Monthly Archives: July 2008

New FsUnit Release

You can read about it here. Sim­pli­fied syn­tax is one of the main improve­ments which is def­i­nitely cool. Per­son­ally, I would have named it FUnit for com­edy value but I’m guess­ing Ray didn’t see it that way. The Daily Pal­lia­tive: Upcom­ing Hurricanes

July 24, 2008 – 10:47 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Programming | Tagged , | Comments (1)

Our Steps Towards Self-Sufficiency Through Squash

I haven’t writ­ten much about the gar­den of late and since I’ve got noth­ing else on a Sun­day, I fig­ured some pic­tures were in order. This first one is the view of our gar­den which has been quite a suc­cess this year, par­tic­u­larly if you like yel­low squash and zuc­chini. In the far back­ground, there …

July 20, 2008 – 8:43 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Gardening, Random | Tagged , | Comments (1)

Grand Saline, Texas

July 20, 2008 – 5:02 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Photography, Random | Comments (0)

List Comprehensions in F#

At my cur­rent con­tract, we’ve started a weekly brown bag ses­sion on F# and we’ve had two ses­sions so far, one on “what the hell are we doing” and a sec­ond on the basic syn­tax of the lan­guage. I pre­sented for the sec­ond one and hit most of the high points but some­thing I missed …

July 18, 2008 – 3:58 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Programming | Tagged , | Comments (2)

Using Regions Doesn’t Make Me A Terrorist (But Nested Regions Do)

Jeff Atwood recently wrote about regions in the Visual Stu­dio IDE and Eric Gun­ner­son fol­lowed up with a post on the same topic. I was crus­ing the inter­net this morn­ing look­ing for pic­tures of kit­tens things to write about and since regions are appar­ently the hot topic de jour, I fig­ured I’d dis­cuss (not to …

July 18, 2008 – 8:18 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

A Riff On Environment

I’m work­ing from home today because…well, mostly because I’m an idiot. See, Thurs­days are Lunch Date Days where the love of my life and I meet for lunch. Because of that, I couldn’t go to the gym at lunch and thus, needed to go before work since the after work gym crowd is …

July 17, 2008 – 1:09 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Programming | Tagged , , | Comments (1)

Time For Some Campaignin’

JibJab’s first video of the new polit­i­cal sea­son is out. It be real funny.

July 16, 2008 – 9:07 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Humor, Politics | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Infragistics DataGrid Unbound Field Gotcha

Well, at least it’s a gotcha if you’re me. Which as a solip­ist, that’s all that really mat­ters. Any­who, if you’re using the Infrag­is­tics Data­Grid with hier­ar­chi­cal data that has both read-write and read-only fields, make sure your Bind­ing­Mode on the read-write is TwoWay and your Bind­ing­Mode on the read-only is OneWay. The doc­u­men­ta­tion is…um…sparse …

July 16, 2008 – 10:56 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Programming | Comments (0)

An Alternate Take On Scrum

An inter­est­ing read. It sounds like he’s def­i­nitely on a team where “Scrum” actu­ally means “Daily Sta­tus Meet­ing” and if so, then I totally sym­pa­thize. Lots of scrum meet­ings I’ve been involved with turn into glo­ri­fied sta­tus meet­ings and they suck. No one wants to stand up in front of your peers and say “yes­ter­day, …

July 16, 2008 – 7:56 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Programming | Tagged , , | Comments (1)

Illusions

Can any­one else out there see the water­fall? I’m just not good at these things and I’ve been try­ing to see it for like 30 min­utes this morn­ing. I’m start­ing to get frus­trated. Via Scott who also has some great pic­tures of the Guadalupe that make me far more envi­ous than this pic­ture does.

July 15, 2008 – 7:24 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Humor, Random | Comments (0)