Maybe because I’m often entertained by the geekiest of things, I’ve started usage of the Smuggling Pattern named after a fellow software architect Matt Davis’s terminology of smuggling data into and out of Excel. It is something that I’ve lately needed to do on a regular basis, get data into and out of Excel without... Continue reading →

John Lam is working on IronRuby at Microsoft. This video over on InfoQ was rather interesting. If you are curious which direction Ruby is going in the Microsoft world, this discussion gives some good insight and idea. Look, a railroad system for Dutch Railways, being presented via a case study. The case study being specific... Continue reading →

A little post build event can help a lot when one has multiple assemblies that need to be utilized by an application. Such as the entlib or composite library. Just put the following script in the post build event and make sure to create a directory were the assemblies will go. Boom – you got... Continue reading →

Oh… My… God… WTF? I’m sitting here on the floor of the new apartment, Joleen working on a large scale multi-page poster type thing that will adorn the wall and I’m digging through various social medium online. The nature of this social medium is rather overwhelming these days and really makes … Continue reading →

I experienced this bug while trying to create a setup project today. https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/Workaround.aspx?FeedbackID=317870 You’ll choke laughing at the absurdity of this. Microsoft – FIX NOW PLZ K THX BYE! One word, “wow“. Continue reading →