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September 2004 - Posts

How to Write Unmaintainable Code

Found a link to this funny article in Bill Evjen's blog : http://mindprod.com/unmain.html One of the gems I picked up from the article is “Pass all data as a void * and then typecast to the appropriate structure. Using byte offsets into the data Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 30, 2004 11:57 AM by jprosise | 0 Comments
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Obfuscated URLs

While killing time waiting for epoxy to dry (I'm repairing one of the landing gear mounts in the wing of my P-51), I came across this document, which provides a lucid answer to a question I'm often asked these days: http://www.rain.org/~mkummel/stumpers/08dec00a.html Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 29, 2004 5:42 PM by jprosise | 1 Comments
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747 Trivia

Anybody know why the 747 has a hump on the front? I had an aerospace professor in college who worked for Boeing before becoming a professor. He participated in the design of the 747, and he told our class why the hump, which gives the 747 a distinctive Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 29, 2004 5:07 PM by jprosise | 1 Comments
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The Right Way to Search MSDN

While we're on the subject of e-mails seeking answers to technical questions, you'd be surprised at the number of e-mails I receive that could be answered by spending 10 seconds on Google. I'm amazed at the number of developers that don't know about site-specific Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 29, 2004 4:01 PM by jprosise | 1 Comments
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Why We Write Books

Everyone who writes books and magazine articles, speaks at conferences, and teaches classes gets a lot of unsolicited e-mail from developers needing help and wanting questions answered. I try to provide at least a short response to all such e-mails, but Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 29, 2004 1:24 PM by jprosise | 5 Comments
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There's No Place Like Home

I'm enjoying a week at home following several hectic weeks of travel. Last week I was in Atlanta with Jeffrey Richter, John Robbins, Peter DeBetta, Jason Clark, and several folks from Wintellect's business unit. We were there for Devscovery. It was good Read More...
Posted Monday, September 27, 2004 5:49 PM by jprosise | 1 Comments
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Beta Burps

Wouldn't you know it? Tomorrow I begin a 3-day speaking tour through the Northeast and I'll be demoing lots of ASP.NET 2.0 code. But suddenly the Visual Studio 2005 beta is crapping out every time I ask it to launch a Web app. The symptom is an unhandled Read More...
Posted Monday, September 13, 2004 11:32 PM by jprosise | 5 Comments
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Airworthy

I finally test-flew the Corsair today. It flew great, and with full flaps, it lands nice and slow and remains responsive even at low speeds. Only tricky part is that after it lands, it like to ground loop (do a quick 360). A hard ground loop on my final Read More...
Posted Monday, September 13, 2004 2:30 AM by jprosise | 3 Comments
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Homeward Bound

I just finished teaching an ASP.NET class in Boise, ID and am headed home bright and early Saturday morning. I just realized that I'll be traveling on 9/11. I'm sure airports will be extra watchful for suspicious activity tomorrow, so I feel reasonably Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 11, 2004 12:48 AM by jprosise | 4 Comments
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Gull-Wing Warrior

I got back from Devscovery Friday afternoon and spent some much-needed time at home. Tomorrow I leave for Boise, ID to teach an ASP.NET class. But first: it's football time in Tennessee! The whole family's going to tonight's home opener. Tennessee is Read More...
Posted Sunday, September 05, 2004 9:33 PM by jprosise | 3 Comments
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Devscovery Update

We're two days into Devscovery and so far things have gone exceedingly well. John Robbins opened the conference with a keynote on software development , and after that we worker bees took over and began delivering conference sessions. John has dropped Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 02, 2004 4:03 AM by jprosise | 4 Comments
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