January 2005 - Posts

So it has started - the auction for Aceh Aid, that is

The 10-day eBay auction for 30 world-famous .NET developers got under way less than half-an-hour ago. Check out the auction at http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5552696499 Read More...

Standards at the speed of thought

I've had to deal with comment spam in the ObjectSharp blogs over the past few days. Through a search of Google, found a simple, trigger-based solution for .Text (the engine that we use) that I suspect will deal with the majority of the spam that was coming Read More...

Upcoming Architect's Breakfast

ObjectSharp has been doing a bimonthly Architect's Breakfast seminar for about 6 months now. The idea was to provide architects information on enterprise level topics without impacting significantly on their normal daily routine. It has been quite a success. Read More...

Grabbing the contents of your clipboard

Want to see something that's a little freaky? Check out this post . Apparently you can grab the current contents of a user's clipboard through Javascript running in a browser. While this probably isn't as much a security issue as some might think (after Read More...

I know a celebrity!!!

One of my colleagues, Barry Gervin , is part of a wonderfully generous effort to raise money for Aceh Aid at IDEP . Twenty-four of the best and brightest of the .NET community are each donating an hour of their time to be put up for auction on eBay. Julia Read More...

Generating Passion in your Life

Found another interesting blog entry on passion by Kathy Sierra on generating passion. And we're talking about passion for technology and life, not that other thing. Too much of that other thing resulted in the four kids that currently occupy much of Read More...

Using Apostrophe's

One of my pet peeves is the misuse of apostrophes. I find myself particularly annoyed by the misuse of you're and your, but any badness feels like teeth on tin foil to me. Not that I'm perfect, but...well...I'm sure some of you understand. Anyway, courtesy Read More...

Nerd Score

Just because there's nothing better to do after five on a Friday. Read More...

Should DSL use UML

I have been quietly following the ongoing conversations regarding Domain Specific Languages (DSL) and whether UML should be used as the mechanism to describe them. My UML and DSL knowledge is not nearly as deep as some of my colleagues, but I believe Read More...

Maybe I'm just cynical, but...

Through Dare Obasanjo's blog , I was pointed to a 'conversation' between Adam Bosworth of Google and Krzysztof Kowalczyk about the open source contributions. It all started when Adam ' asked ' the open source community to fix a problem with commercial Read More...

The True Joy of Blog Reading

I've been a voracious reader since I was a young boy. My current life means that I don't get to read as much as I would like, but I still get a thrill when I find a new author that I like. Especially one that has a whole bunch of books written. Dan Brown's Read More...