January 2009
QPR dominated the first half. Good to see Camp backbon goal. Good save to deny a freak goal.
The art of Windows. If Warhol were alive today, this is what he’d be doing http://windowsart.tumblr.com
Please, everyone, stop building CMSes and slowly back away. Guns don’t kill people - content management systems do. (via @jsnell)
Clarification: the ad was for Priscilla, Queen of the Desert: The Musical
Now, Priscilla, Queen of the *Dessert*: The Musical, I would watch
Oh, christ in a bike. I just saw an ad for Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Right, off to the Tate Modern for the last chance at the Rothko room. But first: the bar.
Do no evil, huh? Google kills Bambi: http://is.gd/hNmO
Super post from @simonianson on designing on an agile project - http://is.gd/hO11
Exciting. It’s Federer v Nadal again in the Aussie Open final - first time they’ve met since the Wimbledon final.
What? Deal or No Deal is still on. Groan.
Oh that’s great, thanks Outlook. “Outlook has saved a draft of this message.” Why? It’s empty!
Just received easily the rudest mail ever. When asking for help, it’s advisable not to accuse me of EPIC FAIL. EPIC FAIL yourself, assholes
Maybe there should be a sign over the door of the maternity suite: “You are now entering the world. It’s not ideal.”
Oh, get in. I finally get the chance to fire up SQL Server Management Studio. Yay! </sarcasm>
If I book a place at NSConference, will it force me to do some iPhone/Cocoa development by then?
Stop pretending that the Virgin letter was the best complaint ever. I know of a better one that is secret. Who has the balls to go public?
How come Windows is so crap at deciding what to scroll when you use the scroll wheel? On the Mac it’s just whatever the mouse is over.
Dear Amazon: why do you tell me you need my bank account details for the affiiliate program if you only want to deposit $0.00
Thanks to Twitter, I’m signed up on Spotify.
Anyone got a Spotify invite going?
Note to testers: when your bug report contains the words “try as I might I cannot reproduce this” - I might not bother trying to fix it.
Holy shit. The reality distortion field was off whack for this one: http://is.gd/hH40 *shudder*
Only Microsoft could come up with the concept of a “partially successful” build in which the tests fail. “Madam, you are partially pregnant”
Showmanship: http://is.gd/hGZt (via @mattgemmell)
You know what? Heresy that it is: I hate Rhino Mocks and Mocking generally. It’s been an absolute nightmare in this project.
I have spent approx 40% of my time on this project “fixing” tests that are not actually broken. A simple recompile should suffice.
Dammit. I misread @WilliamLewis’ tweet as “George Osborne has died”. Now *that* would be worth tweeting.
Just about at the end of my rope with the code-mess I’m dealing with.
Very confused by the concept of a bug prioritised as severity “Minor - Must Have”
There are two ways to find out what code is doing what in this project. 1) Search Entire Solution 2) set breakpoint and attach debugger
It really pisses me off that there’s no implicit cast between System.Uri and System.String
Good post form @dmoren on (possibly) why the iPhone push notification service is yet to launch http://is.gd/hDY7 (via @Gruber)
The test-related frustration is raised to yet higher levels by how crap MSTest is compared with NUnit.
Why do so many “Remember Me” checkboxes not do what they say on the tin? I’m looking at you, Twitter.
Honestly, the amount of time I waste trying to fix these behaviour-based tests is just absurd. Hating on RhinoMocks at the moment.
Jack Bauer and the ticket inspector. Inspector: “Tickets please.” Jack: “Look, you’re just going to have to trust me on this, OK?”
Microsoft’s attitude to the web: “Hmm, how can we make this thing that everyone likes [the web] more like something we like [Windows]?”
RT @shanerichmond: Fascinating stuff last night at @mfw_rickw’s VIP event. Impressed by Audioboo and Videoboo from @markrock and @mattwaring
Surely it can’t be good when this is on the door of a toilet cubicle http://twitpic.com/18b1k
Getting pissed off with moronic developers sending me shitty emails, when the frustration they feel comes directly from their own ineptitude
Why can’t people assess something, decide it’s not for them and *leave it at that*?
I do not understand the argument: “I DON’T LIKE TWITTER BECAUSE IT IS NOT WHAT I’M USED TO. NO ONE ELSE MUST USE IT.”
Reminiscing about Microsoft Visual Interdev. Ah, those were the days.
The Agile Sex Pistols: “I am an Agilist. I am the anti-PRINCE.”
Lunchtime chore: post off my tax returns. Bonus: Fish & Chip shop is right next door to the post office.
Crick was lucky that ghe died before he learned that his discovery would make the Jeremy Kyle show possible
RT @shanerichmond I wonder if this whole Steve Jobs is ill thing is a smokescreen because Apple can’t get iPhone push notification to work?
Jack Bauer’s first day at school. Teacher: “Jack, why did you hurt Billy?” Jack: “I did what I had to do to protect this kindergarten.”
You know you’re old when someone you work with says “let’s do it the old-school way and use .NET [fill in class name here]”