About three years ago, I met a very special lady, who very quickly became my very best friend. Last June, Lindsay and I decided to take our friendship to the next level and started dating. Last Sa...

More and more things are turning me against the VS .NET IDE. So, for the last few days, Ive started to evaluate text editors. The good ones that I’ve seen so far include: (X)EMacs Visual Sli...

One of the things that has bothered me for quite some time about Visual Studio .NET was the inability to be able to create a new interface file via the Add New Items wizard. VS.NET’s extensibility...

is to accidentally run an MSDE install on the same machine. I managed to do this today, while testing a custom installation. Instead of running it in my Virtual PC instance, I ran it on my desktop...

I ran into an old friend from high school a few weeks ago, and we talked about going fishing some weekend. He called on Friday, and we made plans to go sturgeon fishing on Saturday. It’s been a lo...

I just got finished helping Sage with some problems he encountered with installing MovablePoster. No issues with MovablePoster, thankfully. We managed to get this done via MSN Instant Messenger. I...

So, I think this is the first time I’ve ever disagreed with anything that Joel Spolsky has said. However, his take on exceptions is ridiculous, in my opinion. The reasoning is that I consider e...

Joel Spolsky linked to this article about how the building industry cant build anything on schedule or on budget either. Reading this article though did remind me of another way that the software ...

Today I was trying to execute a programmatic XPath query against a document with a query that contained the current() function. current() is not part of the XPath standard, as it is an XSLT 1.0 ex...

In my previous post, I mentioned that the only changes are prefacing your XPath function with a namespace prefix. However, thanks to a post from Oleg Tkachenko, I found a way around this. In the ...