password management
I have fifty online logins, and I can't remember any of them. What's my password? I can't use the same password for every website. That's not secure. So every password is unique and specific to that website. And what's my
software development
One of the peculiarities of software development is how rapidly knowledge becomes obsolete. Dan Appleman cited a parable from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass which illustrates this wonderfully: 'Now! Now!' cried the Queen. 'Faster! Faster!' And they went so fast that at last
.net
Richard Grimes recently posted an Analysis of .NET Use in Longhorn and Vista, wherein he draws two conclusions: 1. Between PDC 2003 and the release of Vista Beta 1, Microsoft has decided that it is better to use native code for the operating system 2. Microsoft has shown no intention
programming languages
I'll be attending SDWest 2006 all next week (March 13 - 17) in Santa Clara, California. If you're attending, let's meet up somewhere! I've met a handful of people in person at past conferences: * Sara Ford * Steve Maine * Walt Rischler The highlight
minimalism
John Maeda created quite a stir with his montage of the Yahoo and Google homepages from 1996 to 2006 in simple is about staying simple [http://weblogs.media.mit.edu/SIMPLICITY/archives/000263.html]: Although Philipp Lenssen has posted on this topic before (he calls it the portal plague [http:
audio visualization
I'm a big music fan. And as a longtime computer enthusiast, I've always been intrigued by the intersection of computers and music: audio visualization. The first experience I had with visualization was the 1993 CD-ROM add-on for Atari's short-lived Jaguar console [http://www.atariage.
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Vertigo Software's .NET Pet Shop 4.0 article [http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/bdasamppet4.asp] just went live on MSDN. It's Pet Shop! You know... our old pal, Pet Shop [http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/compare/petshop.aspx]: However,
usability
Jensen Harris recently cited some Microsoft Office usability research which produced a rather counter-intuitive result [http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2005/11/29/497861.aspx]: > One of the most interesting epiphanies I've had over the last few years seems on the surface like a paradox: "
software development concepts
It's ironic that the popular DivX codec [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DivX] has all but obliterated the identity of the ill-fated DIVX pay-per-view rental system. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DivX]vs. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIVX] So what was DIVX [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
virtual machines
Lately I've been spending more and more time inside virtual machines. Whenever I need to try out a new bit of software, whether it's a small shell extension, or a giant product like Team System-- I tear off a new VM first. I don't
security
I've recently been struggling with a number of racing sims I bought to use after work hours in our new racing cockpit. I'm a big believer in supporting developers. I'm a developer myself. But digging around for CDs or DVDs is impractical for dedicated
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I just updated my post The Bloated World of Managed Code with baseline memory footprints for Console and Winforms apps in .NET 2.0. I'll admit I am a bit of a hypocrite when it comes to managed code apps. Now that tiny, native BitTorrent clients are available