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Oh yeah! Oh yeah! Wrote a WebAPI that can be HAL browsed- Ref: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kelly-json-hal-06
Good dev are hard to find, can't just throw a rock and hit one. But if you do, kick them too? http://java.dzone.com/articles/low-status-software-engineers
Renaming HATEOAS to LOVEYOAS. But maybe not friendly to women in tech. RESPECTYOAS.
New rule- on professional twitter accounts, retweet tech, favorite politics. It's a good mix between self censoring and crossing the streams
Only 15% of a 400 page software spec gets implemented. The 340 pages are industrial sabotage by the writer (and the boss of the writer).
"The message is clear, yet it still leaves a mystery." Every error message ever. http://www.codemag.com/Article/0907071
#VS2013 has syntax highlighting for #powershell! Upgrade now! Everything else is industrial sabotage.
Visual Studio without resharper is like developing with edlin. Can't MS just buy jetbrains already and merge codebases?
As soon as you write an Exception with text, just go ahead and create the wiki and SO question for it. It's going to happen.
I can wear my #icelandic sweater at my office when it is 90 degrees outside. I'm not sure if this is a benefit or not.
ctrl-shift-f9! all your break points are now mine!
Reading "Managing the Unmanageable" by whose standards 50% of my past supervisors have been organizational saboteurs. http://www.amazon.com/Managing-Unmanageable-Insights-Software-People/dp/032182203X
Job ad to work with "Cutting edge technology", "Visual Studio 05 and above." Yes, so much faster than punch cards.
The icons for VS2012, VS2013, and VS2013 Express are similar enough on the task bar to assume they just don't care anymore.
Whee, jury duty tomorrow.
With scrum, two parents can make 18 (smaller) babies in 9 months.
HATEOS links/rels are kind of like machine readable documentation, not necessarily app generation specs. If I understand correctly.
Write code in a cold office? You need wristies. http://www.wristies.com/Original_Wristies_s/20.htm https://x.com/mistersql/status/503279212779040768/photo/1
Visual Studio 2010 has a data generator?! Who knew? Wonder if it survived later versions of VS
Scotsman fallacy fallacy. Believing that all sentences of the form "That isn't an example of X" are false.
Outlook saves me so much time. I click on something, it freezes up and no email distractions for days.
Hmm, #EntityFramwork isn't as painful as I expected. That must mean MS will cancel and deprecate it soon.
Nothing says authentic like a "Authorization Code" of "123456" on a debit notification.
A broken mirror on the internet is only worth 7 seconds of bad luck.
Joy: TFS policy to reject code with regions. And then go revert everything that developer ever committed. And then delete them.
The (US private) health insurance UX conveys the message they don't care and want to kill you.
Sorry everyone, you're out of GUIDs. I've reserved them for myself. But if you'd like to pay my GUID registry a $20 a year fee you can get 1
Commitment devices for the browser at the office: https://productivity.stackexchange.com/questions/12018/laptop-addiction-with-videos-unstoppable-due-to-programming/12074#12074
The sadist that tortures Theon Greyjoy? They wrote nearly all of the software and websites you use.
Powershell ps1: fix 10 security warnings, command runs. .bat - runs without admin rights first time. Sigh.
Why can't Jedi's use powershell right? They won't stop using the -force.
Unfortunate acronym- MS DERP = Microsoft Dynamics ERP
Sign the @NPAction petition: Support @SenWarren's plan to allow post offices to offer banking services http://share.credoaction.com/47891636t #p2
If you ship an app that only works with full admin rights, you are shipping a broken, crippled, ruined, sad application.
F5 to run highlighted SQL. But F8 to run highlighted powershell.
And I keep pinging people and never does anyone tell me how many milliseconds it took.
I feel like "Rip Van Winkle"-- the MSSQL world has changed so much in the last 9 years.
OH: "Ohio sure does get quoted a lot on twitter"
Computer Operating System, Explain it like I’m Five: “Explain it like I’m Five” is an internet meme. It isn’t ... http://bit.ly/1m19yXP