I spent most of my day working through approximately 750 unread posts which had piled up over the last couple of weeks. It was an enjoyable way to spent a good portion of my Sunday, but I’m exhausted and I’m hopeful that I’ll never fall that far behind again. I came across several articles of [...]
I don’t remember anyone asking my opinion on this, but apparently over the last few years, image maps became out of favor. I haven’t had to do anything remotely close to image maps for years now, but I still would have liked to be consulted. As I understand it, the cool kids are now using CSS [...]
Over the past decade, I’ve primarily used two version control products: Visual Source Safe and Borland StarTeam. I was “forced” into using StarTeam about 5 years ago, but having used it day-in and day-out for so long, I’ve come to recognize it as the superior of the two products (hands down.) Through blogs and open [...]
All of my work and data used to reside solely on my laptop. Files were versioned and backed up, but I didn’t need to maintain copies on multiple machines. Life was easy. No synching was required. But I started working from home recently and my preferences began to change. Since I’m no longer as reliant upon my [...]
When I’m up against a tight deadline, I tend to avoid tasks which could unnecessarily eat up precious time. These tasks aren’t always the most challenging or difficult, but I recognize them as having more than one possible solution which will result in my over-thinking, over-researching and/or over-architecting (aka wasting time.) Time-gobbling task get flagged with a //TODO comment [...]
The way I figure it, I potentially have two types of readers.First, there is a group which reads my blog because they actually find it interesting and/or educational. These readers learn something from me — or they are at least inspired to continue to learn on their own. As for the second group, my blog provides very little [...]