You may remember singing There’s a Hole in Bucket when you were younger. This is the song where boys sing the part of Henry, the poor guy who desperately needs to fix his bucket, and girls sing the part of Liza, his wife, who dreams up the fix. There’s a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, dear [...]
As of last week, I wasn’t providing full text in my RSS feed. I don’t remember if this was a conscious decision or I was simply using a default setting, but I think this was a bad move on my part and I’ve corrected it. This being said, I gave it some thought before converting mostly [...]
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I have preferred PNG over GIF and JPEG for sometime now. It isn’t that I’m an expert on image types, but I know that PNG files are generally smaller in size than GIF and they have consistently rendered nicely for me in Firefox and IE, so I stick with them. With this said, my faith in [...]
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The Windows Live Writer Blog This extension for Firefox isn’t currently compatible with Firefox 2.0. However, it is possible to get the two to work together if you are willing to manually edit Firefox’s version checking feature. If you have not installed the Blog This extension yet, follow these steps. Download the Blog This installer using the link [...]
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Last month, I wrote Manual Code Generation, an article which shared, in my view, the pros and the cons of code generators. In this same article, I took sides and expressed that “I am not a fan of code generation.” My stance came as no surprise to some — particularly my buddy (read archenemy) Jon Galloway. We’ve gone back [...]
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A couple of years back, I was tasked with compiling C# coding standards for our development department. To be honest, I wasn’t all that excited about the assignment. Previous attempts had been met with quite a bit of resistance and worthless debate and I wasn’t sure I really wanted to open that can of worms again. After [...]
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First, what is FeedBurner? At it’s core, FeedBurner republishes blog feeds. This alone isn’t all that exciting, however, the service provides so much more. FeedBurner’s most attractive feature is it’s analytics. The service keeps track of feed subscribers, applications used to access your feed, where your readers are located and a few other statistics. Not only does [...]
I have heard many endings to this quote over the years. “If you aren’t making mistakes, you aren’t going to learn anything.” “If you aren’t making mistakes, you aren’t living.” “If you aren’t making mistakes, you aren’t taking enough risk.” There may be others. Take your pick. Choose the most appropriate quote for the situation [...]