Psychoanalyzing a programmer

Last week, I came across a few articles written over at Lispy.WordPress.com. The first article was titled “Do you know any programmers that exibit these personality traits…?”
I’ve been observing an unusual programmer friend of mine for some time now. He has such a strange combination of potential and incompetence that its hard to tell if [...]

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Free eBook on Data Structures and Algorithms

The Data Structures & Algorithms book was written by by Granville Barnett and Luca Del Tongo and posted over at DotNetSlackers.com.
The first draft preview is available in Adobe PDF format and is 97 pages long. You can download the book here. The book uses pseudo code, and a C# version of the code can [...]

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Things that annoy programmers

Recently, I wrote that all of those non-used “using” statements and the source code documents that didn’t automatically reformat themselves annoyed me. Well, this week Kevin Pang wrote post called Top 10 Things That Annoy Programmers.

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Clean up your source code

One of the minor annoyances that I encounter is having multiple “using” statements at the top of my class files that aren’t in use. Prior to Visual Studio 2008, there wasn’t a real easy way of figuring out which ones are in use and which ones aren’t in use without deleting one and then compiling, [...]

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Using Microsoft Log Parser 2.2

Recently, I was asked to put together some statistics to count the page views for a certain set of pages within a corporate web site. Unfortunately, we aren’t using anything nice like WebTrends for web stats.
However, I did remember an old Microsoft log query tool that I thought might do the trick without needing to [...]

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Custom Route Constraints (ASP.NET MVC)

I was having some issues with my ASP.NET MVC routing learning application and came across Stephen Walther’s post explaining how to Create Custom Route Constraints.
Stephen’s code worked almost perfectly until I needed to use more than one “NotEqual” constraint in my route. If you attempt to use Stephen’s code as such, then you’ll get the [...]

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How to be a happy work-at-home developer

For the last year or more, I’ve been mostly a work-at-home developer. Over the last eight months or so, I’ve pretty much been a full time work-at-home developer. So when I noticed Ryan Farley’s post titled “The Work-at-Home Developer’s Guide to Happiness“, I was curious.

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Batman: The Dark Knight (Movie Review)

I’ve seen a few bad and a few good movies since my last review, but I’ve skipped over them since most of my reviews so far have just been focusing on comic book movies.
Growing up, I didn’t collect many DC comic books other than maybe a couple collector or special edition Superman comic books (I [...]

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Creating an OpenSearch Provider

4Guys From Rolla wrote a nice article titled “Helping Visitors Search Your Site By Creating an OpenSearch Provider“. Scott Hanselman of Computer Zen also blogged about this a few days ago on his post named “Adding OpenSearch to your website and getting in the Browser’s Search Box“.
One of the nicest features of modern browsers like [...]

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