#VSLive is happening in DC? Oh well, I won't be able to use VS2014 until my toddler has grand kids anyhow.
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DateTime? Guid? Int? Nullable types have robbed my source code of its self confidence.
I wrote a quine: go here and type "Syntax Error" http://www.nanowasp.org/
EF & slow bulk INSERTs http://weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2013/Dec/22/Entity-Framework-and-slow-bulk-INSERTs via @RickStrahl EF should just throw an exception with a link to this page on 10+ inserts.
No Visual Studio. I don't want to load a 1GB app for each XML file I click on.
I discovered a new asynch pattern-- rewrite all as synch because you can't tell if the test are failing because of the asynch stuff.
Assert.IsBaby() for when you are just Expecting.
For when you don't really know what to expected, but you expect something. Assert.IsNotNull()
Dreamed I got a job at a gov't agency that IT upgrades forgot & was writing in some old language like COBOL or ADA or FORTRAN.
If we serialized the important points of your biography to #protobuf, it would be -1 bytes.
I now get the c++ hipster badge for saying boost in context
C# Basics– Classes and basic behavior: What upfront work is necessary to create fully defined classes? By full... http://bit.ly/YQODxH
2800 comments on my blog. Whee. No individual has the resources to fight spam.
Message queues will never catch on until there is a free one that doesn't require Admin rights to install. Maybe HangFire.io will do?
So GoFundMe is the modern face of tech assisted racism?
I've had my fill of profile corruption with windows 8. I think I'll hold off on those Win Store apps until version 20 thank you.
SDLC is a form of cargo cult software development management. The trappings of management, but it's all enthusiastic voodoo and superstition
Techie in DC? Come to my book club: http://tech.wakayos.com/?p=747
env x='() ; echo vulnerable' bash -c "echo this is a test"
System.Diagnostics saved my life today.
An engineer can work as a developer, but not vica versa. But a PHP developer can work as a monkey in the zoo. Choose majors wisely.
I want StackStack, the website to ask if you can ask a Question on SO or SE and which site to ask. Maybe like a ranked list of close prob%.
It takes 4 hours to explain to developers how equality works in C#-- no wonder people don't get gender equality http://www.pluralsight.com/training/Courses/TableOfContents/csharp-equality-comparisons?utm_campaign=newsletter_2014_0918&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=course
OH: "Everything witty on twitter comes from Ohio."
Not using Automapper is industrial sabotage. https://github.com/AutoMapper/AutoMapper
People who say "you're over complicating things" when I say, "lets not use CSV"-- read this: https://tburette.github.io/blog/2014/05/25/so-you-want-to-write-your-own-CSV-code/
Do you maintain a corporate website? Please check how many clicks/min it takes for a naïve user to figure out where in the world you are.
Only the Sith speak of virtual directories terms of System.Web.VirtualPathUtility.ToAbsolute("~/")
Ctrl-Shift-B in visual studio creates beer.
DB work, always 10,000x hard than it seems like it should be.
People who use == in javascript are so bright. They've memorized this grid: http://dorey.github.io/JavaScript-Equality-Table/
#StackExchange teaching people to go find their own f'ing answer since 2008.
So the problem w/Tech in DC isn't a shortage of competent dev managers/PMs, but the shortage of people who want to work for the incompetent
@mistersql (n.b. I'm happy at my current job, this was a thought that came up at my book club.)
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I really want webconfig.cs. I want to run into the server room with pitch forks and take back my config file from the admins.
Updates in EF are a easy. Just ApplyCurrentValues, Attach, no-um-set an entity key, no-um-AutoMap, no screw it, use ado net
When devs are fighting complex 3rd party APIs, the 1st step to help is to blame the developer for making the 3rd party API too complicated
I got an idea that I'm keeping secret so no one steals it & makes a git hub repo for webconfig.cs -oops cats outta the bag, go make for me!
No one is going to take a standard serious with things like crush and muse: http://gmpg.org/xfn/creator
I hate you so bad I'm changing all my FOAF/XFN link rel attrs to you to 'enemy'. But I'm not going to tell you. You'll have to view source
Look at that, there is a "я" in "бригадная работа"