16 February 2006
Canada is officially metric. We went metric in 1970. I came in 1978. I’m a Sagittarius. How I think about weights and measures is completely screwy. Observe: I measure my body weight in pounds. I measure the steak I eat in grams. I know my height in feet and inches and I know my ceilings are [...] Read more »
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9 February 2006
For Christmas, I got season 1 of Scrubs on DVD. I watched them all in a week. Then I saw a sale at the local Future Shop and got Season 2 of Scrubs. I watched them all in a week too. I love my Scrubs. Seriously, it’s hilarious; I only really started paying attention on [...] Read more »
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5 February 2006
It must be a big meme if it reaches this dark, dank corner of the internet. I read blogs from two types of bloggers: hip, cool web designers and computer nerds. I’m definitely in the latter. The former goes through these fun blog survey question things every few months, then calls them memes. I’ve always [...] Read more »
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1 February 2006
Your unit tests aren’t as effective if you don’t use code coverage to measure how much of the code your tests are exercising. For development at home and work, I’ve been using NCover, which has worked wonders for my unit tests. When I started using NCover over a year ago, I wanted something that would [...] Read more »
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27 January 2006
Avalon is flashy. Indigo is robust and extensible. Generics, iterators and anonymous methods make writing extensible code faster than ever. One of the workhorses that doesn’t get a lot of credit is MSBuild. There are so many things you have to do to get software out the door in your customers’ hands, so many things [...] Read more »
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