Monthly Archives: May 2009

Public Service Announcement — Composite Application Guidance

The project I’m cur­rently work­ing on is a Sil­verlight app and I’m in the throes of con­vert­ing it to use the Com­pos­ite Appli­ca­tion Guid­ance frame­work from Microsoft. It’s been a rea­son­ably mind-bending expe­ri­ence but also fairly straight­for­ward if that’s pos­si­ble. How­ever, some­thing popped up today that war­rants men­tion­ing. I’m using the Unity Appli­ca­tion Block as …

May 11, 2009 – 4:22 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Programming | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Fresh From The Garden

The first head of cab­bage came out of the gar­den this morn­ing with 3 more to fol­low soon. Tough to beat fresh cab­bage the day you cut it. It will go into a stir­fry today and then prob­a­bly coleslaw for the rest of the week.

May 10, 2009 – 9:32 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Gardening | Tagged | Comments (0)

Why I Do CrossFit

When Japan­ese game show par­tic­i­pate ask me to in their course most obsta­cle extreme, ready I’ll be ready.

May 7, 2009 – 12:09 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

Pigs Didn’t Start The Swine Flu

This is what the inter­net is for, ran­dom pieces of enter­tain­ing cre­ativ­ity that make you do the air gui­tar at work. Hat Tip: The Bitch Girls

May 6, 2009 – 2:31 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Humor | Tagged | Comments (0)

White River Trip In Pictures

May 5, 2009 – 8:10 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Photography | Tagged | Comments (0)

Have A Big Heap Of Reading Material

The Amer­i­can Scene is my newest obses­sion in the blo­gos­phere. It’s a group blog that has a wide array of writ­ers from dif­fer­ent per­spec­tives, back­grounds and polit­i­cal bents. It cov­ers top­ics from tor­ture to bailouts to why X3 wasn’t nearly as bad as Wolver­ine. The writ­ers are quite good, their posts are well-thought out and …

May 4, 2009 – 8:44 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Tagged | Comments (0)

Speaking Of Open Source

Post­greSQL is look­ing for a web designer to give their site a new look. From the mail­ing list: To help find a great designer, we’ve decided to put $2000 on the table. The first stage of the project is a design mock-up. A panel of Post­greSQL com­mu­nity mem­bers will act as judges for a $1000 (US) prize! …

May 4, 2009 – 1:17 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Internet/Technology, Programming | Tagged | Comments (0)

Hungarian Government Socializes Open Source

There’s some chat­ter in the inter­nets this morn­ing about Hun­gary “boost­ing” open source use by requir­ing all their civil ser­vants to spend equal amounts of money on open source soft­ware and pro­pri­etary soft­ware. Accord­ing to the linked arti­cle this “will be the first time that open source will gain equal sta­tus with pro­pri­etary ven­dors in …

May 4, 2009 – 8:16 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Internet/Technology | Tagged | Comments (0)

Markets In Everything

Pimp My Swine Flu mask. Sweet.

May 1, 2009 – 12:00 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Tagged | Comments (0)

Who Mails A Bobcat?

May 1, 2009 – 9:16 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Humor | Tagged | Comments (0)