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  • An insightful editorial on "hackers"

    This is an interesting essay on programmers and psychology by Paul Graham that I came across via Brains-N-Brawn's blog. I disagree with some of the points, particularly the stuff about platforms, but I'll highlight a few of the more interesting bits (note, Graham uses the term “hacker“ where...

  • Congrats to blog jam

    Congratulations to Brian Lamprecht (blog entitled blog jam ) for passing his first certification exam . . . he's taken the red pill (or is it the blue pill?) and, I predict, will soon be in acronym nirvana for his resume. I'm sure he will make sure to balance those acronyms with real experience, though...

  • Consumer Reports To Evaluate Developers?

    I think I need to clarify my stand on Certification; I got a confused comment on this recent post about MS Certification being designed for maximum scalability . The comment was: I'm a little confused. On one post, you humbly notify us that you did not pass the cert test (respectable). On the very next...

  • FireAndForget

    In the blogging mood today, so I figured I'd blog a useful code snippet. Doing Fire-And-Forget operations, the one-way method calls that don't return a value and you don't want to block the main application thread, are exceedingly easy in .Net (unless I'm doing things wrong!). Doing asynchronous operations...

  • MS Certification is designed for maximum scalability

    More on the cert post I just made . . . MS Certification doesn't certify that you're a good developer . . . instead, MS Certification certifies that you are fully buzzword compliant (most exams seem to exercise the latest features and novelties), have solid rational thinking skills in a test environment...

  • On Not Passing the Beta Security Exam

    Turns out I didn't hallucinate my .Net Beta Security exam after all. I got a letter the other day saying I didn't pass the exam (scored a 650 while you need 700 to pass). My first reaction was shame; I work with .Net day-in and day-out, teach .Net classes, and consider myself fairly proficient with it...

  • Dude

    Has anybody heard how they did on the Beta .Net Security Exam? Some friends of mine have gotten their notifications but I haven't heard anything yet. Am I the only one? My online profile doesn't show the exam yet, either. Did I hallucinate that entire 2+ hour experience ? Just a combination of curious...

  • Good System.Web.Mail Resource

    The guy from KBAlertz, Dave Wanta, has a site devoted to the System.Web.Mail namespace and adds lots of value to the standard MSDN documentation (this doesn't just reproduce the docs the way some annoying sites do -- I won't even bother giving those links and boosting their page ranks !): http://www...
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