Intentions and Interfaces, written 2 weeks ago, I want to thank Lasse Eskildsen for the picture from my TechEd talk on Intentions and Interfaces capturing the main message in no uncertain terms. You can download the presentation as a PDF here.

Set / Change / Reset the MySQL root password on Ubuntu Linux (Ubuntu), written 1 week ago, This came in veeeerrryyy handy just now... Stop the MySQL Server sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop   Start the mysqld config sudo mysqld --skip-grant-tables & Login to the server as root mysql ...

Balsamiq – quick (and dirty) UI mockups, written 1 day ago, If you are in the market for simple but efficient program for doing web and desktop UI mockups, I would recommend Balsamiq. They offer web based tool (Flash), a desktop app (Adobe Air) and Confluence / Jira add-in. It’s quite in...

Framework Design Guidelines: Avoiding Abstractions, written 3 days ago, Continuing in our weekly blog post series that highlights a few of the new additions to the Framework Design Guidelines 2nd edition.. This content is found in the Principle of Self-Documenting Object Models section of Chapte...

light flight, written 1 day ago,

Permission-based authorization vs role-based authorization, written 1 day ago, One of the topic areas I get asked about frequently is authorization. Specifically role-based authorization as supported by .NET, and how to make that work in the "real world". I get asked about this be...

A mostly Lisp weblog by John Wiseman

This Week in Edge Rails, written 6 days ago, Yesterday was Thanksgiving holiday for US-based developers – but it certainly hasn’t looked like a holiday week in edge Rails. Things are moving fast, with some major changes afoot for version 2.3 of Rails. Rack integration The underpinn...

Internet Explorer 6: Causing Misery and Frustration Since 2001, written 1 week ago, Don’t Hate the Game - Hate the Browser If you’ve looked around the CSS Tinderbox a little bit so far, you probably picked up on how I really feel about IE6 because I tend to bring it up all the... Visit the CS...

Principles, Patterns, and Prism Presentation, written 1 month ago, Tonight, Bil Simser and I had the pleasure of presenting a brief overview of Prism (aka the Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight) to a crowd of 150 developers at Shaw Court in Calgary. You can find the slidedeck ...

Microsoft PDC: First keynote focuses on Microsoft's Cloud OS, Windows Azure, written 1 month ago, LOS ANGELES — In unveiling its Web-based development platform today at PDC, Microsoft has fired a salvo at Amazon EC2, the company’s hosted development platform.  Microsoft’s version of the cloud...

Zack Owens' technical blog.

PostgreSQL 8.3 PLPGSQL Cheatsheet Overview, written 1 day ago, To finish off our PL/PGSQL tutorial series, we are providing a PL/PGSQL cheat sheet. Below is a Thumbnail view of the PostgreSQL 8.3 PL/PGSQL cheat sheet that covers both 8.3 new features and past core PL/PGSQL features. This is ...

Channel9 series: Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 Week! (Lisa Feigenbaum), written 1 day ago, There's a great Channel9 series that was recently released, with lots of videos on what to look forward to in VS 2010 and .Net Framework 4.0! The landing page is here; full lineup is below. ...

Sun Launches JavaFX, written 14 hours ago, Sun Microsystems today launched the rich Internet application (RIA) platform JavaFX 1.0. "The JavaFX developer kit includes compiler and runtime tools, graphics, media, web services and rich text libraries, along with plug-ins for the NetBeans and Ec...

A walk into my mind, written 1 week ago, Something people tend to forget (myself included) is that I originally started this site for my writing. So I guess I need to spend a bit more time letting out the words that fill my head on a daily basis. If you normally visit for technical content, this m...

Code and markup brought to the 21st century.

SEO simplified, written 14 hours ago, Undermining all the changes happening at Google Search in recent times, randfish over at SEOmozBlog says - SEO remains, at its core, remarkably similar to what it was in 2002: Make pages accessibleTarget with keywords that searchers employBuild content that user...

How to Find sn.exe, written 2 days ago, If you are in the business of deploying SharePoint Web Parts to the bin directory, then this little titbit may save you some time. In order to add a entry to the Web.config file, you need to create something like this in the section: <SafeContro...

It is a boy, written 1 day ago, On 12/3 at 10:34 Peter Elias Schelfhout was born weighing 9 lbs 12 oz.? Both mom and Peter are doing great!!!! ...