Is it because of the visual tools available in the .Net realm that generate so much crap that the average programmer just does not have time to clean it up? Or are the developers just too lazy to clean up the mess as they go?

One of the cars he swapped for was a Chevy Vega with a 327 small block V8 in it. That little car was freaking FAST and I am surprised that he actually let me drive it at all. I recall that I broke at least three speed-odometers just from peeling out.

Now Chevy did not make a stock Vega with such a powerful motor. No, someone got the bright idea to take out the crappy four banger that was in it and replace it with a 327 small block V8 with a 3/4 inch racing cam and a Herts speed shifter. They even had to take out the cross bar member on the front end so that the motor would fit in the tiny Vega, which made the tires sit funny when it was parked.

And you know we never got any letters or phone calls from the Chevy folks telling us that our little hack was a violation of any agreement we made when we bought the car. None of their lawyers gave us a deadline to remove that 327 small block from that Little Ole’ Vega because it was not designed to have it in there.

No, they were busy trying to design and build cars that people would buy. They let the hobbyist and users hack their cars however they saw fit. And if a hacked car was swapped or sold so be it, there were plenty of other people out there that wanted a brand new car. The car with the new car smell and show room shine.
So Microsoft has a cute little tool called Express and it is for the hobbyist. Doesn’t Microsoft know that hobbyist like to ripe into things to see how they work? Haven’t they been following the Make movement? Don’t they know that the hobbyist really wants to put the big screaming fast race engine in that little car?

And isn’t TestDriven.Net free to use for personal use? Like Express? So what is the harm? The harm in what Microsoft is doing is it is killing the community. If the hobbyist is afraid to use Express, or they feel that they are artificially limited in what they can do with Express then why would they want to use it?

Microsoft pays my mortgage and I really have no animosity towards them. But sometimes I just have to wonder.

Ok, what kind of ass-hat idiotic thing is this?

Source: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19

That has got to be one of the funniest things I’ve read in a long time.  Well, at least in the last 24 hrs.

Can you believe that there are still developers that preface there variables with obj?!  Is that not just crazy?  Of course it is an object, we work in an OOP language.

Everyone should stop reading tips and tricks sites and start reading books on how to program.

I find it kind of funny,

I find it kind of sad,

But the dreams in which I’m dying

Are the best I ever had.

It is one of those songs that forces you to stop and listen.

Any way, I thought I might have the song so I went looking in my mp3 collection and couldn’t find it. No problem I’ll search iTunes.

Do you know how many remakes are of this one song?! A lot. Just on iTunes I see over 52 remixes.

Wow.

There are a lot more airplanes at the bottom of the ocean than there are submarines in the sky.

What does that mean? Who knows but it sounds good.

I’ve been looking for an alternative but can’t seem to find one.  If anyone knows of a good alternative please let me know.

The real problem I am having is the clash of Outlook rules and my use of folders to organize email’s.  Because the email’s I get are moved into a folder (me being the anal organizational type) they do not get forwarded to the Blackberry.  This sucks because I don’t get all my email’s which defeats the purpose of having the thing.

I have a plan to solve the problem.  A guy I work with says that he does not use folders to organize his email’s, just sorts them in the Inbox.  On Hanselminutes Carl Franklin said that he leaves everything in the Inbox and uses a Desktop search tool.  I am thinking that a combination of these two practices and using the Favorite Folders in Outlook would work as well.  That way I can remove all my rules, have everything stay in the Inbox and at some later date I can organize as I see fit.

Its going to really hurt getting ride of the rules though.  I like my rules.

But then there is Carl. Let’s not forget that Hanselminutes is Hosted by Carl Franklin. Carl sounds like the Java guy I work with; every time Scott brings up something that is not Microsoft or .Net Carl always comes back with “.NET can do that…”. Or more precisely, “VB.Net can do that.” Drives me nuts.

Like in the show about Dynamic vs Compiled Languages Scott was making the point that TDD could take the place of a compiler in making sure your code was working. Carl argued relentlessly that there was no way you were going to get developers to use TDD. In my opinion Carl is missing the picture.

Note to Carl: Let Scott have his Minutes.

In general, interfaces should be used sparingly as they add unneeded complexity when applied to a simple set of objects.

I don’t get it, I thought interfaces were a Good Thing. I must be missing something….