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I will be speaking at the MongoDB conference in New York City on May 21st. I will cover their .NET/C# Development segment. We have a great demo lined up, and I look forward to seeing you all there. MongoDB is an excellent open-source database which specializes...
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I'm sitting here on a short trip to Munich, and just read Greg Mankiw's latest post regarding today's New York Times article by Paul Krugman regarding European Social Democracy and the pending US healthcare reform. Paul Krugman essentially...
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As an honest consumer who purchases all his music, software, movies and anything else, it annoys me when a content provider goes out of there way to keep me from paying them for their content. A perfect example is the HBO show Entourage. A great show...
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While doing some reading on Chinese quality of life and pollution last week, I noticed some interesting figures released by the WorldBank. The estimated cost to GDP of pollution emitted by China is a total of 5.8%. That's rediculously high; every...
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Time and time again noise builds around the (re)introduction of thin client computing, the death of the desktop OS and the emergence of a single, large networked computer that we all work on. A super mainframe that is omnipresent across all devices and...
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Today I had to help someone with a problem with iTunes on Windows. For those of you that have not had the pleasure of using iTunes on Windows, it sucks, like most software written by Apple for Windows. That being said, this problem really had nothing...
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Jump to a section of this article: Why do consumers love the browser? Who is winning the war in RIA (Flex, Silverlight, HTML+JavaScript)? JavaScript as Byte Code - C#, Java, etc to JavaScript Compilers and Cross-Compilers Why do consumers love the browser...
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This post is part of a series of essays on things unrelated to software development. You can find all the essays here. The compensation structures on Wall Street have long been criticized as excessive, lavish and unnecessary. Banks have consistently justified...
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Forgive me for borrowing from an old Clintonian campaign slogan, but it seemed appropriate... Over the past few weeks, more and more information has come out about the direction of Windows 7. Desperate to be cool once again, Windows is adding an OS X...
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To those that know me well, this post is of no surprise, however given that I haven't been posting for a while, and probably won't for a while more, I thought it was appropriate to post a quick, personal update. As of a week ago, I left my colleagues...
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Early in the web development world, scripting languages such as ASP or PHP were used to compose pages. Although this proved great for relatively static pages, the dynamic web, filled with rich applications called for a more powerful framework. Thus, frameworks...
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After hosting Gatsb.com for a year, I have decided to open source the project. I haven't had time to promote it the way I wanted to promote it, and it therefore hasn't caught on with too many users. I've been busy with other projects, other...
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Heres a useful snippit of code I wrote as a utility and thought I'd post up for everyone. Very often when using a command line, you need to repeat a set of commands. For example, copy several files: copy "c:\blah.txt" "c:\otherPlace...
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If you want to run your PowerShell scripts from a piece of code you're writing, and would prefer not to use Process.Start , you can easily use the PowerShell runtime classes to run those scripts for you, completely in-process. The code snippit below...
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If you've been using System.DirectoryServices . DirectoryEntry class, or the newer System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement namespace to access your LDAP or Active Directory server, you may have experienced the following error: COMException: "Unknown...