Monthly Archives: May 2008

Nothing to see here

So in my ongoing desire to lower my self-worth, I’m trying to learn to play the piano. Now, it’s not concerted effort yet at all but I have some musical ability, I could play the piano once, and so I’m toying with it off and on (mostly off). I mention this because I’ve had the …

May 30, 2008 – 4:58 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (2)

Lumbering Giants Can’t Dance

It’s a dirty little secret but but there really is a big glaring hole in the whole agile software movement in large American businesses and this guy nails it. The businesses built around the software that most agile teams write aren’t actually agile at all and that’s important. The agile teams I’ve worked on have …

May 28, 2008 – 6:44 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Programming | Comments (0)

Source Code Analysis From Microsoft

Here’s a fascinating little tool from Microsoft for teams who both have some standards that they code against and want to analyze how closely their code conforms to those standards. I haven’t given it a try yet but it looks like Microsoft has been using it internally for quite awhile and that definitely says something. …

May 24, 2008 – 7:41 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Programming | Comments (0)

And So It Begins

The Ingredients to a perfect Texas BBQ. And fittingly, I drink my coffee on BBQ day from the Texas Coffee Cup: The Brisket went on at 10:10, current temperature in the smoker is 215 and now we smoke. It’s like a mission from God only better.

May 24, 2008 – 9:25 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

WCF DataContractSerializer Learns the Alphabet

Let’s say you have a WCF web service with RESTful bindings that accepts complex objects and you’re having trouble figuring out why some of your properties and fields on the complex objects never seem to serialize properly. Maybe you’ve even popped open Wireshark and you know that the data is being put on the wire …

May 22, 2008 – 6:23 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Programming | Comments (0)

Random

So yeah. Quiet ’round these parts lately. I don’t really have an explanation for that. Well, I was on vacation. And we have a major backyard project that is underway and has to be complete by this weekend. Oh and I have a mad case of poison ivy that basically makes me cranky around the …

May 20, 2008 – 9:31 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

Pandora.com Rocks

I love Pandora.com. On my Slaid Cleaves station, I just heard Ray Wylie Hubbard, the godfather of Austin alt-country scene followed by Burl Ives singing Pearly Shells (Yup, Burl Ives) followed by the Lost Immigrants. Now if I could just get Pandora.com in my car, my life would be totally complete.

May 7, 2008 – 9:35 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (0)