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May 2004 - CraigBlog
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It was a busy weekend - my wife was accepted to the Wharton Executive MBA program, and she started class yesterday. We drove up and got her settled in to her new, incredibly busy life. While she was listening to introductory speeches, I got some time...
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I'm happy to see that Keith, Fritz, and Aaron have gotten the PluralSight website properly launched. I'm particularly pleased that Keith, Fritz, and Mike Woodring all now have proper blogs . These guys were some of the sharpest dudes at DevelopMentor...
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I can use a keyboard so much faster than a mouse that I just hate it when an app makes me click things instead of letting me type in shortcuts. So it's no surprise that I love working at the command line. One thing that distinguishes a good command line...
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Since Eric mentioned me, I feel all this pressure to post something cool and C#-related. OK, here's a neat little number: public class App { const string USAGE = @"Usage: xpq <xpath> <input>"; public static void Main( string [] args) { if...
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It's an honor just to be nominated , of course. I want to thank my parents, my director, and my dog Jimmy.
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The third and fourth installments in the Direct3D tutorial series, are now available in Afrikaans. Thanks to Ernst Kuschke .
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I've been saying for years that Moore's Law will end in the next two decades. The typical response I get to this assertion is, “Oh, they'll just move on to the next thing...quantuum computing, multi-core processors, optical, whatever.“ This...
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Yesterday I sat down and finally polished off supporting non-ASCII characters in FlexWikiPad . I have to say, I'm pretty happy with how the tool is coming along. Although it still has a few missing features, the bugs that are left are all ones I can ignore...
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Uploaded a bunch of stuff this morning: Portuguese translations of my Direct3D slides. Available here . Thanks to Alexandre Lobao, author of .NET Game Programming with DirectX 9.0 . The fifth and sixth installments in the Direct3D tutorial series, en...
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I was working on putting some finishing touches on FwDocGen yesterday, when I came across a subtle bug that took the help of Mike Woodring to figure out. FwDocGen is a fairly straightforward wrapper around an XSLT that takes in XML documentation and produces...
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My wife and I run our own business . Occasionally, people that are looking to do the same thing will ask me for advice on what to do. My advice is always the same: talk to an accountant. See, it's not that accountants are particularly necessary for doing...
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Looks like Thinktecture has launched. Cool; good luck Ingo and Christian !
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Keith Brown sent out this interesting tip today: You can delete autocomplete items in Office and IE by holding the mouse down on the item that's getting in the way while the autocomplete listbox is down (you can force it to drop down in an empty field...
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I noticed that Brad posted a link to Joel's foreword of Mike's new book . Specifically, he called out this paragraph: There’s something weird about software development, some mystical quality, that makes all kinds of people think they know how to...
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I was just reading an interesting article over at the Scientific American website about complexity and quantum mechanics, and an analogy hit me between the eyes so hard I had to laugh. Anyway, I'm not much of a physicist, but here's what I understood...
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