come from.

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The Dream Office

  • Nov. 5th, 2009 at 3:21 PM

When I start my own company, it's going to be exactly like this.

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Video Game Addiction Stories

  • Oct. 22nd, 2009 at 11:28 AM
http://bit.ly/8IXzg

I love this gem:

I do not see my husband much since he does work 50 hours a week. However, when he is home the first thing he does it turn on his Xbox 360 and play "Madden" for hours on end. When I walk in the room and he messes up, I'm immediately blaimed for it. His family and I joke that we need an intervention for him, but I'm not really joking when i say that.
--Melissa ,Waltham, Mass.

Ok seriously, is this addiction or just a really tired guy that just wants some escapism. He's working 50 hours a week for christ's sake....

The one thing I constantly come across when reading "horror stories" of online game addiction is that people start to not go out as much, and don't "hang out" as often as they used to. What exactly is different between interacting socially with people online and people in real life? Take into account that if you're "hanging out", you're not truly accomplishing anything anyway. Why are "real life" relationships more valued than online ones? There seems to be a great amount of bias against Internet relationships in general, even though they don't differ much from long distance ones that people have been having for generations (pen pals, etc).

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Getting Some Armory Info

  • Oct. 6th, 2009 at 4:29 PM
Just something I'm working on. More details later. ;)

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