Anyone have a very gently used infant carrier they want to pass along or sell? I got rid of my old one because it was nasty and ugly and now it is obsolete after 5 years. Looking for one that is black or grey and very cool. :)
I am certain that sewing will be extinct in 30 years. I know I should learn how to actually do it correctly. Especially repair work. But every time I have even a small task, like putting a button back on, I'm reminded how tedious and frustrating it can be.
Have any of you learned as an adult? How did you learn? Did you enjoy it? I would love to want to learn and get decent at repair work.
Seems like moms are supposed to know these things!
Jeremy posted an article on retrieving filtered results on collections, using the perennial Animal kingdom example. Great post.
As I was looking at this again, it just started looking "smelly". First thought, can we do this cleaner with Generics?
public IEnumerable AnimalsList() where AnimalType:class
{
foreach (IAnimal animal in _animals)
{
AnimalType testAnimal ...
I'm not sure if I'll ever run VISTA in this decade... I haven't even played with the beta's... I recommend to friends and family to keep their Windows XP disk around.
Why? There are so many reasons, but maybe one of the biggies might be coming to an end...
Ed Bott of ...
These are exciting times and another idea turned gold is Jungle Disk. A cross-platform Amazon S3 interface for remote storage. They setup a WebDAV service on your machine that runs their bits to encrypt and transmit your files up to Amazon's S3 service.
Never heard of S3? Neither had ...
Mom: That's a nice looking Pumpkin you colored Noah.
Noah: Yeah, he looks nice.
Mom: He?
Noah: Yeah, you see his nose ring? It's Uncle Bob.
Ok, so here's the first in a series of a home grown implementation of Unit Testing SQL server code.
I'm not talking about using Visual Studio Team Edition for Professionals, like Jeff recommends... but I'll try to provide a general approach to testing your SQL code, particularly stored procedures (sprocs).
In SQL ...
Well, we had some awesome weather for the PhotoWalk this Sunday. Thanks to Heather, John, Richard, Nathan, and Jen for coming out!
Stay tuned, we'll definitely do this again! Several folks have already asked for the next one to be further south in Michigan... any suggestions?
Here's a smattering of ...
Ok... I've had enough. Uncle Bob nailed it:
Why don’t we clean our code? When we see an ugly mass of code that we know is going to cause of problems, our first reaction is “This needs to be cleaned up.” Our second reaction is: “If I touch this code ...
Bob's back with an onslaught of good thoughts and opinion. He's definitely writing at another level on this post.
He apparently didn't like the past comments, so they're gone now, but I don't really think anyone can read his stuff without some reaction (ergo, this post).
It really is sad that ...
From the self-serving, bad memory department... next time you're running Windows 2000 and iTunes 7.x (or later) starts up with a BLACK canvas and outlined text, you need to go get the GDIPLUS redistributable from Microsoft.
Now, if I can only convince somebody in corporate that DirectX 9 is required for ...
A Great Book on Various Photography Topics
On our recent photowalk in Northville, the book "Understanding Exposure" came up. I've recommended this book to people over and over again, so I figured I should post an easy way to find it on Amazon.
This book explains many things in an approachable ...
For the upcoming PhotoWalk, I've setup a Flickr group to share our photos and continue the event after this Sunday.
The group's address is: www.flickr.com/groups/photowalk_mi_northville_fall2007/
Joining Flickr is free and easy if you already have a Yahoo! ID. If you don't have a Yahoo! ID yet, the Flickr signup process will ...
Joel Spolksy, of Joel On Software fame, published an interesting Inc Magazine article yesterday. The artcile, titled "How Hard Could It Be?: Five Easy Ways to Fail", covers a number of issues that we developers see from our side of a software project.
As I was reading this, I started ...
I can tell you I didn't capture the purple sunset last night like I wanted to, but here's a try...
Went over to Bob's last night and he transformed his living room into a make-shift studio.
We had a blast... and by using full manual control on my Canon Rebel XTI, I was able to cut out the backgrounds for these shots.
It is truly amazing to compare how well our eyes ...
Kath and I rented Million Dollar Baby last week and I really didn't know anything about it before then (other than it had a good review buzz around it).
I remember thinking how beautiful of a movie it was while we watched; characters, imagery, themes, and the story was fantastic. ...
It truly is amazing the tools we can get our hands on these days. The two that I have a very bad addiction forcannot code without are CodeRush and SQL Prompt.
The only trouble is that when I use SQL Prompt inside Visual Studio to manage my SQL code, ...
Lydia: "Dad, these are granny-sniffs."
Dad: "Uh, granny-SNIFFS?"
Lydia: "Yup, they are not apples."
Note to self (Doh!), always wear a SOLID shirt.
