Monthly Archives: July 2008

Good System, Bad System

Where Star­bucks (and a lot of other com­pa­nies who started out small and cool and became big and ridicu­lous) went wrong? A great read on how to pro­vide excel­lent cus­tomer ser­vice which is THE KEY to busi­ness suc­cess as far as I’m concerned.

July 30, 2008 – 7:51 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Business, Random | Tagged | Comments (0)

You’re Doing It Wrong If

How many ways are you doing it wrong? I think I count a def­i­nite five and pos­si­bly up to seven ways. Does Linq to SQL count as an ORM? No, I didn’t think so. Any­way, I think I’m going to start read­ing blogs about Tele­tub­bies. They prob­a­bly never tell me how wrong I am and …

July 30, 2008 – 7:47 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Programming | Comments (0)

Goodbye Illusion Of Free Will, I Hardly Knew Ye

Hey poor peo­ple of LA, you’re get­ting too fat eat­ing the only damn food you can afford so us lib­eral elites of LA will start telling you what you can fuck­ing eat. Oh and we’re gonna ban plas­tic bags too, just because we can. This stuff makes me angry. Let’s see, which is worse, allow­ing peo­ple …

July 29, 2008 – 10:38 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Culture | Comments (0)

The Difference Between Developers and Hackers

Writ large. Funny thing is, it seems like a lot of times, devel­op­ers have to become hack­ers because of arti­fi­cial restric­tions on their abil­ity to inter­act with honest-to-god users of the soft­ware they are sup­posed to be devel­op­ing. Note: Hacker is used here in the Paul Gra­ham sense, not the break into your com­puter and …

July 29, 2008 – 7:41 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Programming | Comments (0)

Today’s Fun Spam Headlines

Mon­key Shoots Trainer With Tran­quil­izer Drunken Man Caught Hump­ing Goat I’m start­ing to look for­ward to my spam folder every morn­ing because they seem to get more and more cre­ative all the time. One came in yes­ter­day that was rather pro­fane, deal­ing with furry kit­tens and roost­ers mostly, but also involv­ing a fresh bowl of oats. …

July 29, 2008 – 7:25 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

Making Testing Easier

The lat­est edi­tion of Test­ing on the Toi­let linked above gave me an idea on how to stream­line the tests we’ve been writ­ing. In our pre­sen­ter and model tests, we have a ton of mock­ing noise and boil­er­plate code that has to be writ­ten on every test class. Here’s an exam­ple: [Test­Class] pub­lic class CDC­Sur­veyP­re­sen­terTest …

July 28, 2008 – 8:56 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Programming | Comments (3)

Testing Planetary Death Rays

Google tells you how. The exam­ple is in Java but could be extended to C# easily.

July 28, 2008 – 7:30 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Programming | Tagged | Comments (0)

McCain Comes Out Swinging

McCain hits hard.

July 25, 2008 – 11:40 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Politics | Tagged | Comments (0)

Taste Of Home Plug

If you’re ever in the Wylie metro area, you should check out Taste Of Home restau­rant which is a local, home grown spot that has nice charm and good food. I was going to write a review but decided it sounded lame and bor­ing. Just go eat there, it’s good. Mom’s meat loaf is highly …

July 25, 2008 – 11:10 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Food | Tagged , | Comments (0)

When Senility Leads To Disappointment

So a bunch of the peo­ple I work with also have blogs and one friendly soul did a mash-up (I think that’s the cor­rect term but I’m so hope­lessly, ter­ri­bly unhip, I could just be mak­ing that up) of them all so that you could mon­i­tor just one link in your RSS feed. Today, after …

July 24, 2008 – 6:07 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Tagged | Comments (0)