August 2004

30Aug2004

Error Message of the Day

"We thank you for calling this method. All of our programmers are busy right now, but if you wait, then some day one of them might get around to fully implementing all of the methods in the JDBC2 specification. Phew, there sure are a lot of them!"

30Aug2004

"Don't Call it Shorthorn"

Still, [Allchin] said, dubbing Longhorn without WinFS as "Shorthorn" is "derogatory," because the operating system "is packed full of capabilities." Some of the features he mentioned were "great roaming support," .Net Framework 2.0, "new browsing capabilities," the "fresh" user interface, improved migrations and deployments, "more resilience to malware" and "a new photo experience."

30Aug2004

The Joy of Bombast

I half-jokingly mentioned I was considering doing a presentation called "Why My Brain Likes Ruby". They called my bluff. I'm almost hoping my second bluff is called, and someone asks me to present the damn thing. It might be fun.

10Aug2004

alt.cred

How your musical credibility can hold out for six songs... then come crashing down in a painful heap.

09Aug2004

The Principle of Charity

Please, gentle readers of this weblog. Offer me the simple courtesy of assuming I am not completely stupid. If you don't feel able to offer me this courtesy, then why are you wasting your time reading the feeble scratchings of an idiot?

08Aug2004

IOC Conundrum

Enter IOC/Dependency Injection. Now, each Content object needs to be injected with the renderer component by the IOC framework before any rendering can be performed. So instead, you just have people call the rendering component directly, creating an additional dependency.

02Aug2004

There Is No Justice

On Friday, I woke up with a pretty nasty cold. I grabbed some Paracetemol/Pseudoephedrine/Codeine tablets on the way in to work, and staggered somewhat unproductively through the day. By Friday night, I was in no state to do anything but stagger home and feel sorry for myself.