The Coding Monkey

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Scott Hanselman (recently added to my Blogroll by the way) points to this absolutely fantastic post : With the amount of crap being vomit...

My boss at the consulting company sent me a questionnaire asking me to place 10 things in order of importance as far as what motivates me. ...

OH. MY. GOD! It's the Code Monkey Song! This is a must download! Via The Sells Brothers .

I have another review up at BlogCritics.org , this time on Visual Basic 2005 in a Nutshell ... "No, this is me in a nutshell: 'Help...

I absolutely hate, with a vengeance , any website that emails your password to you after you sign up for services with them. Email is not s...

I felt like last weekend was cut short. Saturday was definitely the most gorgeous day out of the two, and I spent the entire thing indoors ...

"... condemn and complain... and most fools do." - Dale Carnegie I have another review up at BlogCritics.org , on The Visual Basic...

As Mel Brooks once said, "Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together." But we can certainly write. Ch...

Thanks to Virginia Postrel for pointing out this rather interesting post about the aesthetics of code : What prompted this post--and it...

One of my favorite quick jokes is to talk about TLA's . Usually when I say something like, "Great, another TLA", someone will...

So this weekend, my client had a major software deploy to production. After all the months of development, and all the interim builds for t...

Have you ever been in Windows Explorer, and while clicking here and there, you accidentally click and drag a folder into another folder? Pr...

There is a reason why companies prefer Microsoft over Apple. The NY Times tries to bill legacy support as bad : As a result, each new versi...

As Joseph Addison once said, "There is no defense against criticism except obscurity." And with that said, you can find my lates...

One of my favorite quotes about software is from Michael Sinz: Programming is like sex, one mistake and you have to support it for the rest ...

One of the projects that I sometimes still get dragged back into now and then is about a week and a half from going to production. This is ...

Have you ever written a really bad joke or pun into an email, and not realize how awful it was until after you hit send? Yesterday, I happe...

With out this guy, Dilbert would have never been popular : Robert Oppenheimer agonized over building the A-bomb. Alfred Nobel got queasy abo...

This seems like a good idea , except for what's included in the kit: For only $14.95, you can turn your own drab office space into '...

Here is a fun one. I got this error message when I opened up a VB.NET project in Visual Studio 2003 that was not part of a Visual Source S...

Here is a compiler error I got while quickly throwing together a custom collection: Public Overrides Sub RemoveAt(index As Integer)' can...

Why do people insist on touching your monitor when they're showing you something on your computer? Use the mouse , or a closed pen... b...

I made a wish a while ago looking for tag compliments . Now I've got a few more, now that I'm using del.icio.us more and more. Fi...

A friend of mine recently sent me an email (along with his resume), saying that he was going to be out of work in a couple weeks. The compa...