Archive for July 2009

Pink Floyd Again

As a Pink Floyd song came across my iTunes playlist, I was prompted to look them up on wikipedia, youtube, and the like. I also watched a lot of the interviews from the band and others about Syd Barrett. I seem to do this every couple of months, and I always settle on two Pink [...]

Learning page

I kept updating my blog with a list of things I’d like to learn or improve upon, and it seemed redundant to continually copy/paste the information to a new post, just to update it. I would however like to keep the list online, so I’ve moved it to this single location.

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Relating to the previously posted quote.
This is the first book review to hit this blog. I’m not sure that it will be a reoccurring theme, but it’s possible.
I’m a regular user of the site stackoverflow.com, and one of my favorite questions on the site is What non-programming books should programmer’s read?. In this thread, one [...]

Rivers

“That whereby the rivers and seas are able to receive the homage
and tribute of all the valley streams, is their skill in being lower
than they;–it is thus that they are the kings of them all. So it is
that the sage (ruler), wishing to be above men, puts himself by his
words below them, and, wishing to [...]

ASP.NET, nUnit, VB.NET

As the title implies, I’m doing some brushing up on some technologies in the Microsoft stack. I’m going to keep my bases covered in all areas.
In brushing up on my ASP.NET, I’m reminded of a co-worker who once suggested using Smarty with PHP, for separation of presentation and logic. This feels a lot like Smarty. [...]