March 2007 - Posts
This is an off topic post (like any of my posts have been 'on topic' lately). I know that many people buy prepared foods for your pets. A lot of these foods (you'd be amazed at how many come out of one plant!) are manufactured to company specifications
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The NY Times has an article on John Backus who lead the team at IBM that created FORTRAN. For me, FORTRAN was the language that convinced me that I shouldn't be a civil/mechanical/electrical/chemical engineer. I had always liked computers and was one
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Pointer humor. This takes the geek quotient and pushes things to 11!
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I just saw this posted: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=90e2942d-3ad1-4873-a2ee-4acc0aace5b6&DisplayLang=en . The download is 28.9 MB. From start of download to complete install took me 26 minutes ("Time remaining: 0 seconds"
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I just started using RSS Bandit as my default news reader. It comes preconfigured with a few feeds. Amongst these feeds is one for XKCD 'A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language'. I am officially hooked on this one. Lots of geek humor. Tonight,
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When you start building custom Activities for workflows, you will run into an interesting ‘gotcha’ pretty early on in the process. DependencyProperty instances are usually expressed as static member variables on a Workflow entity (Activity, ActivityCondition,
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