The Coding Monkey

A place to talk about writing software, working as a consultant, and in depth analysis of Office Space.

Sunday, May 21, 2006

I've Moved!

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You should be automatically forwarded to my new URL in a couple seconds, but in case you happen to read my blog using an RSS Reader, my blog...
Wednesday, May 17, 2006

On Being An Anti-Technology Technologist

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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...
Tuesday, May 16, 2006

What Motivates You?

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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. ...
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Sunday, May 14, 2006

The Coding Monkey Song!

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OH. MY. GOD! It's the Code Monkey Song! This is a must download! Via The Sells Brothers .
Wednesday, April 26, 2006

How Big of a Nutshell Is It?

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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...
Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Pet Peeve

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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...
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Talk About a Blown Weekend

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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 ...
Thursday, April 13, 2006

Any Fool Can Criticize...

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"... condemn and complain... and most fools do." - Dale Carnegie I have another review up at BlogCritics.org , on The Visual Basic...
Saturday, April 08, 2006

I Have Another Review Up

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As Mel Brooks once said, "Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together." But we can certainly write. Ch...
Friday, April 07, 2006

You Code Like a Girl!

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Thanks to Virginia Postrel for pointing out this rather interesting post about the aesthetics of code : What prompted this post--and it...
Thursday, April 06, 2006

When TLA's Strike

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One of my favorite quick jokes is to talk about TLA's . Usually when I say something like, "Great, another TLA", someone will...
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Monday, April 03, 2006

69 Dude!

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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...
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Wednesday, March 29, 2006

The Hidden Perils of Drag and Drop

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Have you ever been in Windows Explorer, and while clicking here and there, you accidentally click and drag a folder into another folder? Pr...
Tuesday, March 28, 2006

How Many Companies Use Apple?

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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...
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Sunday, March 26, 2006

You Can Find Me Other Places Too

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As Joseph Addison once said, "There is no defense against criticism except obscurity." And with that said, you can find my lates...
Friday, March 24, 2006

You Have to Understand The History

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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 ...
Wednesday, March 22, 2006

If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It

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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 ...
Friday, March 17, 2006

You Know You're a Geek When...

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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...
Friday, March 10, 2006

How Many Designs Have You Regretted?

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With out this guy, Dilbert would have never been popular : Robert Oppenheimer agonized over building the A-bomb. Alfred Nobel got queasy abo...
Friday, March 03, 2006

Pimp My Cube?

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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 '...
Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Error Message of the Day

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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...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Compiler Error of the Day

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Here is a compiler error I got while quickly throwing together a custom collection: Public Overrides Sub RemoveAt(index As Integer)' can...
Thursday, February 16, 2006

Pet Peeve

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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...
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Friday, February 03, 2006

Another Del.icio.us Wish

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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...
Monday, January 23, 2006

Interviewing Tips

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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...
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