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March 2004 - Posts

Tuesday, March 30, 2004 7:38 PM

What's More: Ballmer Blew a Serial Comma

Jesse Ezell pointed at a piece via Slashdot that pokes fun at Microsoft's PR editing process/sausage factory.Ehh. Frankly, that's the PR process in a nutshell, and it's very nearly the same one everyone uses. I'd say at the very most "it gives you an
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Tuesday, March 30, 2004 2:11 PM

Top 10 Things They Never Taught Me

Micheal Bierut at Design Observer recaps Michael McDonough's Top 10 Things They Never Taught Me in Design School.Some of these ring so true they probably could make a showing on a Top 10 Things They Never Taught Me list of any kind. I could see most (if
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Friday, March 26, 2004 4:53 PM

What He Said: GDN Shortcomings

Craig Andera has it exactly 103% correct when he lists the issues with GDN Workspaces. It's great that Microsoft provides them, gratis--at the same time, SF is free and it's better to boot. Thinking about working with .Text when it was on GDN versus working
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Thursday, March 25, 2004 10:14 PM

Now Playing Into Perpetuity: Pavement Revisited

By way of a great birthday present, I finally replaced my first three Pavement albums (that I'd lost or misplaced or mangled over the years). And even better, Slanted & Enchanted became Slanted & Enchanted: Luxe and Reluxe along the way. Sure
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Thursday, March 25, 2004 10:02 PM

ISerializable hates CodeRush

I thought this writeup was kind of whatever, at least as far as the author's concerns about how DevExpress presents CodeRush relative to the competition. Personally, I just care if the tool's any good, lol. Anyway, it's not much of a comparison, but there
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Wednesday, March 17, 2004 2:02 AM

The Bad Plus

File under: strange but good music to productively work to.
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Monday, March 15, 2004 10:37 PM

Companies Like Microsoft

Newsflash: large public technology companies care about one thing first and foremost, and it's not you, it's not what's going to positively impact society in the most meaningful way.
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Monday, March 15, 2004 2:41 AM

Q. Vault > Subversion, why?

Not a burning issue, but someone was presumably all hopped up on free beer/free software, and begged the question “why is your expen$ive vault so precious? why is it named vault, because it's lock-in loving users keep all of their ill-gotten dollars in
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Saturday, March 13, 2004 3:27 AM

Subversion: A Poor Man's Vault (and a nice one at that)

Suversion doesn't have the UI bells and whistles of, say, Vault or Perforce. It only does commit-merge mode and it takes a little more time (but no SQL Server) to set up. Other than that I've been relatively please so far. Working with Vault and svn
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Wednesday, March 10, 2004 5:16 PM

CodeRush for VS .NET: Oops, Mark Miller did it again

For about the past month or so, I've had Visual Assist .NET turned off both at home and work. This is fairly notable since I'm an admitted keystroke economy addict. As preface, let me state that I love VA.NET. It's been a good ride and you were there
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