A good example of Moore’s Law
I was discussing the idea of maybe buying one of those fancy WD Terabyte External NAS drives with Jeff Gilbert today. A little while later I came across this image. Times have changed……
Month: October, 2007
If you could work anywhere in the world… where would you go?
Last night my wife and I were discussing the future. She brought up the idea that once our daughter goes to college we could move somewhere else. She literally said ” well from the looks of your business, you could really work anywhere in the world…”
There is some truth to that. Have you noticed […]
Hidden costs of offshore software development
Rocky pointed to an article called “Considerations in Evaluating Onshore versus Offshore Software Development” which I wholeheartedly agree with. Having led a distributed team in India and two time zones of the US, I can tell you that its not all cake.
Some of the problems we came across ranged from the typical cultural […]
What a talent
Scott Hanselman pointed to a Silverlight demo of a Steely Dan song performed by Carl Franklin. Now there is a programmer rock star - literally. If you want to watch it, you need to install Silverlight. I am pretty much blown away by the amount of talent that Carl has. Its insane.
Some good news for our industry
The Los Angeles times in its Sunday Edition carried a front page article by Peter Pae entitled ” Some Firms Move Jobs Onshore “.
The gist of the article is that numerous large corporations are looking to send jobs to small town USA where overall savings can equal those of sending the work offshore.
This appears […]
When Visual Studio Cannot Publish a Website
If you ever come across a situation where VS does not properly publish a site, but also doesn’t give any reason why, it maybe a good idea to go to the command prompt instead of VS. At the command prompt use the following statement
aspnet_compiler -v /MyWebSite -p “{Root}” “{Target}” -errorstack
Root and Target are directory […]
My personal record has been broken
At the age of 12-13 years old I spent a year reading my way through the science-fiction section of our local public library. I grew up in a very small mountain town in Germany so consequently there weren’t that many books in the sci-fi section. I would say right around 15 to 20. I’ve […]
How not to do business on the Internet - Part 5 - Don’t believe your own hype
I live in Los Angeles. Not far from Hollywood, Brentwood and Beverly Hills. In this town you frequently come across people who buy into their own hype and end up making fools of themselves. Did anyone see Britney Spears at the VMA’s this year? I would ave missed it were it not for my daughter. Its a classic […]
Now there is something interesting
Seems that the MVC framework that got Phil to move to Seattle was discussed at Alt.NET Jeffrey Palermo has a post about it. Its supposed to
Natively support TDD model for controllers.
Provide ASPX (without viewstate or postbacks) as a view engine
Provide a hook for other view engines from MonoRail, etc. […]
Just a smorgasboard of notes
Have you ever had a smorgasboard? Probably if you live in parts of the country that were settled by Scandinavian immigrants. Its a lot of fun. In California I have only seen two restaurants in 20 years that offered it and both have long gone out of business. A smorgasboard in this case simply means […]