The Cave

I haven’t done much XAML – yet – so file this under for-future-reference.

Last night I’m reading a book to my son about a hermit crab that outgrows his shell. After finding a new one, the vain little beast thinks it’s too plain, and sets about finding decorations. A star fish. A snail. A lanternfish. So I ask if he knows what a lantern is. “No.” “Before we [...]

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“See what employees are saying”. Nifty site with comments and salary information about companies, provided anonymously by employees. OK, purported employees – standard internet ‘anonymous’ rules apply. The usual take-with-mountain-of-salt advice applies. The page for Amazon.com reviews in the Seattle area was amusing - the 1st review is titled “Stifling Micromanagement“. The comments about culture and career [...]

Are these people for real?

He gets it right. The Kindle isn’t the main meat – it’s the online store.

Part 1 and 2 very simply and graphically explains how we got to this point.

I’ve tinkered with the WordPress configuration in several small ways. And some frivolous ways too. For instance, here’s my WoW Mage: [wowcd character="Emafrostfire"]

Now that’s cool. Welcome to the 21st Century.

HTTP file server, and the nifty part – it’s a single executable file.

Mind boggling. Times like this makes one wish they still lynched people…

Looks handy, if you run Vista on a laptop.

I should have my new laptop soon. As a long-time (~10 years) Dell laptop user, it’ll be interesting to see how Lenovo compares. The screen looks cool, though the weight (6.2lb) is a bit of a downer. No doubt the power brick is also “Man Sized” and made of lead. A couple of potential driver [...]

Nice introductory explanation.

And the wheel goes round…

This was one of the cool things about Visual Basic1: Function JustDoIt(ByVal Name As String, Optional ByVal Age As Integer = 0, Optional ByVal ShoeSize As Single = 0.0) As Boolean … End Sub Sub Caller() If JustDoIt(“Howard”, ShoeSize:=11.0) Then … End If End Sub Old news for Ada2. Nicer than C++, which lacks named [...]

For when Ubuntu just isn’t enough

“AlphaFS is a .NET library providing more complete Win32 file system functionality to the .NET platform than the standard System.IO classes. Features highlights: creating hardlinks, accessing hidden volumes, enumeration of volumes, transactional file operations and much more.” Also supports file and path names longer than MAX_PATH. Nice.

Free MSI editor which is supposed to be pretty nifty.

Which platforms support which versions of the .NET Framework. Handy reference if you need to care.

Virtual PC Hard Disk Images of various versions of IE (plus XP).

.NET’s equivelent to Python’s os.path.join().

That’s cool:  1 public static IEnumerable QuickSort(this IEnumerable list)  2 where T : IComparable  3 {  4 if (!list.Any())  5 {  6 return Enumerable.Empty();  7 }  8 var pivot = list.First();  9 var smaller = list.Where(item => item.CompareTo(pivot) < = 0).QuickSort(); 10 var larger = list.Where(item => item.CompareTo(pivot) > 0).QuickSort(); 11 12 return smaller.Concat(new[]{pivot}).Concat(larger); 13 [...]

This time it’s voting in Connecticut while registered in New York City. But that’s not the scary part. This is: her photo. WTH???

Handy feature of .NET Framework.