June 15, 2011 | In: development, javascript, languages, recommended
"...I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, I smell it in the air..." Like you, I have a wide range of development experience. In the past 20 years, I've been a huge fan of Java, C#, Flex (Actionscript), ColdFusion, F#, Ruby and Python. In...
August 12, 2010 | In: development, errata, languages
I was writing some code this morning for a demo application, and I kept getting an error in one part of my Flex code and I just couldn’t figure out what the hell was going on. Turned out, it was a symptom of how many different function declaration...
April 28, 2010 | In: build automation, MSDOS
Well, today was a fun exercise in a language I have not used in a while… MS-DOS batch files. We author batch files that our Build Managers can use to compile all of our binaries, but I recently ran into a issue where I wanted to give them an option of...
April 23, 2010 | In: development, languages
To this day, I still don’t understand folks who get hot under the collar defending this or that technology. I can see youthful exuberance (and it’s related naivety), but once you reach a certain level of experience and understanding of...
March 29, 2010 | In: .NET, silverlight, Visual Studio
I downloaded and installed Visual Studio 2010 RC so that I could try out the Silverlight 4 Beta Toolkit, and it isn’t intuitive on how to create a Silverlight project. I finally found the Silverlight 4 page and discovered that I have to download and...