Random CompSci Research Paper Generator
Francesco Balena turned me on to this litte gem written by some MIT CompSci students: http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/scigen/ Next time I’m asked to submit a paper for a conference, I’ll know exactly […]
XBox in Iraq
I just received e-mail from a friend in the 278th. His unit just returned from an “outing” that had them out of the office for several days. He e-mailed me […]
Jeff’s Thrills Were Fake
A few weeks ago, Jeff Prosise wrote about his “thrill of a lifetime” piloting a 737 simulator. Well a buddy of mine forwarded me a link that has some of […]
As If I Didn’t Have Enough to Do Already
The B-25 that I’ve been waiting on for months finally arrived today. It’s a new ARF kit from KMP in Canada, and it’s a Christmas present from my wife. I […]
Chunnel Rats
Richter and I traveled from London to Paris today on the Eurostar. I snapped this breathtaking picture inside the chunnel. Tonight we’re going to the Moulin Rouge for a little […]
Totally Awesome i-mate SP3 and Mostly Fixing ActiveSync
My good friend, Dave Nanian, (of Brief editing fame, Track Record, and now Shirt-Pocket software (where he just won an Eddy award for NetTunes! How cool is that!?)), made me […]
Cool ASP.NET 2.0 Programming Trick
I ran into a problem developing an ASP.NET 2.0 app that at first seemed not to have a convenient solution. Then I discovered the SiteMap.SiteMapResolve event and the solution turned […]
Field access versus local variable access performance
Recently, I was at a customer site and they were comparing the performance of a function that was written in unmanaged C with its C# equivalent. As they expected, the […]
New FxCop 1.312
The busy folks on the FxCop team have posted a new release, 1.312. There’s 43 new rules and some of those rules look outstanding. A couple of my favorites are […]