Jef Claes, creator of 2011’s spring sensation arealdeveloper.com, just tweeted a link to a blog on the issue of developer turnover, by Erik Dietrich. This is a topic I’ve considered blogging about, and have probably hinted at in the past. But I’ll let Erik speak for us all. Erik says one reason talented individuals might […]
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When you set up a new instance in the cloud on Amazon’s EC2 service, if you use the standard snapshots for Windows 2008 R2 hosting with SQL Server, you will find that your C: drive is much smaller than you expected it to be. Basically, you’re maxed out at capacity as soon as you upgrade
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Perks of self-employment: Getting to brew my own coffee according to “best-practices” for portions, grind, etc. Snuggling with the kids in the morning. I get to control the thermostat. I set my own permissions on my own servers. My iPhone, wireless plan, and cable Internet are now tax-deductible. New MacBook. Also tax-deductible. If I’m up
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I’m currently in the middle of a project where jQuery is trying to access or manipulate ASP.NET server-side controls. When these controls are nested within, say, a content object, ASP.NET prefixes the ID you give it with the ID of its container. So if you know the id of the container, then you can do
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So, I have a couple of pending offers for side gigs lingering out there, and theoretically on any given weekend evening, someone could IM me and ask me to do a few small things for them. The problem is, I don’t have a suitable Windows dev environment at home. I’ve had such great machines at
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I recently struggled for several hours over a sorted ASP.NET GridView control which was failing to behave properly. I found that on PostBack for the LinkButtons, the SortCommand was returning expressions such as “LocationDesc” and “PositionDesc”. I was confused as to why the sort direction was attached to the expression when it was already part
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Here’s something you might not know about me: I hate pop radio. I prefer the kind of music that just won’t pull in the ratings they need to sell the ads. So you might be surprised to see me publishing a Spotify top 20 chart. But Spotify certainly has a different demographic from pop radio—like
I’ve gone all-celtic for this special St. Patrick’s Day edition, which includes a lot of punk rock to boost your energy for those all-day & all-night college-town parties. We’ll start off with "Shipping Up to Boston" by Boston’s own Dropkick Murphys. This tune was a big hit for them, and was used in a couple
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Last week’s iOS 5.1 and iTunes 10.6 updates seem to have fixed most of the issues in iTunes Match. My previous argument about Apple shooting themselves in the foot still stands, historically, as they’ve likely missed out on income opportunities due to the long delay, but I think the service is finally suitable for prime
Here’s a tip for users of iTunes and Spotify: Use Last.fm too! Read More »