Not to be big headed but recruiters often tell me that my resume is awesome/ best they have seen in a long time/ very impressive etc. Good job I did not let it go to my head, during today’s blog-catch-up-a-thon a stumbled across Scott Hanselman’s resume: http://www.hanselman.com/resume/ScottHanselmanResume.htm Can anyone beat that? Overly ambitious and hard [...]
Archive for April, 2005
Basic trivia to those with long Microsoft development backgrounds, but I only learned this recently. In a nutshell Release v’s Debug simply enables/disables compilation options. With one minor tweak we can deliver Release Mode builds with Debug Symbols. Compile time and JIT optimization is not affected, but you will get lines numbers in logged stack traced traces. [...]
It is with great sadness that this is happening. While being involved with user groups I tried to accomplish the goal of making them a more open and inviting place for newcomers regardless of their .Net expertise. Yes the C# group is targeted towards developers/ architects with advanced knowledge, but again a core aim of mine was to prevent [...]
Georgia Dome April 21st -> 23rd. Cost is $0! http://www.usfirst.org/robotics/2005/chevents.htm http://www.vexrobotics.com/index.php/first Having taken a Masters degree in Robotics (+ AI) I will say don’t expect too much from the entries. Robotics is VERY hard – to build a robot one needs patience for battling problems heuristically rather than using logic solving skills. A strong mathematical [...]
This is a good summary for those that have not heard the term yet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX maps.google.com is a great example of an AJAX app; not that I will be doing this kind of development anytime soon ever, but it is useful to know of new trends. Personally I would choose SmartClient for internal apps and some kind [...]
Thanks to Michael E for this. Over the weekend, avec new laptop I started the switch-over to less DIY on the house and more tech (this is all planned, and it is time to catch up with and Keith and Michael again). Not that a day wrestling with a core aerator and hundreds of pounds of [...]
Some time ago I posted in a summary of this technique, and over the weekend I ran across this much longer and more comprehensive write-up on Martin Fowler’s (the Prince of Enterprise Architecture) website: http://www.martinfowler.com/ieeeSoftware/failFast.pdf Concepts like this is far more important than knowing about the newest uber-widget or latest architecture buzzword. When SOA is a dim [...]
