August 2008 - Karl Seguin

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  • And we're off...

    Yesterday was my last day at Fuel. It was a hard decision, but one I felt was necessary in order to grow. I'm heading back into more enterprise-type of work. I'll essentially be building management systems and services for emergency-room medical equipment. Our teams portion of the work isn't...
  • Custom ASP.NET Page Tracing

    Starting a new large-scale project with an ASP.NET front-end, I wanted to add a mechanism to get constant feedback about what my app was doing. Something similar to the built-in tracing mechanism, but far more lightweight. <%@Page trace="true"...%> is great for specific cases, but it...
  • What's in a Title?

    The relative hype around the Foundation ebook has been pretty fun. Today I noticed a very detailed (and positive) review of the book . Which is, of course, flattering. If there's one thing a few people don't care for though, it's the title. They don't feel that it properly captures the...
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  • Got Shoes?

    An article I wrote for DotNetSlackers on Ruby Shoes just got published . Shoes is a little framework a colleague turned me onto - it's for building cross platform desktop applications on Ruby. I'm not sure its quite ready for prime time, but I do think its a far better way to learn Ruby with...
  • Back to Basics: LinkedLists

    I tend to subscribe to the belief that programmers with some C background are typically better off than those without. This is largely because C is far less abstract from the underlying O/S and hardware than languages like C# or Java – specifically the memory model. This kind of knowledge is just handy...
  • Beautiful Code

    I'd like to think that I'm a pretty passionate programmer, but I don't think I'd describe code as being beautiful. Maybe I've seen one or two nice editor themes that really stand out, but actual code is just a bunch of ASCII characters as far as I'm concerned. At best I'll...
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