I'm on vacation from now until December 31st. Hallelujah!

Visual Studio has a somewhat obscure feature that I really love, hidden as Edit/Advanced/Format Document. It takes the current code file, XML document, or HTML page and standardizes the indents, increasing the indents at the beginning of each code block and decreasing at the end. Not only does it create a tidier looking document, but it makes it ( Read more... )

My latest programming project is turning into something from Journalism 101. I'm working on code written by someone else, in a language I'm not 100% comfortable with, using technology I'm not 100% familiar with. My thought processes when looking at their code go something like this: "How do I do fix this? What is this even supposed to do? Why are ( Read more... )

I read a headline today, "Bosses Increasingly Advising Employees How To Vote," and remembered my boss in 2008 advising his employees on how to vote--he recommended in the morning, on the way into work.

Somehow I have a sneaking suspicion that's not what the headline was talking about.

It amuses me that we're spending as much time at work right now trying to determine why something went unexpected right as we have in the past to figure out why it went wrong! *grin*

I work for a company that makes recruiting software for college admissions offices. So yes, if you're a high school senior or junior and your mailbox is full of junk mail from colleges, I'm (partially) responsible--particularly since I have written or am writing the mail merge modules for two different recruiting software products ( Read more... )

You know, from a programming standpoint there is subtle difference between MustInherit and NotInheritable when defining a class. Like, you know, the subtle difference between Yes and No.

Computers. Nothing more annoying than a machine that does what you tell it to, rather than what you want it to.

To borrow an expression from a friend, today is not just fired, I'm putting a hit out on it.

Working on computer programming right before bed leads to weird dreams: I dreamed last night that I was testing a new software system, seeing if it would allow me to order pizza for two million people. Two million specific people from its database, matching their individual preferences, mind you. I was quite frustrated because the interface was ( Read more... )

I got a metric ton of work done today. Go me! In fact, go me to bed!